Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

For this, you can use such well-known tools as Semrush and SimilarWeb and reviews from Trustpilot , Google Play , and Apple’s App Store. The tool analyzes edX’s rank, traffic sources, advertising, and audience interests. Computer Electronics” and “Technology” appear to be the most popular course categories among edX students.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

And, of course, the result needs to be seamless and delightful — dare we say, even fun — to develop and maintain. Commerce At Shopify Scale: Hydrogen Powered By Oxygen. It runs fast, and I don’t see any errors on my machine [.]” — said every developer.

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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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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. 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.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Before we dive in, I’d just like to note that the authors responsibly disclosed their findings to Google, who have announced that they will be fixing many of the identified issues in AndroidQ. Google, to their credit, have announced that they are addressing many of the issues that we reported to them. most apps).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome who was working all around web performance for decades. DRM-free, of course. For sites with large traffic and a global reach, basic optimizations at build time are usually not enough. DRM-free, of course.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 106

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Google was the first company to create, embrace, and put support behind the role of site reliability engineering. When Google first introduced the role of SRE, they set a goal that half of an SREs time should be focused on reducing future operational work or adding service features.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. Google Keyword Planner. Google Trends. Google Mobile-Friendly Test.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Over the past months, we’ve also worked very closely with Google to bring new SLO capabilities into our Software Intelligence Platform to enable all our users to scale their SRE practices. Read more: Google’s definition of the term Site Reliability Engineering. Release decision making with Service-Level Objectives (SLOs).

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Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 156

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome and focusing around performance for decades. DRM-free, of course. For sites with large traffic and a global reach, basic optimizations at build time are usually not enough. DRM-free, of course.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 93

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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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

For example, if the device is a firewall, it might be configured to block all traffic containing (unknown) extensions. In practice, UDP is mostly used for live traffic that updates at a high rate and thus suffers little from packet loss because missing data is quickly outdated anyway (examples include live video conferencing and gaming).

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. This might be very different for your company, of course, but that’s a close enough approximation of a majority of customers out there.

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High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

That’s mapping applications to the specific architectural choices. Cliff Click : The JVM is very good at eliminating the cost of code abstraction, but not the cost of data abstraction.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

A rough guide if you don’t have any better data is that with no traffic to a system it will be 10% utilization and use 30% of peak power, 25% utilization uses 50% of peak power, and at 50% utilization it uses 75% of peak power. Load peaks can be caused by inefficient initialization code at startup, cron jobs, traffic spikes, or retry storms.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

There are ways around that, of course. Real usage data would be better, of course. For example, the data is limited to Chrome users who are logged into their Google account, so it’s not completely representative of all users. That’s the “thing” I’ve been missing in my performance efforts.

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Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

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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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. Monitoring of the network for the applications using the network, traffic, and bandwidth allocations can improve the network latency. The list goes on and on. Wi-Fi usage.

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Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

The final prompt for a more aggressive optimization was the “Core Web Vitals” dashboard in the Google Search Console. We first thought that it could be related to the cookie banner adjustments we made recently, but it turned out it was a Google Search Update that seemed to be more aggressively penalizing us for a high CLS.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

All of this is, of course, still true for HTTP/3 as well. mvfst (Facebook), MsQuic , (Microsoft), (Google), ngtcp2 , LSQUIC (Litespeed), picoquic , quicly (Fastly). Note that there is an Apache Traffic Server implementation, though.). Maybe someday the Resource Bundles proposal will help with this, but not yet. Implementation.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

However, the above table is not actually representative of total traffic, and that’s another point to note about this data. This could be as simple as logging the values for these options in a Google Analytics Custom Dimension. Websites should still deliver the core experience of the website, but drop optional extras.

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Website Media Mobile Network 103

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Not as much as we'd like, of course, but the worldwide baseline has changed enormously. There are differences, of course, but not where it counts. Sadly, data on latency is harder to get, even from Google's perch, so progress there is somewhat more difficult to judge. Talk about a hard target. I'm happy to report that it has.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

5G enthusiasts frequently say it’s an enabling technology for autonomous vehicles (AV), which will need high bandwidth to download maps and images, and perhaps even to communicate with each other: AV heaven is a world in which all vehicles are autonomous and can therefore collaboratively plan traffic. I have 30 or 40 GB of photos.

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Rigor

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Of course, since websites change daily (in some cases) and scripts can stop working, it is also important to evaluate a tool based on its troubleshooting capabilities, such as: Can you test the script? Of course, configuring a test with different options is only half the battle. Can you specify the location?

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Monitoring Benchmarking Mobile Traffic 59

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Also, the management will be dissatisfied with the decreased traffic and revenue caused by the unoptimized codebase, despite the code quality improvements. 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 Files And Stylesheets.

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Media Performance Cache Strategy 109

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 19, 2017

Let’s face it – the ideal load test emulates real world traffic, yet most load testing software doesn’t come close. Thanks to cloud-based virtual servers, LoadView can send traffic to your site or application from around the world. The next graph shows the number of sessions started over the course of the test.

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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. More traffic is coming from smart devices every year, so don’t neglect mobile testing!

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Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

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 With Terraform's scripted infrastructure, businesses can ensure their content is always available, swiftly rerouting traffic when necessary.‍Additionally,

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Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This method is often called 0-RTT (although, of course, it still takes one round trip for the HTTP response data to start arriving). One of the reasons Google saw very good 0-RTT results for QUIC was that it tested it on its already heavily optimized search page, where query responses are quite small. As for TLS 1.3,

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Performance Network Latency Servers 106

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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The Symphonia

MAY 22, 2018

Of course publishing it on Martin Fowler’s site was always going to get it to a wider audience (thanks Martin!), Fast forward to two years later and the article has had more than half a million visits, regularly appears in the top five Google search results for “Serverless”, and helped launched Symphonia ? Because of course it did.

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Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 18, 2016

Over the course of a single load test you can generate millions of site visits, simulating peak load times on your website. The other extreme for load testing goes even beyond current expected peak traffic levels to truly test the limits of the website infrastructure. Stress Testing with LoadView.

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Software Software Testing Website 40

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 Of course, the latter. Unlike CloudFormation, which was confined to AWS resources, Terraform was designed with a multi-cloud approach in mind.

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Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. Of course, your data might show that your customers are not on these devices, but perhaps they simply don’t show up in your analytics because your service is inaccessible to them due to slow performance.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Chrome users. 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. The performance distribution for Largest Contentful Paint in 2020.

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Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Google and Bing teamed up to present results from their respective experiments with page load time. Google’s results were perhaps even more startling. Based on their daily traffic, they estimated that this increase translated to an astonishing 10.28 Of course, performance is not all that matters. (If Conclusion.

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