Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

There are many ways of measuring your Core Web Vitals , but the definitive way — even if it’s not the best way, as we’ll see soon — is in Google Search Console (GSC). This is available at an origin-level (i.e. From an SEO perspective, it doesn’t really matter what other tools tell you, GSC is what Google Search sees.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

When providing some functionality for processing a file uploaded by the user, the file must be available to the process throughout the execution. After the file is uploaded to a server on step 1, the file must be available to whichever server handles the request for steps 2 and 3, which may or may not be the same one for step 1.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines. Â The goal is to boost the pitfalls of network disruptions and vendor dependencies, all while pocketing cost savings.

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Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines. The goal is to boost the pitfalls of network disruptions and vendor dependencies, all while pocketing cost savings.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

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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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

DNS, which stands for domain name system , is an Internet service that translates domains names into IP addresses. You can think of a DNS server as a phone book for the internet. So DNS services definitely go down! Just like with content delivery networks, DNS hosting providers also have multiple POPs. What is DNS?

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Cache Website Internet Internet 134

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google uses anonymized data from Chrome users to feedback metrics and makes these available in the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX). CrUX data is available in a number of tools, including in Google Search Console for your site. That data is what they are using to measure these three metrics for the search rankings.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Network effects are not the same as monopoly control. It's not because there are no other options available to them because of structural issues. Cloud providers incur huge fixed costs for creating and maintaining a network of datacenters spread throughout the word. Does the there can be only one apply to the cloud?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It’s also one of the reasons we can keep using the Internet with many concurrent users, because it smartly limits each user’s bandwidth usage to their fair share. As another example, most applications on the Internet use TCP internally to ensure that all of their data are transmitted in full. Did You Know? Did You Know?

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Safe communication : Transmission of sensitive data over networks without encryption may cause havoc to user sensitive data. There are automated tools available for performing penetration testing on mobile applications.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. By definition, a distributed system is any system that comprises of multiple components on variety of machines that work together to appear as a single, organized system. The recipe was straightforward.

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Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

When a project’s source code is available to all, the question of security isn’t far behind. Watch the “Using Open Source Software to Optimize and Troubleshoot Your MySQL Environment” video sessions Open source software powers the Internet. We will talk about how to assess that when choosing a project.

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Open Source Software Software Social Media 86

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. An often used metaphor is that of a pipe used to transport water. Congestion Control.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 105

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

I've got a long blog post brewing on this, but jumping to the end, an operable definition is: A browser is an application that can register with an OS to handle http and https navigations by default. Modern browsers like Chrome and Samsung Internet support a long list of features that make web apps more powerful and keep users safer.

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 18, 2019

Control loop SLOs express the active management actions a provider will take, e.g. shedding of low-priority load will occur on over-utilised network links. The VM is reachable from the Internet? As a simple example, an SLO around network throughput might rely on the customer running software capable of driving the network fast enough.

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Metrics Cloud Google Network 79

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The “Changes” panel should be already available by default and next to the “Computed” tab. Note : Another timely note here is that Internet Explorer will reach end of life officially on June 15, 2022 ). Use the “kebab” more menu to select “More Tools > Changes” to open that panel.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 9, 2020

This also puts extra work on the browser to recalculate the page layout as each image arrives across the internet. As you can see, the impact is considerable — especially on lower-end devices and slow network speed, where images are coming in separately. The user-agent stylesheet is where default CSS definitions are set (e.g.

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Website Code Mobile Network 125

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? AI users are definitely facing these problems: 7% report that data quality has hindered further adoption, and 4% cite the difficulty of training a model on their data. Certainly not two-thirds of them.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Definitely trigger warning for explicit mentions of domestic violence, also possibly some elder abuse and child abuse. Definitely anytime you’re allowing users to send any type of text to each other, there’s the possibility for abuse. Definitely not always the case. Eva: Absolutely, yes. Thank you for bringing that up.

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Design Education Network Google 98

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Quote : “40% of people abandon a website that takes more than 3 seconds to load” Neil Patel, Internet Marketing expert. John Mueller answered “YES” to this question in 2019, “site speed is definitely a ranking factor?”. You can make beautiful-looking websites with the supports of millions of themes & plugins available.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. The closer one looks, the less a definition of "appiness" can be pinned down to specific technologies.

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Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. If we think about social networks, we can see two clear trends, those focusing on text and those focusing on multimedia content. An Image Service CDN is a combination of an Image Transformation API and a CDN network. Alba Silvente. 2022-11-17T10:00:00+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Resources like Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) that had previously been the reserve of giant corporations were becoming commonplace for everyday folk building snappy websites. I can test this out by putting that tag in a page, and then flipping to the Network tab in my browser tools to see that the file has been loaded.

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Website Servers Code Best Practices 57

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. Definitions. Imagine a professional networking site with a database of users. Performance And Availability. Part 2 : Templating Saves Lines. Media Files.

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Media Cache Storage AWS 69

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Amazon S3 has always been a scalable, durable and available data repository for almost any customer workload. For example, a movie studio can now store and manage their entire catalog of high definition origin files on Amazon S3 as individual objects. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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AWS Big Data Scalability Storage 80

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

What follows are topics that may be of interest to anyone looking to migrate their systems and skillset: scan these to find topics that interest you. ## ZFS ZFS is available for Linux via the [zfsonlinux] and [OpenZFS] projects, and more recently was included in Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS (April 2016).

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 10, 2019

I rarely have to use it, but it is definitively useful to know that it exists. However, I can definitely recommend the MDN documentation should you want to read on the topic. WebPageTest allows us to select which location, browser and network conditions the test will use. Going nuclear: XPath selectors. Long loading states.

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Performance Testing Testing Performance Open Source 51

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. Layout Shift GIF Generator that visualizes CLS with a simple GIF (also available from the command line). If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. 300ms RTT, 1.6

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Usually, the most specific and relevant ones are: Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized, key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized, key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Web has over 4 billion internet users and is nearing 2 billion websites. If you run a shoe store and let a social network track your users so you can target ads to them there later, know that that data, which reveals who is interested in shoes, will also be used to show them shoe ads for your competitors. Further Reading.

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