IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. What Comprises Video Streaming - Traffic CharacteristicsWith the emphasis on a high-quality streaming experience, the optimization starts from the very core. Those days are long gone.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

That connection could be peer-to-peer across devices, and doesn’t have to be over the Internet. If you have 2 minutes and 10 seconds available, it’s well worth watching this short video showing Trellis in action. ” Visualising document history is important (see the Trellis video!). It should support collaboration.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. ‍What Comprises Video Streaming - Traffic CharacteristicsWith the emphasis on a high-quality streaming experience, the optimization starts from the very core. Those days are long gone.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

Low-end phones on the other hand are getting cheaper , making the mobile internet accessible to demographics that previously maybe couldn’t afford it. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. More after jump!

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The Morning Paper

APRIL 11, 2019

In addition, service workers have the ability to intercept and handle network requests (for e.g., caching and pre-loading purposes). MarioNet can conduct a subset of DDoS attacks by instructing Servants to connect to a specific Internet host. No user permission is required to register and maintain a service worker. MarioNet use cases.

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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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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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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink). Next-generation video codecs, supported in many modern chips, but also a licensing minefield. Fundamentally enabling for video creation apps.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. This broad range of use cases has helped grow WordPress to power almost 40% of the internet. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Measuring the carbon footprint of the web isn’t an exact science, but a report by the BBC in 2020 estimates that all internet activity accounts for around 3.7% While working on a site recently, I noticed that an embedded YouTube video loaded around 600kB of JS for any visitor regardless of whether that user even chose to watch the video.

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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. Static files range from a few kilobytes of CSS to gigabytes of video. Most of the problems caused by static assets like photos and videos are because they are big files.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. 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. A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites. Alba Silvente.

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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. On the Internet, however, we typically have a long series of connected pipes , some of which can be wider than others (leading to so-called bottlenecks at the narrowest links).

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. For instance, you might set up rules to send video streaming requests to data center A and image loading requests to data center B. What is “Origin”?An

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

While caching continues to be a dominant use of ElastiCache for Redis, we see customers increasingly use it as an in-memory NoSQL database. There are some great examples and use cases for Redis, which you can see at companies like Hudl, which offers mobile and desktop video analytics solutions to sports teams and athletes.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

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. As another example, most applications on the Internet use TCP internally to ensure that all of their data are transmitted in full. Did You Know?

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Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 6, 2022

Users can also watch the actual URL loading video in the browser window. It’s important to mention that within the Dotcom Monitor platform there is a feature that a user can watch the actual URL loading video in the browser window (shown below). Moreover, caching utility may decrease the waiting time. Queued request.

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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. 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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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. A longer TTL implies that DNS information remains cached for prolonged durations. Turbocharge Your Content Delivery With CDN Multiple Origins Load Balancer! What is “Origin”?An

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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. Performance Insights.

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Dotcom-Montior

MAY 6, 2020

Users can also watch the actual URL loading video in the browser window. Browser (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, mobile browsers etc…). It’s important to mention that within the Dotcom Monitor platform there is a feature that a user can watch the actual URL loading video in the browser window (shown below).

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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. Performance Insights.

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. Performance Insights.

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Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

On2 had worked on a number of video compression technologies, which ended up serving as the basis for Google’s new audiovisual format WebM and next-gen image format WebP. As a result of this powerful combo of lossless and lossy compression, animated videos can get down to much smaller sizes than their GIF counterparts. What is WebP?

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MachMetrics

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

If you asked the average internet user how slow a website would need to load before they gave up and left, they might say something like 8 or 10 seconds. Modern design often calls for large “hero” images, video backgrounds, and gifs, all of which are large taxes on bandwidth. So what is the secret to the 2-second website?

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Thanks to their simplicity and widespread support, GIF files remain wildly popular despite the dozens of other image and video formats available today. There’s a debate among web developers whether or not animated image formats should be ditched altogether in favor of video formats.

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MachMetrics

MAY 14, 2020

This includes HTML, CSS, scripts, images, videos, among other things. This is especially true for users who are using a slow internet connection or accessing your page on an older/mobile device. Limit the use of large videos on your site. If you can, avoid using video backgrounds. Compress and cache your website.

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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. Paddy Ganti’s script constructs two URLs (one normal and one blocking the ads), prompts the generation of a video comparison via WebPageTest and reports a delta.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik and detailed guide by Rick Viscomi) or Treo Sites , a RUM monitoring tool that is powered by Chrome UX Report. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik), Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing).

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