Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. SLOs are a valuable tool for organizations to ensure the health and performance of their applications. E-commerce website : The e-commerce website should be available 99.9%

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. Your website may be using more third-party services than you realize. Ken Harker.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. Teams can build on these SLO examples to improve application performance and reliability. E-commerce website : The e-commerce website should be available 99.9%

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CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative was launched in May of 2020 and, since then, its role in Search has morphed and evolved as roll-outs have been made and feedback has been received. However, to this day, messaging from Google can seem somewhat unclear and, in places, even contradictory. Don’t have time to read 5,500+ words?

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KeyCDN

MARCH 22, 2023

More and more website owners and businesses are affected by devastating security breaches. Thus, the issue of security is increasingly becoming a major concern for website owners and web developers. But, first, let's look at the importance of website security. Attacks could spread to other crucial websites linked to your server.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2021

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. By doing this, China is also able to force people to use Chinese alternatives for websites. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

Signals For Customizing Website User Experience. Signals For Customizing Website User Experience. In my last article , I suggested using the SaveData API to deliver a different, more performant, experience to users that expressed that desire. This is a bit of a shame, as I believe they are useful for websites.

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Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

As an ad publisher, your revenue depends on two main factors: traffic to your site and ad optimization. A lot of the focus goes into the practice and processes of driving traffic to your site from an SEO perspective, but what if when visitors get to your site, they have a less than ideal experience? Find Your Performance Baseline.

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Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 27, 2021

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. By doing this, China is also able to force people to use Chinese alternatives for websites. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

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Website Internet Internet Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

With so many of their transactions occurring online, customers are becoming more demanding, expecting websites and applications to always perform perfectly. Website load times have been found to have a direct correlation with conversion rates. However, cloud complexity has made software delivery challenging.

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Tim Kadlec

APRIL 10, 2023

There was a comment on Twitter today from Rafael Gonzaga expressing disappointment in what he sees as a tendency to focus on the frontend solely in performance discussions, while neglecting the server-side aspect. Revisiting the golden rule Way back in 2006, Tenni Theurer first wrote about the 80 / 20 rule as it applied web performance.

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Jos

MARCH 13, 2020

Web Performance is important for user experience and business metrics. This post explains several ways of assessing the potential performance gains with little effort and, more importantly, without actually implementing fixes. What is the business opportunity for web performance improvements? I would repeat over and over.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

That’s not all, the global mobile traffic is expected to increase sevenfold between 2017 and 2022. Globally, consumers are preferring their mobile phones for performing activities (e.g. Mobile-first design should be accompanied with mobile website testing for delivering a flawless web experience to your target audience.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. This is not a post explaining why web performance is important.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Sometimes it’s easy enough to find the answer to that question and the site just needs to invest in performance. Sometimes though, it’s a little trickier and, despite thinking your site was great on the performance for some reason it still fails. Many developers have been asking themselves that question lately.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Progressive web apps Being responsive is no longer enough; today's websites need to be progressive. Motion UI can add subtle animations to elements such as buttons and forms or more complex animations that help guide the user through an app or website. Here is a roundup of frontend web development trends to keep an eye on in 2023.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

Essentially, all traffic between China and the rest of the world goes through a few national level and a handful of core level access points in different regions. These updates will disable access of Google apps downloader, for example. This makes censorship of domestic traffic faster. . IP Blocking. DNS Hijacking and Phishing.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. Can’t be perfect every time!

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

If you’re reading this before March 2024 and fire up your favorite performance monitoring tool, you’re going to to get a Core Web Vitals report like this one pulled from PageSpeed Insights: ( Large preview ) You’re likely used to seeing most of these metrics. INP will officially replace FID when it becomes an official Core Web Vital metric.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

With a carefully crafted SEO strategy, you can rank your website at the top of the search engine results for relevant keywords. Of all traffic, 53.3% The top three results in Google SERPs get 54.4% Google is the most prominent global search market player with a market share of 83%. comes from organic searches.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"How can I demonstrate the business value of performance to people in my organization?" If you've ever asked yourself any of these questions, then you could find the answers in identifying and understanding the performance poverty line for your site. What is the "performance poverty line"?

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Like PageSpeed, Lighthouse also has a performance score. What is Google Lighthouse?

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

In the fourteen years that I've been working in the web performance industry, I've done a LOT of research, writing, and speaking about the psychology of page speed – in other words, why we crave fast, seamless online experiences. The average person believes they spend 9 minutes per day waiting for slow websites.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. What is your website already ranking well for and why? Google Keyword Planner.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. But not everything about performance happens directly at the code level, right?

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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. This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. This optimization is quite complex in nature though.

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

Frontend frameworks let you hit the ground running when developing a new website. According to StatCounter , as of December 2020, mobile traffic has surpassed desktop traffic with 55.73% of traffic coming from mobile devices. Originally created as an early fork of Angular by engineers at Google, Vue.js

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KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. 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. What is Performance Testing?

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. These days we have more and better tools to audit our performance.

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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Because of nobody like a slow website. Getting your websites, images, and videos to load quickly is an absolute necessity for inbound marketing success. Getting your websites, images, and videos to load quickly is an absolute necessity for inbound marketing success. Slow website and your business bottom line. Want proof?

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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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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. Without the ability to differentiate on features, security, performance, and privacy, what's to sell? And that's a choice. "WebKit

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

Around 600,000 websites have installed SSL certificates for security. These certificates are then activated on the company’s website which ensures that a secure connection is always set up between the web browser and the web server. Over 90 percent of the time, Chrome users prefer secure websites with SSL certificates.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Google was the first company to create, embrace, and put support behind the role of site reliability engineering. SLIs are the actual performance metrics of your services. For example, if your SLO states that your uptime must be 99.9%, the actual SLI must meet or exceed that performance metric in order meet that specific SLO.

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