Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Occasionally, these use cases involve terabytes of data, so we have to pay attention to performance. Once we have discovered the Parquet files to be processed, MetaflowDataFrame takes over: it downloads data using Metaflow’s high-throughput S3 client directly to the process’ memory, which often outperforms reading of local files.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks. How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks. One of the costs that Noam mentions is the increased download size, especially JavaScript bundle sizes, that stem from the use of frameworks and other libraries.

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MachMetrics

MARCH 21, 2019

Web performance metrics track the efficiency (or lack thereof) of any individual aspect of your website’s performance. Once you have started collecting some of these must-track web performance metrics for your website, inefficiencies will become clearer. Top 10 Web Perf Metrics to Track.

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Metrics Social Media Performance Speed 74

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

So I thought it would be fun to spend some time poking around behind the scenes and give the site a holiday performance audit. Background For this performance audit, I looked at this synthetic test for the LEGO.com home page. (We The performance team is clearly doing a good job of fighting page bloat. Are images optimized?

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Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 67

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? Experiencing database performance issues?

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 2, 2022

I have a handful of good links to articles about performance that are burning a hole in my bookmarks folder, and wanna drop them here to share. Performance: Making a Fast Framework Even Faster — Ben Schwarz says that Next.js But performance isn’t something that can be left entirely to a framework. You have to do work.

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Performance Cache Best Practices Strategy 68

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

Or worse yet, sometimes I get questions about regaining normal operations after a traffic increase caused performance destabilization. Unfortunately, this topic is more of an art than a science, given that there is really no foolproof algorithm or approach that can tell you exactly where you might hit a bottleneck with server performance.

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Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 90

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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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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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

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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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Percona

MAY 10, 2023

I have seen many Linux Performance engineers looking at the “IOWait” portion of CPU usage as something to indicate whenever the system is I/O-bound. If you only have access to Linux metrics, look at the “b” column in vmstat, which corresponds to processes blocked on disk I/O.

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Cache Monitoring Open Source Processing 143

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. seconds faster on average and it drove 60 million more Firefox downloads per year. Again, every millisecond counts.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

I’ve used a fourth instance to host a PMM server to monitor servers A and B and used the data collected by the PMM agents installed on the database servers to compare performance. To be fair, that is also true with PostgreSQL; it hasn’t been tuned either, and it, too, can also perform much better. Why is that?

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Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 137

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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Performance Cache Website Mobile 115

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss how to extend Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) to get PostgreSQL metrics on checkpointing activity, internal buffers, and WAL usage. With this data, we’ll be able to better understand and tune our Postgres servers. You can search the blog for more information on this if needed.

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Monitoring Tuning Metrics Servers 92

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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Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) was founded to bring standards to database benchmarking, and the history of the TPC can be found here. What is HammerDB? Why HammerDB was developed.

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Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

CSS Wizardry

MAY 19, 2020

With more standardised FOUT/FOIT behaviour from browser vendors, to the newer font-display specification, performance—and therefore the user—seems to have been finally been put front-and-centre. On this site, in which performance is the only name of the game, I forgo web fonts entirely, opting instead to make use of the visitor’s system font.

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Google Media Latency Metrics 364

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2019

Resolve performance problems rooted in the Oracle database layer. With additional data from the database server, you’ll be able to resolve performance problems that are rooted deep in the database layer. For each statement, we provide you with 14 metrics. Download the execution plan to analyze it.

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Database Metrics Cache Servers 127

Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

To my surprise, web performance monitoring conversations rarely surface Server-Timing or cover a very shallow understanding of its application — despite it being out for many years. The header is constructed via a name with an optional description and/or metric value. The only required field is the name. Consuming Server-Timing.

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Servers Monitoring Cache Network 92

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

Page speed has been a key factor in Google’s ranking algorithm since 2010 , so it is essential to understand the various ways you can optimize your pages and why implementing synthetic monitoring can ensure your pages perform flawlessly and revenue isn’t lost. Find Your Performance Baseline. Optimize Your Pages.

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Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

It’s one of the most frequently asked questions I see asked, “I’ve tested my site speed, so now what do these metrics mean?” Here we’ll explain what each of the common web performance metrics mean, and how can you use that data to optimize your site and make it faster. Standard Website Speed Metrics.

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Speed Metrics Website Cache 56

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. Jump to the details ↓ Download a free PDF sample (12MB).

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

South Korea has the fastest mobile download speed , averaging 52.4 Mbps download and 0.7 The USA ranks 40th in the world for mobile download speeds, at around 34 Mbps, and is at risk of falling further behind as the world moves towards 5G. For reference, the metric is $1.19 Mbps, but Iraq has the slowest, averaging 1.6

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Cache Google Mobile Network 96

KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

Running speed tests with tools like Google PageSpeed Insights , WebPageTest , or KeyCDN’s Website Speed Test are always a good way to help gauge your website’s performance. While these metrics can be very helpful it is also important to keep this data in perspective. Don’t think of it solely from a metric point of view.

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Google Cache Speed Analytics 103

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. Jump to the details ↓ Download a free PDF sample (12MB).

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 92

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.

Media 105

Media Cache Website Mobile 105

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

This was a keynote presentation at the “2nd International Workshop on Performance Modeling: Methods and Applications” (PMMA16), June 23, 2016, Frankfurt, Germany (in conjunction with ISC16 ). Here I assumed a particular analytical function for the amount of memory traffic as a function of cache size to scale the bandwidth time.

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Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

SQL Performance

MARCH 30, 2021

It includes initializing each operator, and adding hidden profilers to collect runtime performance data like actual row count and elapsed time. I used the public Stack Overflow 2013 database ( download details ). It can be downloaded at the same link. I added one nonclustered index: CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX PP ON dbo.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

You are now “Head of Performance” at Repairing Magazine, the most serious competitor to Smashing Magazine. Your job for today is to implement this feature with the best possible performances. If users have a slow network or a slow computer, they will see an ugly loader while their joke is being downloaded.

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Cache Website Energy Servers 114

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. To investigate this topic, let’s first check how important your website performance is to your online business. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance? Main Performance Issues.

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Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You may have a lean, agile, responsive site design only to find it gradually loaded down with more and more “extras” that are often put onto the site by marketing departments or business leaders who are not always thinking about website performance. Measuring Performance Impact. You cannot always anticipate what you cannot control.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

Loading experience is crucial to the user’s first impression and overall usability, so Google defined Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric to measure how quickly the main content loads and is displayed to the user. Of all those options, it’s safe to assume that text is the best choice for LCP performance because it loads and renders fast.

Media 69

Media Tuning Metrics Google 69

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2020

If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. To investigate this topic, let’s first check how important your website performance is to your online business. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance? Main Performance Issues.

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Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Performance is a core feature of our company, Instant Domain Search —it’s in the name. We’ve recently grown to a small group based mostly in Victoria, Canada and we are working through a long backlog of new features and performance improvements. A 75th percentile (p75) metric strikes a reasonable balance for performance goals.

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Google Analytics Serverless Metrics 93

Dotcom-Montior

JULY 7, 2020

If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. To investigate this topic, let’s first check how important your website performance is to your online business. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance? Main Performance Issues.

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Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52