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How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

Speed Curve

Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Pagespeed Benchmarks - US Retail - LCP When you examine a waterfall, it's pretty obvious that TTFB is the long pole in the tent, pushing out render times for the page.

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Expanding the Cloud: More memory, more caching and more performance for your data

All Things Distributed

Certain parts of our architecture used to run on relational databases but we just couldn’t scale them fast enough to meet the demands of our fast growing online retail business, particularly during the holiday shopping seasons. As the amount of data stored increases constantly, the amount of memory needed also goes up.

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Performance audit: Lego.com

Speed Curve

We track LEGO.com, along with a handful of other leading ecommerce sites, in our public-facing Retail Benchmarks dashboard , which I encourage you to check out. Are you using a content delivery network (CDN) to bring elements like images closer to your users, so that delivery times are faster? Are images optimized?

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Hello from Europe!

Speed Curve

To overcome some of these challenges, we built our own Java-based player, complete with caching, content compression, and even bandwidth detection so it could switch between video, audio, and text versions of a course depending on network speed. Ultimately the business didn’t survive the dotcom bust, but it lit a spark.

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Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch

Smashing Magazine

Some of the names include Amazon’s Luna, TikTok, Tinder, among many online retailers. Alibaba is one of the e-commerce giants that have “run the gamut” from a regular online retail store to a native application (created for mobile shopping purposes) and then on to a PWA. Both options of the store are equally easy to navigate.

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Are Imposter Domains Re-Publishing Your Website?

Smashing Magazine

For example, someone might web scrape all the product pages of a competitor’s retail site to harvest information about products being offered and current pricing to try to gain a competitive edge. Search Engine And Web Archive Cached Results. The message that appears above a cached search result in Google’s search service.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

In support of Amazon Prime Day 2017, the biggest day in Amazon retail history, DynamoDB served over 12.9 VPC Endpoints give you the ability to control whether network traffic between your application and DynamoDB traverses the public Internet or stays within your virtual private cloud. million requests per second.

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