Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Web applications rely on databases to run the internet, powering everything from e-commerce platforms to social media networks to streaming services. Incompatibilities between character sets and collations can lead to unexpected sorting and comparison outcomes, which could lead to issues in database operations and application functionality.

Performance 52

Performance Storage Social Media Database 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Eye-tracking provides information on how people navigate on a page and how attracted they are to visual elements on the screen, like in this study conducted by Nielsen Norman Group which shows the pattern that people use to scan comparison tables. This is a click heatmap of a website. Eye-Tracking Evolution.

Mobile 111

Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 111

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. It allows you to quickly audit a website in a number of key areas which together can form a measure of its overall quality.

Google 82

Google Latency Website Metrics 82

CSS - Tricks

MAY 24, 2021

— Jeremy Wagner sets up a “Streaming” Service Worker that caches common partials on a website (e.g. the header and footer) such that the people of Waushara County, Wisconsin, who have slow internet can load the site somewhere in the vicinity of twice as fast. Who has the fastest F1 website in 2021?

Performance 40

Performance Website Cache Internet 40

KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

Frontend frameworks let you hit the ground running when developing a new website. Responsive Design - Any site that you develop should render properly across all devices, as more and more people access the internet via mobile devices. For a comparison between Foundation and Bootstrap, read our complete article, Bootstrap vs Foundation.

Google 135

Google Mobile Open Source Website 135

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

As of writing, they have been viewed over 29 trillion times across the web and it’s easy to understand why — the collection gives you access to over 900 beautiful fonts you can use on your website for free. If I change my user-agent to Internet Explorer 11, I’m served the font in the WOFF format instead. Medium Italic (600i).

Google 111

Google Performance Cache Website 111

Testsigma

OCTOBER 15, 2021

seconds to form an opinion on a website? Yes, Sweor’s study on website statistics shows that users decide whether they want to use a website or not in a fraction of a second. We can also note that about 57% of the global population doesn’t recommend non-responsive websites in the same study.

Testing 52

Testing Testing Tools Analytics Website 52

Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

Let’s start with a comparison between native lazy loading and the good ol’ JavaScript-driven one. Lazy loading is a way to improve the performance of a website or web application by maximizing the rendering speed of the above-the-fold images and iframes (and sometimes videos) by deferring the loading of below-the-fold content.

Website 103

Website Best Practices Media Open Source 103

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. For comparison, the same amount of data costs $6.66 For comparison, $3.67 I wanted to simulate a slow connection like those experienced by users in Uzbekistan, to see what kind of experience websites would give me. in the UK, or $12.37 in the USA.

Cache 96

Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

It ensures that the website or web application works seamlessly on various combinations of devices, browsers, and operating systems as below: Devices – Mobile, laptop, desktop, tablet, smart TV, etc. Browsers – Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, Edge, UC Browser, Opera, etc. are not baselined.

Testing 52

Testing Website Mobile Testing Tools 52

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Let’s cover some ways to speed up GIF animations on your website and look at some alternative formats that you should consider. That said, just because GIFs are easy to use doesn’t make them ideal for websites. It also features a dual view interface that lets you see a before-and-after comparison.

Speed 50

Speed Website Latency Cache 50

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Modern browsers like Chrome and Samsung Internet support a long list of features that make web apps more powerful and keep users safer. The confusion that reliably results is the consequence of an inversion of the power relationship between app and website. Both pass all eighteen feature tests in Thomas Steiner's excellent ???

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

Comparison of open source databases This section provides one-on-one comparisons of popular open source database software. Capable of handling a large volume of data, it Is the most commonly used system of storing, retrieving, and displaying data, and it’s used for millions of websites worldwide.

Open Source 77

Open Source Database Storage Scalability 77

Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

Angular vs React – The Complete Comparison. JavaScript Developers prefer to use Angular to develop large-scale web applications like e-commerce, Progressive Web Apps, and reservation platforms, allowing a website to perform like a smartphone app. Angular vs React – The Complete Comparison. Quick Links. What is React?

Development 52

Development Google Open Source Servers 52

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? In the case of Wikipedia's website, in 2020, globally, code execution has got 19% faster for Wikipedia users.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Both of these metrics are available in Chromium browsers (Chrome, Opera, Samsung Internet, etc) via the Performance API: performance.getEntriesByType('paint'). My analysis will look at performance data from some popular websites in an attempt to figure out whether the paint timing metrics really do answer that question.

Metrics 49

Metrics Performance Testing Testing Internet 49

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 ).

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

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. Large preview ). Image source ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Websites would magically become 50% faster with the flip of a switch! It’s also one of the reasons we can keep using the Internet with many concurrent users, because it smartly limits each user’s bandwidth usage to their fair share. For this reason, TCP is one of the most widely used and deployed protocols on the Internet.

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is because HTTP/3 and QUIC mainly help deal with the somewhat uncommon yet potentially high-impact problems that can arise on today’s Internet. On the Internet, however, we typically have a long series of connected pipes , some of which can be wider than others (leading to so-called bottlenecks at the narrowest links).

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

Example: Swedish public transportation website. A wonderful interface of the Swedish public transportation website with a button that’s initially disabled, but becomes accessible once a selection is made. Part 4: Perfect Feature Comparison. Is there an issue with your Internet connection? One of the many.

Design 145

Design Transportation Code Systems 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Web has over 4 billion internet users and is nearing 2 billion websites. This might feel like a lot to fix at once, but not to worry: we can all make the Web better one website at a time. A bookshop makes for a decent real-world comparison point for an online publication. That’s not the case. Enter My Bookshop.

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Social Media Technology Technology Website 134