Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2019

Depending on how it is configured, Redis can act like a database, a cache or a message broker. Session Cache: Many websites leverage Redis Strings to create a session cache to speed up their website experience by caching HTML fragments or pages. It’s important to note that Redis is a NoSQL database system. Redis Sets.

Cache 232

Cache Ecommerce Social Media Database 232

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

However, that pesky 20% on the back end can have a big impact on downstream metrics like First Contentful Paint (FCP), Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), and any other 'loading' metric you can think of. Caching the base page/HTML is common, and it should have a positive impact on backend times. But what happens when it doesn't?

Servers 58

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 58

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

264/AVC Main profile family still represents a substantial portion of the members viewing hours and an even larger portion of the traffic. These are summarized below: Instead of relying on other objective metrics, such as PSNR†, VMAF is employed to guide optimization decisions. Yet, given its wide support, our H.264/AVC

Innovation 239

Innovation Traffic Network Efficiency 239

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

This includes metrics such as query execution time, the number of queries executed per second, and the utilization of query cache and adaptive hash index. query cache: Disable (query_cache_size: 0, query_cache_type:OFF) innodb_adaptive_hash_index: Check adaptive hash index usage to determine its efficiency.

Performance 103

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 103

Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

In particular, the collected measurements include the three Core Web Vitals metrics measured for each session. In recent years, these metrics have become the cornerstone of modern Web performance analysis: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) , First Input Delay (FID) , Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS). Large preview ). Large preview ).

Google 127

Google Performance Website Mobile 127

Tim Kadlec

APRIL 10, 2023

I broke the percentages down by page rank (based on traffic to the site). As we increasingly focus our conversations of performance on how metrics that relate to the user experience, the divide between backend and frontend goes past murky and starts becoming problematic. First up, the mobile results. 1,001 - 10,000 12.5%

Performance 111

Performance Servers Mobile Metrics 111

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

A well-established metric we provide is APDEX , which tell us how users are perceiving page load times (time to the first byte, page speed, speed index), errors (JavaScript errors, crashes,) and also factors in the overall user journey (each user interaction) including their environment (browser, geolocation, bandwidth).

Cache 197

Cache Database Architecture Government 197

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

implement a M-CDN, organizations can use traffic management tools or Multi-CDN switching solutions that distribute and route content across the various CDN providers. Outages are a common occurrence; a global outage could take the entire network down while local outages could force the CDN vendor to serve the traffic from a non-local PoP.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 52

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Each of these models is suitable for production deployments and high traffic applications, and are available for all of our supported databases, including MySQL , PostgreSQL , Redis™ and MongoDB® database ( Greenplum® database coming soon). This becomes really important for cache solutions like Redis™. SSH Access to Machine.

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

As an ad publisher, your revenue depends on two main factors: traffic to your site and ad optimization. A lot of the focus goes into the practice and processes of driving traffic to your site from an SEO perspective, but what if when visitors get to your site, they have a less than ideal experience?

Website 92

Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Key metrics such as CPU usage, memory usage, and disk I/O offer insights into how efficiently your database server operates. 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

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

implement a M-CDN, organizations can use traffic management tools or Multi-CDN switching solutions that distribute and route content across the various CDN providers. Outages are a common occurrence; a global outage could take the entire network down while local outages could force the CDN vendor to serve the traffic from a non-local PoP.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics Performance culture, Core Web Vitals, performance profiles, CrUX, Lighthouse, FID, TTI, CLS, devices. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. DOM complete, time to first byte, first input delay, client CPU and memory usage. Get a free trial of LogRocket today.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

But do you know how Lighthouse calculates performance metrics like First Contentful Paint (FCP), Total Blocking Time (TBT), and Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)? Still, there’s nothing in there to tell us about the data Lighthouse is using to evaluate metrics. But it comes with caveats. So why use lab data at all?

Speed 97

Speed Google Website Metrics 97

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Resolved IIS crash on RUM activity interactions (user caching is now disabled if UEM is enabled). Improved reliability when no traffic occurs for extended time or when the zRemote restarts. Container metrics are reported for Amazon ECS containers on hosts with Amazon Linux (v1). ONE-49694). ONE-45777). APM-262501). ONE-49572).

Operating System 108

Operating System Java Mobile Cache 108

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The GraphQL shim enabled client engineers to move quickly onto GraphQL, figure out client-side concerns like cache normalization, experiment with different GraphQL clients, and investigate client performance without being blocked by server-side migrations. So, we relied on higher-level metrics-based testing: AB Testing and Sticky Canaries.

Traffic 353

Traffic Latency Cache Metrics 353

Tim Kadlec

JUNE 21, 2022

Scalemates.com flipped the switch to enable HTTP/3 and almost immediately HTTP/3 traffic rose to ~13% of all requests on the landing page, ~49% for all pages in total. The browser stores alt-svc info in alt-svc cache. Easy way to setup HTTP/3: All major CDN’s provide HTTP/3, often with the flip of a switch.

Network 64

Network Mobile Google Cache 64

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The scale of the effect can be deeply situational or hard to suss out without solid metrics. 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. Don't pay a lot for an Android-shaped muffler.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

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. This seems reasonable overhead for a real time algorithm that could be applied to histogram data as part of a metric collection pipeline. > > system.time(wait1 <- normalmixEM(waiting, mu=c(50,80), lambda=.5,

Lambda 98

Lambda Latency Cache C++ 98

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

Cache-Headers missing? Lighthouse records metrics from the browser, applies a scoring model to them, and presents an overall performance score. Guidelines for improvement are suggested based on how specific metrics score. During performance tests, Lighthouse records many metrics focused on what a user sees and experiences.

Google 71

Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The key insight was that by assuming a latent Gaussian Process (GP) prior on the key business metric actions like viral engagement, job applications, etc., And finally each new observation needs to update the policy, compute offline policy evaluation metrics and then push the policy back to production so it can generate new intents to treat.

Infrastructure 126

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 126

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Table Of Contents. Quick Wins.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +.

Media 105

Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

The Morning Paper

JUNE 25, 2019

A far memory data structure has: far data in far memory, containing the core content of the data structure data caches at clients algorithms for operations. Processor caches can help to hide local accesses too, but not remote accesses. Clients cache the entire tree, but not the hash tables. Refreshable vectors. A worked example.

Design 80

Design Cache Hardware Scalability 80

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The key insight was that by assuming a latent Gaussian Process (GP) prior on the key business metric actions like viral engagement, job applications, etc., And finally each new observation needs to update the policy, compute offline policy evaluation metrics and then push the policy back to production so it can generate new intents to treat.

Infrastructure 100

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 100

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Table Of Contents. Setting Realistic Goals. Defining The Environment.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A quick canary test was free of errors and showed lower latency, which is expected given that our standard canary setup routes an equal amount of traffic to both the baseline running on 4xl and the canary on 12xl. We also see much higher L1 cache activity combined with 4x higher count of MACHINE_CLEARS.

Hardware 363

Hardware Cache Performance Latency 363

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +.

Media 92

Media Cache Google Best Practices 92

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.

Cloud 147

Cloud AWS Traffic Latency 147

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It’s about ensuring that your front-end is also working perfectly, that your site can deliver a delightful experience to your users or customers, and that it is functional – even when it’s experiencing up to seven or more times the typical traffic load. Traffic patterns outside of normal [RUM or Analytics].

Website 74

Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

REDIS for caching. Thanks to PurePath, architects can validate how transactions flow from service-to-service and how traffic gets routed through service mashes (AWS App Mesh, Istio, Linkerd) or proxies. Having Dynatrace also looking at key EFS metrics gives them additional root cause information in case something goes wrong.

AWS 127

AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 127

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Load balancing : Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion. Each node has its own cache buffer.) That means having a primary system and a secondary system.

Availability 105

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

This metric is a little difficult to comprehend, so here’s an example: if the average cost of broadband packages in a country is $22, and the average download speed offered by the packages is 10 Mbps, then the cost ‘per megabit per month’ would be $2.20. For reference, the metric is $1.19 Let’s talk about caching. in the USA.

Cache 96

Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. When they dug into the data, they found that the reason load times had increased was that they got a lot more traffic from Africa after doing the optimizations. How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)?

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic. Researchers and major companies have been publishing case studies for years , proving that slower page load experiences impact business metrics, including conversion rate, revenue, bounce rate, and more. Design Optimizations.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

To show that I can criticize my own work as well, here I show that sustained memory bandwidth (using an approximation to the STREAM Benchmark ) is also inadequate as a single figure of metric. (It Here I assumed a particular analytical function for the amount of memory traffic as a function of cache size to scale the bandwidth time.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59