The Morning Paper

JUNE 6, 2019

This is a high level paper describing Google’s production system for federated learning. There’s a good high-level overview of federated learning on Google’s AI blog. The core idea is to make individual device updates opaque to the server, only revealing the sum after a sufficient number of updates have been received.

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Systems Design Google Servers 71

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

LCP, or Largest Contentful Paint , is one of the three Core Web Vitals that you must “pass” to get the full search ranking boost from Google as part of their Page Experience Update. From an SEO perspective, it doesn’t really matter what other tools tell you, GSC is what Google Search sees. The issue was that LCP was too slow on mobile.

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Dean Hume

MARCH 19, 2019

Streams have been available server side for years, but web streams are available to JavaScript, and you can now start processing raw data with JavaScript bit by bit as soon as it is available on the client-side, without needing to generate a buffer, string, or blob. What is a stream? What is NDJSON? and process it accordingly.

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Transportation Processing Servers Code 97

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The most obvious change 5G might bring about isn’t to cell phones but to local networks, whether at home or in the office. High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting. Anyone who has ever built a Docker container has experienced “now we wait for some giant things to download and be uncompressed.”

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Most of you have probably seen the following Google PageSpeed Insights optimization suggestion at one point or another when running a speed test: By compressing and adjusting the size of … you can save 14.2 An easy way to compress images is with our image processing service that happens to also be fully integrated into our existing network.

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Testsigma

APRIL 23, 2021

It’s a cross-platform tool and comes with a GUI wrapper around the Appium server that lets us download it for pretty much every platform. Espresso: Designed by Google for Android, Espresso lets you write solid and reliable Android UI tests. Google has expanded it and it can interact with various Android apps.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. So, apart from powering servers with renewable energy, what else can web developers do about climate change? You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure”.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals Matt Zeunert 2024-04-16T10:00:00+00:00 2024-04-16T12:05:36+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative has increased the attention website owners need to pay to user experience.

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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Factors such as the person’s current network connection and the general speed of the corresponding webpage will be considered. Therefore, having a faster site will improve your SEO rankings and the higher your web page in the Google search result, which we all know affects revenue. ” Page load time affects SEO. seconds faster.

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Speed Website Performance Website Mobile 93

Tim Kadlec

MARCH 14, 2019

Google formally announced Lite Pages the other day and the response has been… let’s say mixed. But in this case, the announcement has to deal with Google making changes to HTTPS content which, as you would expect, makes folks a little more nervous. Understandably so. Sometimes that’s fine. What We Know.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

PWAs have been around for over five years, yet native applications outnumber them both in the quantity ratio and how many times users download them. Hence, they can’t be promoted separately or found by users who’ve input a search query in Google. As shown on the screenshots below, the product page of the store can be found via Google.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Jake is a frequent speaker at many popular conferences and events, such as 100 Days of Google Dev , JAMstakConf , JSConf , SmashingConf , and dozens of others.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Rigor

JULY 2, 2019

Because of the redirection, our total HTML request, download, and render time took an additional 156 ms – for a total of 521 ms. Time spent on redirect is most noticeable on mobile devices, especially since they tend to use slower networks. The first call was for the resource that we thought was located at [link].

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Google search ranking. Large preview ). The Wix Challenge.

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Website Performance Google Media 126

Dean Hume

MARCH 19, 2019

Streams have been available server side for years, but web streams are available to JavaScript, and you can now start processing raw data with JavaScript bit by bit as soon as it is available on the client-side, without needing to generate a buffer, string, or blob. What is a stream? What is NDJSON? and process it accordingly.

Transportation 40

Transportation Processing Servers Code 40

Dean Hume

MARCH 19, 2019

Streams have been available server side for years, but web streams are available to JavaScript, and you can now start processing raw data with JavaScript bit by bit as soon as it is available on the client-side, without needing to generate a buffer, string, or blob. What is a stream? What is NDJSON? and process it accordingly.

Transportation 40

Transportation Processing Servers Code 40

Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The other week, there were a few articles that came out about Chrome’s NOSCRIPT intervention: an intervention that would disable JavaScript altogether on slow networks. Chrome intervening on behalf of the user when it feels the network is iffy isn’t exactly new. What exactly does it do? The Data Saver proxy is enabled.

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Network Testing Cache Google 71

Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

The Time to First Byte (TTFB) metric (also known as First Byte) measures the speed with which your server delivers content to the user. Basically, TTFB is a measure of back-end and network performance. <200 ms “fast” TTFB is based on the server responsiveness best practice recommendation. Note: According to Sr.

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Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

Testsigma

MAY 5, 2021

Price : $199 per user, paid one-time. Rapise : Rapise is a desktop automation testing application that supports testing on the web, mobile, desktop, and APIs. Highlights. Picture Credit: BrowserStack. Highlights.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. Download Time of HTML This is the time it takes to download the page’s HTML file.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

In this blog, we will discuss both data and network-level compression offered in MongoDB. We will discuss snappy and zstd for data block and zstd compression in a network. Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) supports all types of compression and enterprise-grade features for free. I am using PSMDB 6.0.4

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Storage Network Open Source Latency 110

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. seconds faster on average and it drove 60 million more Firefox downloads per year. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2 Lighthouse.

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Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Smaller HTML means less time for Google to download and process those long strings of text. Both for Google bots (SEO) and to actual clients. Part of having a small LCP is to let the user download as small HTML as possible. Now it kicks into play in the server. The main goal is to have a small LCP as possible.

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Google Architecture Servers Speed 111

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Last year, Google started emphasizing the importance of Core Web Vitals and how they reflect a person’s real experience when visiting sites around the web. It wasn’t long before a sea of red “poor” and yellow “needs improvement” notices in our Google Search Console needed our attention. How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

By default, CSS is a render-blocking resource , meaning that the website won’t be displayed to the user until all linked stylesheets and their dependencies (fonts, for example) have been downloaded and parsed by the browser. We know that it shouldn’t be referenced in the HTML head element when the page HTML is first downloaded.

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Media Performance Cache Strategy 109

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. South Korea has the fastest mobile download speed , averaging 52.4 Mbps download and 0.7

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Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. There are self-hosted alternatives to Google Analytics, after all. The connection is done in advance, allowing the full script to download later.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 91

Tim Kadlec

MAY 11, 2010

Like it’s older brother YSlow, Page Speed , released by Google in in mid-2009, is primarily a tool to audit and analyze the performance of your site. that Google has documented. Parallelize downloads across hostnames. However a closer looks shows that there is in fact a lot more that Page Speed can do. What Does It Test.

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Speed Performance Open Source Cache 40

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

It can scale towards a multi-petabyte level data workload without a single issue, and it allows access to a cluster of powerful servers that will work together within a single SQL interface where you can view all of the data. Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It was heralded as an amazing performance revolution, with exciting new features such as server push, parallel streams, and prioritization. We would have been able to stop bundling resources, stop sharding our resources across multiple servers, and heavily streamline the page-loading process. What is so different?

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. If your average visitor is on a fast cabled or cellular network, they probably won’t benefit from the new protocols all that much. This in turn affects how fast a page’s resources can be downloaded. Did You Know?

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Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

De-duplication can prevent multiple copies on disk, but we're out of luck on reducing network costs. Suppose a user has only downloaded part of the cache. One available proxy is the distribution of use from Google's hosted JS libraries. The bigger the download, the less likely users are to switch. Back of the Napkin #.

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Cache Government Traffic Network 82

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). This difference by itself doesn’t do all that much (it mainly reduces the overhead on the server-side), but it leads to most of the following points. Server Sharding and Connection Coalescing.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 105

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

, and the Head Performance Engineer at Google. and Google, they’ll do wonders for your website! Sounders, along with 8 expert contributors, expands upon the tips in the first book and offers best practices in JavaScript, network, and browser optimization. Resumes don’t get much better than that in this industry.

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Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

MachMetrics

MARCH 21, 2019

Web analytics such as click-through rates, bounce rates, website business transactions and sales, response times, web server usage, social media interaction, and many other key performance indicators will help ensure your site is optimal. Most hosts provide their own DNS servers, which is nice – but not always optimal.

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Metrics Social Media Performance Speed 74

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

These services use requests to external hosts (not servers you control) to deliver JavaScript framework libraries, custom fonts, advertising content, marketing analytics trackers, and more. And JavaScript can certainly make requests for additional network resources. You’ve thought of everything… or have you?

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Most sites were all hosted on a single physical server somewhere on our own hosting infrastructure, and it was the server we thought about defending when it came to security best practices. file hosted as part of their own website on their own server. On seeing this, the browser will download bootstrap.min.js.

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