CSS Wizardry

MAY 31, 2019

One of the quickest wins—and one of the first things I recommend my clients do—to make websites faster can at first seem counter-intuitive: you should self-host all of your static assets, forgoing others’ CDNs/infrastructure. Penalty: Network Negotiation. On a slower, higher-latency connection, the story is much, mush worse.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

This is understandable—forgivable, almost—when you consider that TTFB begins to move into back-end territory, but if I was to sum up the problem as succinctly as possible, I’d say: While a good TTFB doesn’t necessarily mean you will have a fast website, a bad TTFB almost certainly guarantees a slow one. But what else is TTFB?

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Latency Ecommerce Servers Mobile 269

Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Network Throttling. When it comes to monitoring web application performance, not only is it necessary emulate user actions, but also network conditions of end-user devices. Network connections can vary for many reasons. This is why network throttling is so important. Enabling Network Throttling with Dotcom-Monitor.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Do continue reading to gain a deep dive into static and dynamic content, its differences, pros, and cons while focusing on the best ways to optimize performance on websites that use such content.‍What This is where Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) come into play. What is Static Content?Static What is Dynamic Content?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Type 2: Full Real-User Monitoring (RUM) If CrUX offers one flavor of real-user data, then we can consider “full real-user data” to be another flavor that provides even more in the way individual experiences, such as specific network requests made by the page. The accuracy of observed data depends on how the test environment is set up.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

RUM works best only when people actively visit the application, website, or services. connectivity, access, user count, latency) of geographic regions. Synthetic monitoring is well suited for catching regressions during development lifecycles, especially with network throttling. Synthetic monitoring drawbacks.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Do continue reading to gain a deep dive into static and dynamic content, its differences, pros, and cons while focusing on the best ways to optimize performance on websites that use such content.‍What is Static Content?Static This is where Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) come into play.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

With the rise of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks using a high quality DNS hosting provider is very important to the redundancy of your website. There is nothing worse for visitors than your website being inaccessible. Oddly enough we encountered this error to a third party website while writing this article.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This is sometimes referred to as using an “over-cloud” model that involves a centrally managed resource pool that spans all parts of a connected global network with internal connections between regional borders, such as two instances in IAD-ORD for NYC-JS webpage DNS routing. This also aids scalability down the line.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A few years ago, we decided to address this complexity by spinning up a new initiative, and eventually a new team, to move the complex handling of user and device authentication, and various security protocols and tokens, to the edge of the network, managed by a set of centralized services, and a single team.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

This commitment involves prioritizing websites that offer not only relevant content but also an excellent user experience. LCP is particularly vital for landing pages , which are predominantly content and often the first touch-point a visitor has with a website. Here are some examples: Looker Studio filter.

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CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

The best request is the one that never happens: in the fight for fast websites, avoiding the network is far better than hitting the network at all. Any asset that carries the no-store directive will always hit the network, no matter what. We can completely cut out the overhead of a roundtrip of latency.

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Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Website and web application technologies have grown tremendously over the years. Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. Website and Web Application Monitoring. Network or connection error. Network latency. Network Latency.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

These include website hosting, database management, backup and restore, IoT capabilities, e-commerce solutions, app development tools and more, with new services released regularly. You will likely need to write code to integrate systems and handle complex tasks or incoming network requests. The Amazon Web Services ecosystem.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. For basic and simple websites, a developer was able to easily automate these checks and fix any problems before a user encountered them. The recipe was straightforward. Do you have a database?

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

As well as AWS Regions, we also have 21 AWS Edge Network Locations in Asia Pacific. This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. 9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2021

To understand the importance of API monitoring, consider a website that provides weather information. However, if you want to trigger an alert based on an outlier, such as a sudden spike in latency in one region or for a single customer, then sampling may not provide the alerting system with the data it needs to perform its job.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

Unquestionably, media enlivens websites, adding appeal, excitement, and intrigue, let alone enticements to stay on a page and frequently revisit it. Even though rich media can promote user engagement, we need to balance the cost of delivering them with your website performance and business goals. Akshay Ranganath.

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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. Enter the concept of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) with Multiple Origins Load Balancing. Turbocharge Your Content Delivery With CDN Multiple Origins Load Balancer!

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. JavaScript-Heavy # Since at least 2015, building JavaScript-first websites has been a predictably terrible idea, yet most of the sites I trace on a daily basis remain mired in script. [1] What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The Lamborghini website was being hosted on outdated infrastructure when the company decided to boost their online presence to coincide with the launch of their Aventador J sports car. The website went online in less than one month and was able to support a 250 percent increase in traffic around the launch of the Aventador J.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 29, 2020

These applications live inside the private network of the organization and often have role-based access. Cross-department application monitoring for bottleneck and latency. However, latency and uptime need to be monitored to avoid unnecessary bottlenecks and data consistency. Monitor third-party APIs and External Websites.

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Monitoring Strategy Infrastructure Latency 75

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. Enter the concept of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) with Multiple Origins Load Balancing. Turbocharge Your Content Delivery With CDN Multiple Origins Load Balancer!

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Traffic Cache Network Servers 40

Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

This header can be set on the response of any network resource, such as XHR, fetch, images, HTML, stylesheets, etc. These subtypes are currently the only subtypes related to network requests and thus exposing the Server-Timing information. Setting Server-Timing. For Images, Stylesheets, JS files, the HTML Doc, etc.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

The mean and percentile measurements hide this structure, but the rest of this post will show how the structure can be measured and analyzed so that you can figure out a useful model of your system, understand what is driving the long tail of latencies and come up with better SLAs and measures of capacity.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Go ahead, briefly look at the things that Lighthouse says are wrong with the website. Before we do anything else, let’s see what happens when we first hit the website. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2 It gets redirected.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

The other issue is that the data I’m getting back is based on lab simulations where I can add throttling, determine the device that’s used, and the network connection, among other simulated conditions. On that note, it’s worth calling out that there are multiple flavors of network throttling. Real usage data would be better, of course.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

An IDS/IPS monitors network flows and matches incoming packets (or more strictly, Protocol Data Units, PDUs) against a set of rules. This makes the whole system latency sensitive. The baseline for comparison is Snort 3.0 , “the most powerful IPS in the world” according to the Snort website. IDS/IPS requirements.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 6, 2016

A region in South Korea has been highly requested by companies around the world who want to take full advantage of Korea’s world-leading Internet connectivity and provide their customers with quick, low-latency access to websites, mobile applications, games, SaaS applications, and more.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Since that time, the SRE role has evolved as the industry has changed and shifted from the traditional monolithic structures to large, widely distributed networks and microservices. As defined by the Google SRE initiative, the four golden signals of monitoring include the following metrics: Latency. Monitoring.

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Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 6, 2022

Waterfall charts are diagrams which represent how website resources are being downloaded, parsed by the engine, in a timeline that gives us the opportunity to see the sequence and dependencies between resources. If your website isn’t fast enough, the user will not wait for it to finish loading. Waiting time. DNS lookup.

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Performance Cache Website Speed 52

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database uptime and availability Monitoring database uptime and availability is crucial as it directly impacts the availability of critical data and the performance of applications or websites that rely on the MySQL database.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. It essentially describes the lifetime of each file you download to load your page from the network. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

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Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Case-in-point, most enterprise CMS vendors lack robust full-site content delivery network (CDN) integration. A few months back, I was pulled into a scenario where a business has been working with a leading CMS vendor to roll-out a network of multi-regional websites. can generate an HTML-only website without involving a CMS.

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MachMetrics

OCTOBER 16, 2019

However, there is excitement around Starlink for other reasons – namely, the implications it might have for internet speed and latency – even by just a small amount (20 milliseconds on average). And thus, a fast website is more critical than ever. Starlink’s Goal: Reduce Internet Latency.

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KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

Well, that is probably true, as long as they don’t slow down your website to the point where you are losing visitors. When it comes to optimizing your website, images are generally the most important asset you should spend time on figuring out how to reduce in size and deliver in a more efficient way. Mbps ( Opensignal ).

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Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

It also allows users to access a website for which native application is not available. There are so many different devices readily available in the market today to view a website. Each smartphone comes with various screen sizes and resolutions, operates on different network speeds, and has different hardware capabilities.

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