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. Simplicity.

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Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 22, 2023

In this article, we will explore into the significance of pre-deployment policy compliance, explore the role of policy as code frameworks, and showcase real-life examples of successful implementations. In traditional software development practices, compliance checks often occur late in the development lifecycle, closer to deployment.

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AWS Best Practices Infrastructure Traffic 52

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Kubernetes Dashboard as a part of a comprehensive monitoring solution This article introduces the key building blocks to consider when designing your Kubernetes monitoring solution. Example: Your Kubernetes deployment uses virtual machines that run inside dynamically provisioned virtual machine image files (best practice or not).

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Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 159

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. There are self-hosted alternatives to Google Analytics, after all.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 90

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Performance is one of the core aspects to ensure our users are having a delightful user experience irrespective of their devices or network connection. Barry Pollard has written an excellent in-depth article about CLS. Note : Paul Irish has written an excellent article on this topic. Large preview ). Key Takeaways.

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Website Google Metrics Testing Tools 105

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. SEO is key to our success. Bookaway site search.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

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.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Last year, Google started emphasizing the importance of Core Web Vitals and how they reflect a person’s real experience when visiting sites around the web. It wasn’t long before a sea of red “poor” and yellow “needs improvement” notices in our Google Search Console needed our attention. How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study).

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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. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2 Lighthouse.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

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 ).

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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?

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Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

These metrics are used by Google to evaluate the quality of user experience. To address this problem, I’ll provide an overview of the best practices for the integration and optimization of an LCP image. Eloïse Martin. 2023-01-16T18:00:00+00:00. 2023-01-16T22:03:27+00:00. srcset=" image-300.png png 300w, image-900.png

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Media Mobile Website Metrics 104

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. Time is Money. DOM Scripting.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

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

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

With that caveat out of the way, let’s get to the guts of the article: What is the Back/Forward Cache and why does it matter so much? Think about the number of times you visit a home page, click on an article, then go back to the home page to view another article? so reusing them from that home page visit is a good saving.

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Cache Games Performance Website 91

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. Large preview ).

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G network in your office for faster testing. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Lazy-load offscreen images (reduce network contention for key resources). For low impact to First Input Delay : Avoid images causing network contention with other critical resources like CSS and JS. CWV is part of a set of page experience signals Google Search will be evaluating for ranking. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Here are some reasons why mobile web testing is important: For A Better Search Result Ranking: Google ranks websites based on how mobile-friendly they are. You can also check out our article on how to automate mobile UI testing. If the websites or web apps are not responsive, users may not return to the sites. We can use Can I Use?

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Mobile Testing Website Speed 65

Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

Basically, TTFB is a measure of back-end and network performance. Web Developer Programs Engineer at Google Rick Viscomi , the thresholds for fast/average/slow TTFB are 200 ms at the upper limit and 1000 ms at the lower limit. <200 ms “fast” TTFB is based on the server responsiveness best practice recommendation.

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Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

Server rendering is also cool—even if that’s just how we say “send HTML over the network” these days. I ultimately decided not to include those numbers in this article. I accessed the RSS feed app running on my local network on each device to the same page where the mobile nav toggling code could be run. I think JSX is great.

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Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

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. Resources like Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) that had previously been the reserve of giant corporations were becoming commonplace for everyday folk building snappy websites.

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Website Servers Code Best Practices 57

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

To simplify this behavior, a best practice is to ensure your styles include resetting all elements to use border-box. Reviewing how to handle a lack of support for a feature is a bit beyond the scope of this article. If you’re unfamiliar, you may enjoy my article on practical uses of CSS functions. Large preview ).

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Design Availability Mobile Website 145

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.

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Design Social Media Website Best Practices 126

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

We will, however, also be somewhat skeptical of the impact we can expect from these new features in practice. As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). This is more in depth and technical.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 105

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.

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Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Smashing Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

For those of you who are just starting in the headless world, these articles will help you understand the ins and outs behind it and why everyone is starting to migrate. A curated list of articles related to “Headless” → But Why Migrate To A Headless CMS? Ultimately all our data will be delivered through CDN networks.

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Website Architecture Technology Technology 141

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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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). Practical HTTP/3 deployment options ( current article ). You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 104

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Unethical practices at companies lead to the creation of technology that we all use but often neglect the influence of those intended to serve. Start by affinity mapping your industry and academic examples using sticky notes, google slides or miro/mural board. Credit: Devin Harold. Large preview ). User Personas.

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Code Design Education Government 137

Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

In this article, I will highlight a few core features that every headless CMS should provide. If you see authors turning to other authoring tools such as Google Docs for its commenting or suggestions capabilities, it may be a red flag as to what features you are missing. Content authors should love working in the back-office.

Cache 143

Cache Website Mobile Google 143

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As a trend, it’s not performing well on Google; it shows little long-term growth, if any, and gets nowhere near as many searches as terms like “Observability” and “Generative Adversarial Networks.” However, growth always ends: nothing grows exponentially forever, not even Facebook and Google. Should it be?

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Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Compression achieved is relevant because the higher the compression, the smaller the file size, and the lower the data required to transfer the image on the network. Note: Image CDNs are mentioned a few times in this article. Lighthouse-best practices audit now considers that AVIF image compression can bring significant improvements.

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