Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

One free tool has become prominent in the space – Google Lighthouse – and one question often bubbles up: “I use Google Lighthouse for one-off snapshots of my site’s performance, so why do I need a performance monitoring solution?” Where Google Lighthouse Shines Bright.

Google 51

Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

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. This also aids scalability down the line.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Content Delivery Networks (CDN) like Akamai, Fastly, Cloudflare, Cloudfront can sometimes have a big impact on performance. Synthetic is great for trending over time, especially when looking at the number and size of requests (images, JavaScript, CSS), which collectively have a big impact on speed. Benchmark yourself.

Performance 143

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

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

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. Core Web Vitals are a Google search ranking factor. Given that Google continues to dominate search usage, you should care about Vitals alongside the other metrics you should be tracking.

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Why speed matters, examples of the impact saving a few seconds of load time has had on revenue and engagement. The network constraints and what makes the web slow? Bandwidth, latency and it's fundamental impact on the speed of the web. Competitive Benchmarking SpeedCurve. How to make your website faster. References.

Speed 40

Speed Benchmarking Latency Mobile 40

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We track LEGO.com, along with a handful of other leading ecommerce sites, in our public-facing Retail Benchmarks dashboard , which I encourage you to check out. According to Google's thresholds, an LCP time of 3.96 Optimizing the critical rendering path could make this page a star on the Retail Benchmarks leaderboard.

Performance 67

Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 67

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

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. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. billion if the site slowed down by just one second. Lighthouse.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. High Performance Browser Networking. Site speed & SEO go hand in hand. ” – Andy King, 2003.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The gotcha here is that, if your mobile experience isn’t optimized for various devices and network conditions, these customers will never appear in your analytics — just because your website or app will be barely usable on their devices, and so they are unlikely to return. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known.

Mobile 133

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Back in May, we shared that SpeedCurve supports Google's Core Web Vitals in both our synthetic monitoring and LUX real user monitoring tools. According to Google, pages should maintain a CLS score of less than 0.1 Here are the current US media benchmarks on a fast desktop connection , ranked by CLS score. recommended by Google.

Retail 81

Retail Benchmarking Google Metrics 81

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

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 115

Performance Cache Website Mobile 115

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. 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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. 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. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

Performance 125

Performance Cache Servers Social Media 125

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. And JavaScript can certainly make requests for additional network resources. Sometimes, the visitor’s browser itself can be the origin of network activity.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. We at Rigor respect many web performance leaders around the world. Rachel Andrew.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

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. When the word “performance” is heard, most people immediately think of speed. What is Performance Testing?

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Speed Curve

JULY 2, 2013

SpeedCurve focuses on a third which I like to call web performance benchmarking. These services often check from various geographic locations to keep an eye on network routes to your server and will send you alerts via email and txt if your website is down. Web Performance Benchmarking. Uptime Monitoring. Real User Monitoring.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Performance Website Analytics 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to. Large preview ). Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This is a question recently asked and explored by a team of Google researchers led by Jeff Dean with a major focus on database indexes. Jeff is a Google Senior Fellow in the Google Brain team and widely known as a pioneer in artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning community.

Artificial Intelligence 40

Artificial Intelligence Hardware Google Benchmarking 40

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. Global Ground-Truth.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

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. However still far from Google ($28B) and Facebook ($13.2B).

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52