KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

Well, that is probably true, as long as they don’t slow down your website to the point where you are losing visitors. When it comes to optimizing your website, images are generally the most important asset you should spend time on figuring out how to reduce in size and deliver in a more efficient way. Mbps ( Opensignal ).

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Speed Website Mobile Latency 52

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. Since day one, iOS has supported app affordances for websites with proprietary metadata , and Android has similar features. "Appiness"

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Mobile phones are rapidly becoming touchscreens and touchscreen phones are increasingly all-touch, with the largest possible display area and fewer and fewer hardware buttons. The hardware matters, but the underlying OS is the same , and pretty much all apps will run on any device of the same age. Download PDF , ePUB , Kindle.

Mobile 105

Mobile Design Internet Internet 105

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? Download The Checklist (PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word). Quick Wins. Happy optimizing, everyone!). Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

Mbps download speed Jake Archibald mentioned his relative getting or the 0.8 Mbps download speed my in-laws get at their house. Hardware gets better, sure. We frequently position this issue as one around reaching a more global audience (and often, it is ), but it can also hit much closer to home. It makes sense.

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Performance Energy Internet Internet 111

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 18, 2020

The issue with that is that they’re always sent to your server, even if one of your users clicks on a GET request URL on someone else’s website and that GET request has side effects you or your user won’t like. The situation when it comes to mobile apps is completely different. Those aren’t accessible by JS and are sent only to your server.

Storage 94

Storage Mobile Website Java 94

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Download The Checklist (PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word). Assets Optimizations. Build Optimizations. Quick Wins.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Download The Checklist (PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word). Assets Optimizations. Build Optimizations. Quick Wins.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

Poorly executed stylesheets can create a host of performance problems, ranging from stylesheets taking too long to download and parse, to improperly placed stylesheets that block the rest of the page from rendering. I meet with so many people whose job it is to build and optimize websites. How does page bloat hurt your business?

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. It’s important to remember that the cost of JavaScript is not only the time it takes to download it. It’s time to come to terms that your customers aren’t using the same powerful hardware as you. Recommended!

Google 71

Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

The Core Web Vitals are a set of three metrics designed to measure the “core” experience of whether a website feels fast or slow to the users, and so gives a good experience. In this post, I’m going to attempt to explain a bit more about what’s going on here and explain some of the nuances and misunderstandings of these tools.

Google 141

Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 141

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 19, 2017

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. LoadView can perform very basic load testing by itself, but for more meaningful testing, you’ll need to download and install the EveryStep script recording tool.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Testing Performance Virtualization 40

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. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. But the hardware future is not evenly distributed, and web workloads aren't heavily parallel. Mind The Gap.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

As is the case with many other developers, the reports over the last few years of the huge energy requirements of the web have prompted me to take a look at my own websites and see what I can do to minimize their impact. But first, a confession: When I first heard about the environmental impact of websites, I didn’t quite believe it.

Website 136

Website Energy Internet Internet 136

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

As is also the case this limitation is at the database level (especially the storage engine) rather than the hardware level. driver: intel_pstate CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0 . hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 3.80 hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 3.80 current CPU frequency: Unable to call hardware .

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Because they lean on the system-provided WebView component, they do not need to pay the expense of a heavier app download to support rendering HTML, running JavaScript, decoding images, or loading network resources. Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. Basic navigation and window management features to (e.g. Web Bluetooth.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

JavaScript-Heavy # Since at least 2015, building JavaScript-first websites has been a predictably terrible idea, yet most of the sites I trace on a daily basis remain mired in script. [1] It's cheeky, but a weighted average of the P75 of download speeds (3/4ths of all connections are faster) should get us in the ballpark.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

Poorly executed stylesheets can create a host of performance problems, ranging from stylesheets taking too long to download and parse, to improperly placed stylesheets that block the rest of the page from rendering. Takeaways I meet with so many people who build and optimize websites. How does page bloat hurt Core Web Vitals?

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

It always starts with the long-awaited website overhaul. The reasons for it are numerous, but the most important one is a huge difference in network conditions and device hardware across the world. Once the fonts have been downloaded, we store them in a service worker’s cache. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This in turn affects how fast a page’s resources can be downloaded. This means that it will not magically download your website resources much more quickly than TCP. We illustrated this with a client moving from a Wi-Fi network to 4G while doing a large file download. Did You Know? More in-depth information is available.

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Do you have a standard API to your website? As events are immutable we were caching them in Memcache for 12 hours but even them downloading the same events so many times from Memcache was causing network issues. For our web UI, we use requireJS and various other ways to download only the required modules.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52