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Site-Speed Topography Remapped

CSS Wizardry

This is an update to my 2020 article Site-Speed Topography. Around two and a half years ago, I debuted my Site-Speed Topography technique for getting broad view of an entire site’s performance from just a handful of key URLs and some readily available metrics. What Is Site-Speed Topography? Are any metrics over budget?

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Site-Speed Topography

CSS Wizardry

When first working on a new site-speed engagement, you need to work out quickly where the slowdowns, blindspots, and inefficiencies lie. Of course, it’s a little more complex than that, but for this exercise it’s an incredibly reliable proxy. Now, let’s move on to gaps between First Contentful Paint and Speed Index.

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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

In the fourteen years that I've been working in the web performance industry, I've done a LOT of research, writing, and speaking about the psychology of page speed – in other words, why we crave fast, seamless online experiences. In fairness, that was in the early 2000s, and site speed was barely on anyone's radar.

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Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring

Smashing Magazine

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.

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Mobile Page Speed Testing

MachMetrics

In fact, failing to run a mobile page speed test is the number 1 speed testing mistake we see our users make! If you’re unsure of how your website performs on a mobile device (or even got a poor result on a speed audit), stick with us. All of these things can be achieved with a faster mobile speed. Of course not.

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Speed Up of the WAL Archiving in PostgreSQL 15

Percona

PostgreSQL’s archiver process wakes up every 60 seconds (default) and tries to address every pending WAL segment by executing an internal function pgarch_ArchiverCopyLoop(); Which in turn executes the archive_command for each of the WAL segment files. -rw - 1 postgres postgres 0 Dec 21 04:38 0000000200000008000000E4.done

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Best Web Performance Books to Learn Site Speed Optimization

MachMetrics

If you’re looking to read optimization ideas from one of the greatest minds in speed performance, look no further. Souders presents his 14 rules throughout the course of the book while discussing the importance of front-end performance. If these rules can be applied to improving speeds at Yahoo!

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