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How Does the Internet Speed Test Work?

DZone

Everyone deserves the right internet speed and everyone wants the best bang for a buck. To ensure our internet bandwidth, we all run speed tests from our Internet Speed Provider or public speed test tools like fast.com or speed.cloudflare.com and more. But do we know how the speed got measured under the hood?

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Speeding Up Async Snippets

CSS Wizardry

It is the job of the Preload Scanner to look ahead of the primary parser and asynchronously download any subresources it may find: images, stylesheets, scripts, and more. Interestingly, the script itself took 297ms longer to download with this newer syntax, but still executed 787ms sooner! This is the power of the Preload Scanner.

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Speeding Up Restores in Percona Backup for MongoDB

Percona

Bringing physical backups in Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) was a big step toward the restoration speed. The speed of the physical restoration comes down to how fast we can copy (download) data from the remote storage. So we decided to try parallel (concurrent) download. So every minute matters. Let’s try.

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Mastering web performance – A comprehensive approach to optimal web speed

Dareboost

Web performance, or website speed, is an integral part of web development that pertains to the speed at which web pages are downloaded and displayed on the user’s browser.

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Detect VMware Aria Operations for Logs exploitation with Dynatrace and DQL

Dynatrace

These extracted fields give you the option to filter out the relevant records: However, there’s another goal to keep in mind: you need all the log records that contain the Downloading statement and URL from where the tarball was loaded and the destination path in /tmp/. download_file '.tar')):url tar')):url ' to /tmp/' (ld:filename '.pak'):saved_file

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How to Optimize CSS for Speed

MachMetrics

However, if utilized carelessly, CSS can greatly affect our page speed. That’s good to know, but I know you’re looking for a css speed test, or techniques for optimizing your css for speed. If these aren’t being downloaded asynchronously (see below), that’s a problem. Perform an Audit of Your Site.

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2023: Key themes and best practices for protecting against cyberthreats

Dynatrace

DevSecOps automation DevSecOps automation is a fundamental practice that combines security with the speed and agility of DevOps. This approach helps organizations deliver more secure software and infrastructure with greater efficiency and speed. Download the free 2023 CISO Report.