Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. However, just as out-of-control spending bodes ill in the long run, so does unbudgeted digital media decimate site performance. Of the many factors that affect page-load speed, media is a significant one. Performance Budgets. “A

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

These metrics are used by Google to evaluate the quality of user experience. Since recently becoming a ranking factor, this major web performance KPI is still a new concept for many web developers. See live: Codepen demo 1. The image in this demo is displayed at a fixed width of 280px on all devices. srcset=" image-300.png

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

That is why, today, Web Performance is as important and trendy as having an online presence. That is why, today, Web Performance is as important and trendy as having an online presence. Table of Contents: What Is Web Performance? What Is Web Performance? Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website.

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CSS Wizardry

APRIL 22, 2020

21 years later, in 2013, Google launched Brotli, a new algorithm that claims even greater improvement than Gzip! So, for the last several years, I, along with other performance engineers like me, have been recommending that our clients move over from Gzip and to Brotli instead. decrease in file-size. Browser Support: A brief interlude.

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Dean Hume

JULY 30, 2018

It’s worth mentioning that around the world, not everyone is lucky enough to get such good connection speeds. Loading most web pages over a 2G signal can be painfully slow, but up until now, developers didn’t have the means to accurately determine a users connection speed and adjust the content of their web pages accordingly.

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CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 16, 2019

This week I’ve been brooding about web performance and accessibility. I’d like to say that this one AMP Story was an outlier, but each of the nine demos listed on the AMP Stories website sound just as incomprehensible in VoiceOver. And I couldn’t agree more; every loading screen and wait time is in some degree a mark of failure.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Andy joined us in June , and since then he's already helped countless customers in his role as in-house performance consultant. Google's Core Web Vitals have been a huge topic this year. Google's Core Web Vitals have been a huge topic this year. Performance Budgets 101. Performance Culture Best Practices.

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KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Unoptimized content could also be one of the reasons why your WordPress website is not performing as per your expectations. We will also discuss how you can speed up your slow WordPress site. One of the most important factors that affect your speed is the server optimization implemented by your web host. Why is WordPress slow?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

Lazy loading is a way to improve the performance of a website or web application by maximizing the rendering speed of the above-the-fold images and iframes (and sometimes videos) by deferring the loading of below-the-fold content. It’s not very hard to write the JavaScript code required to perform these operations on your own.

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MachMetrics

APRIL 12, 2019

It’s no secret that we’re a huge fan of lazy loading your below-the-fold images to improve page speed. But now it appears the Google Chrome team has jumped aboard and is planning to implement it natively in an upcoming Chrome release. Performance Enthusiasts Rejoice! Shipping in Chrome ~75. How to use it.

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Dean Hume

JULY 30, 2018

It’s worth mentioning that around the world, not everyone is lucky enough to get such good connection speeds. Loading most web pages over a 2G signal can be painfully slow, but up until now, developers didn’t have the means to accurately determine a users connection speed and adjust the content of their web pages accordingly.

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Dean Hume

JULY 30, 2018

It’s worth mentioning that around the world, not everyone is lucky enough to get such good connection speeds. Loading most web pages over a 2G signal can be painfully slow, but up until now, developers didn’t have the means to accurately determine a users connection speed and adjust the content of their web pages accordingly.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

Globally, consumers are preferring their mobile phones for performing activities (e.g. Popular search engines like Google give preference to websites that are mobile-ready[4]. Mobile website testing helps in serving your customers with a flawless performance on popular screen resolutions. Speed and Accuracy.

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Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The AMP Project is an open source initiative to improve performance and distribution on the mobile web. I’ll be completely honest: when I first started reading about it I was viewing it as basically a performance version of the Vanilla JS site. You can carefully select your HTML and write your CSS with the goal of performance in mind.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

In 2018, this is absolutely essential for a number of reasons: Google favors HTTPS-secured sites HTTPS is required to use HTTP/2 HTTPS is required to use Brotli HTTPS helps improve performance, security, and trust If you’ve never heard of TLS, then maybe you’ve heard of the term SSL. Faster performance TLS 1.3

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Tasktop

JUNE 20, 2019

Tech giants like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google treat their entire software delivery toolchain like a product. Since most businesses are not Microsoft, Amazon or Google, yet most are disrupted by them, they need to build their toolchain from the best commercial and open source products and then architect them for flow. Learn more.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

While not render-blocking, they can indirectly impact render performance. If using 11ty for your static sites, try the 11ty high-performance blog template. It’s an initiative by Google to share unified guidance for quality signals that can be key to delivering a great user experience on the web. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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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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Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

They often get blindsided by vendor’s pitch and end-up making decision based on some fancy demos (see my post from 2014 on Adobe AEM ). I am yet to find a traditional CMS vendor who can deliver this level of performance on the scale (millions of page views per day). Nonetheless, for static sites and JAMstack, CDN is essential.

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