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

InfoQ

MARCH 15, 2024

The company used serverless services on AWS, including Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, and Redis Cache. Hashnode created a scalable event-driven architecture (EDA) for composing feed data for thousands of users. The solution leverages Step Functions' distributed maps feature that enables high-concurrency processing. By Rafal Gancarz

Scalability 70

Scalability AWS Architecture Lambda 70

Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

cachestat File system cache statistics line charts. I chose these to find the most performance wins with the fewest tools. Once you have this all working, you have version 1! ## Case study: Netflix Netflix is building a new GUI that does this tool dashboard and more, based on the bpftrace versions of these tools.

Latency 145

Latency Cache Energy Systems 145

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

the order of the rows on your Netflix home page, issuing content licenses when you click play, finding the Open Connect cache closest to you with the content you requested, and many more). In the Performance space, our data teams currently focus on the quality of experience on Netflix-enabled devices.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 29, 2021

A service team was debugging a performance issue and noticed it coincided with a high rate of paging. I was asked to help, and used a variety of Linux performance tools to solve this including those that use eBPF and Ftrace. Reads usually have apps waiting on them; writes may not (write-back caching). This is "cache busting."

Cache 40

Cache C++ AWS Systems 40

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. Further analysis.

Speed 89

Speed Website Metrics Cache 89

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study). Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study). From the moment we went live, we experienced performance issues. performance improvement can lead to a 10% increase in conversion. Jonne Kats.

Website 113

Website Code Servers Analytics 113

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study). How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study). Performance is a core feature of our company, Instant Domain Search —it’s in the name. The Chrome DevTools are excellent , and a good place to start when chasing performance issues. Beau Hartshorne.

Google 93

Google Analytics Serverless Metrics 93

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

I summarized this case study at Kernel Recipes in 2017; it is an old story that's worth resharing here. I have been surprised many times by unexpected performance issues, so I thought I should check their instances anyway. The ZFS Adapative Replacement Cache (ARC) is the main memory cache for the file system.

Cache 52

Cache Cloud Java Tuning 52

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

Working around improving performance was an ongoing journey on SmashingMag for a while. In the end of last year we’ve noticed that we’ve seen quite a drop in performance in 2020, so we rolled up our sleeves and got to work. Gael Metais suggested to more aggressively subset web fonts and look into caching issues with our AVIF files.

Mobile 140

Mobile Design Cache Code 140

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

I summarized this case study at [Kernel Recipes] in 2017; it is an old story that's worth resharing here. ## 1. I have been surprised many times by unexpected performance issues, so I thought I should check their instances anyway. The ZFS Adapative Replacement Cache (ARC) is the main memory cache for the file system.

Cache 40

Cache Cloud Java Tuning 40

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

The Problem Of Unpredictable Performance. At the same time, we have a widening performance gap. In terms for performance, these phones have plateaued at the performance of a 2012 iPhone. Applications built for the Web are expected to run on devices that fall anywhere on this broad performance spectrum.

Games 145

Games Architecture Code C++ 145

Rigor

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Reading time 4 min It’s important for both technical and business teams to understand the different web performance monitoring options that are available as well as their various use cases and the benefits of each. Understanding Web Performance Monitoring Methodologies. AB Test the Performance Impact of Third Parties.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Benchmarking Website Traffic 40

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Based on the data provided by divante ’s findings on 30 PWA case studies, progressive web apps have a 36% larger mobile conversion rate than native applications. Users who opened a PWA from a smartphone’s browser might even not be aware that they’re using a progressive web app, assuming that it’s just a well-performing site.

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

cachestat File system cache statistics line charts 7. I chose these to find the most performance wins with the fewest tools. In the end, they are both good options. ## Case study: Netflix Netflix is building a new GUI that does this tool dashboard and more, based on the bpftrace versions of these tools.

Open Source 40

Open Source Latency Cache Energy 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. Large preview ) We’ve known for a long time that fast page performance influences search engine rankings.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 13, 2019

So, what are the performance implications of all of this? To further exacerbate the problem, the 302 response has a Cache-Control: must-revalidate, private. header , meaning that we will always make an outgoing request for this resource regardless of whether or not we’re hitting the site from a cold or a warm cache.

Latency 203

Latency Cache Strategy Media 203

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Jennifer Brehm. 2021-06-02T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-06-02T13:32:39+00:00.

Performance 115

Performance Cache Website Mobile 115

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

That is why, today, Web Performance is as important and trendy as having an online presence. Table of Contents: What Is Web Performance? Case Study: Image Component In A Jamstack Site. What Is Web Performance? Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. Fixes To Common Problems.

Media 105

Media Cache Website Mobile 105

The Morning Paper

JUNE 25, 2019

We need new data structures designed specifically for far memory that consider its assumptions and performance. A far memory data structure has: far data in far memory, containing the core content of the data structure data caches at clients algorithms for operations. Clients cache the entire tree, but not the hash tables.

Design 80

Design Cache Hardware Scalability 80

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Case studies abound. There are many tools available that can help you monitor, manage, and optimize your website and application performance: APM, synthetics, RUM, alerting, alert integrations, and more. How are you monitoring end-user performance today? Rigor’s free performance report.

Website 74

Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

The following article was originally published in the 2013 Performance Calendar. There's 31 great articles to explore in the calendar including Steve Souders's browser wishlist and Tim Kadlec's take on what it takes to create a performance culture. -. All CMS's should be offering this level of image manipulation and caching.

Performance 60

Performance Mobile Website Benchmarking 60

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

My favourite place to start is with the Web Vitals heatmap on SpeedCurve's RUM > Performance dashboard. The Performance panel can be overwhelming – even for experienced engineers – as it exposes how much work the browser is doing to load pages or handle interactions. Switching to the DevTools Performance panel 3.

Analytics 92

Analytics Processing Google Mobile 92

Tim Kadlec

MARCH 7, 2017

As a performance “framework”, it would be ok. I’d rather that the concern for them was about performance and better user experience but it’s about SEO and search rankings. This is evidenced by most of the AMP case studies I’ve seen. I’ve not been shy in expressing my opinion of AMP.

Cache 72

Cache Google Performance Metrics 72

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Ben and Mena Trott created MovableType because of a “Dissatisfacion with existing blog CMSes — performance, stability.” In 2006, Denis Defreyne tried to set up a Ruby-based blog platform and ran into performance problems — “Having a VPS with only 96 MB of RAM, any Ruby-based CMS ran extremely slowly.”

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

Running speed tests with tools like Google PageSpeed Insights , WebPageTest , or KeyCDN’s Website Speed Test are always a good way to help gauge your website’s performance. That’s why Google created a performance revenue calculator that estimates how much additional revenue you could be making if your site was faster.

Google 103

Google Cache Speed Analytics 103

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You may have a lean, agile, responsive site design only to find it gradually loaded down with more and more “extras” that are often put onto the site by marketing departments or business leaders who are not always thinking about website performance. Measuring Performance Impact. You cannot always anticipate what you cannot control.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

From the business logic point of view, this was a pretty typical eCommerce service for hierarchical and faceted navigation, although not without peculiarities, but high performance requirements led us to the quite advanced architecture and technical design. So, the only way was to cache all necessary data to minimize interaction with RDBMS.

Ecommerce 100

Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Developers are already optimizing front end performance with: Fast web hosting. Let the web developer handle all of the necessary speed optimizations like caching and file minification while you take on the following design tips and strategies: 1. Clean coding practices. Minification. Image optimization. So, is there anything left?

Website 110

Website Speed Mobile Design 110

The Morning Paper

APRIL 9, 2019

Say a user connects to the “coffee shop wifi”… A security-aware user might refrain from performing any sensitive actions in such an open network, e.g., performing a login or doing online banking. There is no general solution here, and we have to look at individual use cases. ected Client-Side XSS ?aw.

Storage 44

Storage Cache Network Transportation 44

KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

Image Optimization Importance We have been talking a lot about website optimization lately and have interviewed many web performance experts to get their recommendations and advice. Here are just a few of their responses: A big focus for our performance team is (and will continue to be) optimizing images. You guessed it, images.

Speed 52

Speed Website Mobile Latency 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. Every web performance story is similar, isn’t it? A day when a project, fully polished and carefully optimized, gets launched, ranking high and soaring above performance scores in Lighthouse and WebPageTest. Vitaly Friedman.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Image Decoding Performance. +. Measuring Image Performance. +.

Media 105

Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Image Decoding Performance. +. Measuring Image Performance. +.

Media 92

Media Cache Google Best Practices 92

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103