The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. The first 5G networks are now deployed and operational.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

the brilliant synth-pop score or the perfectly mixed soundscape of a high speed chase?—?is This approach selects the audio bitrate based on network conditions at the start of playback. Adaptive streaming is a technology designed to deliver media to the user in the most optimal way for their network connection.

Engineering 274

Engineering Network Media Entertainment 274

Scalegrid

JANUARY 19, 2024

Key Takeaways Rollbacks in MongoDB are triggered by disruptions in the replication process due to primary node crashes, network partitions, or other failures, which can lead to substantial data loss and inconsistencies. This failure in replication could happen due to crashes, network partitions, or other situations where failover occurs.

Database 130

Database Network Servers Monitoring 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Storage mount points in a system might be larger or smaller, local or remote, with high or low latency, and various speeds. Sometimes these locations landed on mount points which, due to capacity, availability, or access constraints, weren’t well suited for large runtime storage. See details below.

Storage 147

Storage Latency Operating System Network 147

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database uptime and availability Monitoring database uptime and availability is crucial as it directly impacts the availability of critical data and the performance of applications or websites that rely on the MySQL database. Download Percona Monitoring and Management Today

Performance 105

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 105

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

The current system assumes an application specific regression model is available on the servers which can predict processing time given the current parameters of the job (e.g. These use their regression models to estimate processing time (which will depend on the hardware available, current load, etc.). in the cloud).

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Compressing them over the network: Which compression algorithm, if any, will we use? What is the availability, configurability, and efficacy of each? ?️ This gave rise to heavy bundling and concatenation—why download three CSS files (half of our budget) if we could compress them into one? main.af8a22.css

Cache 291

Cache Latency Strategy Speed 291

MachMetrics

JANUARY 13, 2021

Webpagetest.org is one of the premier page speed auditing services in the industry. Catchpoint has built a network of more than 800 test locations for their own platform, so it will be great to see that utilized for WPT. Patrick commented in a forum post stating that “the server and agent will remain available and updated.”

Open Source 64

Open Source Network Speed Engineering 64

Testsigma

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Step 4: Front-End Testing Front-end testing validates the features available on the UI of an app – testers check the functionality of the mobile app’s GUI. You should not be in a situation where the end-user might not download the app only because of its large size. Step 7: Network Compatibility.

Mobile 65

Mobile Testing Operating System Storage 65

Particular Software

JUNE 3, 2019

Everyone who is old enough to remember the sound of connecting to the Internet with a dial-up modem or of AOL announcing that "You've got mail" is acutely aware that there is an upper limit to how fast something can be downloaded, and it never seems to be as fast as we would like it.

Latency 40

Latency Speed Network Strategy 40

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Are you using a content delivery network (CDN) to bring elements like images closer to your users, so that delivery times are faster? seconds (which is a lot!) : Observations The LCP image is added to the page using JavaScript Because of this, the browser doesn't know about the image until the JS is downloaded and fully executed.

Performance 66

Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 66

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

Applications that do not require to be downloaded and can be accessed via hitting the URL on a mobile browser are known as mobile web applications. The applications which are required to be downloaded on your smartphone before you start using them are known as Native applications. What are Mobile Web Applications?

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

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.

Wireless 53

Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Browsers have lots of caches , the most well-known of which is the HTTP Cache that stores copies of downloaded resources on a local drive for later reuse. Using the HTTP Cache can avoid the need to download the same resources over and over again. so reusing them from that home page visit is a good saving.

Cache 91

Cache Games Performance Website 91

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. This also implies that you don’t have to spend additional time and money on creating a PWA to suit various devices, greatly speeding up time-to-market. Why is that? Read point 2.

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

Testsigma

JANUARY 13, 2021

times growth in downloads and 2.9-fold Keeping with these figures, global in-app purchases and downloads have sky-rocketed in recent years, thanks to companies taking their business online and onto smartphones. Not only will this help speed track the testing process, it will also help make the objectives clearer.

Mobile 54

Mobile Strategy Testing Efficiency 54

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. An easy way to compress images is with our image processing service that happens to also be fully integrated into our existing network. KB (30%) without losses.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Google Website 106

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 10, 2017

It's important that the critical content is downloaded and rendered before users get frustrated. Network metrics have been around for decades, but rendering metrics are newer. Speed Index. In the case of performance metrics, we're trying to capture the behavior of a website in terms of speed and construction.

Metrics 68

Metrics Website Speed Monitoring 68

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

This involves delving into waterfalls, seeing when the image is requested, how long it takes to download, and then deciding how to optimize that. It beefs up the page and means subsequent page views do not benefit from the fact that data is already downloaded. This is available at an origin-level (i.e. Large preview ).

Google 143

Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 19, 2018

What we see is that the HTML parser stops when it encounters a SCRIPT tag until that script is downloaded, parsed, and executed. Because the HTML parser stopped, all network traffic also stopped (because no other HTML tags were parsed to initiate HTTP requests). The second script, jquery.js , takes a long time to download.

Internet 53

Internet Internet Website Traffic 53

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.

Benchmarking 134

Benchmarking Speed Performance Media 134

Speed Curve

JANUARY 22, 2019

First Contentful Paint and Start Render (which was already available in LUX) are provided by browsers as part of the Paint Timing spec. LUX gets this data from the Network Information API. LUX typically reports the effective connection type , which is calculated based on roundtrip network times and recently observed download times.

Metrics 45

Metrics Network Availability Design 45

Testsigma

JANUARY 18, 2021

Network Throttling – If your app is built for a global audience, it is important to test the app features in varied network conditions (e.g. Along with testing on different network conditions, you should also check the app’s behaviour with different UL (Upload) and Download (DL) speeds.

Testing 55

Testing Operating System Website Internet 55

Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

The Time to First Byte (TTFB) metric (also known as First Byte) measures the speed with which your server delivers content to the user. Basically, TTFB is a measure of back-end and network performance. Essentially, the sooner your page is available for user interaction, the more likely a user will complete an action.

Ecommerce 87

Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

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.

Mobile 279

Mobile Cache Network Architecture 279

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

We deployed these enhancements gradually over time to ensure that our users didn’t experience any disruptions, but instead only a consistent improvement of their site speed. While some noticeable progress was made, it was challenging to implement significant changes just for the sake of speed. Creating A Performance Culture.

Website 126

Website Performance Google Media 126

Tim Kadlec

MARCH 14, 2019

In addition to the requirement that Data Saver mode is enabled, Lite pages will be applied: …when the network’s effective connection type is “2G” or “slow-2G,” or when Chrome estimates the page load will take more than 5 seconds to reach first contentful paint given current network conditions and device capabilities.

Google 63

Google Traffic Cache Servers 63

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

Run our Basic Installer.EXE and you can install the SQL Server Engine with only these three screens: Note : For Developer Edition, please be sure to look for this important note to use the new Basic Installer vs the ISO download: New! I’ll talk more about the Custom and Download Media options later in this post. That is click #1.

Servers 40

Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40

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!

Speed 85

Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

In this blog, we will discuss both data and network-level compression offered in MongoDB. We will discuss snappy and zstd for data block and zstd compression in a network. By default, MongoDB provides a snappy block compression method for storage and network communication. I am using PSMDB 6.0.4

Storage 110

Storage Network Open Source Latency 110

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

seconds faster on average and it drove 60 million more Firefox downloads per year. 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.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

You’ll often see different page speed metrics reported by different tools and data sources, so it’s important to understand the differences. That means you need to install an analytics script to collect it, and the reporting that’s available is less detailed than for lab tests. You see exactly what changed.

Google 106

Google Monitoring Website Speed 106

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?

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2023

Because it’s critical that operations teams ensure that all internal resources are available for their users, synthetic monitoring of those resources is important. To simulate those users’ journeys, multiple synthetic locations deployed within various sections of internal networks are required.

Scalability 207

Scalability Virtualization Monitoring Open Source 207

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

The best available proxy data also suggests that shared caches would have a minimal positive effect on performance. Removal also creates a performance cliff for content that assumes cache availability. De-duplication can prevent multiple copies on disk, but we're out of luck on reducing network costs. None of this holds.

Cache 82

Cache Government Traffic Network 82

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.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) LCP measures the perceived load speed of a webpage from a user’s perspective. You need to beware that slow server response times can significantly increase TTFB, often due to server overload, network issues, or un-optimized logic on the server side. Adding to this complexity is the effect of seasonality.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74