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. There are ways around that, of course.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It also makes for a good crash course on the tools if you haven’t used them before. You can then choose what device and resolution to emulate, add a network throttle, and even define the device orientation. In the Network panel click on an image and then right click on it to have the option to Copy image as data URI.

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Particular Software

JUNE 3, 2019

The availability of bandwidth increases at a staggering rate, but we're never happy. We become annoyed when we run a speed test on our broadband provider only to find that, on a good day, we are getting maybe half of the rated download speed we are paying for, and the upload speed is likely much worse.

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CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

When first working on a new site-speed engagement, you need to work out quickly where the slowdowns, blindspots, and inefficiencies lie. In a separate sheet—available at the same link as before —I’ve simply graphed the data by page type. Now, let’s move on to gaps between First Contentful Paint and Speed Index.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The project is available in twenty languages, and encourages all kinds of contributions to open-source projects — including non-pull-request contributions. Good ol’ PerfPlanet is back for another season with all things speed and web performance. It launched in 2005 and still has all of the calendars available online.

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O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The most obvious change 5G might bring about isn’t to cell phones but to local networks, whether at home or in the office. High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting. Those waits can be significant, even if you’re on a corporate network. Let’s get back to home networking.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Of course, it matters what your users experience rather than what some search engine crawler sees, but one of the great things about the Core Web Vitals initiative is that it does measure real user experience rather than what Google Bot sees! Authors are important of course, but is that really what the reader came here to see?

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

You can also disable the Back/Forward Cache in Chrome at chrome://flags/#back-forward-cache if you want to experiment more, but the above steps should hopefully be a sufficient enough test to give a rough feel for the potential speed gains. When investigating the impact on your site look at all available metrics for any improvement.

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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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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive dashboard that lets you explore and compare web performance data for leading websites across several industries – from retail to media. With Page Speed Benchmarks, you can do things like: See what the different metrics actually mean in terms of user-perceived performance.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Intelligent Social network - Facilitate topical Q&A conversations among employees, customers and our most valued super contributors. Teachers can interact with their colleagues in professional learning networks.

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MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

And if you absolutely have to have it on a device, most of them are available via Kindle as well. If you’re looking to read optimization ideas from one of the greatest minds in speed performance, look no further. If these rules can be applied to improving speeds at Yahoo! Let’s get started!

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2019

In Part I , we introduced a High Availability (HA) framework for MySQL hosting and discussed various components and their functionality. Semisynchronous replication, which is natively available in MySQL, helps the HA framework to ensure data consistency and redundancy for committed transactions. slave_preserve_commit_order = 1.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

For these reasons, as a small engineering team, we’ve found that optimizing for reliability and speed of product delivery is required for us to serve our evolving customers’ needs successfully. The high likelihood of unreliable network connectivity led us to lean into mobile solutions for robust client side persistence and offline support.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

For that, we focused on OpenTelemetry as the underlying technology and showed how you can use the available SDKs and libraries to instrument applications across different languages and platforms. This allows us to quickly tell whether the network link may be saturated or the processor is running at its limit. What is OneAgent?

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking Marty et al., This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. ” That’s 4-8x the speed of evolution and feedback cycles. ” That’s 4-8x the speed of evolution and feedback cycles.

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Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

In this post, we outline the best way to host MySQL on Azure , including managed solutions, instance types, high availability replication, backup, and disk types to use to optimize your cloud database performance. High Availability Deployment. So, how do we configure high availability for MySQL on Azure? Azure Virtual Networks.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2022

This increased automation, resilience, and efficiency helps DevOps teams speed up software delivery and accelerate the feedback loop — ultimately allowing them to innovate faster and more confidently. It may have third-party calls, such as content delivery networks, or more complex requests to a back end or microservice-based application.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

There's no point in recommending a better browser because none is available. Unlike Microsoft's late and underpowered efforts with IE 7-11, Safari enjoys tolerable web compatibility, more than 90% share on a popular OS , and an unheard-of war chest of available cash with which to finance a defence. Cui bono? — who benefits?

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Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Hot backups vs. cold backups: A hot backup — used to minimize downtime and ensure data availability for critical applications — allows you to create a copy of a database while the system is still actively serving user requests and processing transactions. In a cold backup, the database is taken offline.

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Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 93

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. This split decision was available via last year's update , but was somewhat buried. seconds on the target device and network profile, consuming 120KiB of critical path resources to become interactive, only 8KiB of which is script.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

Of course , they’re going to look to other areas to offset those costs. For example: An underpowered hosting plan fails to handle influxes of traffic, which leads to slower page speeds and a drop in conversion rates. This is the cheapest form of hosting available and probably the one your clients will be most inclined to purchase.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed.

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Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

I keep seeing many articles and talks on “tuning” discussing how creating new indexes speeds up SQL but rarely ones discussing removing them. Effectively, the memory available for pages of the table gets less. If we don’t increase the available memory, this starts hurting the entire performance of the system.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. The code for the site is available on GitHub for reference. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Today, I'm excited to announce the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) , a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache that can speed up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second. We are excited for the General Availability of DAX."

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Of course, we’ll discuss possible resolutions to these bugs as well. The “Changes” panel should be already available by default and next to the “Computed” tab. CSS has been improving rapidly in the last couple of years, and of course, browsers are continually modernizing. General Debugging Tips.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. If your average visitor is on a fast cabled or cellular network, they probably won’t benefit from the new protocols all that much. A Primer on Speed. Congestion Control.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Large preview ) That’s a nice big view and is a good illustration of TBT’s impact on page speed. That’s a lifetime in web seconds, particularly considering that this test is based on a desktop experience on a high-speed connection. But does it need to be available immediately ? The user is forced to wait a whopping 4.1

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

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. Of course, we’re talking about the user doing something on the page, i.e., an action such as a click or keyboard focus. That’s what this article is all about.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Speeds up development. Specific metrics to measure include current pods, available pods, unavailable pods, and current node conditions. Key metrics here include memory requests, CPU requests, disk utilization, and network throughput. Of course, not all automation is created equal. Enhances DevOps productivity.

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Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 9, 2020

As you can see, the impact is considerable — especially on lower-end devices and slow network speed, where images are coming in separately. These are likely to be the very users suffering with network constraints and limited processing power that will suffer most from layout shifts! Large preview ). Much nicer!

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Recommendations can come out of audits from consultants or from automated tools like Lighthouse (or SpeedCurve, of course). Content Delivery Networks (CDN) like Akamai, Fastly, Cloudflare, Cloudfront can sometimes have a big impact on performance. This is typically the work you'd throw into an optimization sprint (or twenty).

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Time to First Byte (TTFB), DOM Content Loaded, Start Render, Speed Index) — but from the experience of the user. Google uses anonymized data from Chrome users to feedback metrics and makes these available in the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX). This field data section is important and we’ll come back to that later.

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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. We may ask our users to use the app for searching a course of their choice and take a few classes on it after making the payment. Can we have a single day in our life without a mobile phone today? Reference: [link].

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

Over the decade since [the introduction of Availability Zones], our thinking on failure and availability has continued to evolve, and we paid increasing attention to blast radius and correlation of failure. EBS uses chain replication for availability, with data flowing from client to primary to replica. Physalia in the large.

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Database AWS Network Design 106

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

They now allow users to interact more with the company in the form of online forms, shopping carts, Content Management Systems (CMS), online courses, etc. Web monitoring is a comprehensive term that describes the activity of testing a website or web application for its availability and performance. Network or connection error.

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