Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. 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. We at Rigor respect many web performance leaders around the world. Rachel Andrew.

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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.

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Google Traffic Social Media Website 52

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The most obvious change 5G might bring about isn’t to cell phones but to local networks, whether at home or in the office. High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting. Those waits can be significant, even if you’re on a corporate network. Let’s get back to home networking.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Geoff Graham 2023-08-10T08:00:00+00:00 2023-08-10T12:35:05+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear There is no shortage of ways to measure the speed of a webpage. There are ways around that, of course.

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CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

When first working on a new site-speed engagement, you need to work out quickly where the slowdowns, blindspots, and inefficiencies lie. Google Analytics can show us individual slow pages, but doesn’t necessarily help us build a bigger picture of the site as a whole. See entry 6.

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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

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Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Similarly from cross-site navigation — think Google search results or the like and then clicking back. A disk cache is faster than having to fetch those resources from the network (though not always, oddly enough !), Or you click back, then realize you forgot to make a note of something on that article, so click forward again.

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Cache Games Performance Website 91

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.

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Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

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! ” That’s 4-8x the speed of evolution and feedback cycles. SOSP’19. It reminds me of ZeroMQ.

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Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

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.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. Large preview ) That’s a nice big view and is a good illustration of TBT’s impact on page speed. Analytics is a good example. It’s worth asking.

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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.

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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

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

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. 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. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s the newest metric of the bunch and is set to formally be a ranking factor in Google search results beginning in March 2024. Of course, we’re talking about the user doing something on the page, i.e., an action such as a click or keyboard focus. DebugBear actually tests with a slower network, resulting in more accurate data.

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Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 94

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

million : new image/caption training set; 32,408,715 : queries sent to Pwned Passwords; 53% : Memory ICs Total 2018 Semi Capex; 11 : story Facebook datacenter prison in Singapore; $740,357 : ave cost of network downtime; Quotable Quotes: @BenedictEvans : Recorded music: $18 billion. However still far from Google ($28B) and Facebook ($13.2B).

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Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

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. A Primer on Speed. Congestion Control.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 105

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Self-hosted Kubernetes installations or services — such as Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, or the Google Kubernetes Engine — make it possible for enterprises to select and implement best-fit functions. Speeds up development. Key metrics here include memory requests, CPU requests, disk utilization, and network throughput.

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Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Of course, there is the important caveat of having a well-structured CSS codebase structure that doesn’t depend on the rule order. Deferring font stylesheets (Google Font files, for example) could also be beneficial for initial render performance. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) has become an important metric in the last few months.

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Media Performance Cache Strategy 108

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And of course, companies that don’t use AI don’t need an AI use policy. While experienced AI developers are starting to leave powerhouses like Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft, not enough are leaving to meet demand—and most of them will probably gravitate to startups rather than adding to the AI talent within established companies.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Recommendations can come out of audits from consultants or from automated tools like Lighthouse (or SpeedCurve, of course). Content Delivery Networks (CDN) like Akamai, Fastly, Cloudflare, Cloudfront can sometimes have a big impact on performance. This is typically the work you'd throw into an optimization sprint (or twenty).

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Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Of course, we’ll discuss possible resolutions to these bugs as well. CSS has been improving rapidly in the last couple of years, and of course, browsers are continually modernizing. But, there are, of course, times when we do want to provide some width parameters. General Debugging Tips. remove or relocate elements.

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Design Availability Mobile Website 145

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.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 104

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.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The gotcha here is that, if your mobile experience isn’t optimized for various devices and network conditions, these customers will never appear in your analytics — just because your website or app will be barely usable on their devices, and so they are unlikely to return. Improving Search Engine Visibility. Large preview ).

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

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. Network equipment like cable or router. HTTP error.

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Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2022

Network related scenarios in mobile testing. A tester needs to always keep in mind that a mobile device does not stay in a single place like a desktop and is neither connected to superfast broadband networks such as optical fibres. Network related Screen size related Geolocation-localization related pop-up related.

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Mobile Social Media Testing Media 52

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. Clearly, we want to give freedom to our content creators, but we can leave to chance neither the resolution nor the speed of delivery and download of the images that will be displayed on our website.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 105

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

Of the many factors that affect page-load speed, media is a significant one. 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).

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Media Performance Mobile Latency 117

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

Server rendering is also cool—even if that’s just how we say “send HTML over the network” these days. I accessed the RSS feed app running on my local network on each device to the same page where the mobile nav toggling code could be run. Because of this, network performance was not a factor in my measurements. Startup time.

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Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started  ‍Of course, the latter.

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Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Resources like Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) that had previously been the reserve of giant corporations were becoming commonplace for everyday folk building snappy websites. I can test this out by putting that tag in a page, and then flipping to the Network tab in my browser tools to see that the file has been loaded. Conclusion.

Website 57

Website Servers Code Best Practices 57

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).

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Hardware Games Java Media 55

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This means that with Terraform, you can manage resources across multiple cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and more, using a single tool.‍A Real-time monitoring can help detect any anomalies as soon as they happen, thereby increasing the speed at which problems can be diagnosed and solved. ‍It Of course, the latter.

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Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Tasktop

JUNE 20, 2019

Of course not! Tech giants like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google treat their entire software delivery toolchain like a product. Since most businesses are not Microsoft, Amazon or Google, yet most are disrupted by them, they need to build their toolchain from the best commercial and open source products and then architect them for flow.

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Development DevOps Google Innovation 45

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.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

In addition to MVC separation, we can (for security reasons or speed improvements) place the JS App on a separate server like in the schema below: Decoupled WordPress diagram. Of course, this is where good planning is crucial. The downside of using it is its speed. Large preview ). Advantages Of Using The Decoupled Approach.

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Cache Website Speed Database 78