Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). It was at this point that we realized we needed to make a significant change in our approach towards performance, and that we must embrace performance as part of our culture.

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Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Chances are, you're here because of Google's update to its search algorithm , which affects both desktop and mobile, and which includes Core Web Vitals as a ranking factor. If you're new to Core Web Vitals , this is a Google initiative that was launched in early 2020. When Google talks, people listen.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Performance budgets are one of those ideas that everyone gets behind conceptually, but then are challenged to put into practice – and for very good reason. If you're just getting started with performance budgets – or if you've been using them for a while and want to validate your work – this post is for you.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. These days we have more and better tools to audit our performance.

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CSS Wizardry

APRIL 22, 2020

21 years later, in 2013, Google launched Brotli, a new algorithm that claims even greater improvement than Gzip! So, for the last several years, I, along with other performance engineers like me, have been recommending that our clients move over from Gzip and to Brotli instead. decrease in file-size. Browser Support: A brief interlude.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Similarly from cross-site navigation — think Google search results or the like and then clicking back. Barry Pollard. 2022-05-09T10:30:00+00:00. 2022-05-09T17:34:14+00:00. Didn’t The HTTP Cache Do All That Anyway?

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study). How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study). Last year, Google started emphasizing the importance of Core Web Vitals and how they reflect a person’s real experience when visiting sites around the web. Beau Hartshorne. 2021-05-17T11:30:00+00:00. Large preview ).

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

How to measure performance The Website Speed Test is the ideal tool for measuring the performance of your website. It offers a full range of performance grades and suggestions where we outline the performance potential in detail. Further down, there are detailed performance grades for various topics.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Shopify Themes (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Shopify Themes (Case Study). Code evolves over time with more features, new or changing dependencies, or maybe a goal of performance improvements. Better performance across the board. Carson Shold.

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MachMetrics

JANUARY 16, 2020

Optimizing your images is often the very first suggestion that any performance writer or consultant will make when it comes to optimizing a website. However, what do you do when you optimize your images and still don’t see a noticeable improvement in the performance of your site? We’re no exception.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Reducing HTML Payload With Next.js (Case Study). Reducing HTML Payload With Next.js (Case Study). Smaller HTML means less time for Google to download and process those long strings of text. Both for Google bots (SEO) and to actual clients. Liran Cohen. 2021-05-05T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-05-05T16:06:35+00:00.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

That performance golden rule still holds true today. Google recommends that TTFB be 800ms at the 75th percentile. Charlie Vazac introduced server timing in a Performance Calendar post circa 2018. Recent server timing case studies It's great to see server timing starting to get more use in the wild.

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Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

A while back, our friends at Shopify published this great case study , showing how they optimized one of their newer themes from the ground up – and how they worked to keep it fast. Create performance budgets and fight regression. Build a performance culture that embraces collaboration between design and dev.

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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Have a look at the Financial Times Case study: “The speed of the site negatively impacts a user’s session depth, no matter how small the delay…The data suggests, both in terms of user experience and financial impact, that there are clear and highly valued benefits in making the site even faster. . Want proof? Summing up.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Five years ago when Google published The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines it was a manifesto declaring the world of computing had changed forever. Since then the world has chosen to ride along with Google. If you like this kind of stuff, you might also like Google's New Book: The Site Reliability Workbook.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Software 2.0 , in case you missed it, is a term coined by Andrej Karpathy to describe software in which key components are implemented by neural networks. The particular system discussed in this paper is Google’s email information extraction system. I.e., Google engineers don’t have access to them. But in Software 2.0

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High Scalability

AUGUST 8, 2018

There are a lot of cool nuggets in Google's New Book: The Site Reliability Workbook. In addition, many engineers across Google provided their assis? As shown in Figure 11-5, when it launched, Pokémon GO used Google’s regional Network Load Balancer (NLB) to load-balance ingress traffic across a Kubernetes cluster.

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Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Last week I had the opportunity to present at a technical SEO conference about performance. I couldn’t let this injustice continue, so I told them to “Google for quokka selfies” Christi , who works on Bing, commented with a smile: “Or you could look it up on Bing.” But it kind of stuck in my head.

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The best way to fight regressions is to create performance budgets on key metrics, and get alerted when they go out of bounds. You can even go one step further and integrate your performance budgets with your CI/CD process, so that you not only get alerts but even break the build if a new deploy would violate any of your budgets.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

Working around improving performance was an ongoing journey on SmashingMag for a while. In the end of last year we’ve noticed that we’ve seen quite a drop in performance in 2020, so we rolled up our sleeves and got to work. We were busy not only with performance and UX optimizations though. Vitaly Friedman. Large preview ).

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Speed Curve

JUNE 15, 2020

The general consensus within the web performance community is that any JS scripting task that takes more than 50ms to execute can affect a user's experience. For any of your request groups , you can track long task time and set a performance budget to keep your own first-party components or any third parties honest.

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The Morning Paper

JULY 7, 2019

Software engineering for machine learning: a case study Amershi et al., Previously on The Morning Paper we’ve looked at the spread of machine learning through Facebook and Google and some of the lessons learned together with processes and tools to address the challenges arising. ICSE’19. Today it’s the turn of Microsoft.

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MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

In case you weren’t sure. Fonts, images, CSS, and HTML are all in a very performant size range. Of course, any major retailer is going to have its fair share of ads and integration with Google. The most glaring issue is that the Target.com homepage loads about 1.6MB of Javascript. And that’s with GZip compression!

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Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. Background: How performance budgets work 1. What is a performance budget? What should a performance budget look like? Let's get started!

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

The authors also observed explicit sampling jobs that perform some complex and detailed computation on a sampled relation, without ever correcting for the effect of sampling. Hence, query optimizer transformations which push samplers down without affecting plan accuracy can improve performance. in the paper).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Based on the data provided by divante ’s findings on 30 PWA case studies, progressive web apps have a 36% larger mobile conversion rate than native applications. Hence, they can’t be promoted separately or found by users who’ve input a search query in Google. That wouldn’t be the case if they opted for a native application.

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Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Its videos and blog articles address issues such as web performance, extensible component development and the intersection of CSS with other technologies, like HTML and JavaScript. Sidebar Sidebar curates five daily design links that include essays, data visualizations, case studies and code resources. Visit website 3.

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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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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Many surveys have indicated that uptime is number one factor when choosing a web host and although most, if not all, web hosting services “promise” 99.99% uptime, it’s not the case with our case-study. According to our latest research, the average uptime of 32 shared web hosting providers is 99.59%. MidPhase.com. Bluehost.com.

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KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

Running speed tests with tools like Google PageSpeed Insights , WebPageTest , or KeyCDN’s Website Speed Test are always a good way to help gauge your website’s performance. With that being said, see how we easily achieved a 100/100 score with WordPress and Google PageSpeed Insights. Why Care About Page Speed?

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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. Jennifer Brehm. 2021-06-02T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-06-02T13:32:39+00:00.

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Website Optimization

APRIL 26, 2020

Using these metrics can give you an early indication of the performance of text ads in search campaigns. Google previously provided the average ad position (1.5 as an option in ad performance metrics (reached through the Columns icon under Performance). Figure 3: Linking Google Analytics into Google Ads.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Self-hosted Kubernetes installations or services — such as Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, or the Google Kubernetes Engine — make it possible for enterprises to select and implement best-fit functions. Microservices architecture combines loosely-coupled functions to create high-performing applications. Control plane performance.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

If you’d like to dive deeper into the performance of Android and iOS devices, you can check Geekbench Android Benchmarks for Android smartphones and tablets, and iOS Benchmarks for iPhones and iPads. Making A Case For Business. With Core Web Vitals , Google has been pushing the experience factors on mobile further to the forefront.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 13, 2019

An outgoing request from a whitelisted domain returns a 302 , forwarding the request to a self-hosted CSS file that is optimised specifcally for your browser, OS, and UA (Google Fonts do something similar). In case you’re wondering, a non-whitelisted domain returns a 403. So, what are the performance implications of all of this?

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

My favourite place to start is with the Web Vitals heatmap on SpeedCurve's RUM > Performance dashboard. The Performance panel can be overwhelming – even for experienced engineers – as it exposes how much work the browser is doing to load pages or handle interactions. Switching to the DevTools Performance panel 3.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. However, just as out-of-control spending bodes ill in the long run, so does unbudgeted digital media decimate site performance. A case in point: a page-load slowdown of a mere second could cost Amazon $1.6 Performance Budgets. “A

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