Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Defenders of Apple's monopoly offer hard-to-test claims, but many boil down to the idea that Apple's product is inferior by necessity. This will, in turn, cause developers to skimp on testing for Safari, making it inevitable that browsers based on WebKit and other minority engines cannot compete. Or so the theory goes.

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

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. After you’ve got everything set up, there are many ways that you can test to make sure your site is being compressed. OK, not really.

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Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The major application for high quality compression of photos is Internet speed. While bandwidth does continue to increase each year, so does the quality and size of most Internet media. High Dynamic Range is also known as HDR and wide color gamut is akin to what people now call “Ultra High Definition” photos and videos.

Media 43

Media Internet Internet Speed 43

All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

See the Route 53 detail page for the exact definitions and how SLA violations will be handled. To support the continuous growth of the Internet it is essential that IPv6 will be enabled. Introducing a new Internet protocol is not a simple feat. Route53 support for WRR load balancing. Elastic Load Balancing support for IPV6.

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Internet Internet AWS Scalability 114

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

So, Smashing Magazine knows about web performance, and if they were struggling, then this could be an interesting test case to look at! There are many ways of measuring your Core Web Vitals , but the definitive way — even if it’s not the best way, as we’ll see soon — is in Google Search Console (GSC).

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Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Both of these metrics are available in Chromium browsers (Chrome, Opera, Samsung Internet, etc) via the Performance API: performance.getEntriesByType('paint'). My analysis will look at performance data from some popular websites in an attempt to figure out whether the paint timing metrics really do answer that question.

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Metrics Performance Testing Testing Internet 49

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

As is the case with many other developers, the reports over the last few years of the huge energy requirements of the web have prompted me to take a look at my own websites and see what I can do to minimize their impact. But first, a confession: When I first heard about the environmental impact of websites, I didn’t quite believe it.

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Website Energy Internet Internet 137

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Also, how to test the hardware of the mobile phone itself, is it supporting all the software as it should? To answer all these questions we need exhaustive mobile testing in place. Let us have a look at the most popular types of mobile testing for applications and hardware. Functional Testing. Usability Testing.

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Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

2014 saw the trend of mobile app testing as they were becoming a multi-billion dollar business all over the world. 2015 saw the trend of scriptless testing and IoT focussed methodologies. So the trend of mobile web testing came into the picture. AI and Machine learning-based testing.

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Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

With the rise of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks using a high quality DNS hosting provider is very important to the redundancy of your website. There is nothing worse for visitors than your website being inaccessible. You can think of a DNS server as a phone book for the internet. So DNS services definitely go down!

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Cache Website Internet Internet 134

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

The Core Web Vitals are a set of three metrics designed to measure the “core” experience of whether a website feels fast or slow to the users, and so gives a good experience. These tools run page loads on simulated networks and devices and then tell you what the metrics were for that test run. What Are The Core Web Vitals?

Google 141

Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 141

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Mainstream desktops had internet explorer with Netscape as an option but it was slower in capturing a significant share. I am sure people at that time had not heard about cross-browser testing. Affordable devices have revolutionized the internet world and still, manufacturers don’t seem to stop. What is cross-browser testing?

Testing 52

Testing Website Cloud Mobile 52

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. Many people often confuse site speed with page speed grades of performance testing tools, which are actually calculated based on multiple factors of a page including its loading speed. How to get these matrics right and not mess up?

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Evaluating page experience for a better web Ignore Lighthouse/PageSpeed Scores This is one of the most pervasive and definitely the most common misunderstandings I see surrounding site-speed and SEO. Core Web Vitals report That’s two definitive statements saying where the data does come from: the field. None whatsoever.

Engineering 246

Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Unexpected outcomes, security, safety, fairness and bias, and privacy are the biggest risks for which adopters are testing. A year after the first web servers became available, how many companies had websites or were experimenting with building them? 16% of respondents working with AI are using open source models.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 111

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. It allows you to quickly audit a website in a number of key areas which together can form a measure of its overall quality. Hello world.

Google 82

Google Latency Website Metrics 82

Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

Watch the “Using Open Source Software to Optimize and Troubleshoot Your MySQL Environment” video sessions Open source software powers the Internet. There’s also WordPress and Drupal, content management systems (CMSes) that power millions of websites worldwide.

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Open Source Software Software Social Media 83

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. It has never been easier to build a personalized website, digitalize a product and start seeing results. Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. Alba Silvente.

Media 109

Media Cache Website Mobile 109

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Note : Another timely note here is that Internet Explorer will reach end of life officially on June 15, 2022 ). While 100vh appears to work on most desktop contexts, you may have experienced the frustration of having what seems like unexpected behavior, particularly when tested on iOS in WebKit browsers. Large preview ).

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Design Availability Mobile Website 145

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 9, 2020

This also puts extra work on the browser to recalculate the page layout as each image arrives across the internet. Many websites may not bother to specify width s and height s on their <img> tags. The user-agent stylesheet is where default CSS definitions are set (e.g. So, it’s a step forward, but not a full solution.

Website 126

Website Code Mobile Network 126

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

I've got a long blog post brewing on this, but jumping to the end, an operable definition is: A browser is an application that can register with an OS to handle http and https navigations by default. Modern browsers like Chrome and Samsung Internet support a long list of features that make web apps more powerful and keep users safer.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

JavaScript-Heavy # Since at least 2015, building JavaScript-first websites has been a predictably terrible idea, yet most of the sites I trace on a daily basis remain mired in script. [1] India's speed test medians are moving quickly, but variance is orders-of-magnitude wide, with 5G penetration below 25% in the most populous areas.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is because HTTP/3 and QUIC mainly help deal with the somewhat uncommon yet potentially high-impact problems that can arise on today’s Internet. This explains the challenges involved in deploying and testing HTTP/3 yourself. The Internet also doesn’t have mechanisms (yet) to signal link capacities back to the endpoints.

Performance 107

Performance Network Latency Servers 107

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance written by Adrian Bece. Definitely trigger warning for explicit mentions of domestic violence, also possibly some elder abuse and child abuse. Definitely anytime you’re allowing users to send any type of text to each other, there’s the possibility for abuse.

Design 101

Design Education Network Google 101

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Websites would magically become 50% faster with the flip of a switch! This explains the challenges involved in deploying and testing HTTP/3 yourself. It’s also one of the reasons we can keep using the Internet with many concurrent users, because it smartly limits each user’s bandwidth usage to their fair share. Did You Know?

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Way back in the days when JavaScript was very much the poorer cousin to HTML and CSS, we didn’t need to think too much about how our scripts could be used as an attack vector for our websites. file hosted as part of their own website on their own server. If it matches, the file is executed. Large preview ).

Website 59

Website Servers Code Best Practices 59

Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

However, we cannot outline the best, but we can definitely analyze which is the best framework to choose in which situations. Testing in Angular & React. Angular offers testing and debugging for a complete project with a single tool, while to do different types of testing, React needs a set of tools. Angular Testing.

Development 52

Development Google Open Source Servers 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Django websites involve a lot of files. As if that wasn’t enough already, sometimes users come along and want to upload their own files to your website. Definitions. One final note is that many libraries for CSS and JavaScript have free CDNs that most websites can use. Philip Kiely. 2020-06-25T12:30:00+00:00.

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Media Cache Storage AWS 70

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

Example: Swedish public transportation website. A wonderful interface of the Swedish public transportation website with a button that’s initially disabled, but becomes accessible once a selection is made. Is there an issue with your Internet connection? Would you like to live in this world? One of the many.

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Design Transportation Code Systems 145

CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 10, 2019

WebPageTest is an online tool and an Open Source project to help developers audit the performance of their websites. How can you test the performance of your users’ flow, when most of it happens client-side and does not have a specific URL to point to? The problem with testing Single Page Applications.

Performance Testing 51

Performance Testing Testing Performance Open Source 51

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Quick Wins.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The internet accounts for an estimated 3–4% of global emissions — equivalent to some countries. The carbon emissions of the internet are roughly equivalent to those generated by the entire aviation industry, or the whole of Africa. Low-effort/high-impact actions are easy wins, and definitely worth prioritizing.

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Strategy Development Energy Website 127

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Testing And Monitoring. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Table Of Contents.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Testing And Monitoring. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Table Of Contents.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 105