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Measuring Network Performance in Mobile Safari

CSS Wizardry

Same page, same connection speed, same locale, same release year, different devices. What we really want to do, alongside capturing good benchmark- and more permanent data with WebPageTest, is interact with and inspect a site slightly more realtime. This means that iOS devices tend to be faster and are found in ‘faster regions’.

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The Surprising Effectiveness of Non-Overlapping, Sensitivity-Based Performance Models

John McCalpin

This was a keynote presentation at the “2nd International Workshop on Performance Modeling: Methods and Applications” (PMMA16), June 23, 2016, Frankfurt, Germany (in conjunction with ISC16 ). Building separate models for each of the benchmarks was required to get the correct asymptotic properties.

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Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Smashing Magazine

On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. Jump to online workshops ?. No one likes a white blank screen, especially your users.

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Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Real-life performance for your users and how the website “feels” when you’re using it should not be discounted, even if it costs you a point or two in Page Speed (otherwise, we would all just have a search bar and unstyled text).

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. Developers representing hundreds of companies work together at these meetups to become masters in performance metrics and the latest trends in measuring site speed.) We at Rigor respect many web performance leaders around the world. Rachel Andrew.