CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

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….

Network 225

Network Mobile Performance Traffic 225

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. It essentially describes the lifetime of each file you download to load your page from the network. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

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Cache Performance Servers Social Media 126

Speed Curve

MARCH 23, 2016

We use the device emulation built into Chrome DevTools so your tests run in the same environment as your local development. SpeedCurve provides nine emulated phones & tablets or you can build your own custom browsers and control settings like viewport size, device pixel ratio, connection speed and even packet rate loss.

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Benchmarking Speed Network Website 40

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

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.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 13, 2017

applied their approach of learning based model to B-Tree, Hash-map, and Bloom filter to develop corresponding learned models. 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. According to Kraska et al.,

Artificial Intelligence 40

Artificial Intelligence Hardware Google Benchmarking 40

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Application developers commonly leverage open-source software when building containerized applications. To properly secure applications, developers need to discover and eliminate these vulnerabilities. To function effectively, containers need to be able to communicate with each other and with network services.

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Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 249

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load. Despite its advantages, Redis’s versatility can introduce complexities, potentially challenging developers familiar with simpler solutions such as Memcached.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

It was – like the hypothetical movie I describe above – more than a little bit odd, as you could leave a session discussing ever more abstract layers of virtualization and walk into one where they emphasized the critical importance of pinning a network interface to a specific VM for optimal performance.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

It was – like the hypothetical movie I describe above – more than a little bit odd, as you could leave a session discussing ever more abstract layers of virtualization and walk into one where they emphasized the critical importance of pinning a network interface to a specific VM for optimal performance.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences. In some cases, you will lack benchmarking capabilities. This includes development, user acceptance testing, beta testing, and general availability. RUM generates a lot of data.

Best Practices 174

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 174

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

A lot of the time it’s a front-end developer or head of engineering, but more and more I’m finding myself in great conversations with product leaders. There are a ton of best practices for front-end developers to follow. I love conversations about performance, and I'm fortunate enough to have them a lot. The internet.

Performance 143

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This is sometimes referred to as using an “over-cloud” model that involves a centrally managed resource pool that spans all parts of a connected global network with internal connections between regional borders, such as two instances in IAD-ORD for NYC-JS webpage DNS routing.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability. Instead, to speed up response times, applications are now processing most data at the network’s perimeter, closest to the data’s origin. Ideally, teams need the ability to anticipate problems and fix conditions before an issue develops.

Infrastructure 181

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 181

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed.

Website 110

Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

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. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

million : new image/caption training set; 32,408,715 : queries sent to Pwned Passwords; 53% : Memory ICs Total 2018 Semi Capex; 11 : story Facebook datacenter prison in Singapore; $740,357 : ave cost of network downtime; Quotable Quotes: @BenedictEvans : Recorded music: $18 billion. They'll love you even more. Cars: $1 trillion.

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

While many of us, designers and developers, are likely to have a relatively new mobile phone in our pockets, a vast majority of our customers isn’t quite like us. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known. And to ensure the quality of a product, we always need to test — on a number of devices, and in a number of conditions.

Mobile 134

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 134

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. In early January a related paper was published by Satoshi Matsuoka et. petaflops, which is 0.8%

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

For more than ten years, I've been writing about page bloat, its impact on site speed, and ultimately how it affects your users and your business. Pervasively poor results are part of why responsible public sector organisations are forced to develop HTML-first, progressive enhancement guidance in stark opposition to the "frontend consensus".

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

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

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

A span: Represents a unit of work, such as a network call from one service to another (a client/server relationship) or a purely internal action (e.g., Telltale provides Edgar with latency benchmarks that indicate if the individual trace’s latency is abnormal for this given service. starting and finishing a method).

Latency 296

Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 296

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. One of the most surprising results has been the frequent occurrence of “ambush by JavaScript” : We need a new term for the business-opportunity wastage that modern front-end development has created. for router components).

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this case, we are not going to be talking about infrastructure services, such as a cloud computing platform like Microsoft Azure or a content distribution network like Akamai. The upside to using third-party services on your site is that you do not need to develop everything you want to do yourself. Jump to table of contents ?.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Reduced network and device capacity correlate with other access challenges. Again, these are management problems. --> In the midst of these crises, thoughtful organisations begin to develop a performance management discipline. Teams that develop these advantages progress through a hierarchy of performance management practices.

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The Lighthouse Performance score is based on some of the most important performance metrics : First Contentful Paint, First Meaningful Paint, Speed Index, Time to Interactive, First CPU Idle, and Estimated Input Latency. Data granularity becomes more important as your development processes mature.

Google 51

Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2018

However, if we relax the 1:1 power/performance requirement or procure technologies that lower the power overhead, a 2-3X ST performance speed-up over the current generation of CPUs is quite feasible. In other words, aggressive performance features will require an exponential power cost for the performance gain using current CMOS technology.

Architecture 67

Architecture Technology Technology Innovation 67

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

PageSpeed Compare is a page speed evaluation and benchmarking tool. It graphs server, network, CSS, Javascript, critical content, and image optimizations to show the potential savings you could gain by incorporating fixes into your site. Network and CPU are throttled for lab data tests for more realistic conditions.

Performance 130

Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 130

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Today, the website is much faster and ranks highly in various showcases and benchmarks. In this article, I’ll highlight some of the work we did and how we were able to achieve our speed. Jennifer Brehm.

Performance 116

Performance Cache Website Mobile 116

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Many high-end disk subsystems provide high-speed cache facilities to reduce the latency of read and write operations. With the proper battery backup and algorithms, the hardware write cache can secure the data safely (on stable media) as well as increase the speed of an application like SQL Server by hiding much of the true physical I/O time.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

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Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what strategies should be used to fix them. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!),

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what loading patterns should be used to fix them. Alternatively, you can also use Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing).

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. There are 200 Engineers(DevOps/OPS/QA/Developers/…), the rest are sales, marketing, support, product management, HR, etc. What is your development environment?

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52