IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Contrasting 5 Nines Availability Against Other Levels of AvailabilityAs discussed in this article, various levels of availability correspond to specific durations during which a service or system is expected to experience downtime. The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Contrasting 5 Nines Availability Against Other Levels of AvailabilityAs discussed in this article, various levels of availability correspond to specific durations during which a service or system is expected to experience downtime. The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. You’ve focused on making the web design responsive to ensure that the widest audience of visitors can access your content. You’ve agonized over design patterns and usability. Ken Harker.

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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

MySQL, as well as other RDBMS, are designed to work respecting the model and cannot scale in any way by fragmenting and distributing a schema, so what can be done to scale? As illustrated above, ProxySQL allows us to set up a common entry point for the application and then redirect the traffic on the base of identified sharding keys.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In one of our previous articles , we discussed what an SRE is, what they do, and some of the common responsibilities that a typical SRE may have, like supporting operations, dealing with trouble tickets and incident response, and general system monitoring and observability. SREs want one that simply does the job that it was designed to do.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. A measly front-end designer like me can be blissfully ignorant of all this mumbo-jumbo.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential part of a website’s design, and one all too often overlooked. Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. Although landing pages are a common practice in online marketing, we were trying to make the most of it. SEO is key to our success.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

These issues often arise from suboptimal query design, missing or ineffective indexes, or dealing with large datasets. Inefficient query design, such as utilizing SELECT * instead of specifying necessary columns, can escalate data transfer and processing overhead. To maximize indexing benefits, be sure to follow best practices.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

The entry/exit communication traffic can be overwhelmed by limited international bandwidth and huge user number. The good news is there are website monitoring tools specially designed to solve this problem. For this article, we ran a speed test for the TED website as the target website. Best Practices.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

According to Statista , at least 50% of global online traffic is driven by mobile users. For A Better Design: Aesthetics matter and for mobile responsive websites to retain and attract users, our websites should also have a great design. You can also check out our article on how to automate mobile UI testing.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

In my last article , I suggested using the SaveData API to deliver a different, more performant, experience to users that expressed that desire. In this article, I want to spend a bit more time on this, and also look at other signals we can similarly use to help us make decisions on what to load on our websites. Barry Pollard.

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Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

Additionally, teams are measuring and tracking key business metrics – conversion rates, cart abandonment rates, customer lifetime value, revenue by traffic source, and so on. Not all ecommerce designs are created equal. <200 ms “fast” TTFB is based on the server responsiveness best practice recommendation.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 18, 2019

We’ve written tons of articles giving you step-by-step advice on how to make your website faster – but not everyone wants to go through lots of steps. In addition, nearly 60% of web traffic in 2018 came from mobile devices. Good news is that we can answer that with a simple response.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2020

The entry/exit communication traffic can be overwhelmed by limited international bandwidth and huge user number. The good news is there are website monitoring tools specially designed to solve this problem. For this article, we ran a speed test for the TED website as the target website. Best Practices.

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Dotcom-Montior

JULY 7, 2020

The entry/exit communication traffic can be overwhelmed by limited international bandwidth and huge user number. The good news is there are website monitoring tools specially designed to solve this problem. For this article, we ran a speed test for the TED website as the target website. Best Practices.

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Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

It’s common knowledge that better website performance results in more conversions, more traffic, and better user experience. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. Jump to table of contents ?. fetchpriority HTML attribute. Use It Sparingly.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term. Large preview ). Setting Realistic Goals.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Map design decisions against performance budget and the priorities defined early on.

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Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

In my conversations with designers and developers who don’t optimize, a few of the same myths are constantly brought up. High performance and beautiful design are mutually exclusive. Based on their daily traffic, they estimated that this increase translated to an astonishing 10.28 seconds off their average page load time.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 26, 2018

A trip to the supermarket can teach you a lot about designing software systems and shaping teams to build them… I was recently in need of some chocolate sauce. The Chocolate Sauce Heuristic for Software Design There are a few lessons about software development we can learn from this story, but I want to focus on design.

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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. We will discuss these features in more depth later in this article.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). Practical HTTP/3 deployment options ( coming up soon! ). While this is conceptually possible (QUIC does exactly that), things were initially not designed like this, because we need to be able to use TCP with and without TLS on top. This is more in depth and technical.

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