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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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 24, 2022

A thing I see developers do time and time again is make performance-facing changes to their sites and apps, but mistakes in how they measure them often lead to incorrect conclusions about the effectiveness of that work. Problems When Measuring Performance. For example, continuing our task to reduce CSS size: performance.

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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

However, you have likely used the Web UI that Google uses to allow you to test websites for speed – Google PageSpeed Insights. While PageSpeed Insights focuses solely on speed/performance, Lighthouse offers even more. It offers audits for best practices, accessibility, progressive web apps, SEO and of course, performance.

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Percona

MAY 1, 2023

In this blog post, we will delve into the world of PostgreSQL performance tuning and establish some basic guidelines for setting database parameters to enhance the performance of your PostgreSQL database, based on the workload. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning? Why is PostgreSQL performance tuning important?

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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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CSS - Tricks

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Does shadow DOM improve style performance? HTML-first, JavaScript last: the secret to web speed! Getting Your head Straight: A New CSS Performance Diagnostics Snippet — We covered Harry’s super clever snippet a while back, but Vitaly had beaten us to it and it’s worth re-sharing because it’s awfully cool.

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Performance Cache Media Games 61

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

That performance golden rule still holds true today. Cue server-timing headers Historically, when looking at page speed, we've had the tendency to ignore TTFB when trying to optimize the user experience. Charlie Vazac introduced server timing in a Performance Calendar post circa 2018. I mean, why wouldn't we?

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Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

If the DNS caches are manipulated to contain wrong IP addresses, it’s called DNS poisoning. Since traffic to your website or application will go through intensive inspections, you will face constant website speed and performance issues. Monitor your website speed from China. Blocking IP Access. Deep Packet Inspection.

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KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Unoptimized content could also be one of the reasons why your WordPress website is not performing as per your expectations. Unfortunately, it is a bit difficult to point out the problem directly– there are many possibilities that we will explore in this article. We will also discuss how you can speed up your slow WordPress site.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

If the DNS caches are manipulated to contain wrong IP addresses, it’s called DNS poisoning. Since traffic to your website or application will go through intensive inspections, you will face constant website speed and performance issues. Monitor your website speed from China. Blocking IP Access. Deep Packet Inspection.

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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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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Offering 20 chapters with insights into Page Content, User Experience, Content Publishing, and Content Distribution, it can also be overwhelming, so we’ll be summarizing the web performance section in an easy-to-understand manner. We’ll be diving into Chapter 7 – Performance. 20% of sites are considered slow.

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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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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

How to measure performance The Website Speed Test is the ideal tool for measuring the performance of your website. It offers a full range of performance grades and suggestions where we outline the performance potential in detail. Further down, there are detailed performance grades for various topics.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

With another year winding down, it’s time for us to take stock of how our site performance compares to the average page load times for 2020. 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.

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MachMetrics

JANUARY 16, 2020

Optimizing your images is often the very first suggestion that any performance writer or consultant will make when it comes to optimizing a website. However, what do you do when you optimize your images and still don’t see a noticeable improvement in the performance of your site? We’re no exception. Further analysis.

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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. In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score. Cache-Headers missing? Recommended!

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Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2021

If the DNS caches are manipulated to contain wrong IP addresses, it’s called DNS poisoning. Since traffic to your website or application will go through intensive inspections, you will face constant website speed and performance issues. Monitor your website speed from China. Blocking IP Access. Deep Packet Inspection.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 27, 2021

If the DNS caches are manipulated to contain wrong IP addresses, it’s called DNS poisoning. Since traffic to your website or application will go through intensive inspections, you will face constant website speed and performance issues. Monitor your website speed from China. Blocking IP Access. Deep Packet Inspection.

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Website Internet Internet Performance 52

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. Partitioning enhances scalability by reducing contention, optimizing performance, and dividing data based on usage patterns.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In this article, we will go through how to optimize and build a high-performance Next.js If you’re a developer looking to optimize applications and create reuseable components across applications effectively, this article will show you how to quickly scale your applications, and how to work with Nx. Optimizing Next.js

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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. One such measure is HTTP compression. OK, not really.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This also implies that you don’t have to spend additional time and money on creating a PWA to suit various devices, greatly speeding up time-to-market. 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. Why is that?

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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.

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Speed Google Website Metrics 97

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. We normally focus solely on the performance aspect, but today we want to dive into additional ways you can optimize images for the web.

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MachMetrics

AUGUST 15, 2020

Some of our most recent articles detailed how to keep track of the impact that Google Fonts , Page Weight , and CSS files have on your website performance. We have a ton of articles to help you optimize any part of your site. We’d also love to hear any optimizations you performed because of this new display!

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Website Monitoring Google Mobile 67

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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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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Google Metrics Speed Cache 69

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. Neither preload or push should be used as a way to speed up the delivery of all your assets at once. This allows you to better leverage browser caching. What Is HTTP/2 Push?

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Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The AMP Project is an open source initiative to improve performance and distribution on the mobile web. 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. You also use the AMP JavaScript library.

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Cache Google Mobile Open Source 75

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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Media Performance Cache Strategy 109

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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Smashing Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

Tools And Practices To Speed Up The Vue.js Tools And Practices To Speed Up The Vue.js Note: This article is aimed at both beginners and seasoned developers who want to better their Vue.js Quasar with its high performant frontend stack allows you to build cross-platform applications for Web, Mobile, and Desktop.

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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

But what about our web font’s performance? Unfortunately, there is typically much less thought put into the performance cost of using the amazing third-party font you downloaded. Considering web font performance is something that should become a habit of yours. Use it wherever possible for the best performance.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. The better the performance, the better chance that users stay on a page, read content, make purchases, or just about whatever they need to do. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Again, every millisecond counts.

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Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Performance optimization is the Rodney Dangerfield of web development–it “don’t get no respect” In spite of its great importance in the overall user experience, it is all too often pushed aside and treated as an afterthought. Performance optimization isn’t that necessary. Performance matters.

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Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

Indexes are generally considered to be the panacea when it comes to SQL performance tuning, and PostgreSQL supports different types of indexes catering to different use cases. I keep seeing many articles and talks on “tuning” discussing how creating new indexes speeds up SQL but rarely ones discussing removing them.

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