ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

When I worked at Google, fleet-wide profiling revealed that 25-35% of all CPU time was spent just moving bytes around: memcpy, strcmp, copying between user and kernel buffers in network and disk I/O, hidden copy-on-write in soft page faults, checksumming, compressing, decrypting, assembling/disassembling packets and HTML pages, etc.

Design 145

Design Systems Cache Network 145

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.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores. Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores. Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google.

Performance 130

Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 130

DZone

MAY 26, 2021

Instead, search results should favor pages with fundamental design strengths—including JavaScript minification, rapid execution time, and render-friendly scripting. In reflection of this belief, Google has planned the gradual release of a major update to its search algorithm that is scheduled for June through August of 2021.

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Google Speed Design Monitoring 324

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. This is not a post explaining why web performance is important.

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

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! Or even on a plane.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

For many of us, typography is as big of a decision as anything else in the design process of a website. We want our font to be an extension of the design, as well as make our content pleasing to the eye, drawing our readers interest. But what about our web font’s performance? Using Google’s Font API.

Speed 65

Speed Performance Google Open Source 65

Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2022

At our virtual conference, Dynatrace Perform 2022 , the theme is “Empowering the game changers.”. Empowering the game changers at Dynatrace Perform 2022. While conventional monitoring scans the environment using correlation and statistics, it provides little contextual information for remediating performance or security issues.

Artificial Intelligence 179

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Performance Games 179

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Google has announced plans for a new badging system that would let users know whether a website typically loads slowly. If you’re using best practices and keeping web performance in mind, you shouldn’t need to worry about being badged. Most stemmed from Google exercising too much power with this move.

Google 86

Google Website Best Practices Internet 86

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

The usual caveats also apply: Performance is a deep and nuanced domain, and much can go wrong beyond content size and composition. How sites manage resources after-load can have a big impact on perceived performance. Until and unless teams have better data about their performance, the global baseline budget should be enforced.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Effective application development requires speed and specificity. Before an organization moves to function as a service, it’s important to understand how it works, its benefits and challenges, its effect on scalability, and why cloud-native observability is essential for attaining peak performance. Dynatrace news. What is FaaS?

Development 250

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 250

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. This begins not only in designing the algorithm or coming out with efficient and robust architecture but right onto the choice of programming language.

Java 207

Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 207

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. They are basically everywhere and will dominate your design. Jennifer Brehm.

Performance 115

Performance Cache Website Mobile 115

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Spend enough time running websites through PageSpeed Insights and you’ll notice that Google has a major beef with traditional image formats like JPG, PNG and even GIF. Google developed WebP back in 2010 after acquiring a company called On2 Technologies.

Website 72

Website Speed Cache Google 72

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Ten years is a lot of time to reflect, and over this past year our team has been thinking a lot about not just the "what" and "how" of web performance, but also the "why". In that time, we've seen people's interest in performance dramatically increase, especially in the world of SEO. Among other things, we turned ten ! Learn more here.

Performance 57

Performance Metrics Speed Google 57

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. The framework comprises six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.

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AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 246

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. Large preview ) We’ve known for a long time that fast page performance influences search engine rankings.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Rigor

JANUARY 8, 2020

Without a set plan in place, any new script can damage performance, affecting user experience, and, therefore, business KPIs. We noticed a few common misperceptions about web performance budgets that can impact their adoption and setting that we would like to address. Five Common Myths About Web Performance Budgets.

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Performance Mobile Metrics Speed 122

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Thus, organizations face the critical problem of designing and implementing effective solutions to manage this growing data deluge and its associated implications. The following best practices aren’t just about enhancing the overall performance of a log management system.

Best Practices 243

Best Practices Analytics Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 243

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Cloud-native environments bring speed and agility to software development and operations (DevOps) practices. But with that speed and agility comes new complications and complexity, all while maintaining performance and reliability with less than 1% down-time per year. That’s where SRE comes in. SRE vs DevOps?

DevOps 188

DevOps Software Engineering Speed Google 188

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

New technologies like Xamarin or React Native are accelerating the speed at which organizations release new features and unlock market reach. How do I connect the dots between mobile analytics and performance monitoring? Optimize mobile app performance and maximize business impact. Dynatrace news.

Analytics 206

Analytics Mobile Performance Monitoring 206

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rachel Andrew.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Browser Networking. This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. High Performance Websites.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

MachMetrics

JANUARY 4, 2019

The way a website is constructed can have a major impact on website speed performance, but developers often have a hard time keeping track of factors that cause slow page loads and other speed-related issues. The PageSpeed Module is one of several free Google tools designed to help assess and improve page load speed times.

Speed 60

Speed Website Open Source Google 60

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!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. These days we have more and better tools to audit our performance.

Performance 130

Performance Speed Google Media 130

Rigor

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Google recently announced the launch of their Speed Update. This change to how Google ranks websites for searches will now take mobile page speed into account in its ranking algorithm. This announcement is part of a Google’s ongoing efforts to incentivize good web performance. Monitor Your Mobile Experience.

Speed 40

Speed Social Media Google Traffic 40

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.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

It’s designed in such a way that you won’t even notice if the website has been blocked. If you run ads from Google Adsense, or any other blocked companies, along with banned advertisements in China, they won’t appear on your page and your websites or applications may also face access restrictions. Monitor your website speed from China.

Website 82

Website Internet Internet Performance 82

MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

According to Google, a website can lose as many as half its visitors while loading. Google’s PageSpeed Insights tools may be just what you need to leverage data collected through speed testing. As part of the PageSpeed Tools suite, Insights is designed to guide your response to slow speeds, resulting in optimal performance.

Speed 49

Speed Best Practices Google Website 49

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential part of a website’s design, and one all too often overlooked. The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). From UX design to copywriting, quality content takes commitment, passion, and time.

Engineering 130

Engineering Google Website Analytics 130

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

It’s architecture was specially designed to manage large-scale data warehouses and business intelligence workloads by giving you the ability to spread your data out across a multitude of servers. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. At a glance – TLDR.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Earlier this year, when Google announced that Interaction to Next Paint (INP) will replace First Input Delay (FID) as the responsiveness metric in Core Web Vitals in *gulp* March of 2024, we had a lot to say about it. The elephant in the room: Why does mobile INP perform so poorly? Our stance hasn't changed much since then.

Mobile 54

Mobile Performance Metrics Google 54

Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

In the podcast, Grabner recalled his interview with Kelsey Hightower at the Perform 2023 conference. Thair elaborated on the concept of “designing for operations” with a car analogy. That’s not good design for Ops,” he said. The benefits and challenges of boundaries are beginning to influence how we the future of DevOps.

DevOps 162

DevOps Engineering Innovation Best Practices 162

Dynatrace

AUGUST 2, 2021

Think of the KPIs that measure your team’s performance, your SRE SLOs, or how Google Search rankings are influenced by Core Web Vitals ; these measurements are derived from multiple raw metrics, processed into actionable insights. Metric calculations help you design custom dashboards that meet the requirements of specific teams.

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Metrics Analytics Google Code 245