Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. DRM-free, of course. Image Decoding Performance. +.

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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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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [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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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. DRM-free, of course. Image Decoding Performance. +.

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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

While PageSpeed Insights focuses solely on speed/performance, Lighthouse offers even more. It offers audits for best practices, accessibility, progressive web apps, SEO and of course, performance. Within a minute, Lighthouse will create a full report across the various tests that you had it perform.

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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. Here’s the thing: performance is more than a one-off task. billion if the site slowed down by just one second. Lighthouse.

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Sutter's Mill

JUNE 10, 2010

I forgot to blog about this until now because of focusing on the Effective Concurrency course in Stockholm a few weeks ago, but to answer those who wonder if I’ll be giving it again in North America too: Yes, I’m also giving the public Effective Concurrency course again at the end of this month at the Construx facility in Bellevue, WA, USA.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

Working around improving performance was an ongoing journey on SmashingMag for a while. In the end of last year we’ve noticed that we’ve seen quite a drop in performance in 2020, so we rolled up our sleeves and got to work. Gael Metais suggested to more aggressively subset web fonts and look into caching issues with our AVIF files.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. Perhaps the biggest win when it comes to making websites more sustainable is that performance, user experience and sustainability are all neatly intertwined. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00.

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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

Nothing is impossible; however, the performances will be so impacted that each operation may take seconds instead of milliseconds or a fraction of it unless lifting some of the rules breaks the relational model. This, of course, is unless I can organize my products by country as well, which is a bit unusual nowadays but not impossible.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

There are many tools available that can help you monitor, manage, and optimize your website and application performance: APM, synthetics, RUM, alerting, alert integrations, and more. How are you monitoring end-user performance today? Rigor’s free performance report. Next, look into the tools you are already using.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

With MongoDB, you can set read-only privileges in which users can query data but cannot perform write operations. This helps prevent the possibility of a single point of failure, which could cause downtime or slow performance. Please note that these are presented as general best practices. How does high availability work?

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started  ‍Of course, the latter. Migrating isn't as simple as 'copy-paste'.‍Even

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

In my last article , I suggested using the SaveData API to deliver a different, more performant, experience to users that expressed that desire. In the past, Chrome used to perform changes to the website by proxying requests via their servers (similar to how Opera Mini works), but doing that is usually frowned upon these days.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Businesses can adjust configurations to manage everything from basic distribution settings to intricate geo-targeted content caching and delivery strategies, all with the same ease.‍‍2. Of course, the latter. It enables DevOps teams to manage, configure, and automate infrastructure in a streamlined fashion.

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Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Performance optimization is the Rodney Dangerfield of web development–it “don’t get no respect” In spite of its great importance in the overall user experience, it is all too often pushed aside and treated as an afterthought. Performance optimization isn’t that necessary. Performance matters.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Most sites were all hosted on a single physical server somewhere on our own hosting infrastructure, and it was the server we thought about defending when it came to security best practices. This remains a good, practical way to work, but it does introduce a potential vector for attack. What Could Go Wrong? Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

While not render-blocking, they can indirectly impact render performance. You can of course also do this manually just using the <img> element directly. You can of course also do this manually just using the <img> element directly. If using 11ty for your static sites, try the 11ty high-performance blog template.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). In this second part, we will zoom in on the performance improvements that QUIC and HTTP/3 bring to the table for web-page loading. We will, however, also be somewhat skeptical of the impact we can expect from these new features in practice.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Today, I'm excited to announce the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) , a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache that can speed up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second. Saving crucial milliseconds. It's also time consuming and costly.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

If after the previous two parts — HTTP/3 history and core concepts and HTTP/3 performance features — you’re convinced that starting to use the new protocols is a good idea (and you should be!), HTTP/3 performance features. then this final piece includes all you need to know to get started!

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites written by Dan Shappir. We last talked to him in July 2020 , where we asked if modern best practices about for the web. So we’re throwing a ton of client-side JS at people, and that introduces a ton of agility and performance issues. The Lean Web book. Chris Ferdinandi on the web.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Drew McLellan: He’s an engineer at Skypack and a major contributor to a new project called Astro, which aims to combine performance best practices with the developer experience improvements we see from component based approaches. I mean, it’s not like we figured out some crazy way to get performance. Transcript.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Often they make it seem as if HTTP/3 is a revolution in performance, while it is really a more modest (yet still useful!) This is dangerous, because the new protocol will probably not be able to live up to these high expectations in practice. HTTP/3 performance features ( coming up soon! ). This is more in depth and technical.

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