Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The convenience of having it tucked into Chrome DevTools is what makes it an easy go-to for many developers. Why do we need Lighthouse at all when Google also offers similar reports in PageSpeed Insights (PSI)? Google focuses on the 75th percentile of users in the CrUX data when reporting core web vitals metrics.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As developers, we rightfully obsess about the customer experience, relentlessly working to squeeze every millisecond out of the critical rendering path, optimize input latency, and eliminate jank. On top of this foundation, we add layers of caching, prerendering and edge delivery optimizations — not the other way around.

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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. It’s inherently tied to everything we build and develop. Lighthouse.

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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. Establish a performance culture. Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. It measures the web performance of a single page using Google PageSpeed Insights. It also lists cached resources and identifies unused Javascript. Network and CPU are throttled for lab data tests for more realistic conditions.

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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. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +.

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Why are developers using RInK systems as part of their design? Generally to cache data (including non-persistent data that never sees a backing store), to share non-persistent data across application services (e.g. The network latency of fetching data over the network, even considering fast data center networks.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

I hope to raise the profile of difficulties faced by real people, which are avoidable if we design and develop in a way that is sympathetic to their needs. 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. per GB respectively.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Missing Cache Settings – Make sure you cache resources that don’t change often on the browser or use a CDN. I’m sure your frontend developers already have their tools and techniques in place. Too many fine-grained services leading to network and communication overhead. N+1 Query Pattern.

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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. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +.

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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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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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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what loading patterns should be used to fix them. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Establish a performance culture. thanks, Guy Podjarny!

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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. Keeping those in sync is hard to do — so, please help a fellow developer out and don’t do it.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

These deceptive practices allow developers to access users’ private data without consent, undermining user privacy and giving rise to both legal and ethical concerns. Google, to their credit, have announced that they are addressing many of the issues that we reported to them. most apps). Finding out how those apps leak data.

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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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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. But I’d also recorded an ETW trace to understand where CPU time in the Network Service utility process was going, and I’d noticed some time being spent in ntoskrnl.exe!KiPageFault: Case closed. But I digress….

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

It’s about creating awareness amongst both developers and non-developers. They can be run as a one-off or integrated in our development and deployment pipelines. Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

If you are just starting out wondering if someone might be re-publishing your web content, the easiest thing to do is a Google search. Copy a ten or twelve-word sentence from a page of interest on your site into the Google search bar, put it inside double-quotes, and click on Search. Search Engine And Web Archive Cached Results.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Something like page speed optimization was always left to the developers to worry about. In the meantime, it got me thinking: Is there anything designers can do when creating mobile websites to help developers optimize for speed? Developers are already optimizing front end performance with: Fast web hosting. Minification.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what loading patterns should be used to fix them. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. Establish a performance culture. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7

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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. The upside to using third-party services on your site is that you do not need to develop everything you want to do yourself. Jump to table of contents ?.

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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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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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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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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

This is helpful for those on poor or expensive networks, so they don’t have to pay an exorbitant cost just to visit your website. However, countless research (including the stats for our own site here, and others by the likes of Alex Russell ) has shown that Android devices are the platform of choice for poorer countries with slower networks.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As you may already know, image optimization is the process that a high-quality image has to go through to be delivered in ideal conditions, sometimes with the help of an Image Transformation API and a global Content Delivery Network (CDN) to make the process simpler and scalable. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple forces developers of competing browsers to use their engine for all browsers on iOS , restricting their ability to deliver a better version of the web platform. They are, pound for pound, some of the best engine developers globally and genuinely want good things for the web. The Compatibility Tax.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

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. Google already has Dremel , Mesa , Photon , F1 , PowerDrill , and Spanner , so why did they need yet another data processing system? Cache all the things.

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Dean Hume

MAY 16, 2018

If you’ve ever tried to build a web application that is completely offline first, you’ll know how tricky it can be to make changes to the users cache when you do make updates to the site and the user has connectivity. You’ll also learn how to refresh the page, so that the user is up to date and has the latest version of any cached files.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

As web developers, it’s understandable to feel that this is not an issue over which we have any influence, but this isn’t true. Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. Large preview ).

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Tim Kadlec

MARCH 14, 2019

Google formally announced Lite Pages the other day and the response has been… let’s say mixed. But in this case, the announcement has to deal with Google making changes to HTTPS content which, as you would expect, makes folks a little more nervous. Understandably so. Sometimes that’s fine. What We Know.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

It’s enough to make any developer incredulous. Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. Imagine a professional networking site with a database of users. Files everywhere! Static Files. Media Files.

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Dean Hume

MARCH 29, 2018

I wanted the site to be super fast - once someone has read an article that won’t change, why not serve it from the cached version on their device. I also wanted the site to work completely offline, so that if you are reading something interesting on the go, there is no reason why you have to wait for a network connection again.

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Dean Hume

MARCH 29, 2018

I wanted the site to be super fast - once someone has read an article that won’t change, why not serve it from the cached version on their device. I also wanted the site to work completely offline, so that if you are reading something interesting on the go, there is no reason why you have to wait for a network connection again.

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