Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. This leads to longer startup times, and if the network cannot supply the video fast enough, the video will stall during video playback. There is a solution though! Real-World Data. Large preview ).

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Network Speed Website Mobile 143

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. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. I’m going to audit the performance of my slow site before and after the things we tackle in this article. Lighthouse.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92

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. You can dive deeper into image optimization and SEO tips in this article in Google Search Central.). Not all pages are getting bigger.

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

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. High Performance Websites. Even Faster Websites. Fail, and you can kiss your customers and profits goodbye.”

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

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. It essentially describes the lifetime of each file you download to load your page from the network. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

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Cache Performance Servers Social Media 125

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Real-life performance for your users and how the website “feels” when you’re using it should not be discounted, even if it costs you a point or two in Page Speed (otherwise, we would all just have a search bar and unstyled text). Today, the website is much faster and ranks highly in various showcases and benchmarks.

Performance 115

Performance Cache Website Mobile 115

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. considerations.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

If you want to vastly improve the startup and load performance of your website, you cannot miss the impactful observations and insights that Jake posts on jakearchibald.com/ and shares on Twitter @ jaffathecake. Follow @ tameverts to stay updated on all her upcoming speaking engagements and articles. Rick Byers. Rick Byers.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

You can dive deeper into image optimization and SEO tips in this article in Google Search Central.) These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. Having said all that, making your pages as small as possible is in the best interest of your users who don't have access to fast networks and devices.

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? ( Large preview ). Moto G4) on a slow 3G network, emulated at 400ms RTT and 400kbps transfer speed. 300ms RTT, 1.6

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2020

For example, when creating automation for testing a website, it is better to use reliable attributes like xpath, id, name, etc., an environment variable like network connectivity changed over time and is not aligned with the assumption with which test automation was built initially.

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Software Software Testing Open Source 85

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. Yes, stuck.

Design 126

Design Social Media Website Best Practices 126

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 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

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. To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network.

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