Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The internet accounts for an estimated 3–4% of global emissions — equivalent to some countries. The carbon emissions of the internet are roughly equivalent to those generated by the entire aviation industry, or the whole of Africa. Terabyte of wasted traffic. Image credit: BBC.com ) ( Large preview ). The Bigger Picture.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. ‍ Think of a CDN Load Balancer (or LB, if you like to keep things short and sweet) as the internet’s traffic police. What is a CDN Multiple Origins Load Balancer?‍

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Traffic Cache Servers Latency 52

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. The average person believes they spend 9 minutes per day waiting for slow websites. The internet may change, and web pages may grow and evolve, but user expectations are constant.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. Think of a CDN Load Balancer (or LB, if you like to keep things short and sweet) as the internet’s traffic police. What is a CDN Multiple Origins Load Balancer?‍

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Traffic Cache Network Servers 40

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

World-class experts in graphics, networking, cryptography, databases, language design, VM implementation, security, usability (particularly usable security), power management, compilers, fonts, high-performance layout, codecs, real-time media, audio and video pipelines, and per- OS specialisation are required. How much does all of this cost?

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Django websites involve a lot of files. As if that wasn’t enough already, sometimes users come along and want to upload their own files to your website. Static files range from a few kilobytes of CSS to gigabytes of video. One final note is that many libraries for CSS and JavaScript have free CDNs that most websites can use.

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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 (Internet of things) devices have been on an increase for a long time now. In 2021, more than 23 billion IoT devices were active and connected to the internet.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. I wanted to simulate a slow connection like those experienced by users in Uzbekistan, to see what kind of experience websites would give me. I installed ModHeader and set the ‘Save-Data’ header to let websites know I want to minimise my data usage.

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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? CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users.

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The Morning Paper

APRIL 11, 2019

When the user browses away from a website, the service worker of that website is typically paused by the browser; it is then restarted and reactivated once the parent domain is visited again. However, it is possible for the publisher of a website to keep its service worker alive by implementing periodic synchronization.

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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.

Traffic 58

Traffic Website Network Analytics 58

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

You need to make sure that your website or app runs smoothly in over a dozen web browsers and hundreds of different devices, which is no easy feat. Every website or app should provide a way for users to report bugs. Raygun Raygun offers 3 separate services which can all be used simultaneously to keep a better eye on any website errors.

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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? Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.

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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? Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Websites would magically become 50% faster with the flip of a switch! It’s also one of the reasons we can keep using the Internet with many concurrent users, because it smartly limits each user’s bandwidth usage to their fair share. For this reason, TCP is one of the most widely used and deployed protocols on the Internet.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is because HTTP/3 and QUIC mainly help deal with the somewhat uncommon yet potentially high-impact problems that can arise on today’s Internet. On the Internet, however, we typically have a long series of connected pipes , some of which can be wider than others (leading to so-called bottlenecks at the narrowest links).

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