Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Here is our (ever-growing!) Jake Archibald.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

Most page speed audit tools will send you an error letting you know if your site is not being compressed, however, we really like this tool from Varvy , as it shows you just how much page weight is being saved through compression. Created by Google in 2013, Brotli is a compression algorithm created by Google for the compression of web fonts.

Speed 67

Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

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.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Google Website 106

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Google Chrome is currently one of the most popular web browsers used by developers today. According to StatCounter , as of September 2019, Google Chrome holds 63.72% browser market share across the globe. What Are the Google Chrome DevTools? This can be beneficial if you are wanting to test more accurately at a specific speed.

Google 85

Google Website Network Media 85

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.

Speed 292

Speed Ecommerce Metrics Analytics 292

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Most Linux users cannot afford the amount of resource large enterprises like Google put into custom Linux performance tuning… For Google of course, there’s an economy of scale that makes all that effort worth it. Userspace page fault handling allows a userspace process to handle page faults for a specific memory region.

Performance 108

Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

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.

Speed 81

Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

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

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The major application for high quality compression of photos is Internet speed. AVIF Applications The main application of AVIF has to do with producing high quality compressed photos that lose as little quality as possible during the compression process.

Media 43

Media Internet Internet Speed 43

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. Make sure to follow us there!

Speed 85

Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

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. You Will Need….

Network 225

Network Mobile Performance Traffic 225

Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2022

Keptn: A reference implementation of Google’s SRE principles. Software engineer Taras Tsugrii of Meta (formerly Facebook) paid Keptn a high compliment, saying it feels like a reference implementation of Google’s SRE principles , which are the search giant’s techniques for ensuring the integrity of its sites and services.

Open Source 186

Open Source DevOps Cloud Metrics 186

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.

Website 110

Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

To speed up release frequency, they’re investing in delivery-pipeline automation. The flip side of speeding up delivery, however, is that each software release comes with the risk of impacting your goals of availability, performance, or any business KPIs. Scale and automate SRE into your delivery processes with Dynatrace.

Metrics 151

Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 151

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.

Google 91

Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 91

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. First, FID is a measure of the time it takes the page to start processing an interaction or the input delay. It only looks at the delay of the event process. Let’s walk through the process.

Traffic 95

Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 95

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Thankfully, there’s been a flurry of recent studies and new tools that help to both demonstrate the value of a high-performing site and simplify the process of getting there. Google and Bing teamed up to present results from their respective experiments with page load time. Google’s results were perhaps even more startling.

Performance 40

Performance Energy Google Internet 40

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Individual pages can be spot checked via the CrUX API or tools such as Page Speed Insights But as Cliff's already covered in How to find (and fix!) The one for the menu was the longest and had INP time of 350ms – in other words, 150ms longer than Google's 200ms threshold for 'Good'. Does the stylesheet need to be injected?

Analytics 91

Analytics Processing Google Mobile 91

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.

Google 140

Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

However still far from Google ($28B) and Facebook ($13.2B). Of course, in some cases the difference to performance is small enough that one can live with it, but it’s often bad enough to be a problem. We fairly frequently see performance get 5% or more worse over time in a single process execution.

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

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. Of course, not all automation is created equal. Enhances DevOps productivity.

Monitoring 147

Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Users and Nonusers AI adoption is in the process of becoming widespread, but it’s still not universal. Until AI reaches 100%, it’s still in the process of adoption. Automating the process of building complex prompts has become common, with patterns like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and tools like LangChain.

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Spend enough time running websites through PageSpeed Insights and you’ll notice that Google has a major beef with traditional image formats like JPG, PNG and even GIF. Google developed WebP back in 2010 after acquiring a company called On2 Technologies.

Website 72

Website Speed Cache Google 72

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Whether you’re just starting out with Figma or have been using it for a good while now, this post will give you just enough pointers to make your design process faster and smoother. Google Fonts. Google Sheets sync. Your design process just got a bit less stressful. Table of Contents. Also, take a look at the other.

Google 145

Google Design Code Mobile 145

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.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The time from when the user interacts with the page to the time the browser is able to process the request. Core Web Vitals are the subset of Web Vitals that Google has identified as having the greatest impact on the end-user experience. The render time of the largest image or text block is visible within the viewport.

Benchmarking 117

Benchmarking Metrics Best Practices Monitoring 117

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Regardless of how much the CSS codebase has been improved during the refactoring process and how much more maintainable and extendable it is, the final stylesheet needs to be optimized for the best possible performance and least possible file size. Removing Unused CSS.

Media 109

Media Performance Cache Strategy 109

Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

Our themes had pretty good speed scores for how much they offered, but they were undoubtedly bloated. Moving away from jQuery was a blessing, but a long process. No, of course not. Desktop home page speeds (with heavy elements like multiple videos, featured products, slideshows with large images). Our Goal Was Simple.

Performance 90

Performance Mobile Speed Code 90

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2018

A couple of years ago, Google announced a new mobile-first initiative it wanted web designers and marketers to pick up on. However, as Google launched this initiative a couple of years ago, its had time to quietly observe users in these micro-moments as well as the websites that have most aptly responded to them. Suzanne Scacca.

Design 62

Design Google Website Small Business 62

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

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. To get that release speed, Snap needs to be a user space solution. SOSP’19. It reminds me of ZeroMQ.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

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. Meanwhile, budget segment devices have finally started to see improvement ( as this series predicted ), thanks to hand-me-down architecture and process node improvements.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

jaybo_nomad : The Allen Institute for Brain Science is in the process of imaging 1 cubic mm of mouse visual cortex using TEM at a resolution of 4nm per pixel. That’s mapping applications to the specific architectural choices. That means multiple data indirections mean multiple cache misses. They are very expensive.

Internet 121

Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

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. In addition, there is support for including it in many build processes, such as postCSS (the method I use). General Debugging Tips.

Design 145

Design Availability Mobile Website 145

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Recommendations can come out of audits from consultants or from automated tools like Lighthouse (or SpeedCurve, of course). Before allowing a new third party, implement a vetting process to make sure it passes some basic guidelines around performance. This is typically the work you'd throw into an optimization sprint (or twenty).

Performance 143

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”. It is physically limited by the speed of light or, practically, how fast signals can travel in wires or in the open air.

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

MachMetrics

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

“Well of course these sites load quickly, there’s nothing there!” These often add a lot of time to the loading process and don’t add value of any kind. Looking again at the websites above, you’ll see that Google uses one image (their logo), Craigslist uses 0(!), Source: ThinkWithGoogle. Craigslist.

Website 57

Website Speed Google Cache 57

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

File hashing is the process of taking a file and running it through an algorithm that reduces it to a short string representation, known as a hash or checksum. It’s not a cryptographic process — it’s just a fast and convenient way to encode potentially messy data in a way that translates neatly to ASCII. Conclusion.

Website 58

Website Servers Code Best Practices 58