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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Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

You can remotely access and navigate another database server. The dashboard lets you monitor server activities such as database locks, connected sessions, and prepared transaction. Since pgAdmin is a web application, you can deploy it on any server and access it remotely. pgAdmin can be downloaded from their official website.

Open Source 262

Open Source Database Azure Cloud 262

Percona

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Google Bard vs. MongoDB and MySQL challenge This was my first test of Bard ever, and I had pretty high expectations due to the fact that it can reach the online information, as opposed to ChatGPT, which operates on limited data. Me : OK, so if I want to downgrade my MongoDB standalone server from version 7.0 Server: Stop the MongoDB 7.0

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Database Artificial Intelligence Servers Operating System 84

Percona

MARCH 28, 2023

Repository means the location/path on the server or the cloud where the actual copy of the backup will reside. This attribute helps take the redundant copies of the databases at multiple locations remotely on different servers or locally on the same server. Let’s discuss a few scenarios one by one. Scenarios: 1.

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Servers Azure AWS Cloud 80

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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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Since December 10, days after a critical vulnerability known as Log4Shell was discovered in servers supporting the game Minecraft, millions of exploit attempts have been made of the Log4j 2 Java library, according to one team tracking the impact, with potential threat to millions more applications and devices across the globe. Dynatrace news.

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Internet Internet Games Java 262

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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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Start looking for signals Begin by monitoring the “four golden signals” that were originally outlined in Google’s SRE handbook : Latency : the time it takes to serve a request Traffic : the total number of requests across the network Errors: the number of requests that fail Saturation : the load on the network and servers 2.

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Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 227

Randon ASCII

JULY 11, 2022

This slowdown may be mitigated in Windows 11 but in the latest Windows Server editions – where it matters most – this bug is alive and well. A bug had been filed suggesting that Chrome download speeds (such as those measured by speedtest.net ) seemed to be affected by some anti-virus software. Server versions should be fine….

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Cache Energy Google Processing 105

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. I’m hopeful this can serve as a good introduction for any developer interested in learning about how to work with Google Lighthouse programmatically.

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Google Latency Website Metrics 82

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. It is important to note how much data the client needs to download.

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Cache Performance Servers Social Media 125

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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Google Analytics Serverless Metrics 93

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) supports all types of compression and enterprise-grade features for free. Snappy is a compression library developed by Google. This can further reduce the amount of data that needs to be transmitted between server and client over the network. I am using PSMDB 6.0.4

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Storage Network Open Source Latency 105

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 90

Smashing Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

If you want to use web fonts your choices are basically Flash of Invisible Text (aka FOIT) where the text is hidden until the font downloads or Flash of Unstyled Text (FOUT) where you use the fallback system font initially and then upgrade it to the web font when it downloads. Wasn’t font-display Supposed To Solve This?

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Operating System Google Website Cache 143

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Download The Checklist (PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word). You can also just download the checklist PDF (166 KB) or download editable Apple Pages file (275 KB) or the.docx file (151 KB). Quick Wins.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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 Website 92

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

South Korea has the fastest mobile download speed , averaging 52.4 Mbps download and 0.7 The USA ranks 40th in the world for mobile download speeds, at around 34 Mbps, and is at risk of falling further behind as the world moves towards 5G. Google Homepage — DOM. Mbps, but Iraq has the slowest, averaging 1.6

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Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Whereas many open source software offerings — like the community version of MySQL — use the GNU General Public License ( GPL ), MongoDB has been under the GNU Affero General Public License ( AGPL ) and more recently under the Server Side Public License ( SSPL ), introduced by MongoDB itself. Is MongoDB free to use?

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Open Source Programming Database Servers 79

MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Despite the large number of product images that are on Target’s homepage, only 50kb is downloaded when the user navigates to the page, with the rest only being downloaded when the user scrolls down. Target’s servers are stellar. TLDR – Target’s server response time is blazing fast.

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Retail Speed Website Google 82

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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Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

including DNS, Connection, SSL, Request, First packet, and Download. As your speed test results will probably show, most of the time spent loading your page is for downloading images and initializing JavaScript. As if website speed wasn’t enough, Google has recently announced that user metrics will become a core ranking factor by 2021.

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Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

These updates will disable access of Google apps downloader, for example. One can only download apps using the manufacturer’s downloader software, where VPN installers and other banned apps are not available for installation. The use of VPN however, usually slows down downloading and accessibility by 30 percent or more.

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Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Download The Checklist (PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word). Assets Optimizations. Build Optimizations. Quick Wins.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

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

Percona

APRIL 28, 2023

Here’s a small sampling of leading corporations that use open source software: Amazon, Audi, BMW, Google, IBM, and Facebook ( CodeSnail, August 2022 ). Your apps, therefore, must run on one particular server. Open source database software Upstream open source projects are free to download and use. The list goes on and on.

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Open Source Database Software Software 110

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 2, 2022

Performant A/B Testing with Cloudflare Workers — Philip Walton covers how A/B testing is a little trickier on static sites than server-backed sites, but you can pull it off (performantly) thanks to Cloudflare Workers which can manipulate HTML before it hits the browser, much like a Service Worker except at the edge rather than at the client.

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Performance Cache Best Practices Strategy 68

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 The TTFB and the content download times were the two greatest factors decreased by implementing a CDN.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

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

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

A single command to deploy the operator would be: kubectl apply -f [link] --server-side Init SQL script Init SQL allows the creation of the database cluster with some initial data in it. Download Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL Today! Please follow our installation instructions and use your favorite way.

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Storage Database Media Open Source 91

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

APRIL 29, 2021

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. CWV is part of a set of page experience signals Google Search will be evaluating for ranking. From Speed at Scale with Katie Hempenius and I at Google I/O. Large preview ). MB of images.

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Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google. Although we’ve been told for years that visitors are willing to wait three seconds for a web page to load , Google considers 2.9 seconds too long.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

on, you can use mysqlbinlog to stream binary logs from a remote server. Offsite Storage It’s highly recommended to copy all the backup methods to another place, like the cloud or an external file server, so in case of host failure or data center failure, you have another copy. For offsite backups (like S3, Google Cloud, etc.),

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Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 78

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. The most popular, by far, is the Google Lighthouse report (available in Chrome Developer Tools) and Google’s Page Speed Insights.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Download The Checklist (PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word). Assets Optimizations. Build Optimizations. Quick Wins.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

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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Code Cache Retail Mobile 74