CSS Wizardry

MARCH 28, 2022

The important thing to note here is that Google doesn’t care how you get to LCP, as long as you get there fast. Plan in suitable buffer time for traffic issues, etc. Google doesn’t (currently) care about your TTFB, but a good TTFB is going to help get closer to a good LCP. LCP is a milestone timing—it measures….

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Virtualization Google Metrics Testing 330

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. Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. Also, there was a 65% increase in video consumption on mobile devices in 2020. What’s a representative device to test on in 2021?

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome who was working all around web performance for decades. Next to videos, images are the heaviest, most requested assets on the web. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +. Get the eBook.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

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. As for mobile network connection type, 84.7% Google Homepage — DOM. per GB respectively.

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Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome and focusing around performance for decades. Next to videos, images are the heaviest, most requested assets on the web. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +. Let’s figure it all out.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 92

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Getting your websites, images, and videos to load quickly is an absolute necessity for inbound marketing success. Factors such as the person’s current network connection and the general speed of the corresponding webpage will be considered. Yahoo saw a 9% increase in traffic to every 400 milliseconds of webpage speed improvement.

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Speed Website Performance Website Mobile 93

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Network or connection error. Modern web applications and pages, such as single-page applications, that put the user experience at its utmost priority are expected to be available 24/7, anywhere in the world, usable on any screen size, secure, flexible, scalable and be ready to meet traffic spikes on demand. Network latency.

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Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

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

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Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The most obvious change 5G might bring about isn’t to cell phones but to local networks, whether at home or in the office. High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting. Those waits can be significant, even if you’re on a corporate network. Let’s get back to home networking.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

This is helpful for those on poor or expensive networks, so they don’t have to pay an exorbitant cost just to visit your website. However, the above table is not actually representative of total traffic, and that’s another point to note about this data. For others, it might involve using smaller images or not loading videos by default.

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Website Media Mobile Network 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Paddy Ganti’s script constructs two URLs (one normal and one blocking the ads), prompts the generation of a video comparison via WebPageTest and reports a delta. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

I recently shared some of my favourite research at Beyond Tellerrand (video here ) and thought it would be fun to round it up in a post. Interestingly, and perhaps not coincidentally, 100 milliseconds is Google's stated goal when it comes to page load times. This number has remained consistent throughout the centuries.

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Speed Website Mobile Cloud 134

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Also called “static assets,” these files include CSS and JavaScript, both written by the application developer and third-party libraries, as well as PDFs, software installers, images, music, videos, and icons. Static files range from a few kilobytes of CSS to gigabytes of video. These files are only used client-side.

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Media Cache Storage AWS 69

Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

In 2016, Google made it clear that since mobile traffic is more than all else, mobile-friendly websites will be prioritised when a user searches on mobile. IoT is used in sensitive data such as your video footages via CCTVs or your personal health data etc. 2015 saw the trend of scriptless testing and IoT focussed methodologies.

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Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89

MachMetrics

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Real Engineering has created a fascinating video that explains the impact the project may have on internet speed as well as financial and economic implications. The video uses the time it currently takes for information to travel from the New York Stock Exchange to a viewer in London to illustrate the advantages that this network could offer.

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Internet Internet Latency Speed 44

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

The reasons for it are numerous, but the most important one is a huge difference in network conditions and device hardware across the world. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Chrome users. The performance distribution for Largest Contentful Paint in 2020. Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik), Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing). 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

CSS - Tricks

MAY 15, 2019

Today's websites are packed with heavy media assets like images and videos. Images make up around 50% of an average website's traffic. In short, we’re talking about a mechanism that defers the network traffic necessary to load content when it’s needed — or rather when trigger the load when the content enters the viewport.

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Traffic Website Network Analytics 58

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!

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Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

Rigor

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Does it capture screenshots or a video of script running, so you can see what the screen looked like when a button or form field couldn’t be found? Can you test with 3G, 4G, or different networking connections? Can you compare the videos or waterfalls side-by-side? Will it tell you what steps it fails on and why?

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Monitoring Benchmarking Mobile Traffic 59

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. Not that you’ll even need GPU access all that often.

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Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 99

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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Performance Network Latency Servers 105

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Also, the management will be dissatisfied with the decreased traffic and revenue caused by the unoptimized codebase, despite the code quality improvements. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A.

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Media Performance Cache Strategy 108

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It also, however, takes a full network round trip to complete before anything else can be done on a connection. For example, if the device is a firewall, it might be configured to block all traffic containing (unknown) extensions. and lower), this typically takes two network round trips. What is so different?

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