Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2020

Using Google Fonts is often one of the first steps people take to give their website a unique look. But if you’ve ever brought over that amazing font and ran a speed test, you might be asking – “Does Google Fonts slow down my site?” Use that awesome font from Google and live with the performance hit.

Google 57

Google Speed Cache Website 57

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. This is not a post explaining why web performance is important.

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Google has announced plans for a new badging system that would let users know whether a website typically loads slowly. If you’re using best practices and keeping web performance in mind, you shouldn’t need to worry about being badged. Most stemmed from Google exercising too much power with this move.

Google 86

Google Website Best Practices Internet 86

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2018. With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2021

Ben Rushlo, Dynatrace Vice President of DEM Services, puts it this way: “As performance degrades, user experience degrades, engagement degrades, and business outcomes degrade.” Great user experiences start with Core Web Vitals (CWVs) — a set of metrics defined by Google to help measure user experience at scale.

Metrics 134

Metrics Google Website Speed 134

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The framework comprises six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability. And how can you verify this performance consistently across a multicloud environment that also uses Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform frameworks?

AWS 246

AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 246

MachMetrics

JULY 15, 2020

However, if utilized carelessly, CSS can greatly affect our page speed. That’s good to know, but I know you’re looking for a css speed test, or techniques for optimizing your css for speed. Perform an Audit of Your Site. This is another reason why page speed scores can be misleading. Reduce Your CSS.

Speed 78

Speed Website Cache Google 78

MachMetrics

JANUARY 4, 2019

The way a website is constructed can have a major impact on website speed performance, but developers often have a hard time keeping track of factors that cause slow page loads and other speed-related issues. The PageSpeed Module is one of several free Google tools designed to help assess and improve page load speed times.

Speed 60

Speed Website Open Source Google 60

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rachel Andrew.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

As a discipline, SRE focuses on improving software system reliability across key categories including availability, performance, latency, efficiency, capacity, and incident response. ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.”

Engineering 254

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 254

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 Browser Networking. This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. High Performance Websites.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

According to Google, a website can lose as many as half its visitors while loading. Google’s PageSpeed Insights tools may be just what you need to leverage data collected through speed testing. As part of the PageSpeed Tools suite, Insights is designed to guide your response to slow speeds, resulting in optimal performance.

Speed 49

Speed Best Practices Google Website 49

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

If you run ads from Google Adsense, or any other blocked companies, along with banned advertisements in China, they won’t appear on your page and your websites or applications may also face access restrictions. Monitor your website speed from China. In Conclusion: Monitoring Website Performance from China.

Website 82

Website Internet Internet Performance 82

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. These days we have more and better tools to audit our performance.

Performance 130

Performance Speed Google Media 130

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Testlodge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

These are performance issues, and today, we’re going to talk about how these issues can be identified early on with performance testing. What Is Performance testing? In software, performance testing is the process of determining how a system responds under a particular workload or task. Types Of Performance Tests.

Performance Testing 41

Performance Testing Speed Scalability Testing 41

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Offering 20 chapters with insights into Page Content, User Experience, Content Publishing, and Content Distribution, it can also be overwhelming, so we’ll be summarizing the web performance section in an easy-to-understand manner. We’ll be diving into Chapter 7 – Performance. 20% of sites are considered slow.

Performance 52

Performance Speed Website Mobile 52

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

With another year winding down, it’s time for us to take stock of how our site performance compares to the average page load times for 2020. As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is.

Best Practices 105

Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

If you run ads from Google Adsense, or any other blocked companies, along with banned advertisements in China, they won’t appear on your page and your websites or applications may also face access restrictions. Monitor your website speed from China. In Conclusion: Monitoring Website Performance from China.

Website 97

Website Internet Internet Performance 97

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). With Google Search Console you can see exactly where your pages are (or aren’t) ranking for different keywords. Google Keyword Planner. Google Trends. Google Mobile-Friendly Test.

Engineering 131

Engineering Google Website Analytics 131

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

As a discipline, SRE focuses on improving software system reliability across key categories including availability, performance, latency, efficiency, capacity, and incident response. ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.”

Engineering 175

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 175

Speed Curve

AUGUST 18, 2020

Adding to a string of recent announcements including Lighthouse v6 and Core Web Vitals, Google has introduced Fast page labelling in Chrome 85 for Android. Ilya Grigorik, developer advocate and web performance engineer at Google, discussed this concept during his Q&A session following his talk. What is it? Ilya delivers!).

Google 98

Google Strategy Metrics Speed 98

Official Blog - World Web Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The top three results in Google SERPs get 54.4% Google is the most prominent global search market player with a market share of 83%. Be Prepared to Add a New E in EAT We all know about the common Google EAT acronym, which is defined as Expertise, Authority, and Trust. Of all traffic, 53.3% comes from organic searches.

Google 52

Google Traffic Social Media Website 52

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

They get even MORE impatient when it comes to website speed. ” Look put these stats on some numbers: Effect on Sale: 79% of customers who report dissatisfaction with website performance are less likely to buy from that same site again. “ The results were clear—speed matters! . Want proof? Growing use of mobile.

Speed 93

Speed Website Performance Website Mobile 93

MachMetrics

JUNE 16, 2020

Many were hesitant to sacrifice site speed for the added layer of security if they felt like they didn’t need it. Secondly, SSL/HTTPS unlocks additional web performance benefits that more than make up for the added latency. Source: Google Blog. How HTTPS Improves Performance. So what’s the truth?

Speed 86

Speed Latency Google Website 86

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The limited number access points, compounded with the fact that traffic is controlled by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, creates performance bottlenecks for all users in China when trying to access websites from inside and outside of the country. These updates will disable access of Google apps downloader, for example.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

Dotcom-Montior

JANUARY 19, 2016

Most likely it is because you have heard about last year's announcement from google over at google webmaster central. It turns out that Google has updated their algorithm to significantly increase the weight of mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal. That's right, significantly! The post Is Your Website Mobile Friendly?

Mobile 40

Mobile Speed Website Testing 40

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This demand creates an increasing need for DevOps teams to maintain the performance and reliability of critical business applications. Setting a stringent SLO for an application that’s not business-critical can lead to wasted time and resources when it comes to remediating issues or performing tasks to ensure uptime.

DevOps 195

DevOps Metrics Best Practices Latency 195

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

Page speed has been a key factor in Google’s ranking algorithm since 2010 , so it is essential to understand the various ways you can optimize your pages and why implementing synthetic monitoring can ensure your pages perform flawlessly and revenue isn’t lost. Find Your Performance Baseline. Optimize Your Pages.

Website 92

Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

Scalable Video Technology (SVT) is Intel’s open source framework that provides high-performance software video encoding libraries for developers of visual cloud technologies. In this tech blog, we describe the relevance of this partnership to the industry and cover some of our own experiences so far. 264 standard was finalized.

Open Source 166

Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

Jos

JUNE 17, 2017

In a recent post about Chrome 60 Beta , Google announced the support of the Paint Timing API to get metrics on when your page starts rendering and when the user gets content that can be consumed (more info on the definition of the events below). Here I’m going to describe this new API a bit and show you how to use it. round ( entry.

Google 130

Google Analytics Metrics Speed 130

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2021

If you run ads from Google Adsense, or any other blocked companies, along with banned advertisements in China, they won’t appear on your page and your websites or applications may also face access restrictions. Monitor your website speed from China. In Conclusion: Monitoring Website Performance from China.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 27, 2021

If you run ads from Google Adsense, or any other blocked companies, along with banned advertisements in China, they won’t appear on your page and your websites or applications may also face access restrictions. Monitor your website speed from China. In Conclusion: Monitoring Website Performance from China.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

MachMetrics

JANUARY 16, 2020

Optimizing your images is often the very first suggestion that any performance writer or consultant will make when it comes to optimizing a website. However, what do you do when you optimize your images and still don’t see a noticeable improvement in the performance of your site? We’re no exception.

Speed 89

Speed Website Metrics Cache 89

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. We normally focus solely on the performance aspect, but today we want to dive into additional ways you can optimize images for the web.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Google Website 106

Jos

JUNE 17, 2017

In a recent post about Chrome 60 Beta , Google announced the support of the Paint Timing API to get metrics on when your page starts rendering and when the user gets content that can be consumed (more info on the definition of the events below). Here I’m going to describe this new API a bit and show you how to use it. round ( entry.

Google 100

Google Analytics Metrics Speed 100