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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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2021

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. Blocking IP Access.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The solution used in Scrapbook was to use the SWR library of React hooks to update the cached page from the server with client side data fetching. The client is first served the cached statically generated page (generated with getStaticProps() ), in the background the server also begins the process of revalidating that page (read more here ).

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Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 27, 2021

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. Blocking IP Access.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

A trip from a device in London to a server in New York has a theoretical best-case speed of 28ms over fibre, but this makes lots of very optimistic assumptions. This is why serving your content from a CDN is so important: even in the internet age, being geographically closer to your customers is advantageous. Expect closer to 75ms.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Most browsers implement the Intersection Observer API, common libraries make it super simple to implement, and speed is more important than ever. I scoured the internet for popular lazy-loading libraries until I found the jQuery Lazy plugin. And to be honest – it was going to require rework and I was lazy. The jQuery Lazy Plugin.

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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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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The entire country of China’s internet connectivity is shielded by the Great Firewall (GFW). There are three state-owned ISP providers, China Unicom, China Telecom, and China Mobile , that control internet in China. The most recent technology automatically shuts internet off whenever blacklisted URLs are accessed.

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 31, 2019

Today we’re excited to announce that we’ve launched yet another POP location to help further supercharge our network’s content delivery speeds. According to Wikipedia , Romania ranked 5th place worldwide for the average connection speed of 38.60Mb/s. million Romanian eCommerce users who spend an average of $237.38

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Today we’re excited to announce that we’ve launched yet another POP location to help further supercharge our network’s content delivery speeds. Growth Of Internet in Finland The number of Internet users in Finland correlates very closely with the current number of residents. As of 2016, there were just over 5.1

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Speed Curve

JUNE 14, 2021

My journey into performance started in the late 1990s, while I was working for an elearning provider and discovering the challenges of delivering rich content over the internet. Ultimately the business didn’t survive the dotcom bust, but it lit a spark.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] , Jul 2008 [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] , 2010 [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

A study by Wappalyzer says that PHP runs 82% of the Internet. Furthermore, PHP includes caching and opcode optimization tools that make things run even faster. These speed tweaks make sure that PHP websites load fast and can effectively handle a lot of people at the same time. Top Reasons Why Web Developers Choose PHP!

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. Throughput and latency. Application performance.

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MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

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. Many caching plugins like WPRocket also offer Gzip compression right out of the box.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 27, 2019

While it’s important to check various speed metrics , the Web Almanac uses data from the Chome UX Report which focuses on how Chrome users actually experience the web. As we mentioned in our article Average Page Load Times for 2020 , mobile page speed is a huge deal going forward. First Contentful Paint. Page Weight.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. Source: Source: DebugBear.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Push however has more support as it is an HTTP/2 feature which is now the latest version of the HTTP protocol for the Internet. Neither preload or push should be used as a way to speed up the delivery of all your assets at once. This allows you to better leverage browser caching. When to use Preload vs Push?

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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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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

At the same time, they open a door to lots of concepts that might be overwhelming: PRPL, RAIL, Paint Timing API, TTI, HTTP/2, Speed Index, Priority Hints and more … Why Performance doesn’t get Prioritized Web performance at organizations is a real challenge. Ideally, shoot for 30% speed improvements. A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0,

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Tim Kadlec

AUGUST 14, 2018

The area he was in was served by satellite internet access, and experienced significant latency (a floor of 506 milliseconds) and packet loss (between 50-80% was typical). To counter this, the school he was visiting sets up their own local caching server. But, as he explains, this approach falls apart when HTTPS gets involved.

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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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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

At the same time, they open a door to lots of concepts that might be overwhelming: PRPL, RAIL, Paint Timing API, TTI, HTTP/2, Speed Index, Priority Hints and more …. Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. Ideally, shoot for 30% speed improvements.

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High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

That means multiple data indirections mean multiple cache misses. Mark LaPedus : MRAM, a next-generation memory type, is being touted as a replacement for embedded flash and cache applications. Cliff Click : The JVM is very good at eliminating the cost of code abstraction, but not the cost of data abstraction. They are very expensive.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

DNS, which stands for domain name system , is an Internet service that translates domains names into IP addresses. You can think of a DNS server as a phone book for the internet. Speed Speed also plays a role with DNS. You can test the DNS lookup time and TTFB with a website speed test tool. What is DNS?

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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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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Today, I'm excited to announce the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) , a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache that can speed up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second. Fully managed cache for DynamoDB.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages , Allspaw, Masters thesis, Lund University 2015. This is part 2 of our look at Allspaw’s 2015 master thesis (here’s part 1 ). 1:06pm reports of the personalised homepage having issues start appearing from multiple sources.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content. Yes, it’s a single file, but that’s not how it’s stored on the internet. Given its unchanging nature, static content is ideal for caching. BandwidthImagine the internet as a ramified web of pipelines, each varying in size.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content. Yes, it’s a single file, but that’s not how it’s stored on the internet. BandwidthImagine the internet as a ramified web of pipelines, each varying in size. A video, being a digital asset, is also based on these two parts.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. 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. per GB respectively. Mbps upload.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Needless to say, there’s nothing that can beat WebP when it comes to speed while maintaining image integrity. “. Samsung Internet. The platforms that continue to hold back support are: Internet Explorer. What Is WebP Caching? Suzanne Scacca.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The cloud-hosted version would need to be: Scalable – The service would need to support hundreds of thousands, or even millions of AWS customers, each supporting their own internet-scale applications. Today, DynamoDB powers the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications that would overburden traditional relational databases.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. 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. A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites. Alba Silvente. 2022-11-17T10:00:00+00:00. 2022-11-17T14:33:01+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

I had my website with funny photos and links to favorite websites live on the internet, and better yet, I could edit directly on the server. It’s safe to say WordPress, the platform now powering 40% of the internet, won that battle, but MovableType paved the way for Jamstack CMSs in the future. But, when it worked, it was magical.

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KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

As Sara Souedan said, not everyone has access to fast internet. For example, while the average mobile download speed on 4G in Switzerland is fast at 35.2 Mbps, countries with a growing Internet users like India is only at an average mobile download speed of 6.8 Mbps ( Opensignal ). For example, the query string ?width=600&quality=70

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All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In just three short years, Amazon DynamoDB has emerged as the backbone for many powerful Internet applications such as AdRoll , Druva , DeviceScape , and Battlecamp. Using streams, you can apply the changes to a full-text search data store such as Elasticsearch, push incremental backups to Amazon S3, or maintain an up-to-date read cache.

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