Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Even if you resize your images to the exact specifications of your website and run them through a compressor, they can still put a strain on performance and run up bandwidth usage. What Is WebP Caching? And WebP caching is only going to make it better.

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Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

Indexes are generally considered to be the panacea when it comes to SQL performance tuning, and PostgreSQL supports different types of indexes catering to different use cases. I keep seeing many articles and talks on “tuning” discussing how creating new indexes speeds up SQL but rarely ones discussing removing them.

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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. For this article, we will focus on the first three and the performance adjustments for these.

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Percona

MAY 1, 2023

In this blog post, we will delve into the world of PostgreSQL performance tuning and establish some basic guidelines for setting database parameters to enhance the performance of your PostgreSQL database, based on the workload. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning? Why is PostgreSQL performance tuning important?

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

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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.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Our Cluster Performance Engineering Team in collaboration with our Autonomous Cloud Enablement (ACE) and development teams quickly identified the root cause and fixed the problem in no time! By default, checking these configurations is not a performance problem as a standard tenant only has a handful of these custom locations configured.

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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.

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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.

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Percona

JANUARY 9, 2023

Looking at how people are using COUNT(*) and COUNT(col), it looks like most of them think they are synonyms and just use what they happen to like, while there is a substantial difference in performance and even query results. But why we can’t just cache the actual number of the rows? sec) What flash speed we saw there!

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. The better the performance, the better chance that users stay on a page, read content, make purchases, or just about whatever they need to do. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Again, every millisecond counts.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

That said, GIFs can drag down a web page’s performance, especially if not optimized. Let’s cover some ways to speed up GIF animations on your website and look at some alternative formats that you should consider. Why Speed Up GIF Animations? You should also think about supporting newer formats like WebP.

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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. DRM-free, of course. Image Decoding Performance. +.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Last week we looked at a function shipping solution to the problem; Cloudburst uses the more common data shipping to bring data to caches next to function runtimes (though you could also make a case that the scheduling algorithm placing function execution in locations where the data is cached a flavour of function-shipping too).

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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. DRM-free, of course. Image Decoding Performance. +.

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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? What Is Web Performance? Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. Conclusion.

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Speed Curve

JUNE 14, 2021

I’m delighted to be joining some of my favourite web performance people at SpeedCurve! I’ve been a full-time web performance consultant for around nine years. I’ve written a couple of books , spoken at conferences , and become an organiser of London’s Web Performance Meetup.

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Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Tue-Thu Apr 25-27: High-Performance and Low-Latency C++ (Stockholm). On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.” If you’re interested in attending, please check out the links, and I look forward to meeting and re-meeting many of you there.

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MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

As we discussed in our article on how to test your page weight , compression is pretty much standard practice in web performance now, so you absolutely want to make sure you’re taking advantage of it. Many caching plugins like WPRocket also offer Gzip compression right out of the box. How Do I Implement Brotli?

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Percona

JULY 17, 2023

DBAs and developers appreciate its combination of flexibility, scalability, and performance. It’s a good setup for real-time analytics and high-speed logging. Alternatives to MongoDB Enterprise There are plenty of alternatives, but we’re not going to cover them all here, of course. MongoDB Enterprise is commercial.

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

TL;DR: performance budgets are an essential but under-appreciated part of product success and team health. Nobody is trying to do a poor job, and yet the results of a “completed” PWA project often require weeks or months of painstaking rework to deliver minimally acceptable performance. Partner meetings are illuminating.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

This processor has a base clock speed of 2.0GHz, with an all-core boost speed of 2.55GHz, and a max boost clock speed of 3.0GHz. The L3 cache size is 64MB. The AMD EPYC 7551 processor has slightly lower single-threaded CPU performance when compared to the older 2.3 The L3 cache size is 64MB.

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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.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

In recent years, the industry thankfully started paying more attention to performance. As a result, website performance can suffer. Improving performance with the decoupled JSON approach. Improving Performance With The Decoupled JSON Approach. Of course, this is where good planning is crucial. Security concerns.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The motivation is not that inference will perform better inside the database, but that the database is the best place to take advantage of enterprise features (transactions, security, auditing, HA, and so on). There are limitations to this model of course. It can’t handle loops for example (an analysis of 4.6M

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Individual pages can be spot checked via the CrUX API or tools such as Page Speed Insights But as Cliff's already covered in How to find (and fix!) My favourite place to start is with the Web Vitals heatmap on SpeedCurve's RUM > Performance dashboard. Switching to the DevTools Performance panel 3.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

With only an hour or so of degraded performance in the end, it’s not the worst incident you can imagine, but it was clearly taken as very serious given the time of year. There’s much more colour around these in the full thesis report of course). " – wikipedia. The last word.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started  ‍Of course, the latter. Migrating isn't as simple as 'copy-paste'.‍Even

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Refactoring CSS: Optimizing Size And Performance (Part 3). Refactoring CSS: Optimizing Size And Performance (Part 3). Deploying the refactored codebase shouldn’t result in worse website performance and worse user experience. Part 3: Optimizing Size And Performance. Adrian Bece. 2021-08-30T10:00:00+00:00. More after jump!

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Real-time monitoring can help detect any anomalies as soon as they happen, thereby increasing the speed at which problems can be diagnosed and solved. ‍It Businesses can adjust configurations to manage everything from basic distribution settings to intricate geo-targeted content caching and delivery strategies, all with the same ease.‍‍2.

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Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Performance optimization is the Rodney Dangerfield of web development–it “don’t get no respect” In spite of its great importance in the overall user experience, it is all too often pushed aside and treated as an afterthought. Performance optimization isn’t that necessary. Performance matters.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Plus, now that Google has made mobile-first indexing the default, you really can’t afford to let any performance optimizations fall by the wayside what with how difficult it can be to get your mobile site as speedy as your desktop. At the intersection of the two is website speed. Of course, there are the SEO benefits of images, too.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

With these added libraries and subsequent plugins came added page weight, and before long we were starting to think seriously about front-end performance. They’d take the hit for the first site to use the file, but then it would sit in their local browser cache and downloads could be skipped for each subsequent site. Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

While not render-blocking, they can indirectly impact render performance. You can of course also do this manually just using the <img> element directly. You can of course also do this manually just using the <img> element directly. If using 11ty for your static sites, try the 11ty high-performance blog template.

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SQL Performance

MARCH 8, 2021

This can make it difficult to draw sound performance-tuning conclusions. This uses hardware, typically a crystal oscillator, that produces ticks at a very high constant rate regardless of processor speed, power settings, or anything of that nature. Total elapsed time is 933ms with 6,673ms of CPU time with a warm cache.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Clearly the chosen decomposition can have a big impact on the resulting query performance. A pipeline breaker occurs when the output of one operator must be materialized to disk or transferred over the network, as opposed to being directly communicated from operator to operator via CPU cache, or, in the worst case, via RAM.

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