Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” Rachel Andrew.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Official Blog - World Web Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The top three results in Google SERPs get 54.4% Google is the most prominent global search market player with a market share of 83%. Yes, SEO is a long-term approach, but it offers some unparalleled advantages to businesses in terms of brand recognition, visibility, reputation, and of course, web traffic and revenues.

Google 52

Google Traffic Social Media Website 52

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

Thankfully, there are simple measures that web developers can take to ensure that the files being served to their visitors are as small as possible. Created by Google in 2013, Brotli is a compression algorithm created by Google for the compression of web fonts. One such measure is HTTP compression. How Do I Implement Brotli?

Speed 67

Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Google Chrome is currently one of the most popular web browsers used by developers today. According to StatCounter , as of September 2019, Google Chrome holds 63.72% browser market share across the globe. What Are the Google Chrome DevTools? Go to More Tools and then click Developer Tools.

Google 85

Google Website Network Media 85

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Google Website 106

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

For businesses to be more agile and work with an unmatchable speed, cloud testing is crucial. Generally, this tool is capable of running multiple tests simultaneously and it can be accessed by different developers and testers without any geographical constraints, and it can be up and running all the time. by 2024, globally.

Cloud 52

Cloud Testing Testing Tools Small Business 52

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

" Browsers Are Big Business WebKit Is No Charity Choices, Choices Recent Developments How Apple Gutted Mozilla's Chances Back Of The Napkin The Best Kind Of Correct What Now? On the other, it captures a developer's ability to build using a broad set of features. All iOS browsers present as Safari to developers. Cui bono? —

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Most Linux users cannot afford the amount of resource large enterprises like Google put into custom Linux performance tuning… For Google of course, there’s an economy of scale that makes all that effort worth it. Clearly, performance comes at a high cost, and unfortunately, this cost is difficult to get around.

Performance 108

Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The major application for high quality compression of photos is Internet speed. The most promising compression tool right now was developed by the Alliance for Open Media on its AV1 format and is called AVIF. It has the backing and resources of huge technology companies like Google, Netflix, Amazon, Microsoft, and many others.

Media 43

Media Internet Internet Speed 43

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

If you’re looking to read optimization ideas from one of the greatest minds in speed performance, look no further. and the Head Performance Engineer at Google. Souders presents his 14 rules throughout the course of the book while discussing the importance of front-end performance. Source: Amazon.

Speed 85

Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Google has a pretty tight grip on the tech industry: it makes by far the most popular browser with the best DevTools, and the most popular search engine, which means that web developers spend most of their time in Chrome, most of their visitors are in Chrome, and a lot of their search traffic will be coming from Google.

Network 225

Network Mobile Performance Traffic 225

Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2022

When it comes to site reliability engineering (SRE) initiatives adopting DevOps practices, developers and operations teams frequently find themselves at odds with one another. Developers want to write high-quality code and deploy it quickly. Keptn: A reference implementation of Google’s SRE principles. Dynatrace news.

Open Source 186

Open Source DevOps Cloud Metrics 186

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed.

Website 110

Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. There are self-hosted alternatives to Google Analytics, after all.

Google 91

Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 91

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Our customers are increasingly transitioning to agile software development, DevOps, and progressive continuous delivery to deliver business value faster. To speed up release frequency, they’re investing in delivery-pipeline automation. Read more: Google’s definition of the term Site Reliability Engineering.

Metrics 151

Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 151

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

Google 140

Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Even with cloud-based foundation models like GPT-4, which eliminate the need to develop your own model or provide your own infrastructure, fine-tuning a model for any particular use case is still a major undertaking. Training models and developing complex applications on top of those models is becoming easier.

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Performance optimization is the Rodney Dangerfield of web development–it “don’t get no respect” In spite of its great importance in the overall user experience, it is all too often pushed aside and treated as an afterthought. Google’s results were perhaps even more startling. 21% less searches. Conclusion.

Performance 40

Performance Energy Google Internet 40

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

JoeEmison : Lies that developers tell (themselves): (1) This is the best stack/IaaS for us to use [reality: I know it and want to start now] (2) DevOps doesn’t matter until scaling [you’ll spend 30% of your time dealing with ops then] (3) We’ll just rebuild it if we get traction [hahahaha]. They'll love you even more.

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Red Hat OpenShift is a cloud-based Kubernetes platform that helps developers build applications. It also protects your development infrastructure at scale with enterprise-grade security. For organizations looking to transform and modernize, OpenShift allows you to scale so you can grow your business through cloud-native development.

Monitoring 147

Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2022

By filing public comments with UK regulators and US legislators this week , you can change the course of mobile computing more significantly than at any other time in more than a decade. Facebook and Google, meanwhile, have undermined user agency in browser choice for fun and profit. A thread ??. [1/5Sb

Mobile 87

Mobile Google Games Operating System 87

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Spend enough time running websites through PageSpeed Insights and you’ll notice that Google has a major beef with traditional image formats like JPG, PNG and even GIF. Google developed WebP back in 2010 after acquiring a company called On2 Technologies.

Website 72

Website Speed Cache Google 72

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Easier to fight regressions Integrating SpeedCurve into your development pipeline – so you can take advantage of performance budgets and alerts to catch issues before (or right after) they go into production – has been a popular practice over the last several years. In 2021, Google relaunched CLS with a session window.

Performance 57

Performance Metrics Speed Google 57

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. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. It’s inherently tied to everything we build and develop.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Google Fonts. Google Sheets sync. The A11y Annotation Kit focuses on accessibility considerations that designers might want to share with developers when handing off a design. Annotating a design with detailed measurements and specs to help the developers in charge make sense of it all can be a time-consuming process.

Google 145

Google Design Code Mobile 145

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

This way developers are capable of sharing solutions, defining priorities, and focusing on getting work done effectively. Web Vitals are Google’s answer to standardizing web performance. This standardization empowers developers to focus on the metrics that have the greatest impact on the end-user experience. Large preview ).

Benchmarking 117

Benchmarking Metrics Best Practices Monitoring 117

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

I’m talking about Chakra UI, of course. Mike: It makes it very fast to develop, which was what originally attracted me to it. You’re able to develop fast. Developer experience is great. Mike: I use that entirely for the book homepage because it just saved me so much time in developing it. That’s it. right now.

Website 62

Website Design Open Source Software 62

Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

Our themes had pretty good speed scores for how much they offered, but they were undoubtedly bloated. jQuery is a way of using CSS-like selectors and developer-friendly syntax for things like animations and Ajax requests. Most of all, it helped with cross-browser differences so developers didn’t have to think about it.

Performance 90

Performance Mobile Speed Code 90

Tasktop

JUNE 20, 2019

But here’s the rub: Agile development teams do not work in isolation. And why, in lieu of a single tool or process, organizations need to identify and eliminate long cycles and wait times within development itself, and beyond. The disconnect between the business and Agile development. Of course not! So, what can you do?

Development 45

Development DevOps Google Innovation 45

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Of course, we’ll discuss possible resolutions to these bugs as well. Also offers the “Changes” panel by default, located in the same tab bar as the “Styles” Recommended Reading : “ Examine And Edit CSS ,” Firefox Developer Tools, MDN Web Docs. General Debugging Tips. remove or relocate elements. More after jump!

Design 145

Design Availability Mobile Website 145

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. It's clear that developers are out of touch with market ground-truth , but it's not obvious why. You'll have to read on for what it is!

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. Enter Google! ” That’s 4-8x the speed of evolution and feedback cycles. To get that release speed, Snap needs to be a user space solution. SOSP’19.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

A lot of the time it’s a front-end developer or head of engineering, but more and more I’m finding myself in great conversations with product leaders. There are a ton of best practices for front-end developers to follow. I love conversations about performance, and I'm fortunate enough to have them a lot.

Performance 143

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2018

A couple of years ago, Google announced a new mobile-first initiative it wanted web designers and marketers to pick up on. However, as Google launched this initiative a couple of years ago, its had time to quietly observe users in these micro-moments as well as the websites that have most aptly responded to them. Suzanne Scacca.

Design 62

Design Google Website Small Business 62

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This part is a bit more technical than the first, though it offloads most of the really deep stuff to outside sources, focusing on explaining why these things matter to the average web developer. A Primer on Speed. It is physically limited by the speed of light or, practically, how fast signals can travel in wires or in the open air.

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Drew McLellan talks to developer Matthew Phillips to find out. Drew McLellan: He’s an engineer at Skypack and a major contributor to a new project called Astro, which aims to combine performance best practices with the developer experience improvements we see from component based approaches. Drew McLellan. 2021-11-04T18:00:00+00:00.

Media 88

Media Website Architecture Servers 88

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

While many of us, designers and developers, are likely to have a relatively new mobile phone in our pockets, a vast majority of our customers isn’t quite like us. This might be very different for your company, of course, but that’s a close enough approximation of a majority of customers out there. State Of Mobile 2021. Large preview ).

Mobile 134

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 134