CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

The best request is the one that never happens: in the fight for fast websites, avoiding the network is far better than hitting the network at all. This includes CDNs, proxy servers, and the like. Once the 60 seconds is up, the browser will head back to the server to revalidate the file. public and private.

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Cache Latency Strategy Servers 264

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. This leads to longer startup times, and if the network cannot supply the video fast enough, the video will stall during video playback. We see that an MP4 file is being downloaded.

Network 143

Network Speed Website Mobile 143

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Many database administrators find themselves having to support instances of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), or at least the backend databases that are required for SSRS. These topics apply to both SQL Server Reporting Services as well as Power BI Report Server. Installation and support of SSRS can be confusing.

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Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Time To First Byte (TTFB) This is the time it takes for the first piece of information from the server to reach the user’s browser. You need to beware that slow server response times can significantly increase TTFB, often due to server overload, network issues, or un-optimized logic on the server side.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Smaller HTML means less time for Google to download and process those long strings of text. Part of having a small LCP is to let the user download as small HTML as possible. One of the best technical ways to improve the crawl budget is to help Google do more in less time : Q : “Does site speed affect my crawl budget?

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Google Architecture Servers Speed 110

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. However, simply deploying a monitoring tool is not enough; you need to know which Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to monitor to gain insights into your MySQL server’s health and performance.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 106

Tim Kadlec

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

At several locations in the application, such as when new polls were loaded, it would take some time for those elements to download and be displayed. Given the constraints the app faced with the network and web view performance at the time, they were a bit limited on what they could do from a technical perspective.

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Best Practices Network Mobile Speed 145

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

seconds faster on average and it drove 60 million more Firefox downloads per year. It’s is a Google service that audit things performance, accessibility, SEO, and best practices. Using a network request inspector, I’m going to see if there’s anything we can remove via the Network panel in DevTools.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

In general terms, to achieve HA in PostgreSQL, there must be: Redundancy: To ensure data redundancy and provide continuous performance when a primary server fails, multiple copies of the database reside in replica servers. When the primary server fails, a standby server takes over as the new primary.

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Availability Open Source Architecture Database 85

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

Author Steve Souders writes about the best practices that he gained as the Chief Performance Yahoo!, Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices For Web Developers. High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge For Front-End Engineers. and the Head Performance Engineer at Google.

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Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

The $47,500 licensing costs for Oracle Enterprise Edition is only for one CPU core, that ultimately has to be multiplied with the actual number of cores on the physical server. Oracle does offer discounts on their pricing, where you can receive a 10% discount if you purchase online. Comparison Overview.

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Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. With the networks all around the world, theoretically, you can do business boundlessly. There are only three landing stations of submarine cables to provide network services to nearly 1 billion Internet users in China.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

These services use requests to external hosts (not servers you control) to deliver JavaScript framework libraries, custom fonts, advertising content, marketing analytics trackers, and more. And JavaScript can certainly make requests for additional network resources. You’ve thought of everything… or have you?

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Projects built using JavaScript-based frameworks often ship large bundles of JavaScript that take time to download, parse and execute, blocking page render and user input in the process. This problem is more apparent on unreliable and slow networks and lower-end devices. Bundle size and estimated download times for zxcvbn package.

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Code Performance Network Website 89

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. Download The Checklist (PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word). You can also just download the checklist PDF (166 KB) or download editable Apple Pages file (275 KB) or the.docx file (151 KB). (You Quick Wins. Happy optimizing, everyone!).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Dotcom-Montior

JULY 7, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. With the networks all around the world, theoretically, you can do business boundlessly. There are only three landing stations of submarine cables to provide network services to nearly 1 billion Internet users in China.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Lazy-load offscreen images (reduce network contention for key resources). For low impact to First Input Delay : Avoid images causing network contention with other critical resources like CSS and JS. . <img As a bonus, you can download compressed versions of suggested image formats such as WebP: Cloudinary’s image analysis tool.

Media 145

Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

20+ years ago when I joined Microsoft I was handed a diskette (maybe it was two), and was told “Here is SQL Server. So I proceeded to install SQL Server 4.20 There was a GUI as part of setup but within just a few clicks, SQL Server was installed and ready for use. So now there are more choices to make when installing SQL Server.

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Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Now, let’s dive into the technical features and best practices that my team adopted in the process of building the WaterBear web app. I plan on sharing specifically what I learned from performance and accessibility practices as a first-time lead developer of a team , as well as what I wish I had known before we started.

Cache 72

Cache Strategy Best Practices Design 72

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. With the networks all around the world, theoretically, you can do business boundlessly. There are only three landing stations of submarine cables to provide network services to nearly 1 billion Internet users in China.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Our goal with this post is to equip you with a comprehensive understanding of the steps, best practices, and pros and cons to ensure a smooth — and successful — transition to an open source database environment. Download our free eBook, “ Why Choose Open Source?

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Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 94

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Download The Checklist (PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word). Assets Optimizations. Build Optimizations. Quick Wins.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Download The Checklist (PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word). Assets Optimizations. Build Optimizations. Quick Wins.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Percona

JUNE 6, 2023

In order to implement effective full backups of your database, you must follow some best practices. Network Bandwidth Utilization : This is another potential disadvantage when it comes to full backups. Discover why Percona XtraBackup has been downloaded 3,500,000 times and counting. Contact us to learn more!

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Storage Strategy Network Efficiency 69

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Over time, we’ve evolved through a variety of static site generators, JavaScript frameworks, and server technologies. We try to follow best practice by serving as much as we can over a CDN, avoiding as many third-party scripts as possible, and using simple SVG graphics instead of bitmap PNGs. We do not rely on Next.js

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Google Analytics Serverless Metrics 93

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Even if you think you’re only loading one stylesheet &mdahs; your own — it’s very possible that a script loads additional external stylesheets, all of which need to be downloaded and rendered. Adding the async attribute to a <script> tag will load the script asynchronously, executing it as soon as it’s downloaded.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 90

Percona

JULY 26, 2023

First released in 2009, it is the most used NoSQL database and has been downloaded more than 325 million times. When you have multiple copies of your data on different database servers — or even better, in different data centers worldwide — replication provides a high level of fault tolerance in case of a disaster.

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Database Servers Storage Strategy 81

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. file hosted as part of their own website on their own server. On seeing this, the browser will download bootstrap.min.js.

Website 57

Website Servers Code Best Practices 57

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

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Servers Cache Database Media 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

So, apart from powering servers with renewable energy, what else can web developers do about climate change? This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure”. These include data transfer (i.e.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

The Time to First Byte (TTFB) metric (also known as First Byte) measures the speed with which your server delivers content to the user. Basically, TTFB is a measure of back-end and network performance. <200 ms “fast” TTFB is based on the server responsiveness best practice recommendation.

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Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

VoltDB

MAY 2, 2017

We recently received a question from a customer who was looking for a quick way to repurpose some VoltDB production servers to create a disaster recovery site. Say you have five VoltDB servers in production, with k-factor=2, and no disaster site. You want to shift some of these servers to create a disaster recovery site.

Hardware 40

Hardware Database Servers Tuning 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It was heralded as an amazing performance revolution, with exciting new features such as server push, parallel streams, and prioritization. We would have been able to stop bundling resources, stop sharding our resources across multiple servers, and heavily streamline the page-loading process. What is so different?

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

We will, however, also be somewhat skeptical of the impact we can expect from these new features in practice. As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. This in turn affects how fast a page’s resources can be downloaded. Congestion Control. Did You Know?

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Performance Network Latency Servers 105

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. Server Sharding and Connection Coalescing. example.com and img2.example.com

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 104

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

We last talked to him in July 2020 , where we asked if modern best practices about for the web. Last time we talked, we posed this question of if modern best practices, the use of reactive frameworks and these sorts of things were actually bad for the progress of the web. Drew: You want it to remain unspoiled.

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Technology Technology Servers Code 94

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Compression achieved is relevant because the higher the compression, the smaller the file size, and the lower the data required to transfer the image on the network. Content negotiation allows the server to serve different resource formats based on what is supported by the browser. Large preview ). AVIF And Performance.

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Open Source Speed Website Google 144