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Measuring Network Performance in Mobile Safari

CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Google has a pretty tight grip on the tech industry: it makes by far the most popular browser with the best DevTools, and the most popular search engine, which means that web developers spend most of their time in Chrome, most of their visitors are in Chrome, and a lot of their search traffic will be coming from Google.

Network

Network Mobile Performance Traffic

In Defence of DOMContentLoaded

CSS Wizardry

JUNE 30, 2023

Honestly, I started writing this article, for no real reason and somewhat without context, in December 2022—over half a year ago! Google Analytics Until recently , Google Analytics also surfaces DOMContentLoaded information. That’s not in the scope of this article, though, so we probably won’t come back to that again.

Metrics

Metrics Google Monitoring Analytics

Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

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. Network and CPU are throttled for lab data tests for more realistic conditions.

Performance

Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics

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

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

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. The use of server-timing headers by content delivery networks closes a big gap.

Servers

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking

Ten years of page bloat: What have we learned?

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

But pages keep getting bigger and more complex year over year – and this increasing size and complexity is not fully mitigated by faster devices and networks, or by our hard-working browsers. How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? Clearly we need to keep talking about it.

Mobile

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics

What Is a Workload in Cloud Computing

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. Examples include associations with Google Docs, Facebook chat group interactions, streaming live forex market feeds, and managing trading notices.

Cloud

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency

The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The gotcha here is that, if your mobile experience isn’t optimized for various devices and network conditions, these customers will never appear in your analytics — just because your website or app will be barely usable on their devices, and so they are unlikely to return. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known. Conclusion.

Mobile

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking

Plan Your Multi Cloud Strategy

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

In this article, we will explain the multi-cloud challenges and explain how using multiple cloud services can make your business more adaptable, ensure that your operations continue without interruption, and help you control your spending.

Strategy

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation

Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

We’re equally convinced on both counts, but in this blog article, we’re focusing on why MongoDB is not open source. This blog article traces key developments that coincided with MongoDB’s move away from open source software, and it examines how SSPL influence might have lured others in the same direction.

Open Source

Open Source Programming Database Servers

What is page bloat? And how is it hurting your business, your search rank, and your users?

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

Core Web Vitals are a Google search ranking factor. Given that Google continues to dominate search usage, you should care about Vitals alongside the other metrics you should be tracking. Image size is another issue, as excessive image weight hurts your SEO ranking in Google Image Search. How does page bloat hurt Core Web Vitals?

Mobile

Mobile Google Metrics Retail

Fixing a slow site iteratively

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

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. billion if the site slowed down by just one second. Lighthouse.

Cache

Cache Social Media Media Website

Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties

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. And JavaScript can certainly make requests for additional network resources.

Website

Website Design Network Best Practices

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. You can download the spreadsheet as Google Sheets, Excel, OpenOffice document or CSV. Large preview ).

Performance

Performance Cache Media Metrics

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Today, the website is much faster and ranks highly in various showcases and benchmarks. In this article, I’ll highlight some of the work we did and how we were able to achieve our speed. Jennifer Brehm. Large preview ).

Performance

Performance Cache Website Mobile

The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance

Performance Network Cache Metrics

World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Jake is a frequent speaker at many popular conferences and events, such as 100 Days of Google Dev , JAMstakConf , JSConf , SmashingConf , and dozens of others.

Performance

Performance Education Google Website

Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Browser Networking. A collection of practical articles on front-end website performance for front-end developers. ” – Andy King, 2003.

Performance

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

Cache

Cache Performance Servers Social Media

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google. In this case, my website is “slow”, even when served on 4G networks. For example: Think with Google suggests the typical page speed optimizations.

Website

Website Speed Mobile Design

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to. 300ms RTT, 1.6

Performance

Performance Cache Network Metrics

Can You Afford It?: Real-world Web Performance Budgets

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. JavaScript is the single most expensive part of any page in ways that are a function of both network capacity and device speed. The median user is on a slow network.

Performance

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile

Real-Real-World Programming with ChatGPT

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

This article summarizes what I learned from that experience. The inspiration (and title) for it comes from Mike Loukides’ Radar article on Real World Programming with ChatGPT , which shares a similar spirit of digging into the potential and limits of AI tools for more realistic end-to-end programming tasks.

Programming

Programming Code Design Benchmarking

Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

In this article, I want to share ten tips that helped me grow and become a better designer, and I hope these tips will also help you while you’re trying to find more solid ground under your feet. In this first part of the article, we’ll start with the first five tips , and the rest will continue into the second part. We’re all worthy.

Design

Design Social Media Website Best Practices

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 28th, 2018

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

tomgara : "Slate makes more money from a single article that gets 50,000 page views on its site than it does from the 6 million page views it receives on Apple News in an average month". vl : I have a hilarious story about this from Google: I wanted second 30" monitor, so I filed a ticket. JavaScript benchmark. There more.

Internet

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain

Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. In this article, I will share the current architecture and some of the lessons we learned scaling it along with some of the things we are looking to improve upon in the near future.

Architecture

Architecture Cache Azure Storage

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