Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Last year, Google started emphasizing the importance of Core Web Vitals and how they reflect a person’s real experience when visiting sites around the web. Our fast computers and fiber internet masked the experience real people have on our site. This is a screenshot from our mobile Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console.

Google 93

Google Analytics Serverless Metrics 93

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

I was working on an application that opened the provided webpage and then give the user an option to modify elements, add events, add analytics, and so on. It was very important to load the page in iframe , I was wandering around the internet to find a way to load it. That was when I first got to witness the power of network headers.

Testing 99

Testing Network Website Google 99

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Before we dive in, I’d just like to note that the authors responsibly disclosed their findings to Google, who have announced that they will be fixing many of the identified issues in AndroidQ. Google, to their credit, have announced that they are addressing many of the issues that we reported to them. most apps).

Systems 74

Systems Traffic Network Google 74

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. Large preview ).

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. per GB respectively. Mbps upload.

Cache 96

Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites. Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London.

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

The internet may change, and web pages may grow and evolve, but user expectations are constant. Interestingly, and perhaps not coincidentally, 100 milliseconds is Google's stated goal when it comes to page load times. In 1993 and again in 2010 , usability expert Jakob Nielsen found that: 0.1

Speed 134

Speed Website Mobile Cloud 134

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. You can download the spreadsheet as Google Sheets, Excel, OpenOffice document or CSV. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Jake is a frequent speaker at many popular conferences and events, such as 100 Days of Google Dev , JAMstakConf , JSConf , SmashingConf , and dozens of others.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product. as a result there were product and messaging changes.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Rigor

JUNE 4, 2019

New classes of metrics that measure different aspects of performance have been developed, such as: Network metrics , like Time to First Byte, which measure how quickly a site responds to the initial request. Using a Composite Score: Google Lighthouse. The most common example of this is the Google Lighthouse Performance score.

Metrics 89

Metrics Performance Media Google 89

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink). Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Pointer Events.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Nobody frames it precisely this way; instead they'll say, if WebKit weren't mandated, Chromium would take over , or Google would dominate the web if not for the WebKit restriction. The New York Times reported in late 2020 that Google now pays Apple between $8-12 billion per year , up from $1 billion in 2014. And that's a choice. "WebKit

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). In the end, it’s not the load events or server response times that define the experience, but the perception of how snappy the interface feels. What does it mean? Could be implemented using Puppeteer and Chrome.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

CSS - Tricks

MAY 15, 2019

In short, we’re talking about a mechanism that defers the network traffic necessary to load content when it’s needed — or rather when trigger the load when the content enters the viewport. A smaller initial page that loads faster and saves network requests for items that may not be needed if the user never gets there. The benefit?

Traffic 58

Traffic Website Network Analytics 58

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Custom metrics measure a particular, custom event for the user, e.g. Twitter’s Time To First Tweet and Pinterest’s PinnerWaitTime. For that one, you can monitor Hero Rendering Times , or use Performance API , marking particular timestaps for events that are important for your business. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ). Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient.

Performance 130

Performance Speed Google Media 130

Enprowess

JANUARY 11, 2022

This can provide near native functionality and user experience while being able to function without an active internet connection. Angular is also another popular web development framework created by Google. It can be used to create Ajax based web applications, handle multiple events and perform animations. Backbone.js.

Virtualization 64

Virtualization Website Speed Mobile 64

Testsigma

DECEMBER 8, 2019

IoT or Internet of Things is an example of that. Here multiple types of mechanical and digital objects are provided unique IDs and are given the ability to transfer data on the network without any human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. Just like 2020 is going to be an eventful year for Autonomous things.

IoT 78

IoT Software Software Artificial Intelligence 78

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 18, 2016

The number of users simulated often ranges from daily averages up to peak amounts seen during busy sales or events. The “hug of death” as some internet users call an accidental stress test can theoretically hit a website at any time due to a number of causes such as content going viral.

Software 40

Software Software Testing Website 40

High Scalability

JUNE 29, 2018

200TB : GitLab Git data; $100 Billion : Instagram; ~250k : Walmart peak events per second; 10x : data from upgraded Large Hadron Collider; 3mm : smallest computer; 9.9 jedberg : Despite being a strong advocate for AWS, this is where I will say Google completely outshines Amazon. They'll love you even more. Don't stop here.

Scalability 131

Scalability Internet Internet Wireless 131

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

million : new image/caption training set; 32,408,715 : queries sent to Pwned Passwords; 53% : Memory ICs Total 2018 Semi Capex; 11 : story Facebook datacenter prison in Singapore; $740,357 : ave cost of network downtime; Quotable Quotes: @BenedictEvans : Recorded music: $18 billion. However still far from Google ($28B) and Facebook ($13.2B).

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Hence, they can’t be promoted separately or found by users who’ve input a search query in Google. As shown on the screenshots below, the product page of the store can be found via Google. PWAs don’t require installation from the App Store or Google Play to the device to be used (like native apps do). You need a site for that.

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74