Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. We can expand the metric to glean insights into what exactly is causing traffic on the main thread. Analytics is a good example. It’s worth asking.

Google 91

Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 91

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. Google's Search App and Facebook's various apps for Android undermine these choices in slightly different ways. [3] Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

Each drone is rated with a game mechanic and gets special privileges based on performance (just kidding). 40 million : Netflix monthly spend on cloud services; 5% : retention increase can increase profits 25%; 50+% : Facebook's IPv6 traffic from the U.S, Hey, it's HighScalability time: 4 th of July may never be the same.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Artificial Intelligence 113

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

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

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Second, optimization efforts for JavaScript were the subject of probably millions of developer hours by a number of companies, notably Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla, and built on decades of research in the PL community on how to optimize such languages (starting with the Self project , which started in the late 80s).

C++ 108

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

MachMetrics

APRIL 15, 2020

While Google’s PageSpeed Insights give you both a score for how your website performs on both desktop and mobile, most of the other audit services default to testing your site on a desktop. If you’re unsure of where your traffic is coming from, use a tool like Google Analytics and track it for a while.

Speed 88

Speed Testing Website Mobile 88

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

For example, users can install browser plugins to suggest coupon codes when they are shopping, to scan web pages for malware, to play games or message friends, or do any number of other things. They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic. These tools fall into several categories. Large preview ).

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 19, 2017

Let’s face it – the ideal load test emulates real world traffic, yet most load testing software doesn’t come close. Thanks to cloud-based virtual servers, LoadView can send traffic to your site or application from around the world. This breadth of options allows for impressively thorough load testing.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Testing Performance Virtualization 40

High Scalability

MARCH 15, 2019

300% : AWS IoT growth per year; 74% : mobile games user spending in the App store; 31.4 were using Google Cloud Storage, but given too many issues big and small over the year, we’ll be migrating to AWS S3 for storage going forward. They'll learn a lot and love you even more.

Internet 34

Internet Internet Scalability IoT 34

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The Google DevTools console can give you real-time feedback to help you trace the source of errors, and you can set handlers to automate exception data collection. Source: Google Keep in mind that not all code errors are noticeable to users. More traffic is coming from smart devices every year, so don’t neglect mobile testing!

Strategy 67

Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Google Homepage — DOM. This isn’t useless JavaScript; Google has to have some in order to display suggestions as you type. For comparison, I disabled JavaScript and reloaded the page: The disabled JS version of Google search was only 102 KB and had just 5 network requests. Google Dev Docs. 402 KB transferred, 1.1

Cache 96

Cache Google Mobile Network 96

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

vl : I have a hilarious story about this from Google: I wanted second 30" monitor, so I filed a ticket. . $2 billion : Pokémon GO revenue since launch; 10 : say happy birthday to StackOverflow; $148 million : Uber data breach fine; 75% : streaming music industry revenue in the US; 5.2 That's not an obvious statement at all. There more.

Internet 35

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 35

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Sadly, data on latency is harder to get, even from Google's perch, so progress there is somewhat more difficult to judge. CrUX data collection and first-party RUM analytics of these metrics require live traffic, meaning results can be predicted but only verified once deployed. are too stingy to fork out $200K (or $800K ?)

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. Unless you can use Google Fonts with Cloudflare Workers , of course.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

After the latest redesign in late 2017, it was Ilya Pukhalski on the JavaScript side of things (part-time), Michael Riethmueller on the CSS side of things (a few hours a week), and yours truly, playing mind games with critical CSS and trying to juggle a few too many things. This is where we started. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. In 2015, Google introduced Brotli , a new open-source lossless data format, which is now supported in all modern browsers. Unless you can use Google Fonts with Cloudflare Workers , of course.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And that brings our story to the present day: Stage 3: Neural networks High-end video games required high-end video cards. Between Google (Vertex AI and Colab) and Amazon (SageMaker), you can now get all of the GPU power your credit card can handle. The solution led us to the next structural evolution.

Hardware 99

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 99

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

For example, if the device is a firewall, it might be configured to block all traffic containing (unknown) extensions. In practice, UDP is mostly used for live traffic that updates at a high rate and thus suffers little from packet loss because missing data is quickly outdated anyway (examples include live video conferencing and gaming).

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

One of the reasons Google saw very good 0-RTT results for QUIC was that it tested it on its already heavily optimized search page, where query responses are quite small. Initial tests by Google , for example, show low percentage improvements for its use cases. This is why there is a split between client and server CIDs in QUIC.

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106