CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 24, 2022

As I see it, there are two main issues when it comes to measuring performance changes (note, not improvements , but changes) in the lab: Site-speed is nondeterministic 1. What if another file on the critical path had dropped out of cache and needed fetching from the network? Problems When Measuring Performance.

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Benchmarking Metrics Cache Network 212

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Cue server-timing headers Historically, when looking at page speed, we've had the tendency to ignore TTFB when trying to optimize the user experience. Caching the base page/HTML is common, and it should have a positive impact on backend times. This can include a lot of different service layers, not just serving from cache.

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Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Source: nameshield.com Why reliable DNS hosting is important Choosing a reliable DNS hosting provider is critical because it can affect everything from the redundancy of your website, speed, and even security. So DNS services definitely go down! Speed Speed also plays a role with DNS. They do quite well actually.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Static analysis of Java enterprise applications: frameworks and caches, the elephants in the room , Antoniadis et al., So they would definitely benefit from the kinds of reassurances that static analysis can bring. PLDI’20. Static analysis is a key component of many quality and security analysis tools.

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Java Cache Benchmarking Programming 80

KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

We will also discuss how you can speed up your slow WordPress site. But if you have not optimized your WordPress properly, your WordPress will definitely be slower than your expectations. One of the most important factors that affect your speed is the server optimization implemented by your web host. Why is WordPress slow?

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. Many people often confuse site speed with page speed grades of performance testing tools, which are actually calculated based on multiple factors of a page including its loading speed. How to get these matrics right and not mess up?

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. I definitely have some assets that are doing nothing but wasting time and space. Compressing, minifying and caching assets.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Core Web Vital metrics definitions. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) LCP measures the perceived load speed of a webpage from a user’s perspective. I know that is a lot of information to unpack in a single sitting, and it definitely took our team time to wrap our minds around what it takes to achieve a low LCP score.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

How to measure performance The Website Speed Test is the ideal tool for measuring the performance of your website. Properly size images: Scaled images will definitely reduce the overall website size. Even if a browser doesn't support WebP, our WebP caching feature will ensure that the correct image format is delivered.

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Processing Cache Website Servers 127

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Real-life performance for your users and how the website “feels” when you’re using it should not be discounted, even if it costs you a point or two in Page Speed (otherwise, we would all just have a search bar and unstyled text).

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

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. By analyzing the data from Backlinko.com and their Page Speed Stats article, we’ll look to answer these questions: What size should be a website be?

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Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2019

Davis tells you which statements need to be improved to speed up your application. The metrics are self-explanatory, so there’s no need for a detailed discussion of each, but a few metrics are definitely worth mentioning: If your Buffer cache hit is low, the database disk is used instead of RAM.

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Database Metrics Cache Servers 127

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. Given its unchanging nature, static content is ideal for caching. This ensures a consistent viewing experience, irrespective of the internet speed or quality. Those days are long gone.

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Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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. Clearly, we want to give freedom to our content creators, but we can leave to chance neither the resolution nor the speed of delivery and download of the images that will be displayed on our website.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 105

Tim Kadlec

MARCH 19, 2018

How well does AMP perform when the library is served using the AMP cache? Since the foundation is HTML, CSS, and JS, you can absolutely build a document using the AMP library without using the Google AMP Cache. Speed Index. Perhaps the AMP cache will provide a bit of a boost. It does this job well, for the most part.

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Cache Google Speed Metrics 79

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. This ensures a consistent viewing experience, irrespective of the internet speed or quality. By the time the player needs it, the content is already cached and ready to go.

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Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

But we’ll definitely help you decide which is the best choice for your situation. Most page speed audit tools will send you an error letting you know if your site is not being compressed, however, we really like this tool from Varvy , as it shows you just how much page weight is being saved through compression. OK, not really.

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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. KeyCDN’s Cache Enabler plugin is fully compatible the HTML attributes that make images responsive. jpg 480 KB 407 KB 43 KB 89% jpg-to-webp-2.jpg

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Start Render time, Speed Index ). Treo Sites provides competitive analysis based on real-world data.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights (no, it isn’t deprecated), you can get CrUX performance data for specific pages instead of just the aggregates.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. Definitions. When serving large files over the web, bandwidth speeds often demand that you serve highly compressed artifacts, requiring lossy compression.

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Media Cache Storage AWS 69

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Serverless functions are stateless , but can opportunistically reuse cached state across invocations to speed up start times. So far it feels a bit like much ado about nothing to me, but the third consideration can definitely be more tricky to get right. Don’t do that! a persistent store with transaction support).

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. Recall that single-core performance most directly translates into speed on the web. The Moto G4 , for example. Updated Geekbench 4 single-core scores for each mobile price-point." How bad is it?

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Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 8, 2015

They are able to selectively load things that will appear in the initial viewport and focus heavily on ensuring AMP pages are prerender and cache friendly. To further help achieve the goal of “instant load”, Google is offering to provide caching for these AMP pages through their CDN. The result is pretty impactful. That troubles me.

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Cache Google Mobile Open Source 75

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

Cons of logical backups As it reads all data, it can be slow and will require disk reads too for databases that are larger than the RAM available for the WT cache—the WT cache pressure increases, which slows down the performance. Hence, the node would still be available for other operations. Records backup progress logging.

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Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 13, 2017

They demonstrated that neural nets based learned index outperforms cache-optimized B-Tree index by up to 70% in speed while saving an order-of-magnitude in memory. More importantly, learned bloom filter definitely improves memory footprint - roughly 2X space improvement over traditional bloom filter with the same false positive rate.

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Artificial Intelligence Hardware Google Benchmarking 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Stable media is commonly physical disk storage, but other devices and certain caching facilities qualify as well. Many high-end disk subsystems provide high-speed cache facilities to reduce the latency of read and write operations. This cache is often supported by a battery-powered backup facility.

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Speed Curve

JUNE 18, 2019

Here's a short (and definitely not exhaustive) list of things that you may want to consider when running performance tests on an integration environment: Caches may need to be warmed up beforehand. Production environments typically have high cache hit ratios, and this should be replicated during performance testing.

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John McCalpin

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

The core does not have enough load bandwidth to perform all of these extra load operations at full speed. E.g., on Haswell you can execute two loads per cycle of any size or alignment as long as neither crosses a cache-line boundary.

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The Morning Paper

APRIL 2, 2019

By definition, a solution to a security or cryptography problem is unconditional if it depends only on the existence of physical randomness and the ability to harvest it… We know of no other protocols that establish RoT provably and unconditionally. The verifier could also run as a co-processor connected to the main system bus.

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Software Software Programming Hardware 40

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

JavaScript is the single most expensive part of any page in ways that are a function of both network capacity and device speed. Add onto that the yawning chasm between low-end and high-end device performance thanks to chip design factors like cache sizes, and it can be difficult to know where to set a device baseline.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

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. Having this capability for libraries on a CDN is great, and if you see the option to use an embedded file with an integrity attribute then you should definitely favor that option.

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Website Servers Code Best Practices 57

Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

However, we cannot outline the best, but we can definitely analyze which is the best framework to choose in which situations. Additionally, Netflix uses the Reactjs library to boost runtime performance, modularization and increase start-up speed. Super high-speed rendering. So, Angular or React?

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Development Google Open Source Servers 52

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

” But these are teams and they’re spending a lot of time building websites or building internal tools or whatever it is they’re building and it takes a lot of effort to like, “Oh, we’re going to switch to a totally different context and use Jekyll or something else,” and you got to get people up to speed. Is that right?

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Media Website Architecture Servers 87

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

Streams provide you with the underlying infrastructure to create new applications, such as continuously updated free-text search indexes, caches, or other creative extensions requiring up-to-date table changes. Cross-region replication allows us to distribute data across the world for redundancy and speed. ” DynamoDB Triggers.

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Database Lambda AWS IoT 167

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”. It is physically limited by the speed of light or, practically, how fast signals can travel in wires or in the open air. Congestion Control. Did You Know?

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