Smashing Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

One of the biggest pains of working with statically generated websites is the incrementally slower builds as your app grows. Though not recommended for real-world scenarios (you will want to pre-render your traffic-heavy routes), it marks clearly the range of build-time performance improvement we can achieve with this approach.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

This market then funds all of the R&D and operational costs of search engines, including "traffic acquisition costs" like browser default placement deals. [2]. Mobile accounts for two-thirds of web traffic (or thereabouts ), making outsized iOS adoption among wealthy users particularly salient to publishers and advertisers.

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Speed Curve

JULY 10, 2023

Setting up conversion tracking in SpeedCurve RUM is fairly simple and definitely worthwhile. The performance of your website can make or break engagement with your users. This allows you to see if improvements to conversion are consistent or more variable and not as definitive. This post covers: What is a conversion?

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Rich Howard is the founder and CEO of Optimal , a company dedicated to improving the performance of websites and mobile apps. When working on a project for the Man Booker Prize in 2007 (now known as the Booker Prize), Howard saw first-hand how a heavy-load day could impact a website. Introducing…Rich Howard. Practical planning.

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Rigor

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Let’s start with a brief definition of two of the more prominent web performance methodologies: synthetic monitoring and real user monitoring (also known as RUM). Synthetic monitoring vendors provide a remote (often global) infrastructure that visits a website periodically and records the performance data for each run.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

Signals For Customizing Website User Experience. Signals For Customizing Website User Experience. In this article, I want to spend a bit more time on this, and also look at other signals we can similarly use to help us make decisions on what to load on our websites. Barry Pollard. 2022-03-07T10:30:00+00:00. save the user’s data!

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Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

Reading Time: 8 minutes Whether your ecommerce business is 100% online or you supplement with bricks and mortar, your website is a critical revenue driver. When your website isn’t performing optimally, you risk not only your revenue but also your reputation as a trusted resource. First Contentful Paint: Is It Happening?

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study). Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study). That was until we went to production with our highest traffic customer. is amazing, but there are definitely some challenges. ESLint ,” official website.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

See the Route 53 detail page for the exact definitions and how SLA violations will be handled. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. Route53 support for WRR load balancing. Elastic Load Balancing support for IPV6. To support the continuous growth of the Internet it is essential that IPv6 will be enabled.

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Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

PostgreSQL supports sharding, which allows data to be distributed across multiple servers, making it ideal for high-traffic websites and applications. It has a proven track record of handling large volumes of data and high-traffic websites. Reliability PostgreSQL is known for its reliability and stability.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

All Core Web Vitals data used to rank you is taken from actual Chrome-based traffic to your site. 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. None whatsoever.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This way, you’ll not only have the information you need to read your performance reports come March 2024 but can proactively prepare your website for the change. In other words, the data is not looking at your actual web traffic but a simulated environment that gives you an approximate view of traffic when certain conditions are in place.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Note : We will soon improve the drill-downs to Davis problems directly from existing SLO definitions so that SRE teams can benefit more from the Dynatrace Davis AI engine. Read more: Google’s definition of the term Site Reliability Engineering. Build your own Site Reliability Engineering dashboards.

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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. On the plus side, for the last few days, the mean is actually higher than the p75 value since p75, by definition, filters out the extremes completely.

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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. Oddly enough we encountered this error to a third party website while writing this article.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We can expand the metric to glean insights into what exactly is causing traffic on the main thread. Monitoring Interaction to Next Paint There’s going to be a new way to gain insights into main thread traffic when Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is released as a new core vital metric in March 2024. What’s so important about that?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 17, 2019

scaling up in case more resources are needed, redirect traffic for certain users, clear log directories, … In order to react fast, it is mandatory to automate as many of these tasks. If you follow the instructions on the keptn website or the keptn GitHub repo , you end up creating a new project and onboarding a new service.

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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. So the trend of mobile web testing came into the picture.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. For basic and simple websites, a developer was able to easily automate these checks and fix any problems before a user encountered them. The recipe was straightforward. Do you have a database?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

This is high-quality data from actual website visitors, for example based on Google’s Chrome User Experience (CrUX) Report. It’s another type of real-user monitoring takes real traffic from your site and sends the information over for extremely accurate results. A second type of data is called real-user data.

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. 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. "What, then, is a 'browser'?"

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

Especially if going into or out of storage types that may throttle bandwidth/network traffic. Until then, you can find more details on the Percona Backup for MongoDB Documentation page on our website. Hence the speed to back up the data with mongodump is definitely very slow when compared to the other two options discussed.

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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. This strategy is very simple and closely resembles the development environment, but cannot handle large or inconsistent amounts of traffic effectively.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2018

A website today receives a large chunk of its traffic from evergreen browsers — most of which have good support for ES6+, new JavaScript standards, new web platform APIs and CSS attributes. Smart Bundling: How To Serve Legacy Code Only To Legacy Browsers. Smart Bundling: How To Serve Legacy Code Only To Legacy Browsers.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Websites would magically become 50% faster with the flip of a switch! For example, if the device is a firewall, it might be configured to block all traffic containing (unknown) extensions. In the early days of the Internet, encrypting traffic was quite costly in terms of processing.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

While a perfect understanding of these concepts is not needed for the rest of this post, having a common high-level definition would be good. This means that it will not magically download your website resources much more quickly than TCP. Congestion Control. What Does It All Mean? 0-RTT Connection Set-Up.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Note that there is an Apache Traffic Server implementation, though.). However, to the firewall, this will look as if a new connection is being used without first using a handshake, which might just as well be an attacker sending malicious traffic. Even if a server supports HTTP/3, however, clients (and website owners!)

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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. JavaScript Developers prefer to use Angular to develop large-scale web applications like e-commerce, Progressive Web Apps, and reservation platforms, allowing a website to perform like a smartphone app.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The risks embedded in these deep-wetware effects, and their cross-origin implications, mean that your website's success is partially a function of the health of the commons. CrUX data collection and first-party RUM analytics of these metrics require live traffic, meaning results can be predicted but only verified once deployed.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Businesses that achieve BCorp status can benefit (according to the website) from “committed and motivated employees, increased customer loyalty, higher levels of innovation, and market leadership”. Asim talked about Performance Mode in Microsoft Edge: switching on Performance Mode means users get a faster website, while also saving resources.

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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? CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Our growth team advertises on social media platforms and other websites to share news about upcoming titles and new product features, with the ultimate goal of growing the number of Netflix members worldwide. We don’t have unlimited traffic or time, so sometimes we have to make hard choices. What’s the tradeoff of using those?

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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? Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor. Image source ). Large preview ). Unless they don't.

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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? Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor. Image source ). Large preview ). Unless they don't.

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