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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 19th, 2018

High Scalability

four petabytes : added to Internet Archive per year; 60,000 : patents donated by Microsoft to the Open Invention Network; 30 million : DuckDuckGo daily searches; 5 seconds : Google+ session length; 1 trillion : ARM device goal; $40B : Softbank investment in 5G; 30 : Happy Birthday IRC! They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.

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How to Optimize Websites for Ad Publishers

Dotcom-Montior

including DNS, Connection, SSL, Request, First packet, and Download. As your speed test results will probably show, most of the time spent loading your page is for downloading images and initializing JavaScript. The Dotcom-Monitor platform also offers solutions to monitor your Internet Infrastructure, such web servers and DNS servers.

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New Network Fallacies

Tim Kadlec

I remember reading articles about how 3G connectivity was going to transform performance and, more generally, the way we used the internet altogether. To be fair, each new generation of network connectivity does bring some level of change and transformation to how we interact with the internet. We’re still nowhere close for 4G.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Be sure to download the slides from his recent presentation at O’Reilly Fluent, To push or not to push? Prior to founding start-ups, Luke was an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at Benchmark Capital , the Chief Design Architect (VP) at Yahoo!, You can find him on Twitter @ patrickhamann or catch him on the speaker circuit.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. All modern browsers are fast, Chromium and Safari/WebKit included. Converging Views.

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Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties

Smashing Magazine

Every major website on the Internet today relies — to some degree — on third-party services. The HTTP Archive tracks third-party usage across a large swath of all active websites on the Internet today. They are more of a benchmark than a true measurement of real user experience. of mobile sites and 94.1%

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024

Alex Russell

Many critiques are possible, both of the target (five seconds for first load), the sample population (worldwide internet users), and of the methodology (informed reckons). Emerging markets with high mobile internet use and dense populations can feature poor fixed-line broadband penetration compared with Western markets. In the U.S.,