Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. SEO is key to our success. Bookaway site search.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

A performance budget as a mechanism for planning a web experience and preventing performance decay might consist of the following yardsticks: Overall page weight, Total number of HTTP requests, Page-load time on a particular mobile network, First Input Delay (FID). The right product video can raise conversions by over 80%.

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Media Performance Mobile Latency 117

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This is sometimes referred to as using an “over-cloud” model that involves a centrally managed resource pool that spans all parts of a connected global network with internal connections between regional borders, such as two instances in IAD-ORD for NYC-JS webpage DNS routing. This also aids scalability down the line.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Tim Kadlec

JUNE 24, 2014

At Google I/O 2014 , Lara Swanson and Paul Lewis discussed performance culture. Mobile networks add a tremendous amount of latency. The new devices and fast networks we use are not necessarily what our users are using. We are not our end users.

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Google Performance Latency Internet 49

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

At first glance, the market for mobile browsers looks roughly functional. Tech pundits and policymakers form expectations of browsers on the desktop and think about mobile browser competition the same way. The mobile ecosystem appears to retain these properties, but the resemblance is only skin deep. The Baseline Scenario #.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The specifications are impressive: 5G will provide a peak data rate of up to 20 Gbps (with 100 Mbps of “ user experienced data rate ”) to mobile devices: cell phones, smart cars, and a lot of devices that haven’t been invented yet. High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting. I don’t, do you?

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Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2 Lighthouse.

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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. On mobile, per session, users who experienced fast load times bring 17% more revenue than average.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Most of you have probably seen the following Google PageSpeed Insights optimization suggestion at one point or another when running a speed test: By compressing and adjusting the size of … you can save 14.2 KB and the average mobile page is 1,683.5 Search engines, such as Google, sees hyphens as a separator.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

Using an image CDN, such as KeyCDN, can significantly reduce the latency of your image delivery. I’m almost always on a slow connection and the amount of time it takes images to load on most websites is just horrid… - Sara Soueidan Desktop and Mobile Images Just how much of a website is made up of images?

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Speed Website Mobile Latency 52

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

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Performance Cache Servers Social Media 125

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Study your main competitors, collect metrics on how they perform on mobile and desktop and set thresholds that would help you outpace them. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

You will track the developments for 2021 here at Testsigma and use Testsigma mobile automation tool for making testing easy and hassle-free. The growing demand for IoT-testing is the government’s gradual acceptance of smart cities’ concept, which is why businesses are keen to incorporate IoT into their networks.

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Artificial Intelligence Software Software IoT 92

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Critical in adapting web content to mobile, particularly regarding multi-touch gestures. Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations. Delayed five years. Gamepad API.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

Rigor

JULY 2, 2019

However, there may be cases where you have unnecessary redirection on your site, including: Using device-specific versions of your site so a mobile user is redirected from example.com to m.example.com/home. Lastly, suppose we tried to go to [link] from a mobile device. Compare this to loading [link] directly, which took a mere 29 ms.

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Mobile Traffic Google Latency 60

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop. Study your main competitors, collect metrics on how they perform on mobile and desktop and set thresholds that would help you outpace them. Keep in mind that on a mobile device, you should be expecting a 4×–5× slowdown compared to desktop machines.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. media="(min-width: 750px)"> <img srcset="img@mobile.png, img@mobile-2x.png 2x". Two numbers set the stage: 45% of mobile connections occur over 2G worldwide.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

It's an overview of why front-end performance matter, how to monitor it and the challenges faced when building for an increasingly mobile world. The network constraints and what makes the web slow? Bandwidth, latency and it's fundamental impact on the speed of the web. Drop that donut superman! Performance Tools. References.

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Speed Benchmarking Latency Mobile 40

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

is an open collaboration between Google, Microsoft , Intel , Samsung , and others to safely bring capabilities to the web which native developers have come to expect. That (mobile-first) work added PWA installability , Push Notifications , Web Bluetooth , WebUSB , and Background Sync. Chromium's Project Fugu ?? high-color image raster.

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Hardware Games Java Media 55

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Wait time: Sometimes called average latency, wait time refers the amount of time a request spends in a queue before it gets processed. Google Lighthouse Google Lighthouse is a free and open source tool that is part of the Google Chrome DevTools family. Peak response time: The longest response time.

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Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Tim Kadlec

JULY 28, 2015

UC, another popular proxy browser, boasts 100 million daily active users and is the most popular mobile browser in India, China and Indonesia. Steps 1-3 are all network constrained. How quickly they happen, and the cost, depends mostly on the characteristics of the network: the bandwidth, latency, cost of data, etc.

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Architecture Servers Network Latency 75

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

I can count on one hand the number of teams I’ve worked with who have goals that allow them to block launches for latency regressions, including Google products. This has been coupled with an attempt to lean on evolving facts about computing (it’s all going to mobile, mostly to Android, and not high-end devices).

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Development Government Mobile Network 65

Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Powerful mobile devices like the iPhone 5s also fared very well. It’s a device actively being sold by a few prepaid networks. This is notable because we’re seeing companies such as Mozilla and Google targeting emerging markets with affordable, low-powered devices that otherwise run modern browsers.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Remote calls are never free; they impose extra latency, increase probability of an error, and consume network bandwidth. This can become an issue for some applications, for example, on mobile devices with limited network bandwidth. Additionally, requesting a large number of fields can make the response payload massive.

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Design Java Efficiency Code 245

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. Two-way latency is often called round-trip time (RTT). Congestion Control.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 105

O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

Examples include popular home assistants and smart displays like the Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple HomePod, and many others. In Privacy in Context, Nissenbaum talks about the privacy implications of Google Street View when it places photos of people’s houses on Google Maps. Source: Google Face Match video, [link] ).

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Google Games Technology Technology 121

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

You’ve probably heard things like: “HTTP/3 is much faster than HTTP/2 when there is packet loss”, or “HTTP/3 connections have less latency and take less time to set up”, and probably “HTTP/3 can send data more quickly and can send more resources in parallel”. and lower), this typically takes two network round trips.

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Case-in-point, most enterprise CMS vendors lack robust full-site content delivery network (CDN) integration. A few months back, I was pulled into a scenario where a business has been working with a leading CMS vendor to roll-out a network of multi-regional websites. Decoupled CMS vs. headless CMS.

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Systems Cache Website Network 63

High Scalability

JANUARY 24, 2019

The most famous of these companies—the so-called faangs, of Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google—have seen their price-earnings ratios collapse by more than 60 percent in the past two years. Stand under Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 (35 nearly 5 star reviews). 10% : Netflix captured screen time in US; 8.3

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Internet Internet Scalability Games 29