CSS Wizardry

JUNE 30, 2023

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.

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Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

That meant I started having regular meetings with the hardware engineers who were working with IBM on the CPU which gave me even more expertise on this CPU, which was critical in helping me discover a design flaw in one of its instructions , and in helping game developers master this finicky beast. I wrote a lot of benchmarks.

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Cache Latency Benchmarking Hardware 126

n0derunner

OCTOBER 5, 2020

How to speed up your X-ray benchmark development cycle by re-using/re-cycling benchmark VMs and more importantly data-sets. Problem: For large datasets, creating the data on-disk can be time consuming. Consider a cluster where we wish to write 2TB per node and replication is at 10GbE per node.

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Benchmarking Storage Speed Development 52

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Throughout this post I've used examples from our public Industry Benchmarks dashboard , which I'd encourage you to check out so that you can explore these metrics on your own. you're a front-end developer), it's a good idea to track it because it can delay all your other metrics. > > Speed Index (Synthetic). Is it loading?

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Reads and writes to your Primary, and even reads from Slave-1 will work at SSD speed. MySQL Performance Benchmark Configuration. This technique is referred to as ‘slowing down the master to speed up the slaves’ and is explained in J-F Gagne’s blog. No more network-based EBS, just blazing-fast local SSD. community edition.

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Percona

MAY 1, 2023

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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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

A micro-benchmark suite, LEBench was then built around tee system calls responsible for most of the time spent in the kernel. On the exact same hardware, the benchmark suite is then used to test 36 Linux release versions from 3.0 Headline results. 14, and after that performance starts to degrade noticeably.

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KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

We will also discuss how you can speed up your slow WordPress site. Few web developers completely dismiss WordPress, claiming it is too slow. Many factors affect the speed of your WordPress website; some of them are: Your web host Server-side optimizations (PHP version, compression, caching, etc.) Why is WordPress slow?

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Cache Website Speed Website Performance 52

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Yet, we wanted to put together our list of the top web performance books for anyone who cares about speed of the web and would like to explore the timeline of web performance engineering milestones over nearly two decades through the lens of published books. Site speed & SEO go hand in hand. Information Architecture.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

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. Bitrate is the playback speed of the video. However, all the other connections have a downlink speed that’s significantly lower than 20 MBPS. There is a solution though! Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

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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Tim Kadlec

APRIL 18, 2019

Even if it is 4G (5G, or whatever else) that doesn’t exactly guarantee you’ll be getting the amazing, theoretical speeds promised. Once a new network does get rolled out, it takes years for carriers to optimize it to try and close in on the promised bandwidth and latency benchmarks. And those speeds aren’t constant.

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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.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. Developing software is becoming easier as frameworks like React, Vue, or Angular become the go-to solution for creating even the simplest applications. Because of this, Jamstack apps usually load faster, but it’s harder for developers to make dynamic content.

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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

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

How to Restore MySQL Logical Backup at Maximum Speed. MySQL stored procedures, functions and triggers are tempting constructs for application developers. In this benchmark, I discovered some interesting discrepancies in performance between AMD and Intel CPUs when running under systemd. How to Speed Up Pattern Matching Queries.

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PDC

APRIL 14, 2019

It ranks the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers based on their performance as measured by the Linpack benchmark. Published twice per year (in June and November) since 1993, the Top500 list records the development of supercomputers over the past two to three decades. Performance development. Source: [link].

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Speed Curve

AUGUST 8, 2017

These numbers should not in any way even remotely be taken as a benchmark for your own site. In this graph, the steep rise of onload slightly hides the fact that Speed Index trends upward quite significantly – from 2393 (~2.4 These numbers are mainly relevant when viewed in a historical context. Not all pages are getting bigger.

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Metrics Website Speed Benchmarking 80

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.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

Keep reading to learn how you can apply these best practices to your own site and give your pages a speed boost. Speed Index (synthetic only): 4 seconds recommended. Benchmark your site against your competitors. Build a performance culture that embraces collaboration between design and dev. What's blocking the user experience?

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 78

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.,

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. One, by researching on the Internet; Two, by developing small programs and benchmarking. These include Python, PHP, Perl, and Ruby.

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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.

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Rigor

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

If you are one of the marketers, business users, or (*gasp*) developers who have found yourself making excuses, here is some motivation to get you started: 1.“I I don’t either, but I set up Benchmark, Uptime, API, and Real Brower Checks every day. I even wrote a blog on how Rigor develops our software for business users.

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Ecommerce Retail Performance Benchmarking 40

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

In addition, such custom systems could only be benchmarked once they were deployed, so by the time multiple layers of management had each added a 50% safety margin to the initial SWAG , it was not unusual to see them running at 10% of capacity (but 150% of the lucky hardware salesman’s annual quota).

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Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

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. Many good security tools provide that function, and benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) are clear and prescriptive.

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Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 255

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

In addition, such custom systems could only be benchmarked once they were deployed, so by the time multiple layers of management had each added a 50% safety margin to the initial SWAG , it was not unusual to see them running at 10% of capacity (but 150% of the lucky hardware salesman’s annual quota).

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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.

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HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

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Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

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….

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HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

This post is targeted towards the questions most often asked by non-technical management who want to get up to speed on what HammerDB is (what it isn’t) and how it can benefit their organization. HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. Why HammerDB was developed. HammerDB development.

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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. Benchmark yourself. Another great tool to have in your bag is benchmarking.

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

HammerDB doesn’t publish competitive database benchmarks, instead we always encourage people to be better informed by running their own. ” Usually when benchmark results are surprising it is a major hint that something could be misconfigured and that certainly seems the case here, so what could it be?

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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.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Perhaps, we should consider developing a central list of the elements, research, data, sources, and aspects to create legible and usable typefaces, so we can easily choose? This may lead to better typeface design decisions, choices, and better typefaces in the future.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2022

Worse yet, once the work is batched they insert user research that should have been done to inform the original work effort to what the real benchmark (MVP) should be. If you speed up, you’ll likely through off your car’s alignment and loosen up some other critical parts. It was bottom-up, but we had key stakeholders at higher levels.

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Design Logistics Strategy Benchmarking 92

Dynatrace

MAY 30, 2020

To deliver outstanding customer experience for your applications and websites, you need reliable benchmarks that measure what good customer experience looks like. Mutation blacklist : Query CSS selectors to specify mutation nodes (elements that change) to ignore in Visually complete and Speed index calculation. Dynatrace news.

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