CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 24, 2022

I can reload the exact same page under the exact same network conditions over and over, and I can guarantee I will not get the exact same, say, DOMContentLoaded each time. What if another file on the critical path had dropped out of cache and needed fetching from the network? In browserland, this is known Queuing.

Benchmarking 212

Benchmarking Metrics Cache Network 212

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Pagespeed Benchmarks - US Retail - LCP When you examine a waterfall, it's pretty obvious that TTFB is the long pole in the tent, pushing out render times for the page.

Servers 57

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

Rigor

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Let’s start with a brief definition of two of the more prominent web performance methodologies: synthetic monitoring and real user monitoring (also known as RUM). Benchmark Against Competitors. Then, they can effectively benchmark their own performance against those key competitors over time.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Benchmarking Website Traffic 40

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 13, 2017

They demonstrated that neural nets based learned index outperforms cache-optimized B-Tree index by up to 70% in speed while saving an order-of-magnitude in memory. The benchmarking was performed using 3 real-world data sets (weblogs, maps, and web-documents), and 1 synthetic dataset (lognormal). Learned Bloom filters. What's next.

Artificial Intelligence 40

Artificial Intelligence Hardware Google Benchmarking 40

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Using a network request inspector, I’m going to see if there’s anything we can remove via the Network panel in DevTools. In DevTools, the Network inspector helps us see what the first webpage is doing too.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92

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

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. JavaScript is the single most expensive part of any page in ways that are a function of both network capacity and device speed. The median user is on a slow network.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68