Jos

MARCH 13, 2020

Web Performance is important for user experience and business metrics. This post explains several ways of assessing the potential performance gains with little effort and, more importantly, without actually implementing fixes. What is the business opportunity for web performance improvements? I would repeat over and over.

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Performance Google Mobile Analytics 130

Speed Curve

JULY 10, 2023

Demonstrating the impact of performance on your users – and on your business – is one of the best ways to get your company to care about the speed of your site. In 2010, the Performance and Reliability team I was fortunate enough to lead at Walmartlabs shared our findings around the impact of front-end times on conversion rates.

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Performance Metrics Traffic Speed 52

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2022

Peter Vinh (Solution Lead of Digital Experience at Dynatrace) during Perform 22 session. Case study: The value of DEM for Vitality. First, the company uses synthetic monitoring to develop user experience benchmarks and determine if applications are performing within expected thresholds. DEM in action.

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Mobile Monitoring Benchmarking Best Practices 170

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Keep reading to find out: How much does web performance matter when it comes to SEO? Which performance metrics should you focus on for SEO? How can you track performance for SEO? How much does web performance matter when it comes to SEO? Performance has had an impact on SEO long before Web Vitals came along.

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Performance Google Metrics Mobile 96

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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Performance Speed Google Media 130

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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Processing Cache Website Servers 127

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

As a micro-service owner, a Netflix engineer is responsible for its innovation as well as its operation, which includes making sure the service is reliable, secure, efficient and performant. In the Performance space, our data teams currently focus on the quality of experience on Netflix-enabled devices.

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Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

That performance golden rule still holds true today. Charlie Vazac introduced server timing in a Performance Calendar post circa 2018. For example, processing of web application firewall (WAF) rules, detecting bots or other malicious traffic though security services, and growing in popularity, edge compute.

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Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study). Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study). That was until we went to production with our highest traffic customer. From the moment we went live, we experienced performance issues.

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Website Code Servers Analytics 113

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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Speed Website Performance Website Mobile 93

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.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

Rigor

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Reading time 4 min It’s important for both technical and business teams to understand the different web performance monitoring options that are available as well as their various use cases and the benefits of each. Understanding Web Performance Monitoring Methodologies. AB Test the Performance Impact of Third Parties.

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Monitoring Benchmarking Website Traffic 40

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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Mobile Design Cache Code 140

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

One more talk that I found interesting, but not related to sustainability: NFX303 The Evolution of Chaos Engineering at Netflix — good explanation of the evolution of this system, including advanced traffic routing techniques that most microservice architectures don’t support. SUS209 — there was no talk with this code.

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AWS Energy Architecture Programming 64

High Scalability

AUGUST 8, 2018

Prior to launch, they load-tested their software stack to process up to 5x their most optimistic traffic estimates. 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. Figure 11-5.

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Google Games Entertainment Cloud 130

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

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. It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

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%. Longest outage: 5 minutes.

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Testing Website Servers Availability 49

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. Making A Case For Business. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known. billion by 2026. Driving Business Metrics.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

Speed Curve

JANUARY 31, 2018

One of the best parts of my job is getting to talk to so many people from so many different companies about web performance. But one question that almost every person asks me – regardless of what industry they're in or the size of their organization – is this: How can I create a stronger culture of web performance at my company?

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Performance Metrics Traffic Monitoring 40

Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

Frequencies of 100 most frequent elements can be estimated with 4% precision using Count-Min Sketch structure that uses about 48KB (12k integer counters, based on the experimental result), assuming that data is skewed in accordance with Zipfian distribution that models well natural texts, many types of web events and network traffic.

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Analytics Traffic Big Data Efficiency 191

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. Case studies abound. Are they set up sufficiently?

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Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

Website Optimization

MAY 31, 2018

Using experiments you can optimize the performance of your campaigns to squeeze more leads our of less spend. In a draft, you can prepare multiple proposed changes to a campaign without impacting its performance. If the new experiment performs better, you can Apply the changes to the original campaign. Experiment Results.

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Google Strategy Traffic Metrics 40

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You may have a lean, agile, responsive site design only to find it gradually loaded down with more and more “extras” that are often put onto the site by marketing departments or business leaders who are not always thinking about website performance. They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

The Morning Paper

JUNE 25, 2019

We need new data structures designed specifically for far memory that consider its assumptions and performance. We don’t get a full-blown evaluation of the ideas in this position paper, but we do get a short case study/sketch of a monitoring application tracking a sampled metric, such as CPU utilization, in far memory.

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Design Cache Hardware Scalability 80

CSS - Tricks

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

People say JAMstack sites are fast — let’s find out why by looking at real performance metrics! State of the real user web performance. State of Content Management Systems ( CMS ) performance. But looking at the data, that is not the case. The current state of CMS performance around the world is not so great.

Speed 46

Speed Mobile Metrics Scalability 46

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc. There are also cases where although the workload and operational needs seem to best fit to one solution, there are other limiting factors that may be blockers (or at least need special handling).

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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

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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Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome who was working all around web performance for decades. Some of the biggest size savings and performance improvements can come through a better image optimization strategy. Image Decoding Performance. +.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome and focusing around performance for decades. Some of the biggest size savings and performance improvements can come through a better image optimization strategy. Image Decoding Performance. +.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 92

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

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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