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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

Only in extreme circumstances does the cost (in processor time and I-cache footprint) translate to a tangible benefit - circumstances which usually resort to hand-coded assembly anyway. It shouldn't be 10%, unless it's cache effects. Google should be no surprise because they pioneered continuous profiling.)

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How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

Speed Curve

Google recommends that TTFB be 800ms at the 75th percentile. Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Caching the base page/HTML is common, and it should have a positive impact on backend times.

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Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores

Smashing Magazine

Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. PageSpeed Compare is a page speed evaluation and benchmarking tool. It measures the web performance of a single page using Google PageSpeed Insights. It also lists cached resources and identifies unused Javascript. PageSpeed Compare.

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Average Page Load Times for 2020 – Are you faster?

MachMetrics

Similar to our article Average Page Load Times for 2018 , we’ll go over the averages for metrics and help you determine if your site is faster or slower than average. By analyzing the data from Backlinko.com and their Page Speed Stats article, we’ll look to answer these questions: What size should be a website be?

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Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Smashing Magazine

There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. Active Memory Caching. Caching partially stores your data and is not used as permanent storage. Caching Schemes.

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Fixing a slow site iteratively

CSS - Tricks

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Compressing, minifying and caching assets. Lighthouse.

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From Heavy Metal to Irrational Exuberance

ACM Sigarch

have pointed out in their recent Science article (“There’s plenty of room at the Top”) — and cited by Hennessy in his Turing lecture — a naive implementation of matrix-matrix multiply in Python runs between 100x and 60,000x slower than their counterparts written in a “metal” language (highly optimized C).

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