MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

Author Steve Souders writes about the best practices that he gained as the Chief Performance Yahoo!, Each performance chapter is supported by code snippets (via a companion website) and examples to aid in learning. and Google, they’ll do wonders for your website! and the Head Performance Engineer at Google.

Speed 85

Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

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.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

According to Rich Howard, CEO of Optimal, a business dedicated to optimizing websites and mobile apps , there are ten steps your business can take now to start preparing your website or web application for the upcoming holiday season. Review OWASP’s recommendations and best practices with your developers.

Website 74

Website Cache Traffic Ecommerce 74

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Websites. Even Faster Websites. A collection of practical articles on front-end website performance for front-end developers.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Smashing Magazine

MAY 23, 2022

But what about the cases where this global override is not ideal for all components, and we want to fine-tune the properties for individual components? When creating responsive websites, we often make assumptions about input mechanisms based on their screen size. theme--dark.box { color: var(--color-component-override); }. Conclusion.

Media 141

Media Tuning Design Website 141

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

JavaScript, CSS, images, iframes, and other resources impact how quickly website loads, renders and becomes usable to the user. However, developers with a deep understanding of the project may want to improve performance beyond that by doing some fine-tuning under the hood. Fine-tuning JavaScript Resource Priorities.

Media 70

Media Tuning Metrics Google 70

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 30, 2018

In fact, we’d link to the first LISA conference website for reference, but this conference not only predates the Wayback Machine – it also predates the World Wide Web! USENIX 1984 speakers: USENIX has been running tech conferences since before the World Wide Web. Photo by Perry Kivolowitz.

DevOps 43

DevOps Network Best Practices Programming 43

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 29, 2018

In fact, we’d link to the first LISA conference website for reference, but this conference not only predates the Wayback Machine – it also predates the World Wide Web! USENIX 1984 speakers: USENIX has been running tech conferences since before the World Wide Web. Photo by Perry Kivolowitz.

DevOps 40

DevOps Network Best Practices Programming 40

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In this article, we’re going to cover code-splitting best practices and showcase some examples using React, so we load the minimum JavaScript necessary to render a page and dynamically load sizeable non-critical bundles. Like any file referenced and used on a website, it first needs to be downloaded from a server.

Code 90

Code Performance Network Website 90

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Guy Podjarny’s recent research shows that only one in eight websites is responsive. Source: Guy Podjarny However, we do now have a full set of techniques to effectively deliver highly performative sites that not only visually scale across devices but also deliver code and assets tuned to the width of a device.

Performance 60

Performance Mobile Website Benchmarking 60

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

That’s right; I’ve parked day-to-day design work in favor of becoming someone very active in the design community, focusing on best practice design advice and scalable systems. The preaching section of this point is over, let’s get back to some more practical guidance. I now find myself working as a Designer Advocate at Figma.

Design 127

Design Social Media Website Best Practices 127

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

Lastly, I tried not to search for help on Google, Stack Overflow, or other websites, which is what I would normally be doing while programming. I could’ve written this code by hand, but I wanted to try using a JavaScript date parsing library since it would be more robust to date format variations that appear on various websites (e.g.,

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

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 106

Network Servers Cache Traffic 106

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As such, tuning congestion logic is usually only done by a select few developers, and evolution is slow. This means that it will not magically download your website resources much more quickly than TCP. As it turns out, which multiplexing scheme you choose can have a huge impact on website loading performance.

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Never assume that most businesses are well run, and that they represent some sort of “best practice.” Is special-purpose training to fine-tune a model’s behavior an option? They’re inefficient, poorly designed, and perhaps even wholly inappropriate for the task. Is retraining needed? All three have upcoming books from O’Reilly.

Games 116

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Websites would magically become 50% faster with the flip of a switch! Five years later, we know that server push doesn’t really work in practice, streams and prioritization are often badly implemented , and, consequently, (reduced) resource bundling and even sharding are still good practices in some situations. Stay tuned! (vf,

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

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. Tip: When evaluating quality, compression and fine-tuning of modern formats, Squoosh.app ’s ability to perform a visual side-by-side comparison is helpful. Large preview ).

Open Source 145

Open Source Speed Website Google 145