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Check Internet Speed With Apple Network Responsiveness

DZone

There are umpteen tools available to check the internet speed. SpeedTest, Speed from Cloudflare , Netflix's Fast , or if you use Google search , you can test the internet speed and its analytics. In this blog article, we will deep dive into network quality and its usage. Launching networkQuality.

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New Network Fallacies

Tim Kadlec

I remember reading articles about how 3G connectivity was going to transform performance and, more generally, the way we used the internet altogether. ” The fallacy of networks, or new devices for that matter, fixing our performance woes is old and repetitive. In theory, the maximum downlink speed is 100 Mbps.

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In Defence of DOM­Content­Loaded

CSS Wizardry

Honestly, I started writing this article, for no real reason and somewhat without context, in December 2022—over half a year ago! Instead, we have: domContentLoadedEventStart : This is the one we’re interested in, and is equivalent to the concept we’ve been discussing in this article so far. log ( window. performance. performance.

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The DevTools Performance Tab – Using Chrome’s Profiler to Optimize Your Page Speed

MachMetrics

Chrome’s DevTools suite contains some of the most powerful tools available to help you analyze and improve the speed of your website (or web app). In our most recent article , we covered one area of the DevTools that we can use to measure the load time of our site – the ‘Audit’ tab.

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From Caching to CDN: How To Decide Which Way to Go

DZone

In an attempt to speed up their websites, owners are ready to take various measures. When we talk about the speed of a website, most often we mean the speed of its content loading. There are two effective methods to improve the load time — data caching and using a content delivery network (CDN).

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Measure What You Impact, Not What You Influence

CSS Wizardry

As I see it, there are two main issues when it comes to measuring performance changes (note, not improvements , but changes) in the lab: Site-speed is nondeterministic 1. I can reload the exact same page under the exact same network conditions over and over, and I can guarantee I will not get the exact same, say, DOMContentLoaded each time.

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Top 10 Tips for Making the Spark + Alluxio Stack Blazing Fast

DZone

This article provides the top 10 tips for performance tuning for real-world workloads when running Spark on Alluxio with data locality, giving the most bang for the buck. Alluxio is leveraged as compute-side virtual storage to improve performance. A Note on Data Locality. High data locality can greatly improve the performance of Spark jobs.