Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Since December 10, days after a critical vulnerability known as Log4Shell was discovered in servers supporting the game Minecraft, millions of exploit attempts have been made of the Log4j 2 Java library, according to one team tracking the impact, with potential threat to millions more applications and devices across the globe.

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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. But as it stands, websites are growing ever more obese, which means that the energy demand of the Internet is continuing to grow exponentially. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

This article strips away the complexities, walking you through best practices, top tools, and strategies you’ll need for a well-defended cloud infrastructure. This includes servers, applications, software platforms, and websites. What does it take to secure your cloud assets effectively?

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CSS Wizardry

MAY 31, 2019

One of the quickest wins—and one of the first things I recommend my clients do—to make websites faster can at first seem counter-intuitive: you should self-host all of your static assets, forgoing others’ CDNs/infrastructure. I won’t go into too much detail in this post, because I have a whole article. Penalty: Network Negotiation.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

Plesk VPS Hosting For Better Website Outcomes. Plesk VPS Hosting For Better Website Outcomes. This is a sponsored article.) In early discussions you have with clients about the website you’re tasked with designing, does the topic of web hosting ever come up? Suzanne Scacca. 2019-03-28T10:30:39+01:00.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. It essentially describes the lifetime of each file you download to load your page from the network. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. This leads to longer startup times, and if the network cannot supply the video fast enough, the video will stall during video playback. There is a solution though! Real-World Data. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

HTTP(s) Headers are key-value pairs that can be used by the client or server to pass additional information along with an HTTP(s) request or response. I tried with loads of websites to see how they behave in iframe. I observed that most of the websites don’t work in iframe due to x-frame-options and content-security-policy headers.

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DZone

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This open-source software, lauded for its reliability and high performance, is a vital tool in the arsenal of network administrators, adept at managing web traffic across diverse server environments. When traffic to a website or application increases, HAProxy can seamlessly bring more servers online to handle the load.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

One of the biggest pains of working with statically generated websites is the incrementally slower builds as your app grows. And once all that is done: remember Jamstack serves our apps from the edges of the Content Delivery Network. So we still need to move things from the server they were compiled at to the edges of the network.

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Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Browser Networking. High Performance Websites. Even Faster Websites. Fail, and you can kiss your customers and profits goodbye.”

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Dean Hume

OCTOBER 24, 2016

website, we noticed a 10% improvement in the page load times across the site. One of my favourite features of HTTP/2 is Server Push. This is where Server Push is a game changer. Instead of waiting for the HTTP response, it allows the server to “push” the resources it thinks the client will need into its cache.

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Dean Hume

OCTOBER 24, 2016

website, we noticed a 10% improvement in the page load times across the site. One of my favourite features of HTTP/2 is Server Push. This is where Server Push is a game changer. Instead of waiting for the HTTP response, it allows the server to “push” the resources it thinks the client will need into its cache.

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Dean Hume

OCTOBER 24, 2016

website, we noticed a 10% improvement in the page load times across the site. One of my favourite features of HTTP/2 is Server Push. This is where Server Push is a game changer. Instead of waiting for the HTTP response, it allows the server to “push” the resources it thinks the client will need into its cache.

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Servers Website Games Cache 40

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. Running a failing article page through WebPageTest highlighted the LCP element: The LCP image of a typical Smashing Magazine article. OK, so the article author photo is the LCP element.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Your dev environment is not your user’s environment Light Work , a picture by Émile Perron I use a Macbook Pro to develop websites. Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient. What happens when a browser tries to load a website? How do you scale it through different servers?

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

Signals For Customizing Website User Experience. Signals For Customizing Website User Experience. In my last article , I suggested using the SaveData API to deliver a different, more performant, experience to users that expressed that desire. This is a bit of a shame, as I believe they are useful for websites.

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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Because of nobody like a slow website. Getting your websites, images, and videos to load quickly is an absolute necessity for inbound marketing success. Getting your websites, images, and videos to load quickly is an absolute necessity for inbound marketing success. Slow website and your business bottom line. Want proof?

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CSS - Tricks

JANUARY 14, 2022

As much as we all love CSS, it’s still an important player in how websites load and using less of it is a good thing. If you wanted to do this in DevTools instead, you could filter your Network requests by CSS, find the stylesheet that you want to turn off, right-click and block it, and re-load. Stoyan is absolutely correct.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2019

What if you could present a preview image to the website visitor without having to load additional data? If your website consists of many JPEGs, you will notice that even progressive JPEGs load one after the other. With Ajax, however, this is possible, provided that the server delivering the image supports HTTP Range Requests.

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Network Servers Programming Code 103

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.

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MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

So in this article, we’ll pit Gzip vs Brotli and completely end the debate! Simply put, compression allows the web server to send smaller files to your web site viewers. When someone enters your URL and requests your site, their browser will indicate to the web server that it understands compression (and which type it understands).

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Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me. Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. As data centers and volumes of servers have grown, so has the overall amount of electricity consumed around the world.

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Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me. Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. As data centers and volumes of servers have grown, so has the overall amount of electricity consumed around the world.

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Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me. Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. As data centers and volumes of servers have grown, so has the overall amount of electricity consumed around the world.

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Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

Reading Time: 8 minutes Whether your ecommerce business is 100% online or you supplement with bricks and mortar, your website is a critical revenue driver. When your website isn’t performing optimally, you risk not only your revenue but also your reputation as a trusted resource. Note: According to Sr.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

If you want to vastly improve the startup and load performance of your website, you cannot miss the impactful observations and insights that Jake posts on jakearchibald.com/ and shares on Twitter @ jaffathecake. Follow @ tameverts to stay updated on all her upcoming speaking engagements and articles. Rick Byers. Rick Byers.

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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. 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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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This article is the first of a brief two-part series where we will look specifically at the media you are most likely to use: images, video, and audio. These are great principles for any website, not only those built with Gatsby. So, let’s solve the headaches you might encounter when working with media files in a Gatsby project.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

In this article we’ll take a look at the main types of Resource Hints and when and where we can use them in our pages. For a busy page with lots of external resources (like perhaps a news website with loads of ads and trackers), there might be dozens of DNS lookups required per page. Preconnecting. TLS negotiation on HTTPS sites.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

I use a Macbook Pro to develop websites. Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient. What happens when a browser tries to load a website? How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? How do you scale it through different servers?

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 19, 2019

When users are facing network or data constraints, Data Saver may reduce data use by up to 90% and load pages two times faster, and by making pages load faster, a larger fraction of pages actually finish loading on slow networks. Google’s servers are still involved, by as a proxy service forwarding the initial request along.

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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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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

This is a sponsored article.) That’s approximately 35 hours 32 minutes of downtime per year, per website. After that, we set up a basic WordPress website and start monitoring them with Pingdom.com. Tools like Pingdom or Appoptics APM let you regularly check if a website or app is available.) John Stevens. Bluehost.com.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

MARCH 13, 2024

For any ecommerce business, it is essential to have a fully functional website that works smoothly. However, users may visit your website through various devices, including laptops, smartphones, and tablets. To serve these different types of customers, one solution could be to build different websites for each interface type.

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CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I began writing this article in early July 2023 but began to feel a little underwhelmed by it and so left it unfinished. Concatenating our files on the server: Are we going to send many smaller files, or are we going to send one monolithic file? Compressing them over the network: Which compression algorithm, if any, will we use?

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. In the world of HTTP Headers, there is one header that I believe deserves more air-time and that is the Server-Timing header. Setting Server-Timing. Sean Roberts. 2022-05-16T10:00:00+00:00.

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