Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. When it comes to performance, you shouldn’t be stingy. On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Large preview ).

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Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

Create performance budgets and fight regression. Build a performance culture that embraces collaboration between design and dev. Keep reading to learn how you can apply these best practices to your own site and give your pages a speed boost. FID is also available on your LUX Performance dashboard.).

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rachel Andrew.

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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. Once the page is loaded, we can move to the Network tab, and filter by “media” to see all the video files: Filtering resources by 'Media' in DevTools. There is a solution though!

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KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Unoptimized content could also be one of the reasons why your WordPress website is not performing as per your expectations. We will also discuss how you can speed up your slow WordPress site. One of the most important factors that affect your speed is the server optimization implemented by your web host. Why is WordPress slow?

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Six months in, I've had a chance to gather and look at a lot of data, talk with customers, and learn from our friends in the performance community. SpeedCurve's Industry Benchmarks dashboard – which tracks the performance of top sites in retail, media, travel, and other industries – is a good place to start.

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Speed Curve

AUGUST 8, 2017

Because the average page is now 3MB in size, and this seems like a good time to pause, check our assumptions, and ask ourselves: Is there any reason to care about page size as a performance metric? These numbers should not in any way even remotely be taken as a benchmark for your own site. They represent trends – that's all.

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Speed Curve

MAY 31, 2020

One of the huge benefits of tracking web performance over time is the ability to see trends and compare metrics. Spot any new or unique requests – such as JavaScript and images – and see their impact on performance. In this demo account, we track a number of leading retail, travel, and media sites. Let's take a look.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"How can I demonstrate the business value of performance to people in my organization?" If you've ever asked yourself any of these questions, then you could find the answers in identifying and understanding the performance poverty line for your site. What is the "performance poverty line"?

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Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. Background: How performance budgets work 1. What is a performance budget? What should a performance budget look like? Let's get started!

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Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

How can I demonstrate the business value of performance to people in my organization?" If you've ever asked yourself any of these questions, then you could find the answers in identifying and understanding the performance plateau for your site. What is the "performance plateau"? The concept of the performance plateau isn't new.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

While a vast majority of the time is spent in just a few mobile apps, social media platforms provide a gateway to the web and your services — especially in education. WPO stats collects literally hundreds of them — case studies and experiments demonstrating the impact of web performance optimization (WPO) across verticals and goals.

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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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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. The better the performance, the better chance that users stay on a page, read content, make purchases, or just about whatever they need to do. Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates.

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Performance budgets are an important tool for ensuring your site is delivering a great user experience. Steve first experienced performance budgets while Head Performance Engineer at Google. The practice of using budgets to track performance took off with Tim Kadlec's blog post Setting a Performance Budget.

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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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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Andy joined us in June , and since then he's already helped countless customers in his role as in-house performance consultant. Custom Vitals tracking in your Favorites – Track Web Vitals in your Favorites, and set performance budgets for them in both SpeedCurve Synthetic and SpeedCurve RUM. Performance Budgets 101.

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

TL;DR: performance budgets are an essential but under-appreciated part of product success and team health. Nobody is trying to do a poor job, and yet the results of a “completed” PWA project often require weeks or months of painstaking rework to deliver minimally acceptable performance. Partner meetings are illuminating.

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 31, 2018

One of the best parts of my job is getting to talk to so many people from so many different companies about web performance. But one question that almost every person asks me – regardless of what industry they're in or the size of their organization – is this: How can I create a stronger culture of web performance at my company?

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

on Myths and Legends of High Performance Computing  — it’s a somewhat light-hearted look at some of the same issues by the leader of the team that built the Fugaku system I mention below. Over time we are seeing more applications with more complex physics and simulation characteristics so HPCG is becoming more relevant as a benchmark.

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KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

Running speed tests with tools like Google PageSpeed Insights , WebPageTest , or KeyCDN’s Website Speed Test are always a good way to help gauge your website’s performance. Why Care About Page Speed? There are a multitude of reasons why you should care about page speed. A site which loads in 2.6

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors. Atomicity A transaction must be an atomic unit of work; either all of its data modifications are performed or none of them are performed. Stable Media Stable media is often confused with physical storage.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You may have a lean, agile, responsive site design only to find it gradually loaded down with more and more “extras” that are often put onto the site by marketing departments or business leaders who are not always thinking about website performance. Graph of resource request chains on a typical news media website. Large preview ).

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ Read Retry When a read from stable media returns an error, ​​ the read operation is ​​ tried ​​ again. ​​ This is similar to the ​​ suspend and resume ​​ operations performed by ​​ the operating system.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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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. Who performs what roles? It's a big team, we have Product managers, UX team, DevOps, scrum teams, architects, engineers performing various roles.

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