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Improving Core Web Vitals, A Smashing Magazine Case Study

Smashing Magazine

Improving Core Web Vitals, A Smashing Magazine Case Study. Improving Core Web Vitals, A Smashing Magazine Case Study. I’m a big fan of Smashing Magazine and am very interested in web performance and the Core Web Vitals. Search Console told Smashing Magazine that their LCP on mobile for most of their pages needed improving.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

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Measuring Performance With Server Timing

Smashing Magazine

Measuring Performance With Server Timing. Measuring Performance With Server Timing. That issue is slow server response times. There’s very little browser optimisations can do to improve a page that is simply slow to build on the server. Encompassed in that wait time is everything the server needs to do to build the page.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

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Optimizing Video For Size And Quality

Smashing Magazine

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. This leads to longer startup times, and if the network cannot supply the video fast enough, the video will stall during video playback. There is a solution though! Large preview ).

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Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Smashing Magazine

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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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

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Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. Vitaly is a co-founder of the Smashing Magazine brand. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine until October 2017 when he passed the baton to the remarkable Rachel Andrew. The future of HTTP/2 server push.