Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Smaller HTML means less time for Google to download and process those long strings of text. But first, let’s talk about the importance of speed improvement. Why Is Speed Improvement Necessary To Our SEO Efforts? Part of having a small LCP is to let the user download as small HTML as possible. How about errors?”

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

seconds faster on average and it drove 60 million more Firefox downloads per year. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) LCP measures the perceived load speed of a webpage from a user’s perspective. 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. Adding to this complexity is the effect of seasonality.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

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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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

In order for the browser to display the image, it has a fairly long chain of dependencies: Download the HTML. Download and parse the CSS. Download the image. Large preview ) The image file used for the hero component’s background is the ninth item in the report, taking 1,041 milliseconds to even begin the download.

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Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 73

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. Any asset that carries the no-store directive will always hit the network, no matter what. If there is a newer file available on the server, we definitely want to download it.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Jump to the details ↓ Download a free PDF sample (12MB). Download PDF , ePUB , Kindle. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +. Downloading files such as images or videos over the network can be slow and costly. Image Content Delivery Networks. +. Download PDF , ePUB , Kindle.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

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. As we’ve noticed, website performance, especially its speed and availability, are essential to the success of your business.

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Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Jump to the details ↓ Download a free PDF sample (12MB). Download PDF , ePUB , Kindle. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +. Downloading files such as images or videos over the network can be slow and costly. Image Content Delivery Networks. +. Download PDF , ePUB , Kindle.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 92

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Query performance Query performance is a key performance indicator (KPI) in MySQL, as it measures the efficiency and speed of query execution. As a best practice, It is advisable to have different mounts for MySQL data and log files with specific system configurations. Download Percona Monitoring and Management Today

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 106

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Are you using a content delivery network (CDN) to bring elements like images closer to your users, so that delivery times are faster? Even though the hero image – which in and of itself is a fairly well optimized image – has downloaded at around the 2.9 Are non-essential or lesser resources deferred? Are images optimized?

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Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 67

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. As we’ve noticed, website performance, especially its speed and availability, are essential to the success of your business.

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Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Large preview ) That’s a nice big view and is a good illustration of TBT’s impact on page speed. That’s a lifetime in web seconds, particularly considering that this test is based on a desktop experience on a high-speed connection. It establishes the connection as soon as possible prior to actually downloading the resource.

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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.

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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. As we’ve noticed, website performance, especially its speed and availability, are essential to the success of your business.

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Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

But pages keep getting bigger and more complex year over year – and this increasing size and complexity is not fully mitigated by faster devices and networks, or by our hard-working browsers. In this recent test run from our Industry Page Speed Benchmarks , you can see that the Amazon home page ranks fastest in terms of Start Render.

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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!).

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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 From Speed at Scale with Katie Hempenius and I at Google I/O. <img src="donut.jpg" alt="A delicious pink donut."

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Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

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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Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

Applications that do not require to be downloaded and can be accessed via hitting the URL on a mobile browser are known as mobile web applications. The applications which are required to be downloaded on your smartphone before you start using them are known as Native applications. Best Practices For Mobile Website Testing.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

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). Note : If you use Page Speed Insights (no, it isn’t deprecated), you can get CrUX performance data for specific pages instead of just the aggregates.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

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). Assets Optimizations. Build Optimizations. Delivery Optimizations. Testing And Monitoring. Quick Wins. Happy optimizing, everyone!). Large preview ).

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CSS - Tricks

JANUARY 31, 2020

From 2016 (PDF warning) to 2019 , the average mobile download speed in the U.S. In Brazil and India, average mobile download speeds increased by 75% and 28%, respectively, in that same period of time. has increased by 73%.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Browsers have lots of caches , the most well-known of which is the HTTP Cache that stores copies of downloaded resources on a local drive for later reuse. Using the HTTP Cache can avoid the need to download the same resources over and over again. 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices.

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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. Having said all that, making your pages as small as possible is in the best interest of your users who don't have access to fast networks and devices. How quickly do they show up?

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Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

To address this problem, I’ll provide an overview of the best practices for the integration and optimization of an LCP image. The images used in the article’s Codepen demonstrations will be integrated with TwicPics to save time in their creation and speed up the optimization of the LCP metric. Large preview ).

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Media Mobile Website Metrics 104

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. The browser downloads the file, then quickly computes to make sure that it is a match with the hash in the integrity attribute.

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Website Servers Code Best Practices 57

Percona

JULY 26, 2023

First released in 2009, it is the most used NoSQL database and has been downloaded more than 325 million times. It is best practice to have an odd number of replica set members to maintain voting quorum. Download Percona Distribution for MongoDB Today! MongoDB is popular with developers as it is easy to get started with.

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Database Servers Storage Strategy 83

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

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

Run our Basic Installer.EXE and you can install the SQL Server Engine with only these three screens: Note : For Developer Edition, please be sure to look for this important note to use the new Basic Installer vs the ISO download: New! I’ll talk more about the Custom and Download Media options later in this post. That is click #1.

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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. A Primer on Speed. This in turn affects how fast a page’s resources can be downloaded.

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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. This series is divided into three parts: HTTP/3 history and core concepts.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 1, 2019

Development As part of developing this type of UI experience on any platform, we knew we would need to think about creating smooth, performant animations with a balance between quality and download size for the images and video previews, all without degrading the performance of the app.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/sparse_files.asp ) ​​ on the ​​ Microsoft Developer Network ​​ (MSDN). ​​ For example, ​​ the I/O speed of a snapshot database could limit certain query scalabilities. The following are a few reasons this error may be encountered.

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Servers Cache Database Media 40

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Assuming encode/decode speeds meet your needs. 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. Encode/Decode Speed. A tl;dr of recommendations can be found below. JPEG is also a lossy compression format.

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