Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 27, 2021

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Google has announced plans for a new badging system that would let users know whether a website typically loads slowly. Early looks show one option being the ‘Badge of Shame’ showing on a splash screen as a slow website loads. Another displays a green loading bar for a website known to load quickly.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2023

Broken access controls Broken access controls are when access is unintentionally provided to pages or sections of a website that should be secured. Continuously monitor applications in runtime for known vulnerabilities and prioritize patching based on criticality: for example, adjacency to the internet and/or critical data.

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MachMetrics

MAY 2, 2020

Our most recent article identified (and remedied) the 4 most common page speed testing mistakes we see website owners making, and it inspired us to do even more to help those who make mistake #2: Only testing from 1 location. This is obviously a situation where his website has to be performant around the globe.

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MachMetrics

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Elon Musk’s need for speed. A lot of coverage on this project is centered (rightfully) around the potential of this project to deliver fast internet to underdeveloped nations at a minimal cost. This ultimately guides us to one conclusion: Speed is incredibly important. And thus, a fast website is more critical than ever.

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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. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The entire country of China’s internet connectivity is shielded by the Great Firewall (GFW). There are three state-owned ISP providers, China Unicom, China Telecom, and China Mobile , that control internet in China. These updates will disable access of Google apps downloader, for example. IP Blocking.

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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. Expect closer to 75ms.

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Latency Ecommerce Servers Mobile 269

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

For example, Amazon’s millions of users rely on its product search algorithms to show them the best products available for sale, since they are unable to inspect each product individually. The internet protocols helped keep the internet open instead of closed. But it is far from alone.

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Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 88

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Page speed, design systems, search engine optimization, frameworks, accessibility — the list goes on and on. In this third edition of our web design done well series, we’re honing in on the beating heart of many websites: content. Speaking of the transformative powers of the internet, how about an interactive story.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

For some websites this works, but for others (such as Hack Club’s Scrapbook , a site built by @lachlanjc that I help maintain), the user expects the data to be kept up to date. The more interesting thing, however, is the impact on the speed of our side. When we measure speed through Lighthouse, we get a speed index of 1.5

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Cache Internet Internet Servers 102

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Websites. Even Faster Websites. How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance. Want your web site to display more quickly?

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Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. For example, if you are using internet banking via a Mobile Web application, it will not allow you to save cards or mark any transaction as favourite. What are Mobile Web Applications?

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Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Imagine, for example, that you test a prototype but discover that users are not interacting with the interface how they are supposed to. This is one example of the benefits of using eye-tracking. They used eye-tracking to measure visual attention on banners, animated graphics, and navigational tools in websites. Mariana Macedo.

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Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 111

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

At the same time, they open a door to lots of concepts that might be overwhelming: PRPL, RAIL, Paint Timing API, TTI, HTTP/2, Speed Index, Priority Hints and more … Why Performance doesn’t get Prioritized Web performance at organizations is a real challenge. What happens when a browser tries to load a website?

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. But it comes with caveats.

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

Frontend frameworks let you hit the ground running when developing a new website. Then again, a newer but less widely known framework may more effectively suit your needs, so it's worth it to get up to speed about today's most popular options. These frameworks are typically leaner and less bloated too, which is a plus.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

For example, if we have a website with an index.html file and a style.css file, the browser would traditionally first request the index.html and once received/parsed, would then make another request for the style.css file. Consider the following example: a browser makes a request for index.html. When to use Preload vs Push?

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Speed Servers Website Efficiency 99

Testsigma

JANUARY 18, 2021

Web Developers frequently come across issues where the developed website or web application does not work as expected on certain combinations of browsers and operating systems. When it comes to web applications (or websites), cross browser testing should be a high-priority item on the automation testing checklist.

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Testing Operating System Website Internet 55

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The image was served from a separate assets domain (often bad for performance), but it wasn’t going to be possible to change that in the short term, and Smashing Magazine had already added a preconnect resource hint to speed that up as best they could. That way, the page includes everything necessary to do the initial paint without delays.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The major application for high quality compression of photos is Internet speed. While bandwidth does continue to increase each year, so does the quality and size of most Internet media. JPEG XR, for example, had many technical advantages and seemed to be the next step in high quality compression.

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Media Internet Internet Speed 43

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

At the same time, they open a door to lots of concepts that might be overwhelming: PRPL, RAIL, Paint Timing API, TTI, HTTP/2, Speed Index, Priority Hints and more …. I use a Macbook Pro to develop websites. Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London.

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Typical examples include adding dedicated hardware accelerators to speed up encryption and decryption computations. For example, a formal verification of a boolean circuit may prove that the circuit never performs an undesirable action for any input that can be supplied by the adversary. However, ISAs have a long life.

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Hardware Virtualization Architecture Games 98

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

However, at the end of 2020, about 1% of websites included a Service Worker, and 2.2% 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. The pages can be crawled, indexed, and ranked, as it happens with regular websites.

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Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Example: Let’s take an example of an e-commerce mobile app. Example: We are considering the same e-commerce app example, a small unit like ‘login’ may be tested during the unit testing. Example: Here, we test the integration of two or more modules like- from cart to make a payment module. Reference: [link].

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Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps. How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps. However, it’s not always easy to maintain high performance in websites. Even if your website is designed with usability in mind, these factors impede users from fully benefiting from the website’s features.

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Website Google Open Source Mobile 80

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

As is the case with many other developers, the reports over the last few years of the huge energy requirements of the web have prompted me to take a look at my own websites and see what I can do to minimize their impact. But first, a confession: When I first heard about the environmental impact of websites, I didn’t quite believe it.

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Website Energy Internet Internet 135

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. Your website may be using more third-party services than you realize. Ken Harker.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

It doesn’t come as a surprise, considering the benefits of higher conversion rates, customer engagement, decreased page loading speed, and lower costs on development and overhead. You’ll also find example code or references to more specific guides so you can implement these tips to your PWA. Here’s what these components do.

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Cache Internet Internet Google 123

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

With the rise of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks using a high quality DNS hosting provider is very important to the redundancy of your website. There is nothing worse for visitors than your website being inaccessible. You can think of a DNS server as a phone book for the internet. What is DNS?

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Cache Website Internet Internet 134

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

The world’s first website was made from static HTML files created in a text editor. Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. Mike Neumegen. released 1998.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

Tim Kadlec

AUGUST 14, 2018

The area he was in was served by satellite internet access, and experienced significant latency (a floor of 506 milliseconds) and packet loss (between 50-80% was typical). A local caching server, meant to speed up commonly-requested sites and reduce bandwidth usage, is a “man in the middle”.

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Speed Curve

APRIL 14, 2024

On websites, CMPs handle cookie popups. Unless you've been abstaining from the internet for the past several years, you know consent managers well. In this example, the synchronous requests for the CMP timed out, causing an extremely long delay in Start Render due to the SPOF. What challenges do CMPs create for performance?

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Internet 127

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Spend enough time running websites through PageSpeed Insights and you’ll notice that Google has a major beef with traditional image formats like JPG, PNG and even GIF. Suzanne Scacca. 2019-10-29T12:30:59+02:00. 2019-10-29T13:36:09+00:00.

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Website Speed Cache Google 72

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. Recent Entries.

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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. Many people often confuse site speed with page speed grades of performance testing tools, which are actually calculated based on multiple factors of a page including its loading speed.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. However, like each country has its boundary, the world of Internet is not a world without any control. And the case is especially different, when China’s Internet environment is involved.

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Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52