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In Defence of DOM­Content­Loaded

CSS Wizardry

I never thought I’d write an article in defence of DOMContentLoaded , but here it is… For many, many years now, performance engineers have been making a concerted effort to move away from technical metrics such as Load , and toward more user-facing, UX metrics such as Speed Index or Largest Contentful Paint. log ( window. performance.

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An analysis of performance evolution of Linux’s core operations

The Morning Paper

Most Linux users cannot afford the amount of resource large enterprises like Google put into custom Linux performance tuning… For Google of course, there’s an economy of scale that makes all that effort worth it. A micro-benchmark suite, LEBench was then built around tee system calls responsible for most of the time spent in the kernel.

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PostgreSQL Performance Tuning: Optimizing Database Parameters for Maximum Efficiency

Percona

It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. Selecting the appropriate index type, creating composite indexes, and regularly analyzing and reindexing the database can substantially improve query speed.

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Optimizing Video For Size And Quality

Smashing Magazine

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. It’s of course doubtful that you will be able to achieve the same savings that I’ll be showing here, but you will get some useful pointers and tips on things to keep in mind when dealing with videos.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” Rachel Andrew.

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How To Benchmark And Improve Web Vitals With Real User Metrics

Smashing Magazine

How To Benchmark And Improve Web Vitals With Real User Metrics. How To Benchmark And Improve Web Vitals With Real User Metrics. Different products will have different benchmarks and two apps may perform differently against the same metrics, but still rank quite similarly to our subjective “good” and “bad” verdicts.

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Measuring Network Performance in Mobile Safari

CSS Wizardry

Google has a pretty tight grip on the tech industry: it makes by far the most popular browser with the best DevTools, and the most popular search engine, which means that web developers spend most of their time in Chrome, most of their visitors are in Chrome, and a lot of their search traffic will be coming from Google. You Will Need….

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