Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. However, there are quite a few high-profile case studies exploring the impact of mobile optimization on key business metrics.

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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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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

As a discovery tool, request maps are great for identifying the source of third-party, fourth-party, fifth-party, etc., They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic. A new open-source project called Partytown provides a library that implements a communications layer to make this work.

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Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Vertical scaling allows for increases in the compute and memory capacity via upgrades to larger instance types, ideal for handling traffic demands or processing needs, while horizontal scaling involves adding read replicas to distribute workloads across multiple instances, enhancing read scalability for read-heavy applications.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

For sites with large traffic and a global reach, basic optimizations at build time are usually not enough. Twitter’s Image Pipeline (Case Study). +. This case study focuses on the different steps that Twitter has taken to load images faster while ensuring they are as impactful as intended. 528 pages. ??.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 106

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

For sites with large traffic and a global reach, basic optimizations at build time are usually not enough. Twitter’s Image Pipeline (Case Study). +. This case study focuses on the different steps that Twitter has taken to load images faster while ensuring they are as impactful as intended. 528 pages. ??.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 93

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

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. It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data. How to get there?

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

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. It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data. How to get there?

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

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. Study common complaints coming into customer service and see how improving performance can help relieve some of these common problems. How to get there?

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 104