Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Usually today this means internet connectivity, cameras, GPS, and so on, but they are distinct from smartphones.) With the majority of Internet access via mobiles, in just another decade almost everyone will use touch as their primary interaction method, worldwide. Download PDF , ePUB , Kindle. Personal Computer. Editor’s Note.

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Mobile Design Internet Internet 104

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The major application for high quality compression of photos is Internet speed. While bandwidth does continue to increase each year, so does the quality and size of most Internet media. With that said, many people assume that there are multiple resources available for compressing photos.

Media 43

Media Internet Internet Speed 43

Testsigma

MAY 5, 2021

MultiBrowser supports testing on all versions of Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Internet Explorer 11. Also, we can run tests in parallel across various browsers that are available on the local machines. Picture Credit: MultiBrowser. Highlights. Picture Credit: Rapise. Highlights.

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Testing Tools Testing Internet Internet 74

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Here's what loading 14 scripts looked like in Internet Explorer 7: I've added a red arrow at the beginning of each script request. What we see is that the HTML parser stops when it encounters a SCRIPT tag until that script is downloaded, parsed, and executed. The second script, jquery.js , takes a long time to download.

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Internet Internet Website Traffic 53

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Before we dive in, I’d just like to note that the authors responsibly disclosed their findings to Google, who have announced that they will be fixing many of the identified issues in AndroidQ. Google, to their credit, have announced that they are addressing many of the issues that we reported to them.

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Systems Traffic Network Google 74

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Nobody frames it precisely this way; instead they'll say, if WebKit weren't mandated, Chromium would take over , or Google would dominate the web if not for the WebKit restriction. There's no point in recommending a better browser because none is available. What does this almighty torrent of cash buy Google? Cui bono? —

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Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. These include data transfer (i.e.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

PWAs have been around for over five years, yet native applications outnumber them both in the quantity ratio and how many times users download them. Hence, they can’t be promoted separately or found by users who’ve input a search query in Google. As shown on the screenshots below, the product page of the store can be found via Google.

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

Testsigma

JANUARY 18, 2021

Consider a scenario where the end-users are using Internet Explorer browser to reach your website but you have not considered ‘testing on IE’ a part of your testing process! Along with testing on different network conditions, you should also check the app’s behaviour with different UL (Upload) and Download (DL) speeds.

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Testing Operating System Website Internet 55

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. It’s fair to say Google Fonts are popular. Without Google Fonts you would be limited to the handful of “ system fonts ” installed on your user’s device. Like all good things, Google Fonts do come with a cost. Danny Cooper. How can that be?

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Google Performance Cache Website 111

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. I’m hopeful this can serve as a good introduction for any developer interested in learning about how to work with Google Lighthouse programmatically.

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Google Latency Website Metrics 82

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Most of us work on connections that are typically quite a bit faster than that of the average internet user. In the early days of the web when we were browsing the internet via a dialup connection, improving performance meant removing the images from your site. Google’s results were perhaps even more startling. Conclusion.

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Performance Energy Google Internet 40

Percona

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Google Bard vs. MongoDB and MySQL challenge This was my first test of Bard ever, and I had pretty high expectations due to the fact that it can reach the online information, as opposed to ChatGPT, which operates on limited data. Downgrade Procedure: Download MongoDB 6.0 Binaries: Download the latest patch release of MongoDB 6.0

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Database Artificial Intelligence Servers Operating System 86

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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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

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. For a browser to serve as the user's agent, it must also receive navigations. PWA Feature Detector.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. South Korea has the fastest mobile download speed , averaging 52.4 Mbps download and 0.7 The USA ranks 40th in the world for mobile download speeds, at around 34 Mbps, and is at risk of falling further behind as the world moves towards 5G. Mbps upload.

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Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim. In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink). Converging Views.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

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?

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

As a database tailored towards enterprise workloads, this provides the ability needed to explore large data sets along with the high performance achieved by paralleling the analytics across your available segment hosts. How to Get Started.

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Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

This split decision was available via last year's update , but was somewhat buried. Many critiques are possible, both of the target (five seconds for first load), the sample population (worldwide internet users), and of the methodology (informed reckons). Going forward, I'll produce both as top-line guidance. In the U.S.,

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is because HTTP/3 and QUIC mainly help deal with the somewhat uncommon yet potentially high-impact problems that can arise on today’s Internet. On the Internet, however, we typically have a long series of connected pipes , some of which can be wider than others (leading to so-called bottlenecks at the narrowest links).

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Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Sutter's Mill

MARCH 11, 2024

They are acquired in a mix of ways: in-the-box in the C++ compiler, optional downloads, third-party products, and some you need to google around to discover. Do configure your servers correctly, especially public Internet-facing ones. Acquisition. Existing rulesets mix rules with low and high false positives.

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C++ Programming Code Java 139

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Every major website on the Internet today relies — to some degree — on third-party services. The HTTP Archive tracks third-party usage across a large swath of all active websites on the Internet today. Configuring WebPageTest to run a test measurement that simulates a failure of the Google Fonts third-party service.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Enprowess

JANUARY 11, 2022

With a myriad of options available out there, we have compiled a list of top frontend frameworks out there to help you out. Many front end frameworks are available in different languages. Of all the available technologies, JavaScript popularity has shot up exponentially. Let’s begin!!

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Virtualization Website Speed Mobile 64

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As businesses and applications increasingly rely on MySQL databases to manage their critical data, ensuring data reliability and availability becomes paramount. MySQL itself does not provide the capability for taking file system snapshots but it is available using third-party solutions such as LVM or ZFS.

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Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 79

Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

” in which he stated that the Google Chrome team are already developing the feature and intend to ship it in Chrome 75. In case your website’s images are downloaded all at once at page landing without lazy loading, you can enable (where supported) native lazy loading in your website as easily as adding an HTML attribute.

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Website Best Practices Media Open Source 103

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Along the way, some bright spark noticed that sites were all requesting their own copies of common libraries — things like the latest jQuery — and if there was a common CDN version of those libraries that could be used by every site, then the user wouldn’t need to keep downloading the same file. Trying It Out. Large preview ).

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Website Servers Code Best Practices 58

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Google created Kubernetes to help developers better manage their containerized applications across clusters. Although a beta version was released in 2014, the first stable release of Kubernetes was just made available in September 2018. Of course, managing such apps across more than one machine can get complicated very quickly.

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Virtualization Open Source Network Architecture 47

KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

As Sara Souedan said, not everyone has access to fast internet. For example, while the average mobile download speed on 4G in Switzerland is fast at 35.2 Mbps, countries with a growing Internet users like India is only at an average mobile download speed of 6.8 The PHP library for the API is available on GitHub.

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Speed Website Mobile Latency 52

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 18, 2016

All test results are recorded, aggregated and available in real-time online graphs and detailed reports to help track the response time of your website as the number of simultaneous users increases. LoadView is a unique platform with several different types of load generating tasks available.

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Software Software Testing Website 40

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. Users should be able to view the images directly from their system and not wait again for them to download.

Media 106

Media Cache Website Mobile 106

MachMetrics

JULY 21, 2018

The changing nature of our Internet usage is having a big impact on this issue. If you’re old enough, you may remember an early-internet when getting an image onto a website was a lot of work. Look into a video CDN that will stream parts of your video only as it is needed (instead of making the user download the whole thing).

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Website Speed Internet Internet 71

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Download The Checklist (PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word). You can also just download the checklist PDF (166 KB) or download editable Apple Pages file (275 KB) or the.docx file (151 KB). Quick Wins.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Download The Checklist (PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word). You can also just download the checklist PDF (166 KB) or download editable Apple Pages file (275 KB) or the.docx file (151 KB). Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Quick Wins.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Download The Checklist (PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word). You can also just download the checklist PDF (166 KB) or download editable Apple Pages file (275 KB) or the.docx file (151 KB). While download times are critical for low-end networks, parse times are critical for phones with slow CPUs. Assets Optimizations. Quick Wins.

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