CSS - Tricks

MARCH 2, 2022

I have a handful of good links to articles about performance that are burning a hole in my bookmarks folder, and wanna drop them here to share. And not just defining it in terms of specific metrics (even that is tricky), but answer questions like: What are this discipline’s guiding principles? The new WebPageTest website design.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Key metrics such as CPU usage, memory usage, and disk I/O offer insights into how efficiently your database server operates. Efficient memory management, including optimizing query caches and buffer pools, can help strike the right balance between memory consumption and query response times.

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CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 26, 2020

cache things! That’s the one where, say, the site has an advertisement at the top of an article. The request for that ad is asynchronous, so there is a good chance the ad comes in late and pushes the content of the article down. That’s not just annoying, but a real ding to performance metrics and, ultimately, SEO.

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score. Cache-Headers missing? Lighthouse records metrics from the browser, applies a scoring model to them, and presents an overall performance score.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

CPU consumption in Unix/Linux operating systems are studied using 8 different metrics: User CPU time , System CPU time , nice CPU time , Idle CPU time , Waiting CPU time , Hardware Interrupt CPU time , Software Interrupt CPU time , and Stolen CPU time. In this article, let's study ‘nice CPU time’. What Is ‘nice’ CPU Time?

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Similar to our article Average Page Load Times for 2018 , we’ll go over the averages for metrics and help you determine if your site is faster or slower than average. By analyzing the data from Backlinko.com and their Page Speed Stats article, we’ll look to answer these questions: What size should be a website be?

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

Ironically, at the moment of publishing that article in late February, we still had floating labels used in most of our forms, and we wanted to explore if removing them would actually help us improve the overall experience on the site. On February 19th, most of our articles landed in the red zone. Floating Labels Are Gone.

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MachMetrics

JANUARY 16, 2020

His article in the Web Performance Calendar, The ugly truth about optimizing beautiful images , explores a few case studies and offers some solutions as well. This is great for performance because if the user doesn’t end up scrolling down that far, the image doesn’t load at all, shaving valuable time from our loading metrics.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? Get the time to experiment and validate I used to send links to my colleagues about the latest Google I/O talk or medium article talking about some new stuff. Well, not so fast.

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CSS - Tricks

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Chris made a few notes about Core Web Vitals the other day, explaining why measuring these performance metrics are so gosh darn important: I still think the Google-devised Core Web Vitals are smart. cache things! There’s certainly a lot of tools out there that help you measure these extremely important metrics.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 27, 2019

While it’s important to check various speed metrics , the Web Almanac uses data from the Chome UX Report which focuses on how Chrome users actually experience the web. The first metric that analyzed was First Contenful Paint (FCP). Time to first byte is a blocker for all other metrics that follow it. First Input Delay.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In this article, we will see how someone can monitor Custom Resources that are created by the Operators with kube-state-metrics (KSM), a standard and widely adopted service that listens to the Kubernetes API server and generates metrics. Once captured, the metrics are exposed. kubectl get pxc pxc-1 -oyaml | yq 'del(.status.conditions)

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

Loading experience is crucial to the user’s first impression and overall usability, so Google defined Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric to measure how quickly the main content loads and is displayed to the user. We can run Lighthouse test to check the metrics and use this data for comparison. Use It Sparingly. Large preview ).

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Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

Originally posted at https:/opensource.com/article/19/8/introduction-bpftrace. bpftrace is suited for this kind of analysis: decomposing metrics into distributions or per-event logs, and creating new metrics for visibility into blind spots. There were also 10 I/O with latency 128 to 256 ms: outliers. SYNOPSIS biolatency.bt

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Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The story was about a fast food chain that determined customer service was an important metric that they needed to track in some way. That’s a very fancy way of saying that they aim to do for the web what Facebook Instant Articles does for…well…Facebook. You can build your sites to be prerender and cache friendly.

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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. Caches of report results are stored in the ReportServerTempDB database and I/O performance can become an issue here. Reporting Services Infrastructure.

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Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Here you’ll find the usual page speed metrics such as Speed Index, First Contentful Paint, Time to Interactive, etc. We’ve covered those in-depth before, so feel free to view that article to see more information on those. It would’ve been really embarrassing if we’d tested poorly in ‘Performance’!

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Moreover, Garten-und-Freizeit, a German e-commerce store that sells furniture, saw an amazing improvement in their metrics after getting a PWA. 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.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

The key metric for measuring the sustainability of a digital product is its energy usage. An obvious metric here is CPU usage, but memory usage and other forms of data storage also play their part. Note : There are plenty of other tools that provide us with a metric for data transfer including the much revered WebPagetest.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. Again, it’s easy to fake performance optimization by leaving out the bad metrics, blocking users who spoil the stats. How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? Well, not so fast. That’s how you can convince your boss.

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2019

Depending on how it is configured, Redis can act like a database, a cache or a message broker. In Redis, we have strings, lists, sets, sorted sets, and hashes, which we are going to cover in this article. Since data is stored temporarily in the RAM, this attribute makes Redis a perfect choice as a session cache.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

If you think that static rendering is limited to generic, public content that is the same for every user of your website, you should definitely read this article. The witty jokes in each article are only visible to paid users. If the user is paid, the server returns the full article directly as HTML. Eric Burel.

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Cache Website Energy Servers 117

Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

Recently Noam Rosenthal published two articles analyzing the common benefits and capabilities provided by various frameworks , and also their associated costs. I highly recommend checking out these articles. In particular, the collected measurements include the three Core Web Vitals metrics measured for each session.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. Having a slow site might leave you on page 452 of search results, regardless of any other metric. In that spirit, what we’re looking at in this article is focused more on the incremental wins and less on providing an exhaustive list or checklist of performance strategies.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Google’s Core Web Vitals is a set of performance metrics that site owners can use to evaluate performance and diagnose performance issues. These metrics provide a different perspective on user experience: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) Measures the time it takes for the main content on a webpage to load. One of the key Next.js

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. That’s what this article is about.

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Speed Google Website Metrics 99

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

If you haven’t heard, INP is replacing the First Input Delay (FID) metric, something you can read all about here on Smashing Magazine as a guide to prepare for the change. We can use it to report the load time of elements on the page, even going so far as to report on Core Web Vitals metrics in real time.

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Percona

MAY 10, 2023

There is a good article that goes into more detail on the subject, but basically, “IOWait” is kind of idle CPU time. If you only have access to Linux metrics, look at the “b” column in vmstat, which corresponds to processes blocked on disk I/O. First, look at application-specific observability.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

The header is constructed via a name with an optional description and/or metric value. For this article, that’s all we’ll need to start exposing the value and leave other more specific articles to go deeper. For monitoring response data, the most common setup is to use server logs/metrics/traces to capture this information.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

In previous articles from this series, we’ve covered auditing CSS codebase health and the incremental CSS refactoring strategy , testing, and maintenance. In this article, we’re going to cover CSS optimization strategies that can optimize CSS file size, loading times, and render performance. Adrian Bece. 2021-08-30T10:00:00+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This article is sponsored by Storyblok. Images are crucial elements for performance and UX, and data extracted from Core Web Vitals metrics such as Largest Contentful Paint , which attempts to identify the most important piece of the above-the-fold content on a given page, proves this. A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 108

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

This article is an effort to explore techniques used by developers of in-stream data processing systems, trace the connections of these techniques to massive batch processing and OLTP/OLAP databases, and discuss how one unified query engine can support in-stream, batch, and OLAP processing at the same time. Interoperability with Hadoop.

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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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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

In this article, we will particularly look at the average page load time in 2021 and importance of web vitals. Core web vitals are modern performance metrics that analyze page speed signals that are crucial to providing a superior web experience. These metrics are highly useful to calculate the “page experience” of a page.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Largest Contentful Paint (or LCP) is one of three metrics of the Core Web Vitals. These metrics are used by Google to evaluate the quality of user experience. The images used in the article’s Codepen demonstrations will be integrated with TwicPics to save time in their creation and speed up the optimization of the LCP metric.

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Media Mobile Website Metrics 107

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In order to design, operate, and measure these networks, we must collect metrics and state data from the thousands of devices that compose them. This article goes over some background on the project, why we created it, and how you can use it to monitor your own network.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

There are three Core Web Vitals metrics that Google will use to help rank sites in their upcoming search algorithm update. Chrome is set up to track these metrics across all logged-in Chrome users, and sends anonymous statistics summarizing a customer’s experience on a site back to Google for evaluation. Large preview ).

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