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.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Website and web application technologies have grown tremendously over the years. Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. Website and Web Application Monitoring. Network or connection error. Network latency. Network Latency.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

Unquestionably, media enlivens websites, adding appeal, excitement, and intrigue, let alone enticements to stay on a page and frequently revisit it. Even though rich media can promote user engagement, we need to balance the cost of delivering them with your website performance and business goals. Akshay Ranganath.

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Media Performance Mobile Latency 117

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. JavaScript-Heavy # Since at least 2015, building JavaScript-first websites has been a predictably terrible idea, yet most of the sites I trace on a daily basis remain mired in script. [1] What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Google was the first company to create, embrace, and put support behind the role of site reliability engineering. Since that time, the SRE role has evolved as the industry has changed and shifted from the traditional monolithic structures to large, widely distributed networks and microservices. Monitoring.

Monitoring 91

Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

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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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

The other issue is that the data I’m getting back is based on lab simulations where I can add throttling, determine the device that’s used, and the network connection, among other simulated conditions. On that note, it’s worth calling out that there are multiple flavors of network throttling. Real usage data would be better, of course.

Speed 81

Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Google Website 106

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

It also allows users to access a website for which native application is not available. There are so many different devices readily available in the market today to view a website. Each smartphone comes with various screen sizes and resolutions, operates on different network speeds, and has different hardware capabilities.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

Well, that is probably true, as long as they don’t slow down your website to the point where you are losing visitors. When it comes to optimizing your website, images are generally the most important asset you should spend time on figuring out how to reduce in size and deliver in a more efficient way. Mbps ( Opensignal ).

Speed 52

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. Agustinus Theodorus. 2022-09-27T14:00:00+00:00. Medium Homepage.

Performance 125

Performance Cache Servers Social Media 125

MachMetrics

OCTOBER 16, 2019

However, there is excitement around Starlink for other reasons – namely, the implications it might have for internet speed and latency – even by just a small amount (20 milliseconds on average). And thus, a fast website is more critical than ever. Starlink’s Goal: Reduce Internet Latency.

Internet 44

Internet Internet Latency Speed 44

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. For a browser to serve as the user's agent, it must also receive navigations.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. Just because everything works perfectly during production testing doesn’t mean that will be the case when your website is flooded with traffic.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

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.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? ( Large preview ). Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The term site reliability engineering first came into existence at Google in 2003 when a site reliability team was created. The term “Site Reliability Engineer” is attributed to Ben Treynor Sloss, now a Vice President of Engineering at Google. At that time, the team was made up of software engineers.

Engineering 67

Engineering DevOps Monitoring Google 67

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. I already had Google Analytics installed, so I added the following code to each page.

Energy 40

Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. I already had Google Analytics installed, so I added the following code to each page.

Energy 40

Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. I already had Google Analytics installed, so I added the following code to each page.

Energy 40

Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

The network constraints and what makes the web slow? Bandwidth, latency and it's fundamental impact on the speed of the web. How to make your website faster. Diagnotic Tools WebPagetest and how to read a browser waterfall Google Pagespeed Insights YSlow. Optimization tools and techniques. Muti-device challenges.

Speed 40

Speed Benchmarking Latency Mobile 40

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Google founders figured out smart ways to rank websites by analyzing their connection patterns and using that information to improve the relevance of search results. Back in the days of Web 1.0, Another element they have in common is that they are both consuming and producing messages.

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

Tim Kadlec

JULY 28, 2015

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. All of the optimizations that take place focus primarily on the reducing the impact on the network (1-3). Steps 4-8 are device constrained.

Architecture 75

Architecture Servers Network Latency 75

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The technology develops single-page applications , websites, and backend API services designed with real-time and push-based architectures. with its low latency I/O operations, gives the benefit of ‘No buffering’ to developers. Network: Node.js based frameworks like Express, Socket.io, and Meteor.js Use cases of Node.js

Open Source 52

Open Source Virtualization Programming Servers 52

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

In this role, I am leading a global team that works closely with our strategic partners such as AWS, Microsoft, Google, Pivotal, Red Hat and others. While most of our cloud & platform partners have their own dependency analysis tooling, most of them focus on basic dependency detection based on network connection analysis between hosts.

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

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.

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105

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. can generate an HTML-only website without involving a CMS.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

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”. Websites would magically become 50% faster with the flip of a switch!

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. Servers and Networks. Implementation.

Network 104

Network Servers Cache Traffic 104

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If you’re optimizing for the Web Vitals , you might be interested to hear that images account for ~ 42% of the Largest Contentful Paint element for websites. Compression achieved is relevant because the higher the compression, the smaller the file size, and the lower the data required to transfer the image on the network.

Open Source 144

Open Source Speed Website Google 144