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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Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 88

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

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.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Delivering Light Media Experiences with Data Saver. +. Get the eBook.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Delivering Light Media Experiences with Data Saver. +. Get the eBook.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 92

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

The upcoming prefers-reduced-data media query, which allows CSS to set different options depending on this setting. A new breed of user preference CSS media queries have been launched recently, which are being standardized in the Media Queries Level 5 draft specification and many are already available in browsers.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. 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. Lighthouse.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

— Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter. Mobile image transfer size by year graphic from Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter. Key user-centric metrics often depend on the size, number, layout, and loading priority of images on the page. According to the Web Almanac in late 2021, 95.9 Large preview ).

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Media Cache Website Mobile 105

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Before those studies, web pages were designed as printed media, with columns and big blocks of text. The AOI will determine what areas you will calculate metrics for. The metrics and how they will be shown depending on the eye-tracking tool you choose. Source: mashable.com ) ( Large preview ).

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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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Cache Speed Google Website 78

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

While a vast majority of the time is spent in just a few mobile apps, social media platforms provide a gateway to the web and your services — especially in education. However, there are quite a few high-profile case studies exploring the impact of mobile optimization on key business metrics. Driving Business Metrics.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

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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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

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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Performance Education Google Website 89

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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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this article, we will review what third-party resource requests are, consider how impactful they can be to the user experience, and discuss common optimization strategies to reduce the impact on the user experience. Graph of resource request chains on a typical news media website. Large preview ). Ad Blockers Makes Sites Faster.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

When it comes to web content, you can easily find what you need through many different paths, from search engines and social media to playlists and blogs, jumping from one source to another with just a tap of a finger. How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance. Time is Money. High Performance Websites.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

But we can’t really say just yet whether it had any impact on the business metrics — well, we’ll need to wait for a big book release to see that. The final prompt for a more aggressive optimization was the “Core Web Vitals” dashboard in the Google Search Console. Strategies For Migrating To TypeScript. this vs. that.

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Mobile Design Cache Code 140

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Google search ranking. Better tooling and metrics standardization.

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Website Performance Google Media 126

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

No, this was a change in strategy. Google's security teams audited the colossal volume of user-generated content Google hosts for problems and did not find significant concerns. Regardless, Safari 16.4 And yet, at TPAC 2020, Apple's representatives continued to press the line that unworkably large security issues were at issue.

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Energy Games Engineering Design 79

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

This metric is a little difficult to comprehend, so here’s an example: if the average cost of broadband packages in a country is $22, and the average download speed offered by the packages is 10 Mbps, then the cost ‘per megabit per month’ would be $2.20. For reference, the metric is $1.19 Google Homepage — DOM.

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Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

One available proxy is the distribution of use from Google's hosted JS libraries. As a strategy to improve performance for users, significant questions remain unanswered. Consider the scripts most likely to qualify based on use: code for embedding media players, analytics scripts, and ad network bootstraps. What does this mean?

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Cache Government Traffic Network 82

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

In previous articles from this series, we’ve covered auditing CSS codebase health and the incremental CSS refactoring strategy , testing, and maintenance. In this article, we’re going to cover CSS optimization strategies that can optimize CSS file size, loading times, and render performance. Optimizing Media Queries.

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Media Performance Cache Strategy 108

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.

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

This rework delays launch which, in turn, delays gathering data about the viability of a PWA strategy. This helps support executive sponsors who then have meaningful metrics to point to in justifying the investments being made. This matters because all script loading delays the metric we value most: Time to Interactive.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Centralized data will be moved to third party services such as Google Sheets and Airtable for the stakeholders. Data Quality Data Mesh provides metrics and dashboards at both the processor and pipeline level for operational observability. This strategy has increased the Studio Tech Solutions team performance and stability.

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Big Data Government Analytics Processing 253

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. Google cloud.

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Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52