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. Think of a CDN Load Balancer (or LB, if you like to keep things short and sweet) as the internet’s traffic police. But how does it decide where to send this traffic?

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Traffic Cache Network Servers 40

KeyCDN

MARCH 10, 2021

The image below shows a significant drop in latency once we've launched the new point of presence in Israel. In fact, latency has been reduced by almost 50%! With a total of 5 POPs in Oceania, this continent benefits from lower latency with every POP added. So far, traffic from Nigeria has been routed to Europe.

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Latency Internet Internet Tuning 110

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

If price is your top priority, you'll need to decide how much you're willing to sacrifice in terms of reliability and performance.What are your traffic patterns like? If your traffic is mostly static, you may be able to meet all your needs with a less expensive CDN that provides content distribution services. per one million requests.

Infrastructure 52

Infrastructure Traffic Cache Strategy 52

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

There is no way to model how much more traffic you can send to that system before it exceeds it’s SLA. What Is the Expected Distribution of Website Response Times? Every opportunity for delay due to more work than the best case or more time waiting than the best case increases the latency and they all add up and create a long tail.

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Lambda Latency Cache C++ 98

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. In 2008, AWS opened a point of presence (PoP) in Hong Kong to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016.

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AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 146

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

This data is distinct from CrUX because it’s collected directly by the website owner by installing an analytics snippet on their website. This environment often doesn’t even match the average real user on the website, who may have a faster network connection or a slower CPU. So why use lab data at all?

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Speed Google Website Metrics 97

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. While this may not seem significant for websites with low traffic, as traffic to the site begins to increase, so does the amount of energy consumed. This is where service workers can make a difference.

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Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. While this may not seem significant for websites with low traffic, as traffic to the site begins to increase, so does the amount of energy consumed. This is where service workers can make a difference.

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Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. While this may not seem significant for websites with low traffic, as traffic to the site begins to increase, so does the amount of energy consumed. This is where service workers can make a difference.

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Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. Efficient memory management, including optimizing query caches and buffer pools, can help strike the right balance between memory consumption and query response times.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Cross Region Read Replicas also enable you to serve read traffic for your global customer base from regions that are nearest to them. Cross Region Read Replicas also make it even easier for our global customers to scale database deployments to meet the performance demands of high-traffic, globally disperse applications.

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Cloud AWS Traffic Latency 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

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 project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Rigor

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Synthetic monitoring vendors provide a remote (often global) infrastructure that visits a website periodically and records the performance data for each run. The measured traffic is not of your actual users; it is synthetically generated to collect data on page performance. Real User Monitoring (RUM). Run 24/7 Monitoring.

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Monitoring Benchmarking Website Traffic 40

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. Cache-Headers missing? Estimated Input Latency. Estimated Input Latency. Service workers that will cache the bytecode result of a parsed and compiled script. After that, it’ll be mitigated by cache.

Google 71

Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The risks embedded in these deep-wetware effects, and their cross-origin implications, mean that your website's success is partially a function of the health of the commons. A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. The Moto G4 , for example.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

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? ( Large preview ). Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor. Image source ). Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

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? ( Large preview ). Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor. Image source ). Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study). Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study). That was until we went to production with our highest traffic customer. It can be hosted on a CDN like Vercel or Netlify, which results in lower latency.

Website 113

Website Code Servers Analytics 113

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. Especially if going into or out of storage types that may throttle bandwidth/network traffic.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

You should expect one-time implementation cost (depending CMS and business requirements it can cost 200,000 USD to 3M USD) and yearly hosting infrastructure cost (proportional to load and traffic but typically 30,000 USD - 300,000 USD per year). can generate an HTML-only website without involving a CMS.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

Use cases such as gaming, ad tech, and IoT lend themselves particularly well to the key-value data model where the access patterns require low-latency Gets/Puts for known key values. The purpose of DynamoDB is to provide consistent single-digit millisecond latency for any scale of workloads. Take Expedia, for example.

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Database AWS Games Latency 167

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Because we are dealing with network protocols here, we will mainly look at network aspects, of which two are most important: latency and bandwidth. Latency can be roughly defined as the time it takes to send a packet from point A (say, the client) to point B (the server). Two-way latency is often called round-trip time (RTT).

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Performance Network Latency Servers 105

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

This approach was touted to be better for fine-grained caching because each subresource could be cached individually and the full bundle didn’t need to be redownloaded if one of them changed. Finally, not inlining resources has an added latency cost because the file needs to be requested. Support is unclear at this time.

Network 104

Network Servers Cache Traffic 104

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

You’ve probably heard things like: “HTTP/3 is much faster than HTTP/2 when there is packet loss”, or “HTTP/3 connections have less latency and take less time to set up”, and probably “HTTP/3 can send data more quickly and can send more resources in parallel”. Websites would magically become 50% faster with the flip of a switch!

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145