O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

By Rufus Rock , UCL ; Tim O’Reilly , UCL ; Ilan Strauss , UCL ; and Mariana Mazzucato , UCL This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. The internet protocols helped keep the internet open instead of closed. But it is far from alone.

Social Media 81

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 81

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

This issue—the deep nature of centralization—came up as a comment on my article What Do You Believe Now That You Didn't Five Years Ago? Facebook, Netflix, and Google are all distributed across much of the world, but they are still centralized services because control is centralized. Centralized Wins. Decentralized Loses.

Cloud 144

Cloud Internet Internet Google 144

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

It’s been well publicized that Google’s Bard made some factual errors when it was demoed, and Google paid for these mistakes with a significant drop in their stock price. Large language models like ChatGPT and Google’s LaMDA aren’t designed to give correct results. That’s what beta tests are for.

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Google Media Engineering Internet 85

MachMetrics

OCTOBER 16, 2019

A lot of coverage on this project is centered (rightfully) around the potential of this project to deliver fast internet to underdeveloped nations at a minimal cost. Starlink’s Goal: Reduce Internet Latency. – Google loses 20% of their traffic for every additional 100 milliseconds it takes a page to load.

Internet 44

Internet Internet Latency Speed 44

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

I’ve written a few articles here before on Core Web Vitals, and am always interested to see what’s in their annual Web Performance Checklist. LCP, or Largest Contentful Paint , is one of the three Core Web Vitals that you must “pass” to get the full search ranking boost from Google as part of their Page Experience Update.

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Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The service workers enable the offline usage of the PWA by fetching cached data or informing the user about the absence of an Internet connection. The following qualities are considered great additions to the basic PWA by Google developers. Service Workers. Application shell architecture. Let’s look at each one. created: new Date().getTime()

Cache 123

Cache Internet Internet Google 123

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

For more information about defining critical paths, see the article Understanding your application’s critical path. According to Google’s SRE handbook , best practices, there are “ Four Golden Signals ” we can convert into four SLOs for services: reliability, latency, availability, and saturation.

Software 263

Software Software Benchmarking Latency 263

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?

Best Practices 105

Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. I’m hopeful this can serve as a good introduction for any developer interested in learning about how to work with Google Lighthouse programmatically.

Google 82

Google Latency Website Metrics 82

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.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. Deep Packet Inspection.

Website 82

Website Internet Internet Performance 82

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). With Google Search Console you can see exactly where your pages are (or aren’t) ranking for different keywords. Google Keyword Planner. Google Trends. Google Mobile-Friendly Test.

Engineering 130

Engineering Google Website Analytics 130

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In this article, I’ll explain popular wording and formatting mistakes and will show more accessible and informative alternatives. What is hidden behind it: a page or file, an article or web form? However, you won’t need to take care of article links with aria-label if each title is a link itself. <h4>News</h4>

Website 141

Website Design Internet Internet 141

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. Deep Packet Inspection.

Website 97

Website Internet Internet Performance 97

O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

GPT-3 is essentially an auto-complete bot whose underlying Machine Learning (ML) model has been trained on vast quantities of text available on the Internet. Indeed, Google recently announced LaMDA , a model at GPT-3 scale that is designed to participate in conversations. Figure 1: Click-bait article titles generated by GPT-3.

Social Media 138

Social Media Media Internet Internet 138

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. The most preferred single-page applications are Gmail, Google Drive, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Smart cities.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

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. Our fast computers and fiber internet masked the experience real people have on our site. This is a screenshot from our mobile Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console.

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Google Analytics Serverless Metrics 93

KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

Responsive Design - Any site that you develop should render properly across all devices, as more and more people access the internet via mobile devices. Originally created as an early fork of Angular by engineers at Google, Vue.js Angular Google's flagship JS framework, Angular , has been in development for quite some time.

Google 135

Google Mobile Open Source Website 135

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The internet accounts for an estimated 3–4% of global emissions — equivalent to some countries. The carbon emissions of the internet are roughly equivalent to those generated by the entire aviation industry, or the whole of Africa. Do you really need Google Analytics on every site you build? Switch your analytics.

Strategy 123

Strategy Development Energy Website 123

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum has a uniquely designed data pipeline that can efficiently stream data from the disk to the CPU, without relying on the data fitting into RAM memory, as explained in their Greenplum Next Generation Big Data Platform: Top 5 reasons article.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

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.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2021

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. Deep Packet Inspection.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 27, 2021

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. Deep Packet Inspection.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

It was very important to load the page in iframe , I was wandering around the internet to find a way to load it. This article focuses on various approaches to modify headers in a Selenium automation setup. There’s a lot more to it than what can be covered in this article. Approach 1: Selenium Wire (Python). Conclusion.

Testing 99

Testing Network Website Google 99

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

In this article, we will particularly look at the average page load time in 2021 and importance of web vitals. With the latest introduction of the Core Web Vital section on GSC + upcoming Google’s core web vital update, site owners are forced to take note of their website speed and web vitals. Daniel An, Google, 2017.

Cache 78

Cache Speed Google Website 78

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites. Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

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.

Cache 96

Cache Google Mobile Network 96

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. Do we have a carousel of images?

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Jake is a frequent speaker at many popular conferences and events, such as 100 Days of Google Dev , JAMstakConf , JSConf , SmashingConf , and dozens of others.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

This article is sponsored by imgix. That ensures that the video will start playback quickly and is much less likely to stall during playback — no matter the speed of your user’s internet connection. Better Video Streaming With imgix. Better Video Streaming With imgix. Doug Sillars. 2022-08-25T08:00:00+00:00.

Media 106

Media Speed Network Analytics 106

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Now, let’s discuss the essential facts — as of August 2021, the global browser market share report by StatCounter states that around 64.92% consume content via Google Chrome, followed by Safari at 18.43%. We can observe that Samsung Internet 14.2 are still in use. and Edge 92 are used by 2.03% to 3.36% of the world population.

Cloud 79

Cloud Testing Testing Tools Website 79

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.

Speed 67

Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

Testsigma

MAY 18, 2021

This is also obvious from the fact that Google is now indexing all websites mobile-first. To support the claim, below are some stats that we took from datareportal.com related to mobile phone usage: “Most internet users (92.8 In this article, we will discuss points 3 and 4. Introduction. Points 1 and 2 are self-explanatory.

Cloud 59

Cloud Mobile Website Internet 59

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

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. Eloïse Martin. 2023-01-16T18:00:00+00:00. 2023-01-16T22:03:27+00:00. Use Priority Hints.

Media 104

Media Mobile Website Metrics 104

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. Examples include associations with Google Docs, Facebook chat group interactions, streaming live forex market feeds, and managing trading notices. Additionally.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

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.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131