Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We can expand the metric to glean insights into what exactly is causing traffic on the main thread. 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.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. Bitrate is the playback speed of the video. However, all the other connections have a downlink speed that’s significantly lower than 20 MBPS. There is a solution though! Large preview ).

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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. ‍What Comprises Video Streaming - Traffic CharacteristicsWith the emphasis on a high-quality streaming experience, the optimization starts from the very core. Those days are long gone.

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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. What Comprises Video Streaming - Traffic CharacteristicsWith the emphasis on a high-quality streaming experience, the optimization starts from the very core. Those days are long gone.

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Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

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 an attempt to fill in missing data for those pages that don’t get enough traffic to have meaningful user experience data. Large preview ).

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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. In other words, the data is not looking at your actual web traffic but a simulated environment that gives you an approximate view of traffic when certain conditions are in place.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Cue server-timing headers Historically, when looking at page speed, we've had the tendency to ignore TTFB when trying to optimize the user experience. For example, processing of web application firewall (WAF) rules, detecting bots or other malicious traffic though security services, and growing in popularity, edge compute.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

However, Netflix is available for streaming on thousands of types of devices and it is powered by hundreds of micro-services which are deployed independently, making it extremely challenging to comprehensively test internally. Additionally, this gets us closer to consistent metric definitions in both realtime and offline systems.

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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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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

How to measure performance The Website Speed Test is the ideal tool for measuring the performance of your website. Properly size images: Scaled images will definitely reduce the overall website size. WebP means faster loading times and less traffic. The available operations are listed in our documentation.

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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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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

There's no point in recommending a better browser because none is available. This market then funds all of the R&D and operational costs of search engines, including "traffic acquisition costs" like browser default placement deals. [2]. This is the situation that Apple has engineered on iOS. Cui bono? — who benefits?

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

Hence, the node would still be available for other operations. Cons of logical backups As it reads all data, it can be slow and will require disk reads too for databases that are larger than the RAM available for the WT cache—the WT cache pressure increases, which slows down the performance. Records backup progress logging.

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Apica

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

To keep up with the testing demand there are a number of feature requirements needed in order to be called a modern performance testing platform: Mega-scale load testing — load testing should scale up to millions of users within seconds to emulate the speed and scale of virtually any high-profile event worldwide.

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MachMetrics

JULY 27, 2018

Here’s 10 pretty typical sites (including Amazon and Bing, not just mom-and-pop sites): Nope, there’s definitely a problem across the board. I didn’t want to be testing using an older browser than most of my traffic. Let’s look at a bunch of sites in aggregate.

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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. This strategy is very simple and closely resembles the development environment, but cannot handle large or inconsistent amounts of traffic effectively.

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Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

Additionally, teams are measuring and tracking key business metrics – conversion rates, cart abandonment rates, customer lifetime value, revenue by traffic source, and so on. The Time to First Byte (TTFB) metric (also known as First Byte) measures the speed with which your server delivers content to the user.

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Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

That’s not all, the global mobile traffic is expected to increase sevenfold between 2017 and 2022. Speed and Accuracy. Giving priority to mobile website testing does not mean that you have to perform testing on all ‘categories’ of mobile phones available in the market. Mobile Device Compatibility.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!),

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

Keptn uses SLO definitions to automatically configure Dynatrace or Prometheus alerting rules. Once Dynatrace sees the incoming traffic it will also show up in Dynatrace, under Transaction & Services. If an alert is triggered, Keptn automates operational tasks such as triggering remediation actions. SimpleNodeJsService.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Modern network performance and availability. Recall that single-core performance most directly translates into speed on the web. OpenSignal's global report on connection speeds ( pdf ) suggest that WebPageTest's default 4G configuration (9Mbps w/ 170ms RTT) is a reasonable stand-in for the P75 network link. Hard Reset.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2018

A website today receives a large chunk of its traffic from evergreen browsers — most of which have good support for ES6+, new JavaScript standards, new web platform APIs and CSS attributes. Modern web application development has been simplified due to the availability of a plethora of new browser APIs. Shubham Kanodia.

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Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

However, we cannot outline the best, but we can definitely analyze which is the best framework to choose in which situations. Two-way Data Binding Availability. Additionally, Netflix uses the Reactjs library to boost runtime performance, modularization and increase start-up speed. Two-way Data Binding Availability.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Start Render time, Speed Index ). Treo Sites provides competitive analysis based on real-world data.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights (no, it isn’t deprecated), you can get CrUX performance data for specific pages instead of just the aggregates.

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

If our example document wasn’t reliant on JavaScript to construct the <my-app> custom element, the contents of the document would likely be interactive as soon as enough CSS and content was available to render meaningfully. Any DOM or UI created in JS is not available for use until the script runs. Global Ground-Truth.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

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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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”. It is physically limited by the speed of light or, practically, how fast signals can travel in wires or in the open air. Congestion Control.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. Note that there is an Apache Traffic Server implementation, though.). Secondly, using too many connections could cause early packet loss due to competing congestion controllers.

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