Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. By running basic optimizations of our videos before adding them to our websites, we can prevent these issues from occurring for good — well, most of them. There is a solution though!

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Network Speed Website Mobile 143

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Dotcom-Montior

JULY 7, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Because of nobody like a slow website. Getting your websites, images, and videos to load quickly is an absolute necessity for inbound marketing success. Getting your websites, images, and videos to load quickly is an absolute necessity for inbound marketing success. Slow website and your business bottom line. Want proof?

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Speed Website Performance Website Mobile 93

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

Essentially, all traffic between China and the rest of the world goes through a few national level and a handful of core level access points in different regions. These updates will disable access of Google apps downloader, for example. This makes censorship of domestic traffic faster. . IP Blocking. DNS Hijacking and Phishing.

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Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

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

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database uptime and availability Monitoring database uptime and availability is crucial as it directly impacts the availability of critical data and the performance of applications or websites that rely on the MySQL database. That said, it should also be monitored for usage, which will exhibit the traffic pressuring them.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. This optimization is quite complex in nature though.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We can expand the metric to glean insights into what exactly is causing traffic on the main thread. Large preview ) That’s a nice big view and is a good illustration of TBT’s impact on page speed. That’s a lifetime in web seconds, particularly considering that this test is based on a desktop experience on a high-speed connection.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 90

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Note : You can also just download the checklist (PDF, 158 KB). It forces websites to improve themselves.

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Engineering Google Website Analytics 130

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

Applications that do not require to be downloaded and can be accessed via hitting the URL on a mobile browser are known as mobile web applications. The applications which are required to be downloaded on your smartphone before you start using them are known as Native applications. What are Mobile Web Applications? Signup Now.

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Speed Curve

JULY 10, 2023

Demonstrating the impact of performance on your users – and on your business – is one of the best ways to get your company to care about the speed of your site. The performance of your website can make or break engagement with your users. Simply put, a conversion is a measurable outcome for a user session.

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Performance Metrics Traffic Speed 52

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

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. The bigger the download, the less likely users are to switch. That's how much wire size matters. Back of the Napkin #.

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Cache Government Traffic Network 82

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

This market then funds all of the R&D and operational costs of search engines, including "traffic acquisition costs" like browser default placement deals. [2]. Mobile accounts for two-thirds of web traffic (or thereabouts ), making outsized iOS adoption among wealthy users particularly salient to publishers and advertisers.

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Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. Perhaps surprisingly, users experience faster speeds over a mobile network than WiFi in at least 30 countries worldwide, including Australia and France. 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

JUNE 25, 2021

In the second stage, I weighed edX’s website against the 10 usability heuristics identified by Jacob Nielsen. The tool analyzes edX’s rank, traffic sources, advertising, and audience interests. They are visiting various websites, looking for a course that grabs their attention. Problem 1: “Can I Trust This Website?”.

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Education Website Google Design 83

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!).

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 19, 2018

What we see is that the HTML parser stops when it encounters a SCRIPT tag until that script is downloaded, parsed, and executed. Because the HTML parser stopped, all network traffic also stopped (because no other HTML tags were parsed to initiate HTTP requests). The second script, jquery.js , takes a long time to download.

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Internet Internet Website Traffic 53

Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

Reading Time: 8 minutes Whether your ecommerce business is 100% online or you supplement with bricks and mortar, your website is a critical revenue driver. When your website isn’t performing optimally, you risk not only your revenue but also your reputation as a trusted resource.

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Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score. It’s no secret that speed has become a crucial factor in increasing revenue and lowering abandonment rates. Recommended! PageSpeed 5.0

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Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

Enprowess

MAY 24, 2022

More incredible Speed with Virtual DOM. Reactjs can help your business in web and mobile application development by bringing fast speed using the virtual DOM. That makes it a proper fit, as speed is one of the critical factors for making a successful mobile application. Key features of ReactJS. What is React Native?

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Mobile Open Source Virtualization Speed 52

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.

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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). Start Render time, Speed Index ). Assets Optimizations.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. Enhanced User Experience Whether you operate an e-commerce platform, a content management system, or any other application reliant on MySQL, users will notice and appreciate the improved speed and responsiveness.

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Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

The biggest distinction is that a website can’t be built with a headless CMS on its own. Wordpress relies heavily on plugins and themes which may contain malicious codes or bugs and slow the speed of the website or blog. The powerful interface helps you define and customize every element of your website without any hassle.

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Open Source Website Mobile Code 103

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. Time to First Byte (TTFB), DOM Content Loaded, Start Render, Speed Index) — but from the experience of the user. What Are The Core Web Vitals?

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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

The speed of backup also depends on allocated IOPS and type of storage since lots of read/writes would be happening during this process. PBM uses the faster “s2” library and parallelized threads to improve speed and performance if extra threads are available as resources. Records backup progress logging.

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Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

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. Recall that single-core performance most directly translates into speed on the web. Updated Geekbench 4 single-core scores for each mobile price-point."

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Deploying the refactored codebase shouldn’t result in worse website performance and worse user experience. After all, users won’t wait around forever for the website to load. Also, the management will be dissatisfied with the decreased traffic and revenue caused by the unoptimized codebase, despite the code quality improvements.

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Media Performance Cache Strategy 108

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

It always starts with the long-awaited website overhaul. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Chrome users. We chose to focus specifically on slow mobile devices — with slow 3G, 400ms RTT and 400kbps transfer speed, just to be on the pessimistic side of things.

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Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”. It is physically limited by the speed of light or, practically, how fast signals can travel in wires or in the open air. Did You Know? More in-depth information is available.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 105

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. To be able to download multiple files on a single connection, you need to somehow multiplex them. Note that there is an Apache Traffic Server implementation, though.).

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 104