Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

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 essentially describes the lifetime of each file you download to load your page from the network. It is important to note how much data the client needs to download.

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Cache Performance Servers Social Media 126

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. The first 5G networks are now deployed and operational.

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Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. However, simply deploying a monitoring tool is not enough; you need to know which Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to monitor to gain insights into your MySQL server’s health and performance.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 106

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

Tech News Gather

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Introduction With the recent rollout of the 5G network across the world, it is ensured that the mobile industry will revolutionize and the way we interact will completely change. With some unique advantages like low latency and faster speed, 5G aims to give birth to a new era of mobile application development with some innovations.

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Mobile Development Artificial Intelligence IoT 40

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Edge servers are the middle ground – more compute power than a mobile device, but with latency of just a few ms. The kind of edge server envisaged here might, for example, be integrated with your WiFi access point. As such, web workers are a natural target to offload to a more powerful server.

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Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Testsigma

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Web app testing : Optimized for mobile browsing and server-driven, the web apps should be tested for UI to ensure that all the elements of the app are aligned for different screens and resolutions. Back-end or database testing deals with the server-side of the mobile app. Step 7: Network Compatibility. Step 3: Application Type.

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Mobile Testing Operating System Storage 65

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Concatenating our files on the server: Are we going to send many smaller files, or are we going to send one monolithic file? Compressing them over the network: Which compression algorithm, if any, will we use? 4,362ms of cumulative latency; 240ms of cumulative download. main.af8a22.css

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Cache Latency Strategy Speed 291

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

20+ years ago when I joined Microsoft I was handed a diskette (maybe it was two), and was told “Here is SQL Server. So I proceeded to install SQL Server 4.20 There was a GUI as part of setup but within just a few clicks, SQL Server was installed and ready for use. So now there are more choices to make when installing SQL Server.

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Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40

MachMetrics

JANUARY 13, 2021

Webpagetest.org is one of the premier page speed auditing services in the industry. Catchpoint has built a network of more than 800 test locations for their own platform, so it will be great to see that utilized for WPT. Patrick commented in a forum post stating that “the server and agent will remain available and updated.”

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Open Source Network Speed Engineering 64

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

They get even MORE impatient when it comes to website speed. Conversion: 1 second delay means a 7% reduction in conversions Speed Affects Revenue: If your site makes $100,000/month, a one second improvement in page speed brings $7,000 month. “ The results were clear—speed matters! Want proof?

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Speed Website Performance Website Mobile 93

Percona

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced open source command-line tools, developed and used by the Percona technical staff, that are engineered to perform a variety of MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL server and system tasks that are too difficult or complex to perform manually. pt-summary --user=root [?2004l# virtual = 2.2G

Cache 101

Cache Database Virtualization Servers 101

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

Every time you type a URL in the browser address bar, follow a link in a page or even load a resource like an image from a different domain, the browser needs to do a DNS lookup to find the server that holds the resource we’ve requested. One step on from DNS prefetching is preconnecting to a server. Preconnecting.

Performance 106

Performance Games Servers Cache 106

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. This also implies that you don’t have to spend additional time and money on creating a PWA to suit various devices, greatly speeding up time-to-market. Why is that? Read point 2.

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Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

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. Those waits can be significant, even if you’re on a corporate network. Let’s get back to home networking.

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Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

Tim Kadlec

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

At several locations in the application, such as when new polls were loaded, it would take some time for those elements to download and be displayed. Given the constraints the app faced with the network and web view performance at the time, they were a bit limited on what they could do from a technical perspective.

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Best Practices Network Mobile Speed 145

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. However a closer looks shows that there is in fact a lot more that Page Speed can do. Page Speed analyzes the performance of a page based on a set of 26 rules (as of version 1.7)

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Speed Performance Open Source Cache 40

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. 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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Social Media Media Google Website 106

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%. Dan Shappir. 2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-22T11:06:56+00:00.

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Website Performance Google Media 126

Tim Kadlec

MARCH 14, 2019

Google’s servers are still involved, by as a proxy service forwarding the initial request along. If you’ve done a good job of optimizing your site for less than ideal network scenarios and kept it lightweight, you’re unlikely to see it impact your site at all. Your URL’s aren’t tampered with in any way.

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Google Traffic Cache Servers 63

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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Mobile Traffic Google Latency 60

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.

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Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. Developers representing hundreds of companies work together at these meetups to become masters in performance metrics and the latest trends in measuring site speed.) We at Rigor respect many web performance leaders around the world. Rachel Andrew.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

If you’re looking to read optimization ideas from one of the greatest minds in speed performance, look no further. If these rules can be applied to improving speeds at Yahoo! High Performance Images: Shrink, Load, and Deliver Images for Speed. Let’s get started! and the Head Performance Engineer at Google.

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Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

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

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

This involves delving into waterfalls, seeing when the image is requested, how long it takes to download, and then deciding how to optimize that. It beefs up the page and means subsequent page views do not benefit from the fact that data is already downloaded. OK, so the article author photo is the LCP element.

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Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

seconds faster on average and it drove 60 million more Firefox downloads per year. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise.

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Cache Social Media Media Network 92

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

For these reasons, as a small engineering team, we’ve found that optimizing for reliability and speed of product delivery is required for us to serve our evolving customers’ needs successfully. The high likelihood of unreliable network connectivity led us to lean into mobile solutions for robust client side persistence and offline support.

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Mobile Cache Network Architecture 279

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) LCP measures the perceived load speed of a webpage from a user’s perspective. Time To First Byte (TTFB) This is the time it takes for the first piece of information from the server to reach the user’s browser. 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

Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Smaller HTML means less time for Google to download and process those long strings of text. But first, let’s talk about the importance of speed improvement. Why Is Speed Improvement Necessary To Our SEO Efforts? Part of having a small LCP is to let the user download as small HTML as possible. How about errors?”

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Google Architecture Servers Speed 111

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

You’ll often see different page speed metrics reported by different tools and data sources, so it’s important to understand the differences. You can monitor a number of pages on your website or track the speed of your competition to make sure you stay ahead. Large preview ) What Are The Different Types Of Core Web Vitals Data?

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Google Monitoring Website Speed 106

CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

The best request is the one that never happens: in the fight for fast websites, avoiding the network is far better than hitting the network at all. This includes CDNs, proxy servers, and the like. Once the 60 seconds is up, the browser will head back to the server to revalidate the file. public and private.

Cache 264

Cache Latency Strategy Servers 264

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

It can be hard to visualize the huge network of hardware that allows you to send a request for a page to a server and then receive a response back. Also, the amount of data that is required for the page, and the complexity of the route it must travel through, will determine the amount of carbon released by the network itself.

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Website Energy Internet Internet 135

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.

Media 109

Media Performance Cache Strategy 109

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. Without pervasive SRI , it's difficult to justify the potential download size hit of a shared cache, not to mention the ongoing required updates. Back of the Napkin #.

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Cache Government Traffic Network 82

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines. Â The goal is to boost the pitfalls of network disruptions and vendor dependencies, all while pocketing cost savings. Instead, the player downloads and stores small segments of the video, playing one while simultaneously downloading subsequent parts.Â

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines. The goal is to boost the pitfalls of network disruptions and vendor dependencies, all while pocketing cost savings. Instead, the player downloads and stores small segments of the video, playing one while simultaneously downloading subsequent parts.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52