Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. Win, win, win.

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Engineering Google Website Analytics 131

MachMetrics

OCTOBER 12, 2020

We love hearing from customers who successfully increase their website’s performance. Everyone should just use a static site generator and experience incredible speed increases? For the same reasons Static sites load so quickly, they also scale really well to handle large spikes in traffic. The secret? Let us know below.

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Website Speed Traffic Database 52

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Past swings away from OS default browsers have hinged on the superior features , better performance , improved security , and adequate site compatibility that come from switching. Without the ability to differentiate on features, security, performance, and privacy, what's to sell? What are those mechanisms? A slightly different UI ?

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Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

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. Why This Is a Problem.

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Network Mobile Performance Traffic 225

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. Not the best way to get a high-level view of performance.

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Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Performance optimization is the Rodney Dangerfield of web development–it “don’t get no respect” In spite of its great importance in the overall user experience, it is all too often pushed aside and treated as an afterthought. Performance optimization isn’t that necessary. Performance matters.

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Performance Energy Google Internet 40

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

Of course , they’re going to look to other areas to offset those costs. Here’s the problem though: As a website grows in authority and expands its reach, security and performance problems will arise if the hosting configuration isn’t prepared to handle it. For starters, they’re paying you a large sum of money to design the site.

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Website Servers Design Traffic 48

High Scalability

JULY 19, 2019

Grokking the System Design Interview is a popular course on Educative.io (taken by 20,000+ people) that's widely considered the best System Design interview resource on the Internet. PerfOps is a data platform that digests real-time performance data for CDN and DNS providers as measured by real users worldwide. Apply here.

Education 22

Education Metrics Engineering Java 22

High Scalability

AUGUST 20, 2019

Grokking the System Design Interview is a popular course on Educative.io (taken by 20,000+ people) that's widely considered the best System Design interview resource on the Internet. PerfOps is a data platform that digests real-time performance data for CDN and DNS providers as measured by real users worldwide. Apply here.

Education 22

Education Metrics Engineering Java 22

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Large Seasonal Peaks – Our largest community supports TurboTax where the peak traffic during February or April is often 100s of times greater than a quiet day in June. Of course, with as much textual data as we have we are leveraging Lucene/SOLR (a NoSQL solution) for Search and Semantic processing. the recoverability of data.

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

High Scalability

AUGUST 6, 2019

Grokking the System Design Interview is a popular course on Educative.io (taken by 20,000+ people) that's widely considered the best System Design interview resource on the Internet. PerfOps is a data platform that digests real-time performance data for CDN and DNS providers as measured by real users worldwide. Apply here.

Education 22

Education Metrics Engineering Java 22

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 will get us straight to the application page, where we get more insight on how our front end actually performs.

Metrics 168

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 168

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Grokking the System Design Interview is a popular course on Educative.io (taken by 20,000+ people) that's widely considered the best System Design interview resource on the Internet. PerfOps is a data platform that digests real-time performance data for CDN and DNS providers as measured by real users worldwide. Apply here.

Education 21

Education Metrics Engineering Java 21

High Scalability

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Grokking the System Design Interview is a popular course on Educative.io (taken by 20,000+ people) that's widely considered the best System Design interview resource on the Internet. PerfOps is a data platform that digests real-time performance data for CDN and DNS providers as measured by real users worldwide. Apply here.

Education 21

Education Metrics Engineering Java 21

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Grokking the System Design Interview is a popular course on Educative.io (taken by 20,000+ people) that's widely considered the best System Design interview resource on the Internet. PerfOps is a data platform that digests real-time performance data for CDN and DNS providers as measured by real users worldwide. Apply here.

Education 21

Education Metrics Engineering Java 21

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 91

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Refactoring CSS: Optimizing Size And Performance (Part 3). Refactoring CSS: Optimizing Size And Performance (Part 3). Deploying the refactored codebase shouldn’t result in worse website performance and worse user experience. Part 3: Optimizing Size And Performance. Adrian Bece. 2021-08-30T10:00:00+00:00. More after jump!

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Media Performance Cache Strategy 109

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.

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Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 95

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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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 134

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

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

AUGUST 22, 2021

HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). In this second part, we will zoom in on the performance improvements that QUIC and HTTP/3 bring to the table for web-page loading. HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). A Primer on Speed. Robin Marx.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 106

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. Defining your target by setting a Service-Level Objective (SLO).

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Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 149

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Choosing the right backup frequency: The appropriate frequency, of course, will vary from one organization to another. Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN): This enables users of Oracle databases to perform full, incremental, and differential backups. In DR, load balancers route traffic to the secondary data center when a failover occurs.

Database 87

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 87

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. " Of course, no technology change happens in isolation, and at the same time NoSQL was evolving, so was cloud computing.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

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. Web monitoring is a comprehensive term that describes the activity of testing a website or web application for its availability and performance. Performance during a load.

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Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

This is where your performance goes. A typical example of modern "microservices-inspired" Java application would function along these lines: Netflix : We observed during experimentation that RAM random read latencies were rarely higher than 1 microsecond whereas typical SSD random read speeds are between 100–500 microseconds.

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Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

LCP is supposed to measure loading performance and is a good proxy for all the old metrics we in the performance community used to use (i.e. Time to First Byte (TTFB), DOM Content Loaded, Start Render, Speed Index) — but from the experience of the user. Previous Web Performance Metrics. SpeedIndex (SI).

Google 140

Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

TL;DR: performance budgets are an essential but under-appreciated part of product success and team health. Nobody is trying to do a poor job, and yet the results of a “completed” PWA project often require weeks or months of painstaking rework to deliver minimally acceptable performance. Partner meetings are illuminating.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

If after the previous two parts — HTTP/3 history and core concepts and HTTP/3 performance features — you’re convinced that starting to use the new protocols is a good idea (and you should be!), HTTP/3 performance features. All of this is, of course, still true for HTTP/3 as well. This is more in-depth and technical.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 105

Particular Software

JUNE 1, 2020

Any queue traffic between applications on different machines would be between MSMQ instances, using MSMQ’s specific communication. Creating a hybrid cloud solution for reports Of course, unexpected things always come up in big projects like this, and in this case, our surprise “gotcha” was SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports.

Cloud 52

Cloud Transportation Azure Government 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started  ‍Of course, the latter.

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Correspondingly, 3GB functions should see a 2x CPU performance improvement over 1.5GB Lambdas, but this is through doubling the number of cores the function has access to, rather than double the virtualized time-slices. That means that 3GB functions might not see a linear speed bump for primarily single threaded functions.

Serverless 40

Serverless Lambda AWS Traffic 40

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Real-time monitoring can help detect any anomalies as soon as they happen, thereby increasing the speed at which problems can be diagnosed and solved. ‍It Of course, the latter. It enables DevOps teams to manage, configure, and automate infrastructure in a streamlined fashion.

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Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Calling this type of migration “fast” is a bit of a stretch, of course, if we talk about the whole application, but separate features clearly can be delivered to the users much faster. You can always fall back to iframe , of course, and get this level of independence. This should come as absolutely unclear title, of course.

Architecture 74

Architecture Virtualization Servers Technology 74

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I gave a talk about container performance recently at DockerCon, and included a quick summary of how they work: YouTube , SlideShare : If you search of slideshare and youtube, you'll find many other good talks on containers as well. People rarely create them manually.

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

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