CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

This is understandable—forgivable, almost—when you consider that TTFB begins to move into back-end territory, but if I was to sum up the problem as succinctly as possible, I’d say: While a good TTFB doesn’t necessarily mean you will have a fast website, a bad TTFB almost certainly guarantees a slow one. But what else is TTFB?

Latency 269

Latency Ecommerce Servers Mobile 269

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The Lamborghini website was being hosted on outdated infrastructure when the company decided to boost their online presence to coincide with the launch of their Aventador J sports car. The website went online in less than one month and was able to support a 250 percent increase in traffic around the launch of the Aventador J.

AWS 167

AWS Energy Automotive Traffic 167

MachMetrics

OCTOBER 16, 2019

However, there is excitement around Starlink for other reasons – namely, the implications it might have for internet speed and latency – even by just a small amount (20 milliseconds on average). And thus, a fast website is more critical than ever. Starlink’s Goal: Reduce Internet Latency.

Internet 44

Internet Internet Latency Speed 44

Rigor

JANUARY 25, 2018

Measuring your mobile UX has some added complexities: namely network speed and latency. Use a monitoring solution with network throttling so you can control for network and latency. Recently, we helped an ecommerce customer with this process.

Mobile 40

Mobile Ecommerce Latency Speed 40

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Reading time 11 min As companies become more aware of the importance of web performance, internal teams begin to research tools they can use to use to track their metrics and improve the user experience of their websites and applications. Not everyone uses Chrome to access your website. Take an ecommerce site as an example.

Google 51

Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

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? Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

Use cases such as gaming, ad tech, and IoT lend themselves particularly well to the key-value data model where the access patterns require low-latency Gets/Puts for known key values. The purpose of DynamoDB is to provide consistent single-digit millisecond latency for any scale of workloads. Take Expedia, for example.

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Database AWS Games Latency 167