Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

The web is streaming, meaning it has none of the resources locally available when you open an app for the first time. Low-end phones on the other hand are getting cheaper , making the mobile internet accessible to demographics that previously maybe couldn’t afford it. 2021-06-30T12:00:00+00:00. 2021-07-13T02:07:04+00:00.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 27, 2019

It is one of the most complete “state of the web” reports currently available. As we mentioned in our article Average Page Load Times for 2020 , mobile page speed is a huge deal going forward. TTFB is typically reduced via server-side optimizations, such as enabling caching and database indexes.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The service workers enable the offline usage of the PWA by fetching cached data or informing the user about the absence of an Internet connection. When developing a PWA, you can cache the application shell’s resources and assets in the browser. Cached content with IndexedDB. Service Workers. Let’s look at each one.

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Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

This article is an effort to explore techniques used by developers of in-stream data processing systems, trace the connections of these techniques to massive batch processing and OLTP/OLAP databases, and discuss how one unified query engine can support in-stream, batch, and OLAP processing at the same time. Interoperability with Hadoop.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

DNS, which stands for domain name system , is an Internet service that translates domains names into IP addresses. You can think of a DNS server as a phone book for the internet. Oddly enough we encountered this error to a third party website while writing this article. What is DNS? So DNS services definitely go down!

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages , Allspaw, Masters thesis, Lund University 2015. The shop had been closed so no data was available. This is part 2 of our look at Allspaw’s 2015 master thesis (here’s part 1 ). The blog post was subsequently unpublished.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. That’s what this article is about.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Now there’s a massive range of Jamstack CMSs available, which bring all the advantages of static sites while allowing non-technical folk to update content. I had my website with funny photos and links to favorite websites live on the internet, and better yet, I could edit directly on the server. But, when it worked, it was magical.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

In this article, we will particularly look at the average page load time in 2021 and importance of web vitals. Quote : “40% of people abandon a website that takes more than 3 seconds to load” Neil Patel, Internet Marketing expert. You can make beautiful-looking websites with the supports of millions of themes & plugins available.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

This article is part of a series in which I attempt to use the web under various constraints, representing a given demographic of user. Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. I downloaded TripMode ; an application for Mac which gives you control over which apps on your Mac can access the internet.

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Percona

JULY 17, 2023

First, some stage-setting for this blog article. MongoDB replica sets enable data redundancy and automatic failover, setting the stage (there’s that term again) for high availability. A survey of 90,240 companies using MongoDB listed the leading uses as Technology and Services (23%), Computer Software (16%), and Internet (6%).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This article is sponsored by Storyblok. Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. But if you’re worried that you’re not getting the performance you expected because of large, poorly optimized images, don’t worry because that’s what you’re reading this article for! Cache Your Images.

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Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Most of us work on connections that are typically quite a bit faster than that of the average internet user. In the early days of the web when we were browsing the internet via a dialup connection, improving performance meant removing the images from your site. I think this myth stems more from a lack of awareness. Performance matters.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. If you’re on the latter end of this scale, you probably need more specialized advice than this article is prepared to give. Performance And Availability.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

These statements and articles typically skip over some crucial technical details , are lacking in nuance, and usually are only partially correct. In this article series, I will discuss the new protocol, especially its performance features , with more nuance. Did You Know?

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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

One example could be using an RDBMS for most of the Online transaction processing ( OLTP) data shared by country and having the products as distributed memory cache with a different technology. Note that Backup for POM PS is available only on demand, given the solution is still in technical preview. That part is not automated (yet).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is because HTTP/3 and QUIC mainly help deal with the somewhat uncommon yet potentially high-impact problems that can arise on today’s Internet. HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). The Internet also doesn’t have mechanisms (yet) to signal link capacities back to the endpoints.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Measuring the carbon footprint of the web isn’t an exact science, but a report by the BBC in 2020 estimates that all internet activity accounts for around 3.7% Check out this article by Eric Bailey for some ideas. For this article, we’re going to take a deeper dive into one particular area. The Impact Of Social Media Embeds.

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CSS - Tricks

JUNE 19, 2019

Disclaimer: This article is mostly satire. You know, there are a lot of articles out there telling you how to make your page smaller: optimize your images, remove extraneous CSS rules, re-write the whole thing in Dreamweaver using framesets. What we don’t have are enough articles showing you how to increase your page size.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Internet of Things (IoT). Besides that, these apps do well in areas with a slow internet connection. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. 24*7 Availability : Chatbots are available 24×7 and can respond to your customer’s queries as fast as possible.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. However, like each country has its boundary, the world of Internet is not a world without any control. And the case is especially different, when China’s Internet environment is involved.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this article, we will review what third-party resource requests are, consider how impactful they can be to the user experience, and discuss common optimization strategies to reduce the impact on the user experience. Every major website on the Internet today relies — to some degree — on third-party services.

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Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 6, 2022

Some of those factors include the following: URL Test Location Browser (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, mobile browsers etc…) Connection Number of Tests Repeat View Elements Used in Waterfall Charts Interactive Slider : The Interactive Slider is an indicator of the performance of each element in terms of milliseconds. Waiting time.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. However, like each country has its boundary, the world of Internet is not a world without any control. And the case is especially different, when China’s Internet environment is involved.

Website 52

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Dotcom-Montior

JULY 7, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. However, like each country has its boundary, the world of Internet is not a world without any control. And the case is especially different, when China’s Internet environment is involved.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

In this article, we’ll take a look at what SRI is, how it can help protect you, and how you can start using it in your own projects, not just for files hosted on CDNs. They’d take the hit for the first site to use the file, but then it would sit in their local browser cache and downloads could be skipped for each subsequent site.

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Dotcom-Montior

MAY 6, 2020

Browser (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, mobile browsers etc…). To boost the bandwidth availability, the user should keep the images on a cloud server. Moreover, caching utility may decrease the waiting time. Empty Cache (First View): The user access the website for the first time and has no cached data.

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Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

In this article I’m trying to provide more or less systematic description of techniques related to distributed operations in NoSQL databases. In the rest of this article we study a number of distributed activities like replication of failure detection that could happen in a database. Data Placement. Read/Write latency. Consistency.

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Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

Two-way Data Binding Availability. Two-way Data Binding Availability. It depends on you how skillfully you utilize the combination of JSON and client-side caching to boost the server-side performance. Better functions even at the average internet connection. Reasons to use React in the web application. Performance.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2019

This article was updated on January 31, 2019 to react to readers’ feedback. We will explore these in details throughout the article, but first, let’s explore what components actually are and how we can build a site based on such components, and finally, explore how a component-based API works. Introducing The Component-Based API.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. Largest Contentful Paint ( LCP ) < 2.5 considerations.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Usually, the most specific and relevant ones are: Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized, key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. Large preview ). Getting started with Webpack can be tough though.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized, key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. Long FMP usually indicates JavaScript blocking the main thread, but could be related to back-end/server issues as well.

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