CSS - Tricks

MAY 24, 2021

Setting up Cloudflare Workers for web performance optimisation and testing — Matt Hobbs starts with a 101 intro on setting up a Cloudflare Worker, using it to intercept a CSS file and replace all the font-family declarations with Comic Sans. That is, you aren’t penalized for poor CWV, but are given a bonus for good numbers.

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Performance Website Cache Internet 78

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

In 2017, mobile internet usage passed desktop as the majority. Unfortunately, the data from Backlinko paints a bleak picture when it comes to mobile internet browsing. It is typically reduced via server-side optimizations, such as enabling caching and database indexes. How do you test your site against the best practices?

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Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Coverage is assessed with a walk-test (4-5km/h) over all road segments on the campus, monitoring the physical-layer information from both 5G and 4G at each location. When it comes to latency the authors measured RTTs for four 5G base stations spread across the city, and 20 other Internet servers nationwide. Let’s jump in!

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Energy Latency Performance Network 130

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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Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Now let’s upload our lazy-loading updates and try again: (Note that you’ll have to do hard-reload, clear cache, or use a new private browser to ensure we’re not taking advantage of the browser cache in our testing). I scoured the internet for popular lazy-loading libraries until I found the jQuery Lazy plugin.

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Cache Speed Internet Internet 75

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Growth Of Internet in Finland The number of Internet users in Finland correlates very closely with the current number of residents. Back in 1984, FUNET was launched to connect Finnish universities and in 2000 internet in Finland was launched commercially. million Internet users in Finland resulting in a 92.5%

Internet 48

Internet Internet Speed Network 48

KeyCDN

JANUARY 31, 2019

Growth Of Internet in Romania Although the Internet penetration rate isn’t as high as other countries, at 58% as of 2016, the Internet speeds in Romania have been known to be one of the fastest in the world. Here are some additional statistics about the usage and growth of Internet in Romania: There are currently 10.26

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Internet Internet Ecommerce Speed 48

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

This is a test that would prompt the user to insert a hostname or an IP address. Once the test is conducted, the next step requires the company to take the necessary actions to delist the IP address. This continuous tracking process can help maintain the company’s reputation amongst the site visitors and other internet users.

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Monitoring Traffic Website Database 86

MachMetrics

APRIL 24, 2019

All of the popular speed testing tools typically provide a page speed score along with their objective results. If your website was built using WordPress or another CMS, like 35% of all websites are, this is even more apparent, as every third-party plugin or widget you use may throw a red flag to Google because of their caching settings.

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Speed Best Practices Google Website 111

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

You will work hard on implementing features, collaborating with other teams (eg adding scripts for analytics, ads, retargeting, A/B test), setting up CI/CD, ensuring security, and making sure the project is usable and pleasant to the eye. And don’t forget about covering your back with tests.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

There are four main parts to the story here: The testing environment that runs apps in a ‘honeypot’ and figures out which of those apps are leaking data they don’t have permission to obtain. The test mobile phones run an instrumented version of Android Marshmallow, on top of a custom Linux kernel which records all file I/O. most apps).

Systems 74

Systems Traffic Network Google 74

CSS - Tricks

MAY 24, 2021

Setting up Cloudflare Workers for web performance optimisation and testing — Matt Hobbs starts with a 101 intro on setting up a Cloudflare Worker, using it to intercept a CSS file and replace all the font-family declarations with Comic Sans. That is, you aren’t penalized for poor CWV, but are given a bonus for good numbers.

Performance 40

Performance Website Cache Internet 40

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

As we discussed in our article on how to test your page weight , compression is pretty much standard practice in web performance now, so you absolutely want to make sure you’re taking advantage of it. After you’ve got everything set up, there are many ways that you can test to make sure your site is being compressed.

Speed 67

Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

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. This allows you to better leverage browser caching. To learn more about how KeyCDN supports HTTP/2 push and the speed test we ran, check out our KeyCDN launches HTTP/2 push support post.

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Speed Servers Website Efficiency 99

Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

PHP is a language that has weathered the test of time and is still frequently used by web developers. 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. Top Reasons Why Web Developers Choose PHP!

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Website Development Open Source Database 59

High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

That means multiple data indirections mean multiple cache misses. lowrykoz : Stolen from a co-worker "Every company has a test environment. Mark LaPedus : MRAM, a next-generation memory type, is being touted as a replacement for embedded flash and cache applications. They are very expensive. This is where your performance goes.

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Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

You will work hard on implementing features, collaborating with other teams (eg adding scripts for analytics, ads, retargeting, A/B test), setting up CI/CD, ensuring security, and making sure the project is usable and pleasant to the eye. And don’t forget about covering your back with tests. Light Work , a picture by Émile Perron.

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

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. During incident management, prefer peer review of any code changes to gain confidence as opposed to automated tests or other procedures. " – wikipedia.

Internet 53

Internet Internet Cache Engineering 53

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. You can test the DNS lookup time and TTFB with a website speed test tool. What is DNS? So DNS services definitely go down!

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Cache Website Internet Internet 134

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It may even be something you do regularly with Lighthouse in Chrome DevTools, where testing is freely available and produces a very attractive-looking report. The linked-up explainer provides more details, from how scores are weighted to why scores may fluctuate between test runs. Can’t be perfect every time!

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Speed Google Website Metrics 99

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

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. Quote : “40% of people abandon a website that takes more than 3 seconds to load” Neil Patel, Internet Marketing expert.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

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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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 140

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. I downloaded TripMode ; an application for Mac which gives you control over which apps on your Mac can access the internet. Any other application’s internet access is automatically blocked. Let’s talk about caching. We’re going to check out Cache-Control.

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Cache Google Mobile Network 97

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

One example could be using an RDBMS for most of the Online transaction processing ( OLTP) data shared by country and having the products as distributed memory cache with a different technology. We have: The application(s) node(s) — it is really up to you if you want to test with one application node or more. UUID(), ?, ?,

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Traffic Scalability Database Servers 122

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. Cache Your Images. A website’s performance can suffer if frequently accessed images are not cached, as many requests will be made to images that have already been loaded in the user’s system.

Media 107

Media Cache Website Mobile 107

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. However, like each country has its boundary, the world of Internet is not a world without any control. And the case is especially different, when China’s Internet environment is involved. First Visit. Repeat Visit.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Thanks to the Web Platform Tests project and wpt.fyi , we have the makings of an answer for the first: Tests that fail only in a given browser. wpt.fyi 's new Compat 2021 dashboard narrows this full range of tests to a subset chosen to represent the most painful compatibility bugs : Stable-channel Compat 2021 results over time.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. However, like each country has its boundary, the world of Internet is not a world without any control. And the case is especially different, when China’s Internet environment is involved. First Visit. Repeat Visit.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JULY 7, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. However, like each country has its boundary, the world of Internet is not a world without any control. And the case is especially different, when China’s Internet environment is involved. First Visit. Repeat Visit.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

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. Adding caching when your app is already experiencing load is not easy.

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Speed Cache Latency AWS 121

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. Large images and videos aside, third-party scripts like pixel trackers, A/B testing, ads, widgets, CDNs, etc., However, it’s not always easy to maintain high performance in websites.

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Website Google Open Source Mobile 82

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You’ve tested and retested the site for errors. Every major website on the Internet today relies — to some degree — on third-party services. The HTTP Archive tracks third-party usage across a large swath of all active websites on the Internet today. Testing The Impact Of Specific Requests.

Website 132

Website Design Network Best Practices 132

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 6, 2022

Some of those factors include the following: URL Test Location Browser (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, mobile browsers etc…) Connection Number of Tests Repeat View Elements Used in Waterfall Charts Interactive Slider : The Interactive Slider is an indicator of the performance of each element in terms of milliseconds.

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Performance Cache Website Speed 52

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. Its contents may conflict when two developers test the same application on different machines, and it is, unlike static assets, not a part of the deployable Django application.

Media 70

Media Cache Storage AWS 70

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

This explains the challenges involved in deploying and testing HTTP/3 yourself. It’s also one of the reasons we can keep using the Internet with many concurrent users, because it smartly limits each user’s bandwidth usage to their fair share. For this reason, TCP is one of the most widely used and deployed protocols on the Internet.

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 6, 2020

Test Location. Browser (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, mobile browsers etc…). Number of Tests. Moreover, caching utility may decrease the waiting time. Empty Cache (First View): The user access the website for the first time and has no cached data. Some of those factors include the following: URL.

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Performance Cache Website Speed 53

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is because HTTP/3 and QUIC mainly help deal with the somewhat uncommon yet potentially high-impact problems that can arise on today’s Internet. This explains the challenges involved in deploying and testing HTTP/3 yourself. The Internet also doesn’t have mechanisms (yet) to signal link capacities back to the endpoints.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 106