Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Memory Allocation: Allocating sufficient memory linked directly to the assigned CPU ensures effective utilization resulting in better system speed. The fundamental principles at play include evenly distributing the workload among servers for better application performance and redirecting client requests to nearby servers to reduce latency.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

For example, if the SLA for a website is 99.95% uptime, its corresponding SLO could be 99.95% availability of the login services. availability of a website over a year, your error budget is.05%. You can set SLOs based on individual indicators, such as batch throughput, request latency, and failures-per-second.

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Metrics Best Practices DevOps Infrastructure 190

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

As the world’s leading search engine, Google is committed to delivering the best possible search results to its users. This commitment involves prioritizing websites that offer not only relevant content but also an excellent user experience. The shorter the TTFB, the better the perceived speed of the site from the user’s perspective.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database uptime and availability Monitoring database uptime and availability is crucial as it directly impacts the availability of critical data and the performance of applications or websites that rely on the MySQL database. Disk space usage Monitor the disk space usage of MySQL data files, log files, and temporary files.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 104

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This post complements the previous best practice guides this time with the focus on MySQL and MariaDB and achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB MySQL TPC-C test. System setup is covered on the PostgreSQL Best Practice post so it will not be repeated here as the steps are the same. large-pages.

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Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

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. If, however, there wasn’t a new file on the server, we’ll bring back a 304 header, no new file, but an entire roundtrip of latency. What do we mean by a mutable or immutable file?

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Cache Latency Strategy Servers 264

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast. 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. INP logs the latency of all interactions throughout the entire page lifecycle.

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Performance Metrics Media Google 98

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. Google Lighthouse is one of the best-automated tools available on a web developer's utility belt. website if you prefer.

Google 82

Google Latency Website Metrics 82

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

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. It’s is a Google service that audit things performance, accessibility, SEO, and best practices.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. Enhanced User Experience Whether you operate an e-commerce platform, a content management system, or any other application reliant on MySQL, users will notice and appreciate the improved speed and responsiveness.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

It also allows users to access a website for which native application is not available. There are so many different devices readily available in the market today to view a website. Each smartphone comes with various screen sizes and resolutions, operates on different network speeds, and has different hardware capabilities.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

Customer want to know they can trust the website they are buying from, they want to access the website fast, and they want a great offer. The lower conversion rate on mobile could be due to a variety of reasons including the website not being responsive for mobile devices, the speed isn’t up to par, etc.

Ecommerce 41

Ecommerce Speed Website Mobile 41

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

Large preview ) While browsers are generally pretty fast, these steps still take time to load, typically in seconds, and even longer on slower, high-latency network connections. That’s practically an eternity when talking about page speed performance. 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices.

Media 73

Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 73

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Reading time 11 min As companies become more aware of the importance of web performance, internal teams begin to research tools they can use to use to track their metrics and improve the user experience of their websites and applications. Not everyone uses Chrome to access your website. But that is the assumption that Lighthouse makes.

Google 51

Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!), Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Start Render time, Speed Index ). Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor. Large preview ). Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”. Because we are dealing with network protocols here, we will mainly look at network aspects, of which two are most important: latency and bandwidth. Congestion Control.

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. This is because, as I stated in the introduction to part 1 , much of the early HTTP/2 content was overly optimistic about how well it would work in practice, and some of it, quite frankly, had major mistakes and bad advice.

Network 105

Network Servers Cache Traffic 105

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If you’re optimizing for the Web Vitals , you might be interested to hear that images account for ~ 42% of the Largest Contentful Paint element for websites. Assuming encode/decode speeds meet your needs. Encode/Decode Speed. JPEG works best with photographs, while PNG is its counterpart for other still images.

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Open Source Speed Website Google 144