Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. If you’re on the latter end of this scale, you probably need more specialized advice than this article is prepared to give. Option 1: Default Django.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. In fact, choosing the right metric is a process without obvious winners.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

This article is part of a series in which I attempt to use the web under various constraints, representing a given demographic of user. Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. I downloaded TripMode ; an application for Mac which gives you control over which apps on your Mac can access the internet.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf. I didn't end up getting published in SysAdmin directly, but my performance work did make it as a feature article (thanks Matty). Or even on a plane.

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Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 6, 2022

It assists in identifying where important events happened during the loading process. Waterfall charts within the Dotcom-Monitor platform can help users identify where important events happened during the page load process. Moreover, caching utility may decrease the waiting time. Queued request. What’s the Difference?

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Performance Cache Website Speed 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

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? Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Measuring the carbon footprint of the web isn’t an exact science, but a report by the BBC in 2020 estimates that all internet activity accounts for around 3.7% Check out this article by Eric Bailey for some ideas. For this article, we’re going to take a deeper dive into one particular area. The Impact Of Social Media Embeds.

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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? Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Internet of Things (IoT). Besides that, these apps do well in areas with a slow internet connection. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. Internet of Things (IoT). Internet of things (IoT) – Number of IoT devices 2015-2025 Statista.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 6, 2020

It assists in identifying where important events happened during the loading process. Waterfall charts within the Dotcom-Monitor platform can help users identify where important events happened during the page load process. Browser (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, mobile browsers etc…). Test Location. Connection.

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Performance Cache Website Speed 53

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

This article will cover many areas that database administrators need to be aware of in order to properly license, recover, and tune a Reporting Services installation. In the early days of SSRS, a requirement was to also install and configure Internet Information Services (IIS). Reporting Services Infrastructure.

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Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

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. Every major website on the Internet today relies — to some degree — on third-party services.

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MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

So in this article, we’ll pit Gzip vs Brotli and completely end the debate! As we discussed in our article on how to test your page weight , compression is pretty much standard practice in web performance now, so you absolutely want to make sure you’re taking advantage of it. Never change, Internet Explorer. OK, not really.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Due to the use of modern frameworks, advanced caching and rendering, and data transmission via API, properly developed PWAs can be a seven-league step up to boost the store’s speed. To specify, users can continue using those parts of the site that were cached if the Internet connection is unstable or when offline.

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Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is because HTTP/3 and QUIC mainly help deal with the somewhat uncommon yet potentially high-impact problems that can arise on today’s Internet. HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). This is because, as we said, each network link has only a certain amount of data it can (physically) process every second.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. We should use HTTP2 over HTTPS.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

I had my website with funny photos and links to favorite websites live on the internet, and better yet, I could edit directly on the server. It’s safe to say WordPress, the platform now powering 40% of the internet, won that battle, but MovableType paved the way for Jamstack CMSs in the future. But, when it worked, it was magical.

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MachMetrics

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

If you asked the average internet user how slow a website would need to load before they gave up and left, they might say something like 8 or 10 seconds. These often add a lot of time to the loading process and don’t add value of any kind. Unfortunately, visitors actually give up on websites much faster. Source: ThinkWithGoogle.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. It’s better to learn the fundamentals than the library There are still lots of job descriptions and interview processes that focus on libraries and not the underlying technology. Get involved in the interview process.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In this article, we’ll go over the similarities and differences between HTTP Preload vs HTTP/2 Push and discuss when it makes sense to use each. This makes for a more optimized asset delivery process. Push however has more support as it is an HTTP/2 feature which is now the latest version of the HTTP protocol for the Internet.

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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

In both cases, when using virtually-synchronous replication, the process will require certification from each node and local (by node) write; as such, the number of writes is NOT distributed across multiple nodes but duplicated. If there is no distinction in the article between a simple database and an RDBMS, run away.

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Traffic Scalability Database Servers 123

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

In this article I’ll outline my mental model why multithreading is important on the web, I’ll give you an introduction to the primitives that we as developers have at our disposal, and I’ll talk a bit about architectures that make it easy to adopt multithreading, even incrementally. At the same time, we have a widening performance gap.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 27, 2019

As we mentioned in our article Average Page Load Times for 2020 , mobile page speed is a huge deal going forward. TTFB is typically reduced via server-side optimizations, such as enabling caching and database indexes. Page weight has recently become an area that is overlooked, thanks to high speed internet and powerful mobile devices.

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CSS - Tricks

JUNE 19, 2019

Disclaimer: This article is mostly satire. You know, there are a lot of articles out there telling you how to make your page smaller: optimize your images, remove extraneous CSS rules, re-write the whole thing in Dreamweaver using framesets. What we don’t have are enough articles showing you how to increase your page size.

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Cache Internet Internet Code 63

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. They’d take the hit for the first site to use the file, but then it would sit in their local browser cache and downloads could be skipped for each subsequent site.

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Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Although it can hardly be said that NoSQL movement brought fundamentally new techniques into distributed data processing, it triggered an avalanche of practical studies and real-life trials of different combinations of protocols and algorithms. Read/Write requests are processes with a minimal latency. Read/Write latency. Consistency.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. It’s better to learn the fundamentals than the library There are still lots of job descriptions and interview processes that focus on libraries and not the underlying technology. Get involved in the interview process.

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Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

As a result of this, the additional bindings you have got, the other watchers are created, and the cumbersome process becomes. As a part of the development process, Reactjs executes test suites continuously to run the test cases. Better functions even at the average internet connection. Super high-speed rendering.

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Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Most of us work on connections that are typically quite a bit faster than that of the average internet user. In the early days of the web when we were browsing the internet via a dialup connection, improving performance meant removing the images from your site. I think this myth stems more from a lack of awareness. Performance matters.

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