Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) LCP measures the perceived load speed of a webpage from a user’s perspective. However, achieving a good LCP score is often a multi-faceted process that involves optimizing several stages of loading and rendering. Each stage has its unique challenges and potential pitfalls, as other case studies show.

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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

For many of us, typography is as big of a decision as anything else in the design process of a website. Beyond that, there is a reason that these fonts are used for billions of words in books and documents – their readability and quality. They can also be easily cached to improve load times. Web Safe Fonts (System Fonts).

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Every unnecessary bit of JavaScript code you bundle and serve will be more code the client has to load and process. Jamstack is popular with documentation sites that usually compile code to HTML files and host them on the CDN. Active Memory Caching. Caching partially stores your data and is not used as permanent storage.

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Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2019

Many Dynatrace monitoring environments now include well beyond 10,000 monitored hosts—and the number of processes and services has multiplied to millions of monitored entities. Instead of fetching megabytes of host information in JSON format, you can use this filter to speed up your query and greatly reduce the size of the resulting payload.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

It doesn’t come as a surprise, considering the benefits of higher conversion rates, customer engagement, decreased page loading speed, and lower costs on development and overhead. The service workers enable the offline usage of the PWA by fetching cached data or informing the user about the absence of an Internet connection.

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Randon ASCII

JULY 11, 2022

A bug had been filed suggesting that Chrome download speeds (such as those measured by speedtest.net ) seemed to be affected by some anti-virus software. Downloads go through the cache, the cache is saved to disk, and saves to disk are slowed by (some) anti-virus software. As usual, I was minding my own business. Case closed.

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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. This is the process of turning HTML, CSS and JavaScript into a fully fleshed out, interactive website.

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Tim Kadlec

MARCH 19, 2018

How well does AMP perform when the library is served using the AMP cache? But what you don’t see is that Google gets that instantaneous loading by actively preloading AMP documents in the background. In the case of the search carousel, it’s literally an iframe that gets populated with the entirety of the AMP document.

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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. Establish a performance culture.

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HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

There are several ways to find out this information with the easiest way being by referring to the documentation. Instead, readers should refer to the HammerDB documentation. In the context of MySQL performance evaluation, it simulates a typical online transaction processing (OLTP) workload on your MySQL database.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

In addition to MVC separation, we can (for security reasons or speed improvements) place the JS App on a separate server like in the schema below: Decoupled WordPress diagram. Recommended reading : WordPress Security As A Process. For instance, we want to create a documentation endpoint. Large preview ).

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HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

This post is targeted towards the questions most often asked by non-technical management who want to get up to speed on what HammerDB is (what it isn’t) and how it can benefit their organization. Cached vs Scaled Workloads. What is HammerDB? HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. Perhaps surprisingly, users experience faster speeds over a mobile network than WiFi in at least 30 countries worldwide, including Australia and France. South Korea has the fastest mobile download speed , averaging 52.4 per GB respectively. Mbps upload.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This also implies that you don’t have to spend additional time and money on creating a PWA to suit various devices, greatly speeding up time-to-market. This primarily regards its UXUI and speed, so a progressive web app can be a solution to consider. you don’t have to create code to fit the separate Android and iOS requirements.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 16, 2020

Its performance will depend on how you use React when building it, and on your understanding of how React operates and the process through which components live through the various phases of their lifecycle. During the initial rendering process, React builds a DOM tree of components. Note : See the documentation for more information.

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SQL Server According to Bob

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Note: We received feedback that there was some confusion on us calling this functionality “tail of the log caching” because our documentation and prior history has referred to the tail of the log as the portion of the hardened log that has not been backed up. Tail Of Log Caching.

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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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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Establish a performance culture. Treo Sites provides competitive analysis based on real-world data. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

All these resource hints use the rel attribute of the <link> element that you’ll be familiar with finding in the <head> of your HTML documents. A DNS lookup is the process of turning a human-friendly domain name like example.com into the machine-friendly IP address like 123.54.92.4 DNS Prefetching. The as Attribute.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

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Tim Kadlec

MAY 11, 2010

Like it’s older brother YSlow, Page Speed , released by Google in in mid-2009, is primarily a tool to audit and analyze the performance of your site. However a closer looks shows that there is in fact a lot more that Page Speed can do. Page Speed analyzes the performance of a page based on a set of 26 rules (as of version 1.7)

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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. Any file uploaded by a user, from profile pictures to personal documents, is called a media file. For more details, see the Django documentation. Media Files.

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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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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

And slow websites are, in a way, discrimination: The majority of the world’s population don’t have access to high-speed Internet or fast CPUs. On the other hand, Google Analytics still requires synchronous DOM API access when reading values from document and window. This is why performance is crucial when building websites.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Web development is evolving at a rapid speed with each passing year. And so, it optimizes the page loading speed and reduces the bounce rate. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. Let’s dive deep into the top website development trends to expect in 2022.

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Percona

DECEMBER 19, 2022

A guided tour of Alerting, which helps new users get up to speed quickly and start using the alerting features of PMM. Client-side caching minimizes potential for metrics loss. Starting with this release, you can restore physical backups straight from the UI, and PMM will handle the process end-to-end.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

HTTP/2 Push allows web developers to define specific assets that should be pushed to the client along with the HTML document. This makes for a more optimized asset delivery process. Neither preload or push should be used as a way to speed up the delivery of all your assets at once. What Is HTTP/2 Push?

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Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The talks are up on YouTube , including my own (behind a paywall, but the slides are freely available [1] ): The talk, like this post, is an update on network and CPU realities this series has documented since 2017. Speeds will be much slower than advertised in many areas , particularly for rural users. 2023 Content Targets #.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Unless a site is installed to the home screen as a PWA , any single page is just another in a series of documents that users experience as a river of links. A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. Advances in browser content processing.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Copyright The information contained in this document represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation on the issues discussed as of the date of publication. Microsoft may have patents, patent applications, trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual property rights covering subject matter in this document.

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Enprowess

MAY 24, 2022

It allows developers to create complex UIs from a small and isolated code called “components” ReactJS comprises two parts: the pieces containing HTML code, components, and an HTML document – where all your components will render. More incredible Speed with Virtual DOM. Famous Applications Supported by ReactJS.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

The most popular, by far, is the Google Lighthouse report (available in Chrome Developer Tools) and Google’s Page Speed Insights. You can adjust what browser is used, the kind of network connection to employ, the locations to test from, whether or not the browser’s cache is empty or full, how frequently to take the measurements, and more.

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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 takes away the manual process of checking logs and monitoring dashboards, giving your team more time to focus on creating value. ‍For CDNs, redundancy is really important.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

The build process on its own has become quite a beast over time as well, with critical CSS injects, Webpack’s code splitting, dynamic inserts of advertising and feature panels, RSS (re)generation, and eventual A/B testing on the edge. So we looked into options on automating this process as a part of the build routine.

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

This isn’t true (more on that in a follow-up post), and sites which are built this way implicitly require more script in each document (e.g., Answering it requires an understanding of how browsers process resources (which differs by type) and the concept of the critical path. for router components). ” A good question!

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Tim Kadlec

MARCH 14, 2019

I haven’t seen any documentation to counter this, nor to add to it. Whereas Data Saver would apply optimizations (making improvements to resources and connections to speed them up), Lite pages apply interventions (eliminating some slow or heavy qualities of the page altogether). Minifying JS and CSS. Preconnect and prefetching.

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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 It takes away the manual process of checking logs and monitoring dashboards, giving your team more time to focus on creating value.

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