Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As developers, we rightfully obsess about the customer experience, relentlessly working to squeeze every millisecond out of the critical rendering path, optimize input latency, and eliminate jank. And, of course, the result needs to be seamless and delightful — dare we say, even fun — to develop and maintain. Ilya Grigorik.

Cache 136

Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 136

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 13, 2019

An outgoing request from a whitelisted domain returns a 302 , forwarding the request to a self-hosted CSS file that is optimised specifcally for your browser, OS, and UA (Google Fonts do something similar). com , which introduces yet more latency for the connection setup. The CSS file(s) that we host is provided by Cloud.typography.

Latency 203

Latency Cache Strategy Media 203

High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

A typical example of modern "microservices-inspired" Java application would function along these lines: Netflix : We observed during experimentation that RAM random read latencies were rarely higher than 1 microsecond whereas typical SSD random read speeds are between 100–500 microseconds.

Internet 121

Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

In ProtoCache (a component of a widely used Google application), 27% of its latency when using a traditional S+RInK design came from marshalling/un-marshalling. The network latency of fetching data over the network, even considering fast data center networks. What have the authors got against this combination? Who knew! ;).

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Cache Latency Google Lambda 79

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Google was the first company to create, embrace, and put support behind the role of site reliability engineering. When Google first introduced the role of SRE, they set a goal that half of an SREs time should be focused on reducing future operational work or adding service features.

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Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

High Scalability

AUGUST 17, 2018

12 million requests / hour with sub-second latency, ~300GB of throughput / day. And of course it would work on an Apple II and other 8 bit micros (Logo ran nicely on them, etc.). They'll love you even more. million : lost in ATM malware hack; $1.5 Its running in 3 nodes that cost us about $150 / month. myelixirstatus !#Serverless.No

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Internet Internet Scalability Games 105

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Because we are dealing with network protocols here, we will mainly look at network aspects, of which two are most important: latency and bandwidth. Latency can be roughly defined as the time it takes to send a packet from point A (say, the client) to point B (the server). Two-way latency is often called round-trip time (RTT).

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Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

There are ways around that, of course. In contrast, tools like DebugBear and WebPageTest use more realistic throttling that accurately reflects network round trips on a higher-latency connection. Real usage data would be better, of course. That’s the “thing” I’ve been missing in my performance efforts.

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Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

Also, if you are not using a content delivery network (CDN) or multiple CDNs to map users to the closest edge regions for reduced latencies — a practice called suboptimal routing — you might slow down the start of the video. And of course, you need to host and deliver your images. You don’t have to offload your content.

Media 118

Media Performance Mobile Latency 118

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

They now allow users to interact more with the company in the form of online forms, shopping carts, Content Management Systems (CMS), online courses, etc. Network latency. Network Latency. Network latency can be affected due to. The list goes on and on. Website and Web Application Monitoring. Connection time. Wi-Fi usage.

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Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Google's Search App and Facebook's various apps for Android undermine these choices in slightly different ways. [3] Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. Et Tu, Google? #. For a browser to serve as the user's agent, it must also receive navigations.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

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. The main reason is because it decreases the latency to the user where they are located by serving your images from a POP physically closest to them.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

For applications like communication between AVs, latency–how long it takes to get a response–is more likely to be a bigger limitation than raw bandwidth, and is subject to limits imposed by physics. There are impressive estimates for latency for 5G, but reality has a tendency to be harsh on such predictions.

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Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

decoding="async" loading="lazy" /> Google spent more on the SoC for the Pixel 4a and enjoyed a later launch date, boosting performance relative to the A51. Pixels have never sold well, and Google's focus on strong SoC performance per dollar was sadly not replicated across the Android ecosystem, forcing us to use the A51 as our stand-in.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Not as much as we'd like, of course, but the worldwide baseline has changed enormously. There are differences, of course, but not where it counts. Sadly, data on latency is harder to get, even from Google's perch, so progress there is somewhat more difficult to judge. Talk about a hard target. Reliance Jio, mostly.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

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. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2 Lighthouse. KB to 11.2

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Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

You’ve probably heard things like: “HTTP/3 is much faster than HTTP/2 when there is packet loss”, or “HTTP/3 connections have less latency and take less time to set up”, and probably “HTTP/3 can send data more quickly and can send more resources in parallel”. IETF’s QUIC is technically very different from Google’s QUIC.

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Note that AnyLog also differs from projects such as DeepDive or Google’s Knowledge Graph. How’s that going to work given what we know about the throughput and latency of blockchains, and the associated mining costs?" An embodiment for structured data for IoT.

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Blockchain Internet Internet IoT 94

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). This might be very different for your company, of course, but that’s a close enough approximation of a majority of customers out there. It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

CDN servers are often located closer to users than origin servers and can have a shorter round-trip times (RTT), improving network latency. AVIF contributors at Google have also reported some nice performance gains. Google created the WebP format in 2011 as an image format that would help to make the web faster. Print + eBook.

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Open Source Speed Website Google 144

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

It's possible that Amazon Luna , NVIDIA GeForce Go , Google Stadia , and Microsoft xCloud could have been built years earlier. A standard version of an approach demonstrated in Google's web applications to dramatically improve security. PowerPoint or Google Slides). Trusted Types. CSS Container Queries. inert Attribute.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Of course, your data might show that your customers are not on these devices, but perhaps they simply don’t show up in your analytics because your service is inaccessible to them due to slow performance.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

The Symphonia

MAY 22, 2018

Of course publishing it on Martin Fowler’s site was always going to get it to a wider audience (thanks Martin!), Fast forward to two years later and the article has had more than half a million visits, regularly appears in the top five Google search results for “Serverless”, and helped launched Symphonia ? Because of course it did.

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Serverless Architecture Lambda Azure 40

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Finally, not inlining resources has an added latency cost because the file needs to be requested. All of this is, of course, still true for HTTP/3 as well. mvfst (Facebook), MsQuic , (Microsoft), (Google), ngtcp2 , LSQUIC (Litespeed), picoquic , quicly (Fastly). Google Chrome (version 91+) : Enabled by default.

Network 105

Network Servers Cache Traffic 105

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

is an open collaboration between Google, Microsoft , Intel , Samsung , and others to safely bring capabilities to the web which native developers have come to expect. Rendering text is important (think login screens), but there's no product without low-latency, adaptive codecs, networking, and camera/microphone access.

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Our metrics at Google show a conflicted picture (which I’m working to get to clarity on). It simulates a link with a 400ms RTT and 400-600Kbps of throughput (plus latency variability and simulated packet loss). Simulated packet loss and variable latency, however, can make benchmarking extremely difficult and slow.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68