CSS Wizardry

JULY 11, 2023

One of the promises of H/2 was infinite parallel requests (up from the historical six concurrent connections in H/1). Of course, a late-discovered file will also be late-useful, but really the only thing that matters is usefulness. We’re still limited by device and network constraints. Let’s unpack it! Fifty-two seconds.

Games 130

Games Network Engineering Processing 130

Particular Software

JUNE 3, 2019

The availability of bandwidth increases at a staggering rate, but we're never happy. But although bandwidth keeps growing, the amount of data and our need for it grows faster. When transferring lots of data in a given period of time, network congestion can easily occur and affect the absolute speed at which we're able to download.

Latency 40

Latency Speed Network Strategy 40

Apica

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Indeed, there was a time when applications were vertical stacks of software atop networks and servers wholly owned by the company. In today’s distributed cloud application environments, no matter how many front-end tests an organization runs, there are still infinite ways something could go wrong in front of users.

Retail 52

Retail Website Infrastructure Software Architecture 52

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. seconds on the target device and network profile, consuming 120KiB of critical path resources to become interactive, only 8KiB of which is script. What's changed since last year? Going forward, I'll produce both as top-line guidance.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

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. Live by the link, die by the link.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Below you’ll find a (hopefully unbiased and objective) front-end performance checklist for 2021 — an updated overview of the issues you might need to consider to ensure that your response times are fast, user interaction is smooth and your sites don’t drain user’s bandwidth. Get a free trial of LogRocket today. Table Of Contents.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Below you’ll find a (hopefully unbiased and objective) front-end performance checklist for 2020 — an updated overview of the issues you might need to consider to ensure that your response times are fast, user interaction is smooth and your sites don’t drain user’s bandwidth. Vitaly Friedman. 2020-01-06T10:30:13+00:00. Table Of Contents.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145