Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Rather than pushing off INP until after it starts influencing the way we measure site performance, let’s take a few minutes to level up our understanding of what it is and why it’s designed to replace FID. It could just as well be some sort of game-based UI with thousands of interactions.

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Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 94

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Examples include real-time video conferencing, gaming, or personalized web pages. Today, 40% of the online traffic is made up of dynamic content, CDN also did their part of the effort to adopt this new reality. Dynamic Content - Online GamingImagine a video gaming match. There is no predefined moveset.

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Cache Traffic Games Network 40

Testlodge

APRIL 8, 2020

There is no guarantee that a website will look identical on every browser because each browser may respond differently and render the webpage according to its own interpretation. These variables make it super important that cross browser testing is performed before a website is brought to production. Cross Browser Testing.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A measly front-end designer like me can be blissfully ignorant of all this mumbo-jumbo. We can expand the metric to glean insights into what exactly is causing traffic on the main thread. A font is a branding consideration as well as a design asset that can enhance the legibility of a site’s content. Meh, untrue.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 90

IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In technical terms, network-level firewalls regulate access by blocking or permitting traffic based on predefined rules. ‍At its core, WAF operates by adhering to a rulebook—a comprehensive list of conditions that dictate how to handle incoming web traffic. You've put new rules in place.

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Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 52

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. The benefits to apps that adopt WebView-based IABs are numerous: WebViews are system components designed for use within other apps. Users can have any browser with any engine they like, but it's unlikely to be used. How can that be?

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In technical terms, network-level firewalls regulate access by blocking or permitting traffic based on predefined rules. At its core, WAF operates by adhering to a rulebook—a comprehensive list of conditions that dictate how to handle incoming web traffic. You've put new rules in place.

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Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 40

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

Further, with the growth and scale of Amazon.com, boundless horizontal scale needed to be a key design point--scaling up simply wasn't an option. Typical use cases for a relational database include web and mobile applications, enterprise applications, and online gaming. Take Expedia, for example.

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Database AWS Games Latency 167

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 19, 2017

Let’s face it – the ideal load test emulates real world traffic, yet most load testing software doesn’t come close. A series of GET requests from an in-house server can’t possibly replicate what actually happens when a website sees a sudden increase in users from all over the world.

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Performance Testing Testing Performance Virtualization 40

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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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

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. Chip design choices and silicon economics are the defining feature of the still-growing Performance Inequality Gap. Don't pay a lot for an Android-shaped muffler.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This means that it will not magically download your website resources much more quickly than TCP. While this is conceptually possible (QUIC does exactly that), things were initially not designed like this, because we need to be able to use TCP with and without TLS on top. What Does It All Mean? 0-RTT Connection Set-Up.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 105

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

I hope to raise the profile of difficulties faced by real people, which are avoidable if we design and develop in a way that is sympathetic to their needs. I wanted to simulate a slow connection like those experienced by users in Uzbekistan, to see what kind of experience websites would give me. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

It always starts with the long-awaited website overhaul. After the latest redesign in late 2017, it was Ilya Pukhalski on the JavaScript side of things (part-time), Michael Riethmueller on the CSS side of things (a few hours a week), and yours truly, playing mind games with critical CSS and trying to juggle a few too many things.

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Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly. thanks, Guy Podjarny! ).

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term.

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