Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. There are self-hosted alternatives to Google Analytics, after all.

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CSS Wizardry

MARCH 28, 2022

The important thing to note here is that Google doesn’t care how you get to LCP, as long as you get there fast. Plan in suitable buffer time for traffic issues, etc. Google doesn’t (currently) care about your TTFB, but a good TTFB is going to help get closer to a good LCP. LCP is a milestone timing—it measures…. Block-level.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Of all traffic, 53.3% The top three results in Google SERPs get 54.4% Google is the most prominent global search market player with a market share of 83%. Be Prepared to Add a New E in EAT We all know about the common Google EAT acronym, which is defined as Expertise, Authority, and Trust. comes from organic searches.

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Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

This project implements multiple techniques and tactics to censor China’s internet and controls the internet gateways to analyze, filter, and manipulate the internet traffic between inside and outside of China. Instead, you will encounter forever loading and other messages like timeout, connection error, network problem, etc.

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Website Internet Internet Performance 82

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.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Geoff Graham 2023-08-10T08:00:00+00:00 2023-08-10T12:35:05+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear There is no shortage of ways to measure the speed of a webpage. Real usage data would be better, of course.

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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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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

That was when I first got to witness the power of network headers. The ability to modify the headers of traffic that pass through your browser is a great tool to have. 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.

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Testing Network Website Google 99

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In one of our previous articles , we discussed what an SRE is, what they do, and some of the common responsibilities that a typical SRE may have, like supporting operations, dealing with trouble tickets and incident response, and general system monitoring and observability. Monitoring can provide a way to differentiate between.

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Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

This project implements multiple techniques and tactics to censor China’s internet and controls the internet gateways to analyze, filter, and manipulate the internet traffic between inside and outside of China. Instead, you will encounter forever loading and other messages like timeout, connection error, network problem, etc.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

However, let’s take a step further and learn how to deploy modern qualities to PWAs, such as offline functionality, network-based optimizing, cross-device user experience, SEO capabilities, and non-intrusive notifications and requests. The following qualities are considered great additions to the basic PWA by Google developers.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

This article delves into the specifics of how AI optimizes cloud efficiency, ensures scalability, and reinforces security, providing a glimpse at its transformative role without giving away extensive details. Exploring artificial intelligence in cloud computing reveals a game-changing synergy.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 22, 2023

In this article, we will explore into the significance of pre-deployment policy compliance, explore the role of policy as code frameworks, and showcase real-life examples of successful implementations. Ensuring that security groups restrict inbound traffic to approved ports. Checkov: Checkov is a static code analysis tool.

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AWS Best Practices Infrastructure Traffic 52

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

In this article, we will check how page load time affects your site revenue and also the importance of even just one second in page loading. drop in the number of articles a visitor read The three-second delay resulted in a 7.9% Slow website and your business bottom line. drop Visitors read less when delays occurred.

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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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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Google recommends that TTFB be 800ms at the 75th percentile. The use of server-timing headers by content delivery networks closes a big gap. For example, processing of web application firewall (WAF) rules, detecting bots or other malicious traffic though security services, and growing in popularity, edge compute.

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Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. With Core Web Vitals , Google has been pushing the experience factors on mobile further to the forefront. Conclusion.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Yes, that's right: I read the comments on a MacRumors article. Nobody frames it precisely this way; instead they'll say, if WebKit weren't mandated, Chromium would take over , or Google would dominate the web if not for the WebKit restriction. What does this almighty torrent of cash buy Google? At my age, one knows better.

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Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2021

This project implements multiple techniques and tactics to censor China’s internet and controls the internet gateways to analyze, filter, and manipulate the internet traffic between inside and outside of China. Instead, you will encounter forever loading and other messages like timeout, connection error, network problem, etc.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

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. Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient. A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0,

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. You can download the spreadsheet as Google Sheets, Excel, OpenOffice document or CSV. Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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. And JavaScript can certainly make requests for additional network resources.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 27, 2021

This project implements multiple techniques and tactics to censor China’s internet and controls the internet gateways to analyze, filter, and manipulate the internet traffic between inside and outside of China. Instead, you will encounter forever loading and other messages like timeout, connection error, network problem, etc.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

The most preferred single-page applications are Gmail, Google Drive, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. According to Ericsson’s analysis, international mobile data traffic is projected to become 4.5 Low data usage and Offline accessibility: It works fine in low internet reception and is also possible to access offline like Google Maps.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

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. Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. As for mobile network connection type, 84.7%

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Cache Google Mobile Network 96

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. Jake Archibald has written a great article on this. It’s a win-win all round!

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Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

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. Jake Archibald has written a great article on this. It’s a win-win all round!

Energy 40

Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

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. Jake Archibald has written a great article on this. It’s a win-win all round!

Energy 40

Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

We were designing and building things, setting up new products, refactoring the components, and publishing articles. The entire site is built with progressive enhancement in mind, meaning that you, dear reader, can read every Smashing article in its entirety without the need to boot the application at all. We had to fix that.

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Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to. 300ms RTT, 1.6

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Instead, like the other articles in the Django Highlights series (see below), it’s intended as a guide for front-end developers and designers to understand other parts of the process of creating a web application. If you’re on the latter end of this scale, you probably need more specialized advice than this article is prepared to give.

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Media Cache Storage AWS 69

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

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 ). This is difficult to prove because developers will say that “the experience” is what they are seeing on their computers using, for example, Google Chrome. A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0,

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

CSS - Tricks

MAY 15, 2019

Images make up around 50% of an average website's traffic. In short, we’re talking about a mechanism that defers the network traffic necessary to load content when it’s needed — or rather when trigger the load when the content enters the viewport. Native lazy-loading flags in Google Chrome. The benefit?

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Traffic Website Network Analytics 58

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G network in your office for faster testing. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

MachMetrics

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The video uses the time it currently takes for information to travel from the New York Stock Exchange to a viewer in London to illustrate the advantages that this network could offer. – Yahoo saw a 9% increase in traffic to every 400 milliseconds of webpage speed improvement. Speed is worth the investment.

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Internet Internet Latency Speed 44