CSS Wizardry

MAY 31, 2019

A classic example is jQuery, that we might link to like so: There are a number of perceived benefits to doing this, but my aim later in this article is to either debunk these claims, or show how other costs vastly outweigh them. Users might already have the file cached. Penalty: Network Negotiation. It’s convenient.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. This is not a post explaining why web performance is important.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

That performance golden rule still holds true today. Charlie Vazac introduced server timing in a Performance Calendar post circa 2018. Caching the base page/HTML is common, and it should have a positive impact on backend times. The use of server-timing headers by content delivery networks closes a big gap.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

But its underlying goal is quite humble and straightforward: it wants to enable you to observe an IT system (for example, a web application, infrastructure, or services) and gain insight to its behavior, such as performance, error rates, hot spots of executed instructions in code, and more.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

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Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

Instead, you will encounter forever loading and other messages like timeout, connection error, network problem, etc. If the DNS caches are manipulated to contain wrong IP addresses, it’s called DNS poisoning. In Conclusion: Monitoring Website Performance from China. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This allows the app to query a list of “paths” in each HTTP request, and get specially formatted JSON (jsonGraph) that we use to cache the data and hydrate the UI. ecosystem was chosen for this new service deserves an article in and of itself. video titles, descriptions) could be aggressively cached and reused across multiple requests.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

Without build optimizations (incremental builds, caching, we will get to those soon) this will eventually become unmanageable as well — think about going through all images in a website: resizing, deleting, and/or creating new files over and over again. The cache is invalidated on a time basis. Creating an On-Demand builder.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

Instead, you will encounter forever loading and other messages like timeout, connection error, network problem, etc. If the DNS caches are manipulated to contain wrong IP addresses, it’s called DNS poisoning. In Conclusion: Monitoring Website Performance from China. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

Optimizing Performance With Resource Hints. Optimizing Performance With Resource Hints. Modern web browsers use all sorts of techniques to help improve page load performance by guessing what the user may be likely to do next. The browser caches the results of these lookups, but they can be slow. Drew McLellan.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. These days we have more and better tools to audit our performance.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

This article cuts through the complexity to showcase the tangible benefits of DBMS, equipping you with the knowledge to make informed decisions about your data management strategies. Types of DBMS DBMS can be classified into hierarchical, network, relational, and object-oriented types.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2021

Instead, you will encounter forever loading and other messages like timeout, connection error, network problem, etc. If the DNS caches are manipulated to contain wrong IP addresses, it’s called DNS poisoning. In Conclusion: Monitoring Website Performance from China. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 27, 2021

Instead, you will encounter forever loading and other messages like timeout, connection error, network problem, etc. If the DNS caches are manipulated to contain wrong IP addresses, it’s called DNS poisoning. In Conclusion: Monitoring Website Performance from China. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

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Website Internet Internet Performance 52

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Let me address that by combining my two favourite topics: CSS and performance. In this post I want to look at how CSS can prove to be a substantial bottleneck on the network (both in itself and for other resources) and how we can mitigate it, thus shortening the Critical Path and reducing our time to Start Render. Employ Critical CSS.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. Perhaps the biggest win when it comes to making websites more sustainable is that performance, user experience and sustainability are all neatly intertwined. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Following the series of blogs written with the intention to describe basic operations matching Docker and open source databases, in this article, I will demonstrate how to proceed with installing MongoDB with Docker. I wrote this article based on the Docker-maintained repository. Docker quickly deploys standalone MongoDB containers.

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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. Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Cache-Headers missing?

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Dean Hume

MAY 16, 2018

If you’ve ever tried to build a web application that is completely offline first, you’ll know how tricky it can be to make changes to the users cache when you do make updates to the site and the user has connectivity. You’ll also learn how to refresh the page, so that the user is up to date and has the latest version of any cached files.

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Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me. Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. They allow you to cache resources on the user's device when they visit your site for the first time.

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Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me. Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. They allow you to cache resources on the user's device when they visit your site for the first time.

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Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me. Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. They allow you to cache resources on the user's device when they visit your site for the first time.

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Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Testsigma

JUNE 3, 2021

Bugs could come up due to different reasons, in this article, we will discuss them from the perspective of software errors. Non-performance of the intended function: The software is unable to perform the function as intended, then this is an error. These are the errors that also need attention during the testing phase.

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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. When I first got into caring about performance, it was all: reduce requests! cache things! Make stuff smaller!

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Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. Redis and Memcached both provide high performance with sub-millisecond response times. Choosing between Redis and Memcached hinges on specific application requirements.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

We normally focus solely on the performance aspect, but today we want to dive into additional ways you can optimize images for the web. The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better.

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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. A report is essentially just another query.

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Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Even if none of the page content is delivered from your platform or servers, so long as the JavaScript code you are using for analytics or performance tracking loads, you can still get data about the page view. A natural language translation service presenting a news website article translated from English to Japanese. Large preview ).

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Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

Originally posted at https:/opensource.com/article/19/8/introduction-bpftrace. bpftrace is a new open source tracer for Linux for analyzing production performance problems and troubleshooting software. Linux already has many performance tools, but these are often counter-based and have limited visibility. bashreadline.bt

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MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

So in this article, we’ll pit Gzip vs Brotli and completely end the debate! These compressed files allow for quicker network transfers so that your website can be loaded as fast as possible. Many caching plugins like WPRocket also offer Gzip compression right out of the box. One such measure is HTTP compression. OK, not really.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Users who opened a PWA from a smartphone’s browser might even not be aware that they’re using a progressive web app, assuming that it’s just a well-performing site. Far from perfect site speed and performance are common pain points for many Magento stores, which are usually massive and complicated. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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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. The Problem Of Unpredictable Performance.

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Games Architecture Code C++ 145

Dean Hume

MAY 16, 2018

If you’ve ever tried to build a web application that is completely offline first, you’ll know how tricky it can be to make changes to the users cache when you do make updates to the site and the user has connectivity. You’ll also learn how to refresh the page, so that the user is up to date and has the latest version of any cached files.

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Dean Hume

MAY 16, 2018

If you’ve ever tried to build a web application that is completely offline first, you’ll know how tricky it can be to make changes to the users cache when you do make updates to the site and the user has connectivity. You’ll also learn how to refresh the page, so that the user is up to date and has the latest version of any cached files.

Availability 40

Availability Cache Code Google 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Refactoring CSS: Optimizing Size And Performance (Part 3). Refactoring CSS: Optimizing Size And Performance (Part 3). In previous articles from this series, we’ve covered auditing CSS codebase health and the incremental CSS refactoring strategy , testing, and maintenance. Part 3: Optimizing Size And Performance.

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Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The other week, there were a few articles that came out about Chrome’s NOSCRIPT intervention: an intervention that would disable JavaScript altogether on slow networks. Chrome intervening on behalf of the user when it feels the network is iffy isn’t exactly new. Taking it for a test drive. It works on HTTPS too.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. Large preview ) We’ve known for a long time that fast page performance influences search engine rankings.

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