Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

For this, you can use such well-known tools as Semrush and SimilarWeb and reviews from Trustpilot , Google Play , and Apple’s App Store. Computer Electronics” and “Technology” appear to be the most popular course categories among edX students. This user type doesn’t need a specific course. Take SimilarWeb.

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Education Website Google Design 84

Alex Russell

DECEMBER 31, 2023

In through eagle-eyed press coverage, regulatory reports, and legal discovery the shady dealings of Apple and Google's app stores are now comprehensively documented. It has gone largely unreported that Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), have been held back by Apple and Google denying competing browsers access to essential APIs. [2]

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Google Mobile Games Strategy 93

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The flip side of speeding up delivery, however, is that each software release comes with the risk of impacting your goals of availability, performance, or any business KPIs. Typical Dynatrace use cases cover SLOs for service availability, web application performance, mobile application availability, and synthetic availability.

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Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 156

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Google Fonts. Google Sheets sync. Thousands of avatars available straight from Figma: UI Faces. All avatars are collected from various sources (they are always provided), and they can be filtered by age, gender and emotion, but of course you need to check the source and the license before actually using it. accessibility.

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Google Design Code Mobile 145

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Historically, I’d maybe look at Google Analytics—or a RUM solution if the client had one already—but this is only useful for showing me particular outliers, and not necessarily any patterns across the whole project. In a separate sheet—available at the same link as before —I’ve simply graphed the data by page type. See entry 6.

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Speed Ecommerce Metrics Analytics 292

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

This technique saves two instructions in the prologue and epilogue and makes one additional general-purpose register (%rbp) available." But I'd rather the cost be zero, of course! Google should be no surprise because they pioneered continuous profiling.) We may get there with future technologies I'll cover later.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 4, 2024

And of course, today IPOs are delayed, often precisely because companies can get all the capital they need from a small number of deep-pocketed investors. Google raised only $36 million in venture capital on its way to dominance. The capital-fueled AI land grab is of course only one axis of premature market concentration.

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Artificial Intelligence Open Source Innovation Transportation 60

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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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. It measures the web performance of a single page using Google PageSpeed Insights. You can export the results as a CSV file for Excel, Google Sheets or Apple Pages. They are granular and available at domain and page levels.

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Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 130

Smashing Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

Let’s briefly look at the shortcomings of the many tactics available, starting with cold contacting potential clients. There is now so much content out there that to get somebody’s attention, let alone rank well on Google, is incredibly hard. Writing the email course is the hardest part, but not as hard as you might think.

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Social Media Media Network Website 145

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2022

By filing public comments with UK regulators and US legislators this week , you can change the course of mobile computing more significantly than at any other time in more than a decade. Facebook and Google, meanwhile, have undermined user agency in browser choice for fun and profit. A thread ??. [1/5Sb

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Mobile Google Games Operating System 87

CSS Wizardry

APRIL 22, 2020

Of course, this total of 100% only measures compressible responses that actually were compressed—there are still many millions of resources that could or should have been compressed but were not. 21 years later, in 2013, Google launched Brotli, a new algorithm that claims even greater improvement than Gzip! decrease in file-size.

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Latency Servers Website Speed 269

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. But does it need to be available immediately ? There are self-hosted alternatives to Google Analytics, after all. Analytics is a good example.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 91

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s the newest metric of the bunch and is set to formally be a ranking factor in Google search results beginning in March 2024. The fact that INP is already available in performance reports means we have an opportunity to familiarize ourselves with it today, in advance of its release. Let’s walk through the process.

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Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 95

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

A year after the first web servers became available, how many companies had websites or were experimenting with building them? And of course, companies that don’t use AI don’t need an AI use policy. How will AI adopters react when the cost of renting infrastructure from AWS, Microsoft, or Google rises?

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 106

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2021

As a strong supporter of open source and open standards, I’m aware that the wide availability of standards, open-source tools, and some newly coined terms are causing a lot of confusion. In the mid 2000s, Google published their Dapper paper which describes techniques for distributed tracing at Google.

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Open Source Monitoring Google Systems 205

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). Work out what your priorities are, how you can measure progress, and the limitations of the available data. Google Keyword Planner. Google Trends. Google Mobile-Friendly Test.

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Engineering Google Website Analytics 131

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Google's Search App and Facebook's various apps for Android undermine these choices in slightly different ways. [3] Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. The same unified experience ensures that saved addresses and payment information are readily available.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Surveying the existing landscape of available developer tools and runtimes, we felt that there is a gap. And, of course, the result needs to be seamless and delightful — dare we say, even fun — to develop and maintain.

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Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 136

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome and focusing around performance for decades. DRM-free, of course. The eBook is available right away (PDF, ePUB, Amazon Kindle). DRM-free, of course. Let’s figure it all out. Get Print + eBook.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 93

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome who was working all around web performance for decades. DRM-free, of course. DRM-free, of course. Addy Osmani is an engineering manager working on Google Chrome. DRM-free, of course.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 106

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Faster is better, of course, but the way Lighthouse reports it, a “passing” score comes in between 0 and 1.8 Google keeps a full record of the changelog for reference, so that’s something to keep in mind when evaluating results, especially if you find yourself with different results from others on your team.

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Performance Metrics Monitoring Google 96

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Sergey Kanzhelev (Google). If you already have Dynatrace OneAgent in place you can, of course, take advantage of the built-in OneAgent multidimensional metric API for ingesting your OpenTelemetry custom metrics. The OpenTelemetry metrics exporters are open source projects, available on GitHub.

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Metrics Open Source Lambda Serverless 143

Scalegrid

APRIL 2, 2019

Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform tied neck and neck at 17.5% PostgreSQL of course came in first with 85.9% Again, open source community for another PostgreSQL win as there are hundreds of third party open source (and some commercial) tools available to leverage easily for your deployments.

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Database Cloud Open Source Azure 185

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

The AOM board currently includes Amazon, Apple, ARM, Cisco, Facebook, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix, Nvidia, and Samsung, and many companies joined as promoter members. AOM has produced the reference software for AV1, which is called libaom and is available online. Added a unit tests framework based on Google Test.

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Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

O'Reilly

MARCH 23, 2023

An API for ChatGPT is available. GPT-3 and GPT-4 are not open source, but are available for free and paid access. LaMDA Developed by Google; few people have access to it, though its capabilities appear to be very similar to ChatGPT. Notorious for having led one Google employee to believe that it was sentient.

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Google Open Source Programming Code 103

Alex Podelko

JUNE 12, 2019

IBM Rational Performance Tester and IBM Rational Performance Tester on Cloud (including no charge Starter Edition) appear to be available. To evaluate such ecosystems, in absence of more sophisticated data, I used the number of documents Google finds and the number of jobs Monster finds mentioning each product.

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Testing Open Source Testing Tools Performance Testing 243

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

And if you absolutely have to have it on a device, most of them are available via Kindle as well. and the Head Performance Engineer at Google. Souders presents his 14 rules throughout the course of the book while discussing the importance of front-end performance. and Google, they’ll do wonders for your website!

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Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

Alex Podelko

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

To evaluate such ecosystems, in absence of more sophisticated data, I used the number of documents Google finds and the number of jobs Monster finds mentioning each product. It is great that the book is not limited by the core JMeter functionality and discusses available components and integrations when appropriate.

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DevOps Testing Testing Tools Performance Testing 113

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

And of course, scrapers could scrape your site to look for security vulnerabilities or exposed contact or sales lead details. If you are just starting out wondering if someone might be re-publishing your web content, the easiest thing to do is a Google search. The most common service of this type is Google Web Light.

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Website Analytics Google Cache 89

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. Enter Google! Upgrades are also rolled out progressively across the cluster of course. Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking Marty et al., SOSP’19.

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Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim. The information it captures is, however, available going back somewhat further, providing a fuller picture of the trend lines of engine completeness. Count of APIs available from JavaScript by Web Confluence.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google. Although we’ve been told for years that visitors are willing to wait three seconds for a web page to load , Google considers 2.9 seconds too long.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

That user preference is available in two (hopefully soon to be three!) This is available behind a flag in Chrome, but not yet on by default while it finishes standardization. Save Data API. Let’s have a quick recap on the Save Data API. ways: A Save-Data header is sent on each HTTP request. More after jump!

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Website Media Mobile Network 103

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Google was the first company to create, embrace, and put support behind the role of site reliability engineering. When Google first introduced the role of SRE, they set a goal that half of an SREs time should be focused on reducing future operational work or adding service features. Monitoring.

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Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

DRM-free, of course. The eBook is available right away (PDF, ePUB, Amazon Kindle). DRM-free, of course. Since then, he designed the first Google mobile search, the first mobile app store, several mobile browsers, and numerous websites and apps for global brands. eBook is already available as PDF, ePUB, and Amazon Kindle.

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Mobile Design Best Practices Website 87