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Seamless offloading of web app computations from mobile device to edge clouds via HTML5 Web Worker migration

The Morning Paper

Seamless offloading of web app computations from mobile device to edge clouds via HTML5 web worker migration , Jeong et al., This paper caught my eye for its combination of an intriguing idea (opportunistic offload of computation from mobile devices to the edge) and the elegance of the way the web worker interface supports this use case.

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Time to First Byte: What It Is and Why It Matters

CSS Wizardry

The first—and often most surprising for people to learn—thing that I want to draw your attention to is that TTFB counts one whole round trip of latency. Armed with this knowledge, we can soon understand why TTFB can often increase so dramatically on mobile. The reason is because mobile networks are, as a rule, high latency connections.

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Mobile browser testing – what is it and when is it done?

Testsigma

The native and mobile web browser testing is being performed more and more compared to desktop testing. What are Mobile Web Applications? Applications that do not require to be downloaded and can be accessed via hitting the URL on a mobile browser are known as mobile web applications. What are Native Applications?

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Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption

The Morning Paper

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. Throughput and latency. energy consumption).

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How Google PageSpeed Works: Improve Your Score and Search Engine Ranking

CSS - Tricks

Last year, Google made two significant changes to their search indexing and ranking algorithms : In March, indexing became based on the mobile version of a page , rather than desktop. In July, the SEO ranking algorithm was updated to include page speed as a ranking factor for both mobile pages and ads. Estimated Input Latency.

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I Actually Chatted with ChatGPT

O'Reilly

software” rather than “hardware” in our brains). Unpredictable wait times : Wait times (latency) for ChatGPT’s responses are unpredictable, and there aren’t audio cues to help me establish an expectation for how long I need to wait before it responds. We still have a long way to go, though.

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Performance Testing - Tools, Steps, and Best Practices

KeyCDN

Wait time: Sometimes called average latency, wait time refers the amount of time a request spends in a queue before it gets processed. Prepare the testing environment: Make sure your hardware and network configurations closely reflect real world conditions. Peak response time: The longest response time.