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. To figure out what exactly is the problem, we can use FFMPEG , which is open source and free, and proves to be one of the most reliable tools to optimize videos. There is a solution though!

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Network Speed Website Mobile 143

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

This operational component places some cognitive load on our engineers, requiring them to develop deep understanding of telemetry and alerting systems, capacity provisioning process, security and reliability best practices, and a vast amount of informal knowledge about the cloud infrastructure.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Started years ago with a focus on cloud management, Terraform built a massive community around its open-source license–up until two weeks ago, but more on that later. A significant factor that contributed to Terraform's rise to prominence is its open-source nature. ‍Why Manage Infrastructure by Code?

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Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

significant factor that contributed to Terraform's rise to prominence is its open-source nature. Being open-source, Terraform invited a vast community of developers and companies to rally around it. Take Cloudflare as an example; they have an entire service called Cloudflare Terraform.

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Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

For sites with large traffic and a global reach, basic optimizations at build time are usually not enough. His team focuses on speed , helping keep the web fast. But this is an area of loading performance where, without a lot of work, you can get significant gains without a loss of content quality. Image Content Delivery Networks. +.

Media 105

Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

You may have seen over the past few months we have been extensively promoting Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) as part of our Open Source project Keptn. Once Dynatrace sees the incoming traffic it will also show up in Dynatrace, under Transaction & Services. SimpleNodeJsService.

Engineering 189

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 189

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

For sites with large traffic and a global reach, basic optimizations at build time are usually not enough. His team focuses on speed , helping keep the web fast. But this is an area of loading performance where, without a lot of work, you can get significant gains without a loss of content quality. Image Content Delivery Networks. +.

Media 92

Media Cache Google Best Practices 92

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

As a discovery tool, request maps are great for identifying the source of third-party, fourth-party, fifth-party, etc., They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic. The most popular, by far, is the Google Lighthouse report (available in Chrome Developer Tools) and Google’s Page Speed Insights.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

This saves clients traffic — sometimes traffic which the client is paying for. It also allows the project to be loaded faster, which is pretty important in regards to the growing mobile share and new markets with slow connection speeds and fragmented internet coverage. title, value: report.categories['best-practices'].score,

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Performance Metrics Best Practices Code 98

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!),

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. 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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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

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 104

Network Servers Cache Traffic 104

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”. It is physically limited by the speed of light or, practically, how fast signals can travel in wires or in the open air. Did You Know?

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105