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. Establish a performance culture. Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

Interestingly, and perhaps not coincidentally, 100 milliseconds is Google's stated goal when it comes to page load times. Some sensory memory does stick, of course. In a 1999 study of workplace interruptions , groups of workers were subjected to various disruptions in the course of their day-to-day responsibilities.

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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. There are self-hosted alternatives to Google Analytics, after all. Analytics is a good example. That’s one example and a common one at that.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 91

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

, 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. and Google, they’ll do wonders for your website! If you’re looking for the most complete guide in optimization strategies, look no further.

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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.

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Media Performance Mobile Latency 118

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

As a result, she came back to me concerned with publishing a post on a strategy her agency had yet to adopt successfully. Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google. She was torn though. seconds too long.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

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. Key metrics here include memory requests, CPU requests, disk utilization, and network throughput. Control plane performance.

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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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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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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

This is helpful for those on poor or expensive networks, so they don’t have to pay an exorbitant cost just to visit your website. However, countless research (including the stats for our own site here, and others by the likes of Alex Russell ) has shown that Android devices are the platform of choice for poorer countries with slower networks.

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Website Media Mobile Network 103

O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

So far, it’s been a painless shift in power, which as Eric Matthes, author of Python Crash Course , argues, should come as no surprise, since “Guido has carried himself, and his role in the community, with such poise for so long.” Will Quarkus bear out its promise and the faith of its early fans?

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Programming Java Google C++ 130

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Or consider South Korea's law, passed last August , that elicited months of stonewalling by Google and Apple until, at last, an exasperated Korean Communication Commission ( KCC ) started speaking a language Cupertino understands [1] via a proposed 2-3% fine. Provide its own networking layer and integrate with Private Relay's closed API s.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

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. Jake is a frequent speaker at many popular conferences and events, such as 100 Days of Google Dev , JAMstakConf , JSConf , SmashingConf , and dozens of others.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

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. An easy way to compress images is with our image processing service that happens to also be fully integrated into our existing network.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

It might be tempting to get into quick "low-hanging-fruits"-optimizations early on — and eventually it might be a good strategy for quick wins — but it will be very hard to keep performance a priority without planning and setting realistic, company-tailored performance goals. when web fonts aren’t loaded yet). 150ms RTT, 1.5

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 8, 2019

Although at graduate-level, architecture classes cover interesting cutting-edge research, materials taught to undergrads in computer architecture courses, pedagogically are detached from cutting-edge research (eg. Lena Olson is a Software Engineer at Google. . Pedagogy-Research Gap. a focus on RISC vs CISC).

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Architecture Open Source Hardware Software Engineering 74

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

AWS is far and away the cloud leader, followed by Azure (at more than half of share) and Google Cloud. network engineer, at >2%) and management positions (IT manager, at close to 3%; operations manager at >1%). In other words, comparatively few respondent organizations appear to be pursuing dedicated multi-cloud strategies.

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Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141

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. You can hold them accountable and maintain a strategy for keeping them in line.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

And of course, scrapers could scrape your site to look for security vulnerabilities or exposed contact or sales lead details. If you are just starting out wondering if someone might be re-publishing your web content, the easiest thing to do is a Google search. The most common service of this type is Google Web Light.

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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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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s take a look at some of the best error monitoring tools and strategies for 2018. The Google DevTools console can give you real-time feedback to help you trace the source of errors, and you can set handlers to automate exception data collection. Source: Google Keep in mind that not all code errors are noticeable to users.

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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. Driving Business Metrics. Improving Search Engine Visibility.

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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

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. However, developers are loathe to do this; turning away users isn't a winning growth strategy, and prompting visitors to switch is passé.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Of course, a shop needs interactive elements , be it product image zooming, some videos, a countdown to today’s shipping deadline, or a chat window to get in contact with customer support. Jennifer Brehm.

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 116

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 Businesses can adjust configurations to manage everything from basic distribution settings to intricate geo-targeted content caching and delivery strategies, all with the same ease.‍‍2.

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Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

The reasons for it are numerous, but the most important one is a huge difference in network conditions and device hardware across the world. Much of this data related to Core Web Vitals which Google has announced back in 2020, and which also contribute to and are exposed in Lighthouse. Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. This rework delays launch which, in turn, delays gathering data about the viability of a PWA strategy. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. The median user is on a slow network. Global Ground-Truth.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

You will need a way of reaching the specific kind of client you would like to work with, and that needs a strategy that word of mouth cannot supply. Unfortunately, it is just as easy to get that strategy wrong, and doing so can prove a waste of time and money. Networking. The Problem With Traditional Approaches. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As you may already know, image optimization is the process that a high-quality image has to go through to be delivered in ideal conditions, sometimes with the help of an Image Transformation API and a global Content Delivery Network (CDN) to make the process simpler and scalable.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 106

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

In previous articles from this series, we’ve covered auditing CSS codebase health and the incremental CSS refactoring strategy , testing, and maintenance. In this article, we’re going to cover CSS optimization strategies that can optimize CSS file size, loading times, and render performance. Adrian Bece. 2021-08-30T10:00:00+00:00.

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Media Performance Cache Strategy 109

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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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

As seen in the discussions about privacy at Facebook and AI-powered imaging at Google among other examples, when there are no ethical considerations during the creation of technology then the interaction between humans is compromised. Take what you’ve learned through industry And academic examples in order to affinity map your own code.

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Code Design Education Government 137

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As a trend, it’s not performing well on Google; it shows little long-term growth, if any, and gets nowhere near as many searches as terms like “Observability” and “Generative Adversarial Networks.” We can see what books and courses our customers are using, and for how long. Should it be?

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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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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance written by Adrian Bece. She is the Principal Designer at 8th Light, where she designs and builds custom software and consults on safe and inclusive design strategy. The Inclusive Safety Project. Eva on Twitter. Eva’s personal site. Weekly Update. Eva: Yeah, absolutely.

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