Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

So I thought it would be fun to spend some time poking around behind the scenes and give the site a holiday performance audit. Background For this performance audit, I looked at this synthetic test for the LEGO.com home page. (We The performance team is clearly doing a good job of fighting page bloat. Are images optimized?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. Every web performance story is similar, isn’t it? A day when a project, fully polished and carefully optimized, gets launched, ranking high and soaring above performance scores in Lighthouse and WebPageTest. Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. Large preview ) We’ve known for a long time that fast page performance influences search engine rankings.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This allows the app to query a list of “paths” in each HTTP request, and get specially formatted JSON (jsonGraph) that we use to cache the data and hydrate the UI. In the snippet above, we’re accessing the detail key for the video object with id 80154610. Instead, it is part of a different path : [videos, <id>, similars].

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

I plan on sharing specifically what I learned from performance and accessibility practices as a first-time lead developer of a team , as well as what I wish I had known before we started. My team measured the impact, noting that on the first load, this video category page serves up as many as 14 images.

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Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 6, 2022

They can also let the user easily see how good or bad the performance of their website is, showing you exactly what is slowing down your site. Users can also watch the actual URL loading video in the browser window. Element Performance : A user can reach the information of the performance of each element that exists in waterfall chart.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. For this article, we will focus on the first three and the performance adjustments for these.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. CFS is widely used and therefore well tested and Linux machines around the world run with reasonable performance.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

Generating machine learning based personalized recommendations to discover new people, photos, videos, and stories relevant one’s interest. from a client it performs two parallel operations: i) persisting the action in the data store ii) publish the action in a streaming data store for a pub-sub model. High Level Design.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

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Dotcom-Montior

MAY 6, 2020

They can also let the user easily see how good or bad the performance of their website is, showing you exactly what is slowing down your site. Users can also watch the actual URL loading video in the browser window. Interactive Slider : The Interactive Slider is an indicator of the performance of each element in terms of milliseconds.

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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. That said, GIFs can drag down a web page’s performance, especially if not optimized. Converting your animated GIFs to MP4 videos can make your files up to 95 percent smaller.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption , Xu et al., Does 5G improve the end-user experience for applications (web browsing, and 4K+ video streaming)? Emerging architectures that shorten the path length, e.g. edge caching and computing, may also confine the latency.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

According to the official AWS announcement, Graviton2-based Lambda functions offer up to 34% better price-performance improvement. According to the official AWS announcement, Graviton2-based Lambda functions offer up to 34% better price-performance improvement. With Graviton2, you can reduce execution duration. Dynatrace service view.

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Speed Curve

APRIL 9, 2023

There is a lot of excitement in the world of web performance these days, and April has been no exception! According to Google: “We expect this to improve most pages' performance scores, since most pages tend to score better on CLS than TTI. When a BF cache navigation is prevented, Lighthouse lists the causes for the failure.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

Optimizing Performance With Resource Hints. Optimizing Performance With Resource Hints. Modern web browsers use all sorts of techniques to help improve page load performance by guessing what the user may be likely to do next. The browser caches the results of these lookups, but they can be slow. Drew McLellan.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Session replay is an IT technology that creates anonymized video-like recordings of actions taken by users interacting with your website or mobile application. The result is a complete recreation of the user experience in a video-like format. Streamlined asset caching: Asset caching is critical for creating accurate replays.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

PostgreSQL is a fantastic database, but if you’re storing images, video, audio files, or other large data objects, you need to “toast” them to get optimal performance. This post will look at using The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique (TOAST) to improve performance and scalability.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

I have been surprised many times by unexpected performance issues, so I thought I should check their instances anyway. The ZFS Adapative Replacement Cache (ARC) is the main memory cache for the file system. The ARC contains lists of cached buffers for different memory types. I worked on this code back at Sun.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDN’s Effectiveness: Static Vs Dynamic ContentBack in the day, a CDN’s primary function revolved around caching static content and delivering it efficiently to end-users. Examples include real-time video conferencing, gaming, or personalized web pages. ‍Dynamic Content - Online GamingImagine a video gaming match.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

MB , that suggests I’ve got around 29 pages in my budget, although probably a few more than that if I’m able to stay on the same sites and leverage browser caching. Throughout the experiment I will suggest performance tips to speed up the first contentful paint and perceived loading time of the page. Performance Tip #3: Less Is More.

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CSS Wizardry

MAY 19, 2020

With more standardised FOUT/FOIT behaviour from browser vendors, to the newer font-display specification, performance—and therefore the user—seems to have been finally been put front-and-centre. On this site, in which performance is the only name of the game, I forgo web fonts entirely, opting instead to make use of the visitor’s system font.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

AUGUST 27, 2023

Also, there are tutorials, video forums, and documentation, making PHP development easy and troubleshooting more accessible. Performance If you want to develop a website that can handle massive traffic, go for PHP. Various techniques, such as caching and optimization, improve the website’s performance and speed.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

This is clearly not just bad for the environment — it’s bad for performance and hurts our users too. 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. With video. This seems wasteful.

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Randon ASCII

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

All I wanted was to record a forty-second voiceover for a throw-away video , so I fired up the Windows Voice Recorder app and hit the record button. In my case the directory structure of my documents directory was entirely cached in memory so there was zero disk activity required to do the scan, but some users are not so lucky.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A low-cost CDN may not always be as reliable and high-performing as a high-cost one. Therefore, you need to make sure you have the right balance between costs and performance & reliability according to your business needs.Here are some questions to ask yourself before choosing a CDN:How important is the price to you?

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDN’s Effectiveness: Static Vs Dynamic ContentBack in the day, a CDN’s primary function revolved around caching static content and delivering it efficiently to end-users. Examples include real-time video conferencing, gaming, or personalized web pages. Dynamic Content - Online GamingImagine a video gaming match.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. To investigate this topic, let’s first check how important your website performance is to your online business. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance? Main Performance Issues.

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Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

Page speed has been a key factor in Google’s ranking algorithm since 2010 , so it is essential to understand the various ways you can optimize your pages and why implementing synthetic monitoring can ensure your pages perform flawlessly and revenue isn’t lost. Find Your Performance Baseline. Optimize Your Pages.

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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. Next to videos, images are the heaviest, most requested assets on the web.

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KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Unoptimized content could also be one of the reasons why your WordPress website is not performing as per your expectations. Many factors affect the speed of your WordPress website; some of them are: Your web host Server-side optimizations (PHP version, compression, caching, etc.) So let's discuss the process one step at a time.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Reading time 8 min Rigor’s “The Best in Performance” interview series offers the chance to listen in on conversations with web performance industry experts, thought leaders, and technologists as they discuss current trends, challenges, and lessons that impact the performance and APM space today. Retrospectives.

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Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

And while there are already numerous conferences, videos, and evangelists for PWAs, there's less focus on testing and tracking the performance of PWAs. Mark and I discussed this gap in PWA performance. To answer the question "What's the key to measuring PWA performance?" PWA Offline Script. PWA Offline Script.

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SQL Performance

MARCH 30, 2021

It includes initializing each operator, and adding hidden profilers to collect runtime performance data like actual row count and elapsed time. If you would like to see that in action, see this short video by Erik Darling. See Myth: SQL Server Caches a Serial Plan with every Parallel Plan for details.

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 27, 2021

I got together with Tim Kadlec from over at WebPageTest the other day to use do a bit of performance testing on CSS-Tricks. Essentially use the tool, poke around, and identify performance pain points to work on. Web performance work is twofold: Step 1) Measure Things & Explore Problems Step 2) Fix it. Self-host fonts.

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