Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

PageSpeed Compare is a page speed evaluation and benchmarking tool. It also lists cached resources and identifies unused Javascript. It graphs server, network, CSS, Javascript, critical content, and image optimizations to show the potential savings you could gain by incorporating fixes into your site. PageSpeed Compare.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) LCP measures the perceived load speed of a webpage from a user’s perspective. Time To First Byte (TTFB) This is the time it takes for the first piece of information from the server to reach the user’s browser. The shorter the TTFB, the better the perceived speed of the site from the user’s perspective.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Is it expensive JavaScript, slow web font delivery, heavy images, or sluggish rendering? Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Start Render time, Speed Index ). Rendering metrics provide an estimate of how fast content renders (e.g.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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. Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. Cache Your Images. Fixes To Common Problems. The Benefits Of Using An Image Service CDN. Conclusion. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

This occurs when you are revalidating the page on the server. The first solution that comes to mind may be to simply server side render the pages, ensuring that the client is always sent the most up to date data. The more interesting thing, however, is the impact on the speed of our side. More after jump! Using SWR With Next.js

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

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. South Korea has the fastest mobile download speed , averaging 52.4 per GB respectively. Mbps upload.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

We will go through how to set up an Nx server, how to add a plugin to an existing server, and the concept of a monorepo with a practical visualization. Nx uses distributed graph-based task execution and computation caching to speed up tasks. Nx also stores the cached project graph. applications. Dependency graph.

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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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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

In addition to MVC separation, we can (for security reasons or speed improvements) place the JS App on a separate server like in the schema below: Decoupled WordPress diagram. Large preview ). Advantages Of Using The Decoupled Approach. One thing why you may want to use this approach for is to ensure a separation of concerns.

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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. The two types of Django deployments are: Single-Server. A single-server Django deployment is exactly what it sounds like: everything lives on a single server.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

Every time you type a URL in the browser address bar, follow a link in a page or even load a resource like an image from a different domain, the browser needs to do a DNS lookup to find the server that holds the resource we’ve requested. The browser caches the results of these lookups, but they can be slow. Preconnecting.

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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. However, it’s not always easy to maintain high performance in websites. This is why performance is crucial when building websites. The Architecture Behind Partytown.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2019

At the intersection of the two is website speed. It should come as no surprise that images cause a lot of the problems websites have with speed. That or we’re going to have to get really good at optimizing for speed. Speaking of speed, let’s see what HTTP Archive has to say about image weight. Previously, this was a 3.6

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Dan Shappir. 2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-22T11:06:56+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

These services use requests to external hosts (not servers you control) to deliver JavaScript framework libraries, custom fonts, advertising content, marketing analytics trackers, and more. The most popular, by far, is the Google Lighthouse report (available in Chrome Developer Tools) and Google’s Page Speed Insights.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

If the stylesheet file has a large file size or multiple dependencies which are located on third-party servers or CDNs, website rendering can be delayed significantly depending on the network speed and reliability. This is exactly how Smashing Magazine handles its stylesheets. Server-Side Optimizations. HTTP Compression.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2019

An API is the communication channel for an application to load data from the server. This relationship can be expressed through an associative array (an array of key => property) on the server-side, in which each module states its name as the key attribute and its inner modules under the property modules. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Yet, for all these technological developments, it’s interesting that many of us are still serving sites in the same way Tim did with the very first website — a web server serving static website files. I vividly remember receiving a PC Magazine for my birthday with a trial of Dreamweaver. Smashing Magazine powered by Netlify.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Most sites were all hosted on a single physical server somewhere on our own hosting infrastructure, and it was the server we thought about defending when it came to security best practices. file hosted as part of their own website on their own server. That’s a lot of effort.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

From Speed at Scale with Katie Hempenius and I at Google I/O. This is sent by the client, allowing the server to deliver an image format that is the best fit for the user. Also note that for such reprioritization efforts to be effective, it also depends on servers prioritizing requests correctly. Large preview ). Note: Next.js

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

We’ve explored the concepts behind headless CMSes in detail here on Smashing Magazine, but let’s do a quick recap. From a developer perspective, not only static assets need to be cached on a CDN. Many headless CMSes cache content retrieved via RESTful or GraphQL APIs. Look out for: Caching of images and content via CDN.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”. 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). and prior (a)).

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). This difference by itself doesn’t do all that much (it mainly reduces the overhead on the server-side), but it leads to most of the following points. Server Sharding and Connection Coalescing.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

So one of the members of our team, Nate Moore, worked on this project called Microsite, which it was a Preact server rendering project, Preact. Fred created initially, but that’s a more modern tool than something like Webpack, and what that does is that gives you basically a dev server that compiles things on demand. Matthew: Yeah.

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