Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

According to Google's thresholds, an LCP time of 3.96 Are you using a content delivery network (CDN) to bring elements like images closer to your users, so that delivery times are faster? Even though the hero image – which in and of itself is a fairly well optimized image – has downloaded at around the 2.9

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Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 66

Randon ASCII

JULY 11, 2022

A bug had been filed suggesting that Chrome download speeds (such as those measured by speedtest.net ) seemed to be affected by some anti-virus software. Downloads go through the cache, the cache is saved to disk, and saves to disk are slowed by (some) anti-virus software. Okay – time for the details. It looks like this can happen.

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Cache Energy Google Processing 105

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Before we dive in, I’d just like to note that the authors responsibly disclosed their findings to Google, who have announced that they will be fixing many of the identified issues in AndroidQ. Google, to their credit, have announced that they are addressing many of the issues that we reported to them. most apps).

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Systems Traffic Network Google 74

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The next layer is defined by the languages you want to use, Java, Python, Go, , Javascript, Rust etc, and the ecosystem of library functions you bought from a vendor or downloaded. The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Scaling symbolic evaluation for automated verification of systems code with Serval Nelson et al., It makes an interesting juxtaposition to the approach Google took with Snap that we looked at last time out. Here are the resulting code and specification sizes, together with the verification runtimes (impressively short!).

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Code Systems Programming Google 45

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Most of you have probably seen the following Google PageSpeed Insights optimization suggestion at one point or another when running a speed test: By compressing and adjusting the size of … you can save 14.2 An easy way to compress images is with our image processing service that happens to also be fully integrated into our existing network.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

Dean Hume

MARCH 19, 2019

The benefit of using streams is that if you are sending large chunks of data over the web, you can start processing the data immediately as you receive it, without having to wait for the full download to complete. For example, if you think of a large video file and imagine how long it might take to download the whole file.

Transportation 97

Transportation Processing Servers Code 97

Testsigma

APRIL 23, 2021

Appium boasts of an easy set-up process, the tool also gives us the flexibility to reuse the source code within the Android and iOS ecosystem. It’s a cross-platform tool and comes with a GUI wrapper around the Appium server that lets us download it for pretty much every platform. Being open-source, it also has a rich community! .

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Testing Tools Mobile Testing Open Source 86

Testsigma

AUGUST 12, 2021

There’s no need to download or install a web app; besides, they update automatically and take up very little space on our devices. As per StatCounter , there are more than ten browsers in use with Google Chrome leading the way. As the tool is equipped with AI, it translates our scripts into code. Source: Testsigma.

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Testing Testing Tools Mobile Cloud 102

The Morning Paper

JUNE 6, 2019

This is a high level paper describing Google’s production system for federated learning. FL is one instance of the more general approach of “bringing the code to the data, instead of the data to the code” and addresses the fundamental problems of privacy, ownership, and locality of data. SysML 2019. Use cases so far.

Systems 71

Systems Design Google Servers 71

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

Applications that do not require to be downloaded and can be accessed via hitting the URL on a mobile browser are known as mobile web applications. The applications are designed using the same code base as Desktop like HTML, Javascript, and CSS. Google ranks applications based on how user friendly it is. What is browser testing?

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Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Factors such as the person’s current network connection and the general speed of the corresponding webpage will be considered. Therefore, having a faster site will improve your SEO rankings and the higher your web page in the Google search result, which we all know affects revenue. ” Page load time affects SEO. seconds faster.

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Speed Website Performance Website Mobile 93

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

CSS is critical to rendering a page—a browser will not begin rendering until all CSS has been found, downloaded, and parsed—so it is imperative that we get it onto a user’s device as fast as we possibly can. download any CSS needed for the current context (medium, screen size, resolution, orientation, etc.) Employ Critical CSS.

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Network Performance Media Cache 278

Rigor

JULY 2, 2019

As an example, we see that the preferred address to access the online edition of the New York Times is [link] (we received an HTTP response code of 200 when requesting the site). Rigor’s waterfall chart indicates that this address has been permanently moved (given that we received an HTTP response code of 301 ).

Mobile 60

Mobile Traffic Google Latency 60

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. Large preview ).

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Jake is a frequent speaker at many popular conferences and events, such as 100 Days of Google Dev , JAMstakConf , JSConf , SmashingConf , and dozens of others.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Similarly from cross-site navigation — think Google search results or the like and then clicking back. Browsers have lots of caches , the most well-known of which is the HTTP Cache that stores copies of downloaded resources on a local drive for later reuse. Didn’t The HTTP Cache Do All That Anyway? Large preview ).

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Cache Games Performance Website 91

Dean Hume

MARCH 19, 2019

The benefit of using streams is that if you are sending large chunks of data over the web, you can start processing the data immediately as you receive it, without having to wait for the full download to complete. For example, if you think of a large video file and imagine how long it might take to download the whole file.

Transportation 40

Transportation Processing Servers Code 40

Dean Hume

MARCH 19, 2019

The benefit of using streams is that if you are sending large chunks of data over the web, you can start processing the data immediately as you receive it, without having to wait for the full download to complete. For example, if you think of a large video file and imagine how long it might take to download the whole file.

Transportation 40

Transportation Processing Servers Code 40

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Google search ranking. Large preview ). The Wix Challenge. Heavier websites.

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Website Performance Google Media 126

Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The other week, there were a few articles that came out about Chrome’s NOSCRIPT intervention: an intervention that would disable JavaScript altogether on slow networks. Chrome intervening on behalf of the user when it feels the network is iffy isn’t exactly new. What exactly does it do? The Data Saver proxy is enabled.

Network 71

Network Testing Cache Google 71

Testsigma

JANUARY 18, 2021

Network Throttling – If your app is built for a global audience, it is important to test the app features in varied network conditions (e.g. Along with testing on different network conditions, you should also check the app’s behaviour with different UL (Upload) and Download (DL) speeds.

Testing 55

Testing Operating System Website Internet 55

Dean Hume

AUGUST 8, 2017

As he was demoing his code, I noticed that he created an awesome little helper library to lazy load images. The idea behind lazy loading images is that you wait until a user scrolls further down the page and the image comes into view before making the network request for it. What’s the big deal with lazy loading?

Code 58

Code Website Media Efficiency 58

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Nobody frames it precisely this way; instead they'll say, if WebKit weren't mandated, Chromium would take over , or Google would dominate the web if not for the WebKit restriction. The New York Times reported in late 2020 that Google now pays Apple between $8-12 billion per year , up from $1 billion in 2014. And that's a choice. "WebKit

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Testsigma

MAY 5, 2021

Testsigma is a code-less testing tool — test scripts can be written in simple English, making this tool convenient if you have no programming knowledge too. It’s cloud-based and great for remote teams as they can access it from any location, device, and at any hour. Plus, it supports responsive and visual comparison testing. Highlights.

Testing Tools 74

Testing Tools Testing Internet Internet 74

Dean Hume

AUGUST 8, 2017

As he was demoing his code, I noticed that he created an awesome little helper library to lazy load images. The idea behind lazy loading images is that you wait until a user scrolls further down the page and the image comes into view before making the network request for it. What’s the big deal with lazy loading?

Code 40

Code Website Media Efficiency 40

Dean Hume

AUGUST 8, 2017

As he was demoing his code, I noticed that he created an awesome little helper library to lazy load images. The idea behind lazy loading images is that you wait until a user scrolls further down the page and the image comes into view before making the network request for it. What’s the big deal with lazy loading?

Code 40

Code Website Media Efficiency 40

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. seconds faster on average and it drove 60 million more Firefox downloads per year. The code for the site is available on GitHub for reference. Lighthouse.

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Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

You know, have a plan for it and write code that’s mindful about adding extra weight to the page. But not everything about performance happens directly at the code level, right? I’d say many — if not most — sites and apps rely on some number of third-party scripts where we might not have any influence over the code.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 91

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. Download Time of HTML This is the time it takes to download the page’s HTML file.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Also, the management will be dissatisfied with the decreased traffic and revenue caused by the unoptimized codebase, despite the code quality improvements. They offer a wide variety of customization options to further control how code is being optimized and which browsers are supported. Optimizing Stylesheet File Size.

Media 109

Media Performance Cache Strategy 109

Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Smaller HTML means less time for Google to download and process those long strings of text. Usually, the HTML code size is not a big issue, especially for small pages, not data-intensive, or pages that are not SEO-oriented. Both for Google bots (SEO) and to actual clients. The main goal is to have a small LCP as possible.

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Google Architecture Servers Speed 111

Tim Kadlec

MAY 11, 2010

Like it’s older brother YSlow, Page Speed , released by Google in in mid-2009, is primarily a tool to audit and analyze the performance of your site. that Google has documented. Each rule is given a priority code based on how great the potential impact would be on the page load time. Parallelize downloads across hostnames.

Speed 40

Speed Performance Open Source Cache 40

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

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. It wasn’t long before a sea of red “poor” and yellow “needs improvement” notices in our Google Search Console needed our attention. How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study).

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Google Analytics Serverless Metrics 93

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

De-duplication can prevent multiple copies on disk, but we're out of luck on reducing network costs. Suppose a user has only downloaded part of the cache. One available proxy is the distribution of use from Google's hosted JS libraries. The bigger the download, the less likely users are to switch. Back of the Napkin #.

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Cache Government Traffic Network 82

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. South Korea has the fastest mobile download speed , averaging 52.4 Mbps download and 0.7

Cache 96

Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

These metrics are used by Google to evaluate the quality of user experience. This approach allows images with smaller dimensions to be downloaded for users on smaller devices. Let’s illustrate the browser’s behavior with an example using our previous code: <img src="image-300.png". Eloïse Martin. 2023-01-16T18:00:00+00:00.

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Media Mobile Website Metrics 105