O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? That’s exactly what Google, Amazon, and Meta are doing today. They start to collect robber baron rents.

Social Media 108

Social Media Google Internet Internet 108

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

Although Kubernetes simplifies application development while increasing resource utilization, it is a complex system that presents its own challenges. What challenges does it present, and how can you overcome them? Who manages the networking aspects? Kubernetes forged by the rise of Google. But what is Kubernetes exactly?

Virtualization 132

Virtualization DevOps Infrastructure Cloud 132

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s the newest metric of the bunch and is set to formally be a ranking factor in Google search results beginning in March 2024. 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. It only looks at the delay of the event process.

Traffic 94

Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 94

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Organizations are constantly being measured against the best available digital experiences — coming from Google, Amazon, Facebook, and other industry leaders. Some of the factors that affect user experience include: Availability : Is the touchpoint available when the user wants to use it? User experience score.

Mobile 213

Mobile Social Media Monitoring Metrics 213

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. It measures the web performance of a single page using Google PageSpeed Insights. You can compare up to 12 pages at once and presents the report in a simple and readable way since it uses PageSpeed Insights to generate reports.

Performance 130

Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 130

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

Dean Hume

JULY 30, 2018

Without fail, there is this spot along the line where my network connection drops from a clear 4G signal to a 2G signal at best. This is where the Network Information API aims to change things. There are a number of use cases for the Network Information API. My journey to and from work involves a small journey on a train.

Network 40

Network Speed Google Mobile 40

Dean Hume

JULY 30, 2018

Without fail, there is this spot along the line where my network connection drops from a clear 4G signal to a 2G signal at best. This is where the Network Information API aims to change things. There are a number of use cases for the Network Information API. My journey to and from work involves a small journey on a train.

Network 40

Network Speed Google Mobile 40

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.

Google 140

Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

CSS Wizardry

MARCH 28, 2022

The important thing to note here is that Google doesn’t care how you get to LCP, as long as you get there fast. Google doesn’t (currently) care about your TTFB, but a good TTFB is going to help get closer to a good LCP. is available for you to look through, though we’ll pick apart individual waterfalls later in the article.

Virtualization 330

Virtualization Google Metrics Testing 330

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. How can that be?

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

by Jason Koch , with Martin Spier , Brendan Gregg , Ed Hunter Improving the tools available to our engineers to help them diagnose, triage, and work through software performance challenges in the cloud is a key goal for the cloud performance engineering team at Netflix. or “are there noisy neighbors affecting my container task?”.

Performance 211

Performance Latency Open Source Metrics 211

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Google recommends that TTFB be 800ms at the 75th percentile. The use of server-timing headers by content delivery networks closes a big gap. This data is available by enabling the mPulse behavior in property manager. For more years than I care to mention, I've been advising folks that their TTFB should be under 500ms.

Servers 57

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. That early decision was notable because whereas the GPL is applied if derivative work is distributed, the AGPL license applies both for distributed work and whenever end users interact with a program over a network. Now, back to MongoDB itself.

Open Source 83

Open Source Programming Database Servers 83

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim. The information it captures is, however, available going back somewhat further, providing a fuller picture of the trend lines of engine completeness. Count of APIs available from JavaScript by Web Confluence.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. SEO is key to our success. Bookaway site search.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

They use the graph as the basic representation for many AI-related algorithms, including neural network, Bayesian network, Markov Field, and some other emerging methods. Image Processing Unit (IPU) is the Pixel Visual Core designed by Google and integrated in Google Pixel 2 released in 2017.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. Web monitoring is a comprehensive term that describes the activity of testing a website or web application for its availability and performance. HTTP monitoring allows you to test availability and performance from around the world.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

MachMetrics

MARCH 21, 2020

Chrome’s DevTools suite contains some of the most powerful tools available to help you analyze and improve the speed of your website (or web app). This is usually because while this tab initially appears very simple, upon running the test you are presented with a ton of data on the site you are testing. To improve your site!

Speed 99

Speed Performance Google Mobile 99

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

This enables monitoring of the device outputs (audio, video, and network). On Roku TV, the most prevalent tracker is for Google’s doubleclick.net (975/1000 channels). Facebook is notably less present on TV than it is in mobile and web channels. Where possible the authors use mitmproxy to intercept traffic from the devices.

Systems 104

Systems Traffic Internet Internet 104

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. , and the Head Performance Engineer at Google. and Google, they’ll do wonders for your website!

Speed 85

Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Surveying the existing landscape of available developer tools and runtimes, we felt that there is a gap. One network hop up, Shopify’s CDN adds optimized edge-delivery with commerce specialized protection against malicious actors and shopping bots that now often operate at a scale that is able to DDoS many storefronts.

Cache 135

Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 135

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

We have several YouTube Tutorials and blog posts available that show how you can use Dynatrace RUM data for Web Performance & User Experience Optimization. Too many fine-grained services leading to network and communication overhead. Impressive results I have to say! Infrastructure Optimization. Benefits: Increased user adoption.

Cache 195

Cache Architecture Database Government 195

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

As we will see, both the present and future of browser engine choice are squarely within Cupertino's control. 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. And that's a choice. "WebKit Cui bono? —

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Most of you have probably seen the following Google PageSpeed Insights optimization suggestion at one point or another when running a speed test: By compressing and adjusting the size of … you can save 14.2 An easy way to compress images is with our image processing service that happens to also be fully integrated into our existing network.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Google Website 106

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

The most preferred single-page applications are Gmail, Google Drive, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Low data usage and Offline accessibility: It works fine in low internet reception and is also possible to access offline like Google Maps. The dark mode is a significant consideration of every web development at present.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. You can download the spreadsheet as Google Sheets, Excel, OpenOffice document or CSV. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

If you are just starting out wondering if someone might be re-publishing your web content, the easiest thing to do is a Google search. Copy a ten or twelve-word sentence from a page of interest on your site into the Google search bar, put it inside double-quotes, and click on Search. How To Track Suspicious Activity. Large preview ).

Website 89

Website Analytics Google Cache 89

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

The next day Jack presented his Turing Award Lecture as the keynote for the event ( HPCwire has a good summary of the whole talk), and later in the the week he was on a panel discussion on “Reinventing HPC” where he repeated the point. I presented a keynote for Sun at Supercomputing 2003 in Phoenix Arizona and included the slide shown below.

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Lazy-load offscreen images (reduce network contention for key resources). For low impact to First Input Delay : Avoid images causing network contention with other critical resources like CSS and JS. CWV is part of a set of page experience signals Google Search will be evaluating for ranking. Large preview ). Large preview ).

Media 145

Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Google founders figured out smart ways to rank websites by analyzing their connection patterns and using that information to improve the relevance of search results. Fast forward to the present day and we find ourselves in a world where the number of connected devices is constantly increasing. Back in the days of Web 1.0,

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Case-in-point, most enterprise CMS vendors lack robust full-site content delivery network (CDN) integration. A few months back, I was pulled into a scenario where a business has been working with a leading CMS vendor to roll-out a network of multi-regional websites. Eventually, we decided to move them to Jekyll.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Or consider South Korea's law, passed last August , that elicited months of stonewalling by Google and Apple until, at last, an exasperated Korean Communication Commission ( KCC ) started speaking a language Cupertino understands [1] via a proposed 2-3% fine. Provide its own networking layer and integrate with Private Relay's closed API s.

Google 55

Google Mobile Strategy Games 55

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google. In this case, my website is “slow”, even when served on 4G networks. For example: Think with Google suggests the typical page speed optimizations.

Website 110

Website Speed Mobile Design 110

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.

Metrics 89

Metrics Performance Media Google 89

Tasktop

MAY 24, 2021

The program helps develop strong leaders who can build up a network of relationships and connections, broaden their understanding of the business and empower them to use technology to create amazing products for customers. We’ll be sure to share Mik and our other favorite sessions as and when they come available.

DevOps 91

DevOps Metrics Healthcare Innovation 91