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.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Google was the first company to create, embrace, and put support behind the role of site reliability engineering. Since that time, the SRE role has evolved as the industry has changed and shifted from the traditional monolithic structures to large, widely distributed networks and microservices. Monitoring.

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Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

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

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

Signals For Customizing Website User Experience. Signals For Customizing Website User Experience. In this article, I want to spend a bit more time on this, and also look at other signals we can similarly use to help us make decisions on what to load on our websites. Barry Pollard. 2022-03-07T10:30:00+00:00. save the user’s data!

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Website Media Mobile Network 103

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. Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. All those navigations can benefit from the Back/Forward Cache to instantly restore the page. More after jump!

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Cache Games Performance Website 91

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Fairly rapidly, text messaging (SMS, short for “Short Message Service”) was added, as it was baked into the network itself, originally as a way to send messages internally or for testing. Many phones come preinstalled with common apps such as social networking, email, and maps, or with shortcuts to the browser. DRM-free, of course.

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Mobile Design Internet Internet 103

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

These compressed files allow for quicker network transfers so that your website can be loaded as fast as possible. Created by Google in 2013, Brotli is a compression algorithm created by Google for the compression of web fonts. Brotli Compression. In 2015, they released a version to be used for HTTP compression.

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Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 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. Every website or app should provide a way for users to report bugs.

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Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

Smashing Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

That is also something that you can find when using a procurement website. Larger organizations often post their invitations to tender on procurement websites. Websites like Upwork tend to be highly competitive and price sensitive. Networking. The downside of networking is that it is time-consuming and doesn’t scale.

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Social Media Media Network Website 145

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

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. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed. Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

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. This way, you’ll not only have the information you need to read your performance reports come March 2024 but can proactively prepare your website for the change. Let’s walk through the process.

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Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 94

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Faster is better, of course, but the way Lighthouse reports it, a “passing” score comes in between 0 and 1.8 Google keeps a full record of the changelog for reference, so that’s something to keep in mind when evaluating results, especially if you find yourself with different results from others on your team.

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Performance Metrics Monitoring Google 95

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.

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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

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. Each performance chapter is supported by code snippets (via a companion website) and examples to aid in learning.

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Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Deploying the refactored codebase shouldn’t result in worse website performance and worse user experience. After all, users won’t wait around forever for the website to load. Of course, there is the important caveat of having a well-structured CSS codebase structure that doesn’t depend on the rule order. Critical CSS.

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Media Performance Cache Strategy 108

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 90

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. This might be very different for your company, of course, but that’s a close enough approximation of a majority of customers out there. One of the famous examples is Flipkart , India’s largest e-commerce website. Making A Case For Business.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

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. The caveat to be aware of here is that the browser usage data is based on Statcounter , a sampling of 2 million websites. General Debugging Tips.

Design 145

Design Availability Mobile Website 145

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

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

A year after the first web servers became available, how many companies had websites or were experimenting with building them? And of course, companies that don’t use AI don’t need an AI use policy. How will AI adopters react when the cost of renting infrastructure from AWS, Microsoft, or Google rises?

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

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. An often used metaphor is that of a pipe used to transport water. Congestion Control.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 105

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

I wasn’t progressing, our projects were being rejected or de-prioritized by management, and I spent months designing a mobile website and a separate desktop experience for two products only for these to be swiftly brushed to the side. Did you take a short course in front-end development basics? I was once stuck in a full-time job.

Design 126

Design Social Media Website Best Practices 126

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Website and web application technologies have grown tremendously over the years. Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. 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.

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Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

It has never been easier to build a personalized website, digitalize a product and start seeing results. 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. Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. Large preview ).

Media 105

Media Cache Website Mobile 105

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. JavaScript-Heavy # Since at least 2015, building JavaScript-first websites has been a predictably terrible idea, yet most of the sites I trace on a daily basis remain mired in script. [1] What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2022

Websites devoting their spaces to sections especially to download their mobile apps denotes how important mobile applications are for businesses. Network related scenarios in mobile testing. For a robust and reliable mobile application, it is extremely important to adjust according to the network. From the above list.

Mobile 52

Mobile Social Media Testing Media 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Websites would magically become 50% faster with the flip of a switch! It also, however, takes a full network round trip to complete before anything else can be done on a connection. and lower), this typically takes two network round trips. For example, TCP requires a “ handshake ” to set up a new connection.

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Way back in the days when JavaScript was very much the poorer cousin to HTML and CSS, we didn’t need to think too much about how our scripts could be used as an attack vector for our websites. file hosted as part of their own website on their own server. If it matches, the file is executed. Large preview ).

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Website Servers Code Best Practices 57

Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

There’s also WordPress and Drupal, content management systems (CMSes) that power millions of websites worldwide. Consider all the projects in Google’s graveyard, like Google Reader, Stadia, G+, and too many messaging apps to even try to recount. Problem solved! So… is it safe?

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Open Source Software Software Social Media 86

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. Most developers—I hope —aren’t going to rely solely on React to drive such simple behavior for just one thing on their website. Because of this, network performance was not a factor in my measurements. Google Chrome on Nokia 2.

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Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

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

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

Unquestionably, media enlivens websites, adding appeal, excitement, and intrigue, let alone enticements to stay on a page and frequently revisit it. Even though rich media can promote user engagement, we need to balance the cost of delivering them with your website performance and business goals. Akshay Ranganath.

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Media Performance Mobile Latency 117

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

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Google created Kubernetes to help developers better manage their containerized applications across clusters. Of course, managing such apps across more than one machine can get complicated very quickly. Kubernetes Architecture A Kubernetes cluster is a network of containers capable of communicating with each other.

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Virtualization Open Source Network Architecture 47