The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

AnyLog: a grand unification of the Internet of Things , Abadi et al., Note that AnyLog also differs from projects such as DeepDive or Google’s Knowledge Graph. Despite the "Internet of Things" featuring prominently in the title, there’s nothing particular to IoT in the technical solution at all. web pages).

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O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

Degrading quality for higher profit It is instructive to consider how the algorithmic technologies that underpinned the aggregator platforms of old (think Amazon, Google and Facebook among others) initially deployed to benefit users, were eventually reprogrammed to increase profits for the platform. But it is far from alone.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

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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.

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Tim Kadlec

JUNE 24, 2014

At Google I/O 2014 , Lara Swanson and Paul Lewis discussed performance culture. Since it’s one of my favorite topics, I decided to share my notes: 34% of US adults use a smartphone as their primary means of internet access. Mobile networks add a tremendous amount of latency. We are not our end users.

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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.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

The average user doesn’t spend much time waiting for a web page to load or to interact with the page: According to Google, if a page’s load time goes up from 1 second to 3 seconds, the probability of the user bouncing increases by 32%. Consider Google Analytics, which collects and sends tracking data using navigator.sendBeacon().

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What do the different metrics mean? While the focus in most cases tends to be directed toward front-end developers, it's important to remember the back-end as well if you see higher than normal start render times or increases in more basic metrics like time to first byte. The internet. What do the different metrics mean?

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

LCP, or Largest Contentful Paint , is one of the three Core Web Vitals that you must “pass” to get the full search ranking boost from Google as part of their Page Experience Update. And the “contentful” part of the name shows this metric is intended to ignore (e.g. To improve the metrics, you have to improve the experience. “.

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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. These include data transfer (i.e.

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

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. This reduces friction and commensurately increases "engagement" metrics. [6].

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics Performance culture, Core Web Vitals, performance profiles, CrUX, Lighthouse, FID, TTI, CLS, devices. Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Table Of Contents.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Every major website on the Internet today relies — to some degree — on third-party services. In this case, we are not going to be talking about infrastructure services, such as a cloud computing platform like Microsoft Azure or a content distribution network like Akamai. You have control over what these resources are.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

With the latest introduction of the Core Web Vital section on GSC + upcoming Google’s core web vital update, site owners are forced to take note of their website speed and web vitals. Importance of page loading speed – Google checks your website load time and they like it as fast with a better user experience.

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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.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Largest Contentful Paint (or LCP) is one of three metrics of the Core Web Vitals. These metrics are used by Google to evaluate the quality of user experience. The images used in the article’s Codepen demonstrations will be integrated with TwicPics to save time in their creation and speed up the optimization of the LCP metric.

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MachMetrics

JANUARY 23, 2020

Some visitors will be coming to your site via a blazing fast internet on an overpowered, flagship mobile device. Others will be coming to you from a slow, rural internet connection on a budget laptop. One of the most important things you can take note of is the changes in different metrics and the overall trend.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 22, 2021

Testsigma provides real devices to be used for native applications and since the end-user will also be on a real device, this method provides precise performance and metrics for your application under test. Consider a scenario where we are using Google Chrome 86 as the latest version. Mobile Network Issues.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Table Of Contents. Quick Wins.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 18, 2021

Consider a scenario where the end-users are using Internet Explorer browser to reach your website but you have not considered ‘testing on IE’ a part of your testing process! Key Metrics to consider for Cross Browser Testing. Shown below is sample test environments for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Internet Explorer (IE).

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Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2022

Another research supported this conclusion by providing data that depicts 90% of the total internet time of the users is spent on mobile apps. After security, the next scenario that is critical for our mobile testing journey is the performance metric. Network related scenarios in mobile testing.

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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. One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0,

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Table Of Contents. Setting Realistic Goals. Defining The Environment.

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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.

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Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. High Performance Browser Networking. How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance. Time is Money.

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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). Another window into this question is provided by the Web Confluence Metrics project. PowerPoint or Google Slides). Converging Views.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. Images are crucial elements for performance and UX, and data extracted from Core Web Vitals metrics such as Largest Contentful Paint , which attempts to identify the most important piece of the above-the-fold content on a given page, proves this. Alba Silvente.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Network propaganda works in much the same way as microphones and music. While many of our systems are vulnerable to attack, social networks have proven the most vulnerable. Attacks on social networks can fly under the radar as “free speech,” even when the speaker is a bot that’s been programmed to manipulate a feedback loop.

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Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 18, 2016

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. Advanced filtering actions include the Network Element Filter which gives you the ability to exclude specific components from the load test.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Moreover, Garten-und-Freizeit, a German e-commerce store that sells furniture, saw an amazing improvement in their metrics after getting a PWA. 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.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It’s also one of the reasons we can keep using the Internet with many concurrent users, because it smartly limits each user’s bandwidth usage to their fair share. As another example, most applications on the Internet use TCP internally to ensure that all of their data are transmitted in full. Did You Know? Did You Know?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. If your average visitor is on a fast cabled or cellular network, they probably won’t benefit from the new protocols all that much. An often used metaphor is that of a pipe used to transport water. Congestion Control.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Note : Another timely note here is that Internet Explorer will reach end of life officially on June 15, 2022 ). A more recent hot topic in site performance and related metrics is Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS). This is the Google Lighthouse score for how much elements shift or jump during page load. Cumulative Layout Shift.

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