The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking Marty et al., This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. Enter Google! The desire for CPU efficiency and lower latencies is easy to understand. SOSP’19. Emphasis mine).

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

There are ways around that, of course. The other issue is that the data I’m getting back is based on lab simulations where I can add throttling, determine the device that’s used, and the network connection, among other simulated conditions. On that note, it’s worth calling out that there are multiple flavors of network throttling.

Speed 81

Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

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.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. If your average visitor is on a fast cabled or cellular network, they probably won’t benefit from the new protocols all that much. Two-way latency is often called round-trip time (RTT). Congestion Control.

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105

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. Fetching too much data in a single query (i.e.,

Cache 79

Cache Latency Google Lambda 79

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. seconds on the target device and network profile, consuming 120KiB of critical path resources to become interactive, only 8KiB of which is script. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript. These are generous targets.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

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. For a browser to serve as the user's agent, it must also receive navigations.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

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 or connection error. Network latency. Network Latency. Network latency can be affected due to. The list goes on and on. HTTP error.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

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”. and lower), this typically takes two network round trips.

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations. It's possible that Amazon Luna , NVIDIA GeForce Go , Google Stadia , and Microsoft xCloud could have been built years earlier.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

A performance budget as a mechanism for planning a web experience and preventing performance decay might consist of the following yardsticks: Overall page weight, Total number of HTTP requests, Page-load time on a particular mobile network, First Input Delay (FID). And of course, you need to host and deliver your images.

Media 117

Media Performance Mobile Latency 117

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. Servers and Networks. Implementation.

Network 104

Network Servers Cache Traffic 104

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. full TCP/IP & UDP networking, including local network discovery. For different reasons, they are both working to cast the web in amber. floppy/CD/DVD).

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. JavaScript is the single most expensive part of any page in ways that are a function of both network capacity and device speed. The median user is on a slow network.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. You can download the spreadsheet as Google Sheets, Excel, OpenOffice document or CSV. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G network in your office for faster testing. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Compression achieved is relevant because the higher the compression, the smaller the file size, and the lower the data required to transfer the image on the network. CDN servers are often located closer to users than origin servers and can have a shorter round-trip times (RTT), improving network latency. Large preview ).

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Open Source Speed Website Google 144