DZone

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Determining the most appropriate data types to store the information depends on various factors, including the required precision of float-point values, the content of the values (such as text), compressibility, and query speed. Choosing the right data types in PostgreSQL can significantly impact your database's performance and efficiency.

Best Practices 272

Best Practices Speed Database Efficiency 272

MachMetrics

MARCH 21, 2020

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. Recording Load Performance.

Speed 99

Speed Performance Google Mobile 99

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.

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

Brendan Gregg

MAY 8, 2021

People often tell me they don't understand performance tool output because they can't tell what's "good" or "bad." It can be hard as performance is subjective. I recently encountered terrible disk performance and thought it'd be useful to collect Linux tool screenshots and share them for reference. I could hear it spin faster.

Performance 142

Performance Latency Speed Systems 142

CSS Wizardry

JUNE 30, 2023

Honestly, I started writing this article, for no real reason and somewhat without context, in December 2022—over half a year ago! This client doesn’t have any RUM or custom monitoring in place ( yet ), so, other than Core Web Vitals, we don’t have much visibility on how the site performs in the wild. performance. performance.

Metrics 326

Metrics Google Monitoring Analytics 326

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! Or even on a plane.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

DZone

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

While increasing both the precision and the recall of our secrets detection engine, we felt the need to keep a close eye on speed. In a gearbox, if you want to increase torque, you need to decrease speed. So it wasn’t a surprise to find that our engine had the same problem: more power, less speed.

Processing 243

Processing Benchmarking Speed Engineering 243

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.

Google 82

Google Speed Testing Tools Testing 82

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. With that caveat out of the way, let’s get to the guts of the article: What is the Back/Forward Cache and why does it matter so much? Going back to the example of visiting a home page and then going to an article page.

Cache 91

Cache Games Performance Website 91

Speed Curve

APRIL 27, 2022

But this practice comes with some performance measurement pitfalls: Hiding the contents of the page can have a dramatic effect on the Web Vitals that measure visual experience, such as First Contentful Paint (FCP) and Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). + y), '') }; (a[n] = a[n] || []).hide the speed of the network the device is connected to.

Performance 145

Performance C++ Google Retail 145

MachMetrics

MAY 2, 2020

Our most recent article identified (and remedied) the 4 most common page speed testing mistakes we see website owners making, and it inspired us to do even more to help those who make mistake #2: Only testing from 1 location. There needs to be a little research put into where your visitors will come from. Oregon, USA (US West).

Speed 52

Speed Testing Website Mobile 52

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. This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. High Performance Websites.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? Experiencing database performance issues?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. When it comes to performance, you shouldn’t be stingy. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. However, some caveats regarding performance, scalability, and potential data conflicts exist.

Cache 125

Cache Performance Servers Social Media 125

DZone

MAY 5, 2022

There are three primary reasons for choosing AWS S3: affordability, speed, and reliability. Sometimes you need to upload a payload or file objects to S3 programmatically via your performance test script. This article will help you to upload files to AWS S3 in JMeter using Groovy. What Is S3?

AWS 130

AWS Storage Scalability Speed 130

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 27, 2020

I also care about making fast websites, but mine aren't winning any speed awards because I'll take practical and maintainable over peak performance any day. Direct Link to Article — Permalink The post Maintaining Performance appeared first on CSS-Tricks. Sorry, world).

Performance 55

Performance Best Practices Website Speed 55

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). For instance, typefaces used for a novel, an academic paper in a journal, or a lengthy online article like this one that uses the Elena typeface, that you are reading now on this webpage. Thomas Bohm.

Performance 110

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 110

Dynatrace

APRIL 11, 2023

Today’s organizations face increasing pressure to keep their cloud-based applications performing and secure. As data from different corners of the enterprise proliferates, teams need a better way to bring data together to identify performance and security issues, minimize security risk, and drive greater business value.

Cloud 192

Cloud DevOps Open Source Retail 192

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

As a popular example before china completely blocked Wikipedia in all languages, Wikipedia was accessible from China, but the Wikipedia article regarding internet censorship in China was not accessible due to the use of blocking “Internet censorship” keyword. Monitor your website speed from China. Deep Packet Inspection.

Website 82

Website Internet Internet Performance 82

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.

Performance 130

Performance Speed Google Media 130

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!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

DZone

JULY 23, 2020

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. Our article aims to compare them in terms of speed of data load.

Cache 141

Cache Speed Website Network 141

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?

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rachel Andrew.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

As a popular example before china completely blocked Wikipedia in all languages, Wikipedia was accessible from China, but the Wikipedia article regarding internet censorship in China was not accessible due to the use of blocking “Internet censorship” keyword. Monitor your website speed from China. Deep Packet Inspection.

Website 97

Website Internet Internet Performance 97

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.

Performance 52

Performance Speed Website Mobile 52

DZone

JULY 10, 2019

Alluxio is leveraged as compute-side virtual storage to improve performance. But to get the best performance, like any technology stack, you need to follow the best practices. High data locality can greatly improve the performance of Spark jobs. A Note on Data Locality. The first few tips are related to locality.

Best Practices 133

Best Practices Latency Storage Tuning 133

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.

Benchmarking 212

Benchmarking Metrics Cache Network 212

Dynatrace

JANUARY 21, 2022

Key takeaways from this article on vulnerability management for cloud application security: Today’s cloud apps with their fast innovation cycles and frequent use of open-source libraries must address a gap for runtime vulnerability management in production environments. Dynatrace news.

Strategy 226

Strategy Cloud Open Source DevOps 226

SQL Shack

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This article explains some of the popular SQL Server monitoring tools and techniques. Database monitoring: a quick reminder Database monitoring is a set of tools and techniques used to create and maintain an application infrastructure that is highly available and performs at high speed.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Servers Speed Database 52

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.

Performance 61

Performance Cache Media Games 61

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. Drew McLellan. 2019-04-17T12:30:16+02:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. When Should I Use prefetch ?

Performance 106

Performance Games Servers Cache 106

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.

Best Practices 105

Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

DZone

AUGUST 12, 2019

When working on PHP websites made from scratch and without a framework, speed can often be an issue. Caching is extremely useful in order to speed up PHP webpages. In this article, I’ll show you how to make a simple PHP caching system for your web pages.

Cache 166

Cache Efficiency Speed Website 166

Brendan Gregg

MAY 8, 2021

People often tell me they don't understand performance tool output because they can't tell what's "good" or "bad." It can be hard as performance is subjective. I recently encountered terrible disk performance and thought it'd be useful to collect Linux tool screenshots and share them for reference. I could hear it spin faster.

Performance 40

Performance Latency Speed Systems 40

Brendan Gregg

MAY 8, 2021

People often tell me they don't understand performance tool output because they can't tell what's "good" or "bad." It can be hard as performance is subjective. I recently encountered terrible disk performance and thought it'd be useful to collect Linux tool screenshots and share them for reference. I could hear it spin faster.

Performance 40

Performance Latency Speed Systems 40

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2021

As a popular example before china completely blocked Wikipedia in all languages, Wikipedia was accessible from China, but the Wikipedia article regarding internet censorship in China was not accessible due to the use of blocking “Internet censorship” keyword. Monitor your website speed from China. Deep Packet Inspection.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52