KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Most of you have probably seen the following Google PageSpeed Insights optimization suggestion at one point or another when running a speed test: By compressing and adjusting the size of … you can save 14.2 An easy way to compress images is with our image processing service that happens to also be fully integrated into our existing network.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

you should definitely check it out if you don’t already know it!). 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. most apps). Finding out how those apps leak data.

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Systems Traffic Network Google 74

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

While DevOps is often referred to as “agile operations,” the widely quoted definition from Jez Humble, co-author of The DevOps Handbook, calls it “a cross-disciplinary community of practice dedicated to the study of building, evolving, and operating rapidly-changing resilient systems at scale.”

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DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency 205

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

LCP, or Largest Contentful Paint , is one of the three Core Web Vitals that you must “pass” to get the full search ranking boost from Google as part of their Page Experience Update. From an SEO perspective, it doesn’t really matter what other tools tell you, GSC is what Google Search sees. The issue was that LCP was too slow on mobile.

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Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

In this post I want to look at how CSS can prove to be a substantial bottleneck on the network (both in itself and for other resources) and how we can mitigate it, thus shortening the Critical Path and reducing our time to Start Render. Employ Critical CSS. The same waterfall occurs in Opera and Safari.). it can often be a net loss.

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Network Performance Media Cache 278

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

But we’ll definitely help you decide which is the best choice for your situation. These compressed files allow for quicker network transfers so that your website can be loaded as fast as possible. Created by Google in 2013, Brotli is a compression algorithm created by Google for the compression of web fonts.

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Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

Popular search engines like Google give preference to websites that are mobile-ready[4]. It also lets you perform mobile website testing on throttling network conditions – a scenario that is so real in today’s world where the usage of mobile internet is rising at an alarming rate! Mobile-first indexing.

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Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

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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Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This is a question recently asked and explored by a team of Google researchers led by Jeff Dean with a major focus on database indexes. Jeff is a Google Senior Fellow in the Google Brain team and widely known as a pioneer in artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning community. Learned Bloom filters. What's next.

Artificial Intelligence 40

Artificial Intelligence Hardware Google Benchmarking 40

Dean Hume

AUGUST 8, 2017

Watching videos of developers showcasing their work is definitely one of my favourite ways of learning new things! I am always looking for ways to improve the performance of my websites, so this definitely sparked my interest. As he was demoing his code, I noticed that he created an awesome little helper library to lazy load images.

Code 58

Code Website Media Efficiency 58

Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

Basically, TTFB is a measure of back-end and network performance. Web Developer Programs Engineer at Google Rick Viscomi , the thresholds for fast/average/slow TTFB are 200 ms at the upper limit and 1000 ms at the lower limit. Note: According to Sr. First Contentful Paint: Is It Happening? First Meaningful Paint: Is It Useful?

Ecommerce 87

Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Remote calls are never free; they impose extra latency, increase probability of an error, and consume network bandwidth. By default, gRPC uses protobuf as its IDL (interface definition language) and data serialization protocol. Our protobuf message definition (.proto FieldMask is a protobuf message.

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Design Java Efficiency Code 245

KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

According to SplashData's annual list that they compile, the top ten most widely used passwords are: 123456 password 12345 12345678 qwerty 123456789 1234 baseball dragon football These are definitely not the types of passwords we recommend using! KeyCDN uses Google Authenticator to provide an authentication code which is used to log in.

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Transportation Website Google Infrastructure 47

Dean Hume

AUGUST 8, 2017

Watching videos of developers showcasing their work is definitely one of my favourite ways of learning new things! I am always looking for ways to improve the performance of my websites, so this definitely sparked my interest. As he was demoing his code, I noticed that he created an awesome little helper library to lazy load images.

Code 40

Code Website Media Efficiency 40

Dean Hume

AUGUST 8, 2017

Watching videos of developers showcasing their work is definitely one of my favourite ways of learning new things! I am always looking for ways to improve the performance of my websites, so this definitely sparked my interest. As he was demoing his code, I noticed that he created an awesome little helper library to lazy load images.

Code 40

Code Website Media Efficiency 40

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

It makes an interesting juxtaposition to the approach Google took with Snap that we looked at last time out. Serval is a framework for developing automated verifiers of systems software. When it comes to branches etc.,

Code 45

Code Systems Programming Google 45

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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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Full disclosure: I helped design Web Components and, with Dimitri Glazkov and Alex Komoroske , helped lead the team at Google that brought them from concept to reality. Service Workers do this for network caching and AppCache. I likewise can’t attend the second Extensible Web Summit and so have a bit of time to respond here.

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Google Tuning Cache Design 41

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

There are many definitions of environmental sustainability, most of which converge on a common theme: collectively and individually, we have a responsibility to act to protect global ecosystems and support health and wellbeing, now and in the future. Sustainability seeks a balance between human activity and the natural world.

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Energy Airlines Analytics Transportation 188

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

But pages keep getting bigger and more complex year over year – and this increasing size and complexity is not fully mitigated by faster devices and networks, or by our hard-working browsers. How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? Clearly we need to keep talking about it.

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Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. Core Web Vital metrics definitions. SEO is key to our success.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. There are self-hosted alternatives to Google Analytics, after all. Analytics is a good example. That’s one example and a common one at that.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 90

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2 Lighthouse.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

This is helpful for those on poor or expensive networks, so they don’t have to pay an exorbitant cost just to visit your website. However, countless research (including the stats for our own site here, and others by the likes of Alex Russell ) has shown that Android devices are the platform of choice for poorer countries with slower networks.

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Website Media Mobile Network 103

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

The other issue is that the data I’m getting back is based on lab simulations where I can add throttling, determine the device that’s used, and the network connection, among other simulated conditions. On that note, it’s worth calling out that there are multiple flavors of network throttling. Real usage data would be better, of course.

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Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

The secret sharer: evaluating and testing unintended memorization in neural networks Carlini et al., Take a system trained to make predictions on a language (word or character) model – an example you’re probably familiar with is Google Smart Compose. USENIX Security Symposium 2019. Wrapping up.

Network 55

Network Testing Strategy Google 55

High Scalability

JUNE 29, 2018

jedberg : Despite being a strong advocate for AWS, this is where I will say Google completely outshines Amazon. Google's approach to pricing is, "do it as efficiently and quickly as possible, and we'll make sure that's the cheapest option". Google applies bulk discounts after the fact, AWS makes you ask for them ahead of time.

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Scalability Internet Internet Wireless 131

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

While experienced AI developers are starting to leave powerhouses like Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft, not enough are leaving to meet demand—and most of them will probably gravitate to startups rather than adding to the AI talent within established companies. Microsoft, Google, IBM, and OpenAI have offered more general indemnification.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s the newest metric of the bunch and is set to formally be a ranking factor in Google search results beginning in March 2024. This is readily available in PageSpeed Insights and Google Search Console, not to mention DebugBear. DebugBear actually tests with a slower network, resulting in more accurate data.

Traffic 94

Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 94

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

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. For a browser to serve as the user's agent, it must also receive navigations. " you might ask?

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

The Morning Paper

JUNE 18, 2019

The authors of today’s paper should know a thing or two about that: Jeffrey Mogul and John Wilkes at Google 1 ! Control loop SLOs express the active management actions a provider will take, e.g. shedding of low-priority load will occur on over-utilised network links. Why are SLOs so hard to define? Creating an SLA seems simple: de?

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Metrics Cloud Google Network 79

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? and 75KiB of JavaScript. These are generous targets.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

In 2016, Google made it clear that since mobile traffic is more than all else, mobile-friendly websites will be prioritised when a user searches on mobile. With such a boom in the IoT industry, in 2022, it will definitely be one thing to look forward to. 2015 saw the trend of scriptless testing and IoT focussed methodologies.

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Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

, and the Head Performance Engineer at Google. and Google, they’ll do wonders for your website! Sounders, along with 8 expert contributors, expands upon the tips in the first book and offers best practices in JavaScript, network, and browser optimization. Definitely a must read for whoever is interested in web performance!

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Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. If your average visitor is on a fast cabled or cellular network, they probably won’t benefit from the new protocols all that much. An often used metaphor is that of a pipe used to transport water. Congestion Control.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 105

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

As seen in the discussions about privacy at Facebook and AI-powered imaging at Google among other examples, when there are no ethical considerations during the creation of technology then the interaction between humans is compromised. You’ll definitely notice a few strong patterns and a lot of overlap. Credit: Devin Harold.

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Code Design Education Government 137

Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

Consider all the projects in Google’s graveyard, like Google Reader, Stadia, G+, and too many messaging apps to even try to recount. That said – licenses that meet the Open Source Definition (OSD) from the Open Source Initiative (OSI) have conditions triggered on distribution rather than use.

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Open Source Software Software Social Media 81