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.

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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. Are we embedding YouTube videos?

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

There are tools available such as Dotcom-Monitor’s free speed test that you can utilize to gauge performance. If you are running on a CMS platform like WordPress, there are a number of minification plugins available. In order to begin optimizing your pages, you’ll need to see how your pages are currently performing.

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Testsigma

MAY 24, 2021

There are a plethora of browsers available in the market for both web browsing and mobile browsing such as Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc. These test cases can then easily be executed on different browsers available on the cloud.

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O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

GPT-3 is essentially an auto-complete bot whose underlying Machine Learning (ML) model has been trained on vast quantities of text available on the Internet. Indeed, Google recently announced LaMDA , a model at GPT-3 scale that is designed to participate in conversations. Targeted Manipulation at Scale. Prompt Engineering.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In the late 1990s, marketing and advertising agencies saw the potential of eye-tracking for the Internet and started using the technology to analyze how people consume content online. For instance, Nielsen’s research conducted in 2006 showed that people read content on the Internet in an F-shaped pattern.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Google Docs, Trello, …). This follows from reading and writing to the local file system, with data synchronisation happening in the background when a connection is available. That connection could be peer-to-peer across devices, and doesn’t have to be over the Internet. I’m all in :). The rock or the hard place?

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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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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The Google DevTools console can give you real-time feedback to help you trace the source of errors, and you can set handlers to automate exception data collection. Source: Google Keep in mind that not all code errors are noticeable to users. LogRocket LogRocket is a little bit different from the others.

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Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The folk at Google have been pushing this sentiment with a focus on user-centric performance metrics , which aim to answer four questions about users’ experiences: Is it happening? WebPageTest loads a web page in a real web browser and captures a video of the screen as the page loads. What are paint timing metrics?

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Its videos and blog articles address issues such as web performance, extensible component development and the intersection of CSS with other technologies, like HTML and JavaScript. Frontend Focus Frontend Focus’s issues are available from their site or as subscription emails. Visit website 3. Visit website 15. Visit website 16.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 31, 2019

This capability is now available off-the-shelf —this paper uses the CMU Festvox voice converter — and is getting better all the time. So voice should sit alongside images and video as a source we can’t trust in our new post-reality world. (It It seems especially powerful when you combine e.g. voice impersonation and video).

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High Scalability

AUGUST 3, 2018

It was the very first time (1968) the world had ever seen a mouse, seen outline processing, seen hypertext, seen mixed text and graphics, seen real-time video conferencing. Instead, let’s get every possible edge case understood by mingling Google’s training data with that from the other manufacturers. Most importantly?

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Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

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? How will AI adopters react when the cost of renting infrastructure from AWS, Microsoft, or Google rises? Microsoft, Google, IBM, and OpenAI have offered more general indemnification.

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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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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. I downloaded TripMode ; an application for Mac which gives you control over which apps on your Mac can access the internet. Any other application’s internet access is automatically blocked. Google Homepage — DOM. I enabled Chrome. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The “Changes” panel should be already available by default and next to the “Computed” tab. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. More ideas, tips, and tools will be discussed next.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

The average user doesn’t spend much time waiting for a web page to load or to interact with the page: According to Google, if a page’s load time goes up from 1 second to 3 seconds, the probability of the user bouncing increases by 32%. Consider Google Analytics, which collects and sends tracking data using navigator.sendBeacon().

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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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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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O'Reilly

MARCH 23, 2023

An API for ChatGPT is available. GPT-3 and GPT-4 are not open source, but are available for free and paid access. LaMDA Developed by Google; few people have access to it, though its capabilities appear to be very similar to ChatGPT. Notorious for having led one Google employee to believe that it was sentient.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The internet. This traditionally manifests more in back-end time, but can have a huge impact on front-end as well when you factor in asset delivery (images, static content) as well as some advanced optimizations available at the edge. It's consistently inconsistent. Third parties. Long audible moan] We love to hate them.

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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

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 29, 2019

There’s no sense in attacking a hard target when a weaker one is available. Instagram is experimenting with eliminating likes , saying users should focus on the videos and pictures, not on peer approval. I’ve seen attempts to defend the Pelosi video as parody or satire.

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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. Static files range from a few kilobytes of CSS to gigabytes of video. Performance And Availability. These files are only used client-side. Media Files.

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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. If you thought images were heavy, consider video – which is essentially a collection of images – plus audio.

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Website Speed Internet Internet 71

Rigor

JUNE 4, 2019

With so many different metrics available to measure dozens of different aspects of a web page, it can be a struggle to know how best to quantify that page’s overall web performance. Using a Composite Score: Google Lighthouse. The most common example of this is the Google Lighthouse Performance score.

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CSS - Tricks

MAY 15, 2019

Today's websites are packed with heavy media assets like images and videos. Well, that’s about to change when lazy-loading will be available natively in HTML as a new loading attribute… at least in Chrome which will hopefully lead to wider adoption. Native lazy-loading flags in Google Chrome. Native lazy-loading to the rescue!

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Tim Kadlec

JULY 31, 2013

One of the ones that stands out is Nate Koechley’s “Professional Frontend Engineering” presentation ( transcript and video ). On the first of Yahoo’s guiding principles: First is availability — this is the bedrock of building a website. If the site’s not available to people, game over, we might as well not even bother.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

Lazy loading is a way to improve the performance of a website or web application by maximizing the rendering speed of the above-the-fold images and iframes (and sometimes videos) by deferring the loading of below-the-fold content. kB gzipped and it’s already available on GitHub , npm , and jsDelivr. JavaScript-Driven Lazy Loading.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. Note : To be able to see the custom type native-color-picker available in that list, you need to install the Colorpicker app in the space App Directory. A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites. Alba Silvente. 2022-11-17T10:00:00+00:00. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Paddy Ganti’s script constructs two URLs (one normal and one blocking the ads), prompts the generation of a video comparison via WebPageTest and reports a delta.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik), Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing). Assets Optimizations.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The internet accounts for an estimated 3–4% of global emissions — equivalent to some countries. The carbon emissions of the internet are roughly equivalent to those generated by the entire aviation industry, or the whole of Africa. Watch the video of Jamie’s talk from Green Tech South West. Notably, this makes for 17.28

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