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 Servers Latency 52

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.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Do continue reading to gain a deep dive into static and dynamic content, its differences, pros, and cons while focusing on the best ways to optimize performance on websites that use such content.‍What is Static Content?Static Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), web browsers, and proxy servers can store static files in their caches.

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Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database uptime and availability Monitoring database uptime and availability is crucial as it directly impacts the availability of critical data and the performance of applications or websites that rely on the MySQL database. This is not an exhaustive list but an example of what we can watch for.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 104

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

One of the biggest pains of working with statically generated websites is the incrementally slower builds as your app grows. For the end-user to actually benefit from this improvement there are cache invalidation strategies that must be considered. The cache is invalidated on a time basis. Átila Fassina. On-Demand Builders.

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Cache Website Strategy Traffic 130

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

With the rise of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks using a high quality DNS hosting provider is very important to the redundancy of your website. There is nothing worse for visitors than your website being inaccessible. Oddly enough we encountered this error to a third party website while writing this article.

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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. Today, 40% of the online traffic is made up of dynamic content, CDN also did their part of the effort to adopt this new reality.

Cache 52

Cache Traffic Games Network 52

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

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Common CDN Security RisksWhile CDNs are essential for improving website performance, they also introduce certain security risks. ‍TLS Certificate Breach - A TLS certificate is a digital document that authenticates the identity of a website or server and enables secure encrypted communication. Let’s explore.‍Common

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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?

Traffic 40

Traffic Cache Network Servers 40

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

If you’re considering a database management system, understanding these benefits is crucial. Understanding Database Management Systems (DBMS) A Database Management System (DBMS) assists users in creating and managing databases. In a DBMS, data serves as the material which the system stores, structures, and controls.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Recently I was asked about content management systems (CMS) of the future - more specifically how they are evolving in the era of microservices, APIs, and serverless computing. A few months back, I was pulled into a scenario where a business has been working with a leading CMS vendor to roll-out a network of multi-regional websites.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

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. Today, 40% of the online traffic is made up of dynamic content, CDN also did their part of the effort to adopt this new reality.

Cache 40

Cache Traffic Games Network 40

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Let’s explore.‍Common CDN Security RisksWhile CDNs are essential for improving website performance, they also introduce certain security risks. Cache Poisoning - In cache poisoning attacks, attackers manipulate the CDN by multiple content requests. TLS certificates are typically installed and managed on the CDN's edge servers.

Strategy 40

Strategy Cache Best Practices Website 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Deploying the refactored codebase shouldn’t result in worse website performance and worse user experience. After all, users won’t wait around forever for the website to load. Also, the management will be dissatisfied with the decreased traffic and revenue caused by the unoptimized codebase, despite the code quality improvements.

Media 109

Media Performance Cache Strategy 109

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

Even more surprisingly, websites that are marked as spam on email portals lose 95 percent of their traffic. Hence, this could cost a lot of business, due to the dwindling site traffic. A domain name system-based blackhole list is essentially a mechanism to prevent fraud. The process behind this is DNS filtering.

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Monitoring Traffic Website Database 86

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In other words, PWAs are websites that users can use as stand-alone applications. The web app manifest is the core for making a website run as a stand-alone application in full-screen mode. The service workers enable the offline usage of the PWA by fetching cached data or informing the user about the absence of an Internet connection.

Cache 124

Cache Internet Internet Google 124

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

Essentially, all traffic between China and the rest of the world goes through a few national level and a handful of core level access points in different regions. Operating System Updates and Security Patches. All foreign websites hosted outside China undergoe screening and analysis for blacklisting and whitelisting.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 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. This is unfortunate, because we’d really like to be able to build systems that have an SLA that we can share with the consumers of our interfaces, and be able to measure how well we are doing.

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Lambda Latency Cache C++ 98

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. Enhanced User Experience Whether you operate an e-commerce platform, a content management system, or any other application reliant on MySQL, users will notice and appreciate the improved speed and responsiveness.

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Software Architecture

AUGUST 24, 2017

Redis can also be used as a messaging system such as pubsub. Memcached cannot be used as a pubsub system. Memcached is very good at handling high traffic websites. Redis can not handle heavy traffic on read/write. Memcached supports only string data type which is ideal for storing read-only data.

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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. If throttling is applied at the operating system level , then the metrics match what a real user with those network conditions would experience. So why use lab data at all?

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Speed Google Website Metrics 97

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Rich Howard is the founder and CEO of Optimal , a company dedicated to improving the performance of websites and mobile apps. When working on a project for the Man Booker Prize in 2007 (now known as the Booker Prize), Howard saw first-hand how a heavy-load day could impact a website. Introducing…Rich Howard. Practical planning.

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Performance Traffic Website Performance Testing 68

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world. It's an entertainment website where users can post content or "memes" that they find amusing and share them across social media networks.

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AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 146

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Django websites involve a lot of files. As if that wasn’t enough already, sometimes users come along and want to upload their own files to your website. Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability.

Media 69

Media Cache Storage AWS 69

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Quick Summary:- Upgrading your website as per the current trend in the web development industry is crucial to get an edge over your competitors in the digital world. Let’s dive deep into the top website development trends to expect in 2022. According to Ericsson’s analysis, international mobile data traffic is projected to become 4.5

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

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

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. As discussed in part 2 , in HTTP/2, this multiplexing is steered using its prioritization system. Support is unclear at this time.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 105

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. While the infrastructure costs for basic disaster recovery could have been very high, the associated system and database administration costs could be just as much or more.

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Cloud AWS Traffic Latency 145

The Morning Paper

APRIL 11, 2019

In addition, service workers have the ability to intercept and handle network requests (for e.g., caching and pre-loading purposes). When the user browses away from a website, the service worker of that website is typically paused by the browser; it is then restarted and reactivated once the parent domain is visited again.

Website 44

Website Network Traffic Cache 44

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

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

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

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Your dev environment is not your user’s environment Light Work , a picture by Émile Perron I use a Macbook Pro to develop websites. 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. Present it to the team.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

As a MongoDB user, it’s crucial to ensure that your data is safe and secure in the event of a disaster or system failure. Regular database backups are essential to protect against data loss caused by system failures, human errors, natural disasters, or cyber-attacks. Why are MongoDB database backups important?

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

It always starts with the long-awaited website overhaul. We never used CSS-in-JS or styled-components, but instead a good ol’ component-based system of Sass-modules which would be compiled into CSS. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Chrome users. Vitaly Friedman.

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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? Service workers that will cache the bytecode result of a parsed and compiled script. After that, it’ll be mitigated by cache. We use Calibre here on CSS-Tricks to keep an eye on things.

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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.

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