Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Google recommends that TTFB be 800ms at the 75th percentile. Server Timing is a specification that allows communication of data from the server to the client through the use of a server-timing header. SpeedCurve's RUM collection library – lux.js – accesses this interface to collect custom data from the user agent.

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Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Still, there’s nothing in there to tell us about the data Lighthouse is using to evaluate metrics. Why do we need Lighthouse at all when Google also offers similar reports in PageSpeed Insights (PSI)? What Does It Mean When PageSpeed Insights Says It Uses “Real-User Experience Data”? That’s what this article is about.

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Speed Google Website Metrics 97

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Last year, Google made two significant changes to their search indexing and ranking algorithms : In March, indexing became based on the mobile version of a page , rather than desktop. Cache-Headers missing?

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Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Procella: unifying serving and analytical data at YouTube Chattopadhyay et al., Anchored in the primary use case of supporting Google’s YouTube business, what we’re looking at here could well be the future of data processing at Google. Because they had too many data processing systems! ;). VLDB’19.

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Analytics Latency Cache Google 75

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

50 ways to leak your data: an exploration of apps’ circumvention of the Android permissions system Reardon et al., The problem is all inside your app, she said to me / The answer is easy if you take it logically / I’d like to help data in its struggle to be free / There must be fifty ways to leak their data.

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Systems Traffic Network Google 74

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. It can be measured based on real data from users visiting your sites ( field metric ) or in a lab environment ( lab metric ). It measures the web performance of a single page using Google PageSpeed Insights. Large preview ).

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Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 130

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

From connecting back-office operations to front-of-the-house A/B testing and dynamic personalization for each customer, the shared foundation is fast server-side rendering powered by fast storefront data access. On top of this foundation, we add layers of caching, prerendering and edge delivery optimizations — not the other way around.

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Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 135

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

We have several YouTube Tutorials and blog posts available that show how you can use Dynatrace RUM data for Web Performance & User Experience Optimization. Missing Cache Settings – Make sure you cache resources that don’t change often on the browser or use a CDN. Improve Above-the-fold User Experience with Dynatrace.

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Cache Database Architecture Government 198

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2 Lighthouse.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Coupled with stateless application servers to execute business logic and a database-like system to provide persistent storage, they form a core component of popular data center service archictectures. If you want to store time-expiring data that should be shared across application processes, used Memcached or Redis.

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Cache Latency Google Lambda 79

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Many of us are lucky enough to be on mobile plans which allow several gigabytes of data transfer per month. Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. The Cost Of Mobile Data. The Cost Of Broadband Data.

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Cache Google Mobile Network 96

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. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +.

Media 105

Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived," [link] Oct 2022 - [Intel 22] Intel, "Intel® Developer Cloud," [link] accessed Dec 2022 I've taken care to cite the author names along with the talk titles and dates, including for Internet sources, instead of the common practice of just listing URLs.

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

With the latest introduction of the Core Web Vital section on GSC + upcoming Google’s core web vital update, site owners are forced to take note of their website speed and web vitals. Importance of page loading speed – Google checks your website load time and they like it as fast with a better user experience.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

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. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +.

Media 92

Media Cache Google Best Practices 92

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Last year, Google started emphasizing the importance of Core Web Vitals and how they reflect a person’s real experience when visiting sites around the web. It wasn’t long before a sea of red “poor” and yellow “needs improvement” notices in our Google Search Console needed our attention. How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study).

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Google Analytics Serverless Metrics 93

Tim Kadlec

JUNE 21, 2022

HTTP/3 work started in 2012 with Google working on QUIC, adopted by IETF in 2017, RFC’s published in June 2022. The TLS + QUIC layer makes UDP safer to use, but a lot of networks will likely still block for awhile. The RSVP problem: HTTP/3 might be blocked on the network or may not be enabled on the server. What and Why?

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Network Mobile Google Cache 64

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data. Treo Sites provides competitive analysis based on real-world data. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

Save Data API. Let’s have a quick recap on the Save Data API. ways: A Save-Data header is sent on each HTTP request. The upcoming prefers-reduced-data media query, which allows CSS to set different options depending on this setting. Websites can act on the Save Data preference to give a lighter website to… well.

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Website Media Mobile Network 103

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud Kleppmann et al., Google Docs, Trello, …). The primary issue with cloud apps (the SaaS model) is ownership of the data. In a sense, you don’t have full ownership of that data— the cloud provider does. It should work without a network.

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Cloud Software Software Internet 83

CSS - Tricks

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Chris made a few notes about Core Web Vitals the other day, explaining why measuring these performance metrics are so gosh darn important: I still think the Google-devised Core Web Vitals are smart. cache things! You may be asking yourself, “Why would I need Sentry to see what these are if I already have Google?” Good question.

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Google Metrics Speed Cache 69

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Web scraping can be used to harvest marketing data, such as identifying good keywords for advertising campaigns, identifying trending topics for blog posts, or identifying influencers in important blogs and news sites. You could maybe script up some Google searches to run these kinds of checks periodically.

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Website Analytics Google Cache 89

Randon ASCII

JULY 11, 2022

Downloads go through the cache, the cache is saved to disk, and saves to disk are slowed by (some) anti-virus software. I’d been testing on a virtual machine in a data center that I had access to, purely because this machine has an internet connection that runs at over 2 Gbps. It looks like this can happen. Case closed.

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Cache Energy Google Processing 105

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this case, we are not going to be talking about infrastructure services, such as a cloud computing platform like Microsoft Azure or a content distribution network like Akamai. And JavaScript can certainly make requests for additional network resources. Sometimes, the visitor’s browser itself can be the origin of network activity.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data. Furthermore, using data from case studies and experiments published on WPO Stats will help increase sensitivity for business about why performance matters, and what impact it has on user experience and business metrics.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Can machine learning-based data structures i.e. learned data structures replace traditional data structures? This is a question recently asked and explored by a team of Google researchers led by Jeff Dean with a major focus on database indexes. p = F(Key) ? Learned Bloom filters.

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Artificial Intelligence Hardware Google Benchmarking 40

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The Web provides decentralised publishing and direct access to unstructured data ( searching / querying that data has turned out to be a pretty centralised affair in practice though). AnyLog wants to do for structured (relational) data what the Web has done for unstructured data, with coordinators playing the role of search engines.

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Blockchain Internet Internet IoT 94

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Most of you have probably seen the following Google PageSpeed Insights optimization suggestion at one point or another when running a speed test: By compressing and adjusting the size of … you can save 14.2 An easy way to compress images is with our image processing service that happens to also be fully integrated into our existing network.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

First, We Need Data Access There are two main ways to retrieve the performance metrics we care about: Using the performance.getEntries() method, or Using a PerformanceObserver instance. We could create some sort of dashboard UI that consumes all the data and renders it in an aesthetically pleasing way. Image source: Source: DebugBear.

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Performance Metrics Monitoring Google 95

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. And while you can usually cache the full page of an article, the same is not true of many shop pages and elements. Additionally, page speed is a ranking factor for search and also for your Google Ads. Jennifer Brehm.

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 115

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

Instead, you will encounter forever loading and other messages like timeout, connection error, network problem, etc. If the DNS caches are manipulated to contain wrong IP addresses, it’s called DNS poisoning. For example, if you land on a website that is blocked, you won’t see any warning or information regarding that. Blocking VPNs.

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Website Internet Internet Performance 82

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

But what happens when we all start creating content on a massive scale, filling the web with more and more data, and storing hundreds of zettabytes of content? This data makes it clear that there will be no good performance without well-optimized images. Large preview ). — Jamstack.org.

Media 105

Media Cache Website Mobile 105

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

The average user doesn’t spend much time waiting for a web page to load or to interact with the page: According to Google, if a page’s load time goes up from 1 second to 3 seconds, the probability of the user bouncing increases by 32%. Consider Google Analytics, which collects and sends tracking data using navigator.sendBeacon().

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Website Google Open Source Mobile 80

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived," [link] , Oct 2022 [Intel 22] Intel, "Intel® Developer Cloud," [link] , accessed Dec 2022 I've taken care to cite the author names along with the talk titles and dates, including for Internet sources, instead of the common practice of just listing URLs.

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google. In this case, my website is “slow”, even when served on 4G networks. For example: Think with Google suggests the typical page speed optimizations.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110