Tim Kadlec

JUNE 1, 2023

Looking at the metrics alone, you would think their performance was rock-solid and there wasn’t much to do. As you scroll down into the page, that content often contains images and other forms of media and those are very large and unoptimized, resulting in them loading very slowly. All the usual suspects look great.

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Performance Media Metrics Efficiency 49

Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2020

Over the last two month s, w e’ve monito red key sites and applications across industries that have been receiving surges in traffic , including government, health insurance, retail, banking, and media. Breaking d own performance across U.S. Media p erformance . experienced significant performance degradations.

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Website Monitoring Retail Media 209

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

by Liwei Guo , Ashwin Kumar Gopi Valliammal , Raymond Tam , Chris Pham , Agata Opalach , Weibo Ni AV1 is the first high-efficiency video codec format with a royalty-free license from Alliance of Open Media (AOMedia), made possible by wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and resources.

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Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

DRM is a collection of access control technologies that are used for protecting the copyrights of digital media such as movies and music tracks. Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique Evaluation Metrics For evaluating the performance of the anomaly detection models we consider a set of evaluation metrics and report their values.

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C++ Metrics Tuning Strategy 312

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Fast, consistent application delivery creates a positive user experience that can ultimately drive customer loyalty and improve business metrics like conversion rate and user retention. DEM can give organizations business observability—insight into the effects of user experience on the bottom line.

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Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 196

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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Performance Speed Google Media 130

CSS Wizardry

MAY 19, 2020

With more standardised FOUT/FOIT behaviour from browser vendors, to the newer font-display specification, performance—and therefore the user—seems to have been finally been put front-and-centre. On this site, in which performance is the only name of the game, I forgo web fonts entirely, opting instead to make use of the visitor’s system font.

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Google Media Latency Metrics 364

Tim Kadlec

APRIL 16, 2020

WebPageTest supports custom metrics, which are pretty much what they sound like: they’re metrics that you define when you run a test. You provide the logic for the metrics using a snippet of JavaScript. The following custom metric snippet sets up two custom metrics: num-initial-scripts and num-total-scripts. [

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Metrics Media Testing Development 51

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Our goal in building a media-focused ML infrastructure is to reduce the time from ideation to productization for our media ML practitioners. We accomplish this by paving the path to: Accessing and processing media data (e.g. We accomplish this by paving the path to: Accessing and processing media data (e.g.

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Media Storage Infrastructure Systems 290

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

IT teams can’t see into the internal state of Kubernetes containers , so they often collect a wide variety of telemetry data — such as logs, metrics, and distributed traces — to compensate for this lack of visibility. Kubernetes also works on the widest possible range of operating systems and platforms.

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Open Source Social Media Infrastructure Operating System 199

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Browser Networking. This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. High Performance Websites.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Rigor

JUNE 12, 2019

“The Best in Performance” video series from Rigor gives you the chance to eavesdrop on conversations with web performance industry experts, thought leaders, and technologists. Listen in as they talk about current trends, challenges, and lessons that impact the APM and performance space today. Building a culture of performance.

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Performance Social Media Internet Internet 72

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

So noticeable, in fact, that Core Web Vitals has a metric all about it called Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). This metric measures the time it takes, in seconds, to render the largest image or text block that is visible on the initial load. That’s practically an eternity when talking about page speed performance.

Media 73

Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 73

Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

As organizations started learning about Log4Shell from news feeds, blogs, and social media, the Dynatrace security team—and Dynatrace Application Security—kicked into action. On December 9, 2021, the first indicators of the Log4j vulnerability (Log4Shell) began to reverberate across the world.

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Social Media Strategy Media Java 218

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

Create performance budgets and fight regression. Build a performance culture that embraces collaboration between design and dev. To optimize for performance, you need to understand what happens in the steps between receiving the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript bytes and the processing that's required to turn them into rendered pixels.

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 77

Speed Curve

APRIL 3, 2022

Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive dashboard that lets you explore and compare web performance data for leading websites across several industries – from retail to media – over the past year. Key metrics. These visuals are a great tool for validating the best metrics to focus on for your pages.

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Benchmarking Speed Retail Media 54

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Data lakehouse enables exploratory analytics and interactive data sharing This new UX powers Dynatrace Notebooks, an interactive document capability that allows IT, development, security, and business users to collaborate using code, text, and rich media to build, evaluate, and share insights from exploratory, causal-AI analytics projects.

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Analytics Government Media C++ 130

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

The Netflix Media Database (NMDB) is one such example. While we’re not (yet) actively measuring the nth percentiles, our production workloads speak for Conductor’s performance. Below is a snapshot of our Kibana dashboard which shows the workflow execution metrics over a typical 7-day period.

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Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rick Byers.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

we also: Launched a series of new and improved dashboards to help you identify and fix your performance issues more quickly and efficiently (More on those below.). Your Home dashboard brings together your Synthetic and RUM data to provide an easy-to-digest – and easy-to-share – snapshot of how your site is performing.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52

Rigor

JUNE 20, 2019

“ The Best in Performance ” video series from Rigor gives you the chance to listen in on conversations with web performance industry experts, thought leaders, and technologists as they discuss current trends, challenges, and lessons that impact the APM and performance space today. Identifying key metrics.

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Performance Social Media Metrics Monitoring 45

Apica

JULY 18, 2022

Now, more than ever, we’ve been making headlines in the application performance space as we expand our horizons and challenge ideas about what application monitoring really means. . 2022 has already see a significant uptick in our media coverage as more and more people discover the unique capabilities of our products.

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Innovation Media Monitoring Metrics 52

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. And the “contentful” part of the name shows this metric is intended to ignore (e.g.

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Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

Loading experience is crucial to the user’s first impression and overall usability, so Google defined Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric to measure how quickly the main content loads and is displayed to the user. Of all those options, it’s safe to assume that text is the best choice for LCP performance because it loads and renders fast.

Media 70

Media Tuning Metrics Google 70

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The newcomer to the scene was Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), and, not surprisingly, it's the metric that's gotten the most questions. Does it correlate to user behaviour or business metrics in any measurable way? While I understand why score-based metrics add value, I'm a visual person. How is it calculated? is considered poor.

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Retail Benchmarking Google Metrics 80

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 28, 2020

As for HDR, our team is currently developing an HDR extension to VMAF, Netflix’s video quality metric , which will then be used to optimize the HDR streams. ¹ Benefits to members At Netflix we perform A/B testing of encoding optimizations to detect any playback issues on client devices as well as gauge the benefits experienced by our members.

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Network Storage Innovation Mobile 330

Testsigma

JANUARY 21, 2021

This creates a need to perform thorough testing of mobile applications and their usability. In this article, we will discuss how we can perform mobile usability testing that would enable us to create applications that live up to the user’s standards. Research to be performed, features that need to be tested, and its potential impact.

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Mobile Testing Social Media Media 95

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2021

Recently, after an unusual year for most, Dynatrace was joined by Grant Hedley, from Laithwaite’s, and a range of customers and prospects from the financial services and media industries for a return to normality – Drinking wine. Dynatrace news. The primary theme of the event was transforming faster with automation and AI.

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Speed Media Monitoring Engineering 161

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 11, 2019

That said, I’ve been looking at performance data for many years and have found myself on both sides of the debate about whether or not the practice of sampling performance data is inherently a good or bad idea. While I pride myself on the 'A' I received in my college statistics class, admittedly it was on a pretty steep curve.

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Retail Traffic Media Metrics 59

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

In another survey, using multiple metrics for overall popularity, PostgreSQL ranks as the fourth most popular database management system ( DB-Engines, March 2023 ). Social media platforms: Companies use PostgreSQL to manage user profiles, posts, connections, and interactions. It’s reliable, robust, feature-rich, and performant.

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Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 77

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Before those studies, web pages were designed as printed media, with columns and big blocks of text. The AOI will determine what areas you will calculate metrics for. The metrics and how they will be shown depending on the eye-tracking tool you choose. Source: mashable.com ) ( Large preview ).

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Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 113

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 15, 2019

This has resulted in significant improvements in load performance (“more than 25% faster”). One major drawback of this new approach is that CSS media queries can no longer be used to conditionally apply styles based on the content’s width (since the content no longer loads in a separate, embedded document). via Toby Cox ).

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Media Website Internet Internet 41

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). It was at this point that we realized we needed to make a significant change in our approach towards performance, and that we must embrace performance as part of our culture. Dan Shappir. Large preview ).

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Website Performance Google Media 127

Speed Curve

MAY 31, 2020

One of the huge benefits of tracking web performance over time is the ability to see trends and compare metrics. Understand which metrics got better or worse. Spot any new or unique requests – such as JavaScript and images – and see their impact on performance. Exciting stuff, right? But wait, there's more!

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Metrics Retail Benchmarking Testing 61

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

We have built an internal system that allows someone to perform in-video search across the entire Netflix video catalog, and we’d like to share our experience in building this system. During GPU computation, we stream mp4 video shots from S3 directly to the GPUs using a data loader that performs prefetching and preprocessing.

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Media Social Media Tuning Efficiency 225

Speed Curve

APRIL 3, 2018

We're excited to announce that we've launched Last Painted Hero as an official metric. Last Painted Hero is a synthetic metric that shows you when the last piece of critical content is painted. When choosing the right performance metric, my soapbox for the last few years has been "not every pixel has the same value".

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Metrics Website Speed Media 56

Speed Curve

AUGUST 8, 2017

Because the average page is now 3MB in size, and this seems like a good time to pause, check our assumptions, and ask ourselves: Is there any reason to care about page size as a performance metric? And if we don't consider page size a meaningful metric, then what should we care about? seconds) for pages in the 20MB cohort.

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Metrics Website Speed Benchmarking 80