Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores. Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores. Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. Zara Cooper.

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Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 130

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking Marty et al., This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. ” That’s 4-8x the speed of evolution and feedback cycles. ” That’s 4-8x the speed of evolution and feedback cycles.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

CSS Wizardry

JUNE 30, 2023

I never thought I’d write an article in defence of DOMContentLoaded , but here it is… For many, many years now, performance engineers have been making a concerted effort to move away from technical metrics such as Load , and toward more user-facing, UX metrics such as Speed Index or Largest Contentful Paint. performance.

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Metrics Google Monitoring Analytics 326

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

I love conversations about performance, and I'm fortunate enough to have them a lot. I hope this post can serve that purpose and cover a few of the fundamental areas of web performance that I’ve found to be most useful while honing the craft of product management. How is performance measured? The audience varies.

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MachMetrics

JANUARY 23, 2020

You run a speed test on a website, and the results don’t match what you personally experience. Perhaps you feel like your site loads fairly quickly, but the speed test results are sub-optimal. It’s one of the most common (and frustrating) scenarios in web performance testing. Don’t stress over a score.

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Speed Testing Website Cache 62

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.

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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.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. However, just as out-of-control spending bodes ill in the long run, so does unbudgeted digital media decimate site performance. Of the many factors that affect page-load speed, media is a significant one. Performance Budgets. “A

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Media Performance Mobile Latency 117

Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

So many default to Amazon RDS, when MySQL performs exceptionally well on Azure Cloud. In this post, we outline the best way to host MySQL on Azure , including managed solutions, instance types, high availability replication, backup, and disk types to use to optimize your cloud database performance. Azure Virtual Networks.

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Azure Cloud Virtualization Database 219

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In today’s world, the speed of innovation is key to business success. WAFs protect the network perimeter and monitor, filter, or block HTTP traffic. A key requirement for agent technology is avoiding a negative impact on performance. Dynatrace news. Unfortunately, they also introduce risk.

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Traffic Benchmarking Innovation Java 231

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Making applications observable—relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and how it’s performing—has become increasingly important as workloads are shifting to multicloud environments. This allows us to quickly tell whether the network link may be saturated or the processor is running at its limit.

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Metrics Monitoring Database Network 168

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. For this article, we will focus on the first three and the performance adjustments for these.

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 115

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. Barry Pollard. 2022-05-09T10:30:00+00:00. 2022-05-09T17:34:14+00:00. The HTTP Cache is a disk cache.

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Cache Games Performance Website 91

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2022

This increased automation, resilience, and efficiency helps DevOps teams speed up software delivery and accelerate the feedback loop — ultimately allowing them to innovate faster and more confidently. It may have third-party calls, such as content delivery networks, or more complex requests to a back end or microservice-based application.

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DevOps Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Innovation 192

Brendan Gregg

JULY 15, 2019

BPF (eBPF) tracing is a superpower that can analyze everything, and I'll show you how in my upcoming book BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability , coming soon from Addison Wesley. I learned firsthand how to bring beginners from different backgrounds up to speed. I've followed this proven approach in my book.

Systems 111

Systems Performance Education Technology 111

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Despite advances in browser tooling , automated evaluation , lab tools , guidance , and runtimes , however, teams struggle to deliver even decent performance with today's popular frameworks. What is Performance? It may seem a silly question, but what is performance, exactly?

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Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

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. Rachel Andrew.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Rigor

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Reading time 9 min When it comes to managing web performance, it’s vital to be proactive rather than reactive. To accomplish this goal, an organization needs to build internal processes and procedures that can operationalize a performance-first culture. The first step is to establish and implement web performance budgets.

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Performance Metrics Website Speed 45

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. This leads to longer startup times, and if the network cannot supply the video fast enough, the video will stall during video playback. Bitrate is the playback speed of the video.

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Network Speed Website Mobile 143

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. Every web performance story is similar, isn’t it? A day when a project, fully polished and carefully optimized, gets launched, ranking high and soaring above performance scores in Lighthouse and WebPageTest. Vitaly Friedman.

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Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Particular Software

MARCH 1, 2021

Of course, there are upfront and ongoing costs associated with any computer network. The servers themselves, cabling, network switches, racks, load balancers, firewalls, power equipment, air handling, security, rent/mortgage, not to mention experienced staff to keep it all running smoothly, all come with a cost.

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Transportation Network Cloud Design 98

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2019

Managing The Execution Speed of The Slaves. With these settings, we will be able to get better parallelization and speed on the slave, but if there are too many parallel threads, the overhead involved in coordinating between the threads will also increase and can unfortunately offset the benefits. slave_preserve_commit_order = 1.

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Availability Tuning Speed Network 113

Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

Indexes are generally considered to be the panacea when it comes to SQL performance tuning, and PostgreSQL supports different types of indexes catering to different use cases. I keep seeing many articles and talks on “tuning” discussing how creating new indexes speeds up SQL but rarely ones discussing removing them.

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Tuning Cache Storage Database 128

Tasktop

JUNE 25, 2019

The complex — and often implicit — network of teams, tools and processes that plan, build and deliver are disconnected by the role-specific tools used by teams across the ideate, create, release and operate stages. . Architecting for flow is crucial because enterprise software delivery, by its very nature, is a broken process. Learn more.

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Speed Software Software DevOps 40

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. What follows are my findings on React performance as I’ve tried to meet this challenge in a way that’s best for users. Because of this, network performance was not a factor in my measurements. The conditions.

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Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. But not everything about performance happens directly at the code level, right?

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 90

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. Some of the biggest size savings and performance improvements can come through a better image optimization strategy. Large view.

Media 105

Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

Speed Curve

JUNE 14, 2021

I’m delighted to be joining some of my favourite web performance people at SpeedCurve! I’ve been a full-time web performance consultant for around nine years. We were already using both synthetic and network-based real user monitoring (RUM) tools to measure how fast our site was, so we knew we had room to improve.

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Retail Internet Internet Education 52

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. The better the performance, the better chance that users stay on a page, read content, make purchases, or just about whatever they need to do. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Again, every millisecond counts.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

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. Some of the biggest size savings and performance improvements can come through a better image optimization strategy. Get the eBook.

Media 92

Media Cache Google Best Practices 92

The Morning Paper

JULY 11, 2019

View-centric performance optimization for database-backed web applications Yang et al., The problem set-up in this paper discusses the importance of keeping web page load times low as a fundamental contributor to user satisfaction (See e.g. ‘ Why performance matters ’). on average, and up to 38x. Introducing Panorama. Cost estimation.

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Database Performance Speed Servers 47

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Microservices architecture combines loosely-coupled functions to create high-performing applications. OpenShift makes it possible to create and deploy cloud-native microservices at scale, either to enhance existing application performance or build entirely new apps from the ground up. Speeds up development.

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Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

If you’re reading this before March 2024 and fire up your favorite performance monitoring tool, you’re going to to get a Core Web Vitals report like this one pulled from PageSpeed Insights: ( Large preview ) You’re likely used to seeing most of these metrics. INP will officially replace FID when it becomes an official Core Web Vital metric.

Traffic 94

Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 94

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

TL;DR: performance budgets are an essential but under-appreciated part of product success and team health. We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Performance budgets are set early in the life of the project. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68