Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority.

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Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

Video – For the first time in the many years that I've been covering the topic of page growth, I'm going to focus on the volume of video that pages contain. Given that Google continues to dominate search usage, you should care about Vitals alongside the other metrics you should be tracking. More on that later.)

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What do the different metrics mean? While the focus in most cases tends to be directed toward front-end developers, it's important to remember the back-end as well if you see higher than normal start render times or increases in more basic metrics like time to first byte. This post covers: What makes a page slow? Let's get started.

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VoltDB

JUNE 9, 2017

Telco networks and the systems that support those networks are some of the most advanced technology solutions in existence. Handling the data generated by these networks is a herculean task. Telco companies used this information and insights to plan capital investment projects for network expansion and marketing.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account. Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices.

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VoltDB

JUNE 9, 2017

Telco networks and the systems that support those networks are some of the most advanced technology solutions in existence. Handling the data generated by these networks is a herculean task. Telco companies used this information and insights to plan capital investment projects for network expansion and marketing.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Table Of Contents. Quick Wins.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

But pages keep getting bigger and more complex year over year – and this increasing size and complexity is not fully mitigated by faster devices and networks, or by our hard-working browsers. And we need to have strategies in place to understand and manage our pages. Clearly we need to keep talking about it.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Table Of Contents. Setting Realistic Goals. Defining The Environment.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Next to videos, images are the heaviest, most requested assets on the web. Some of the biggest size savings and performance improvements can come through a better image optimization strategy. Packed with useful tips and techniques , the book has a sharp focus on practical application and longevity of your image optimization strategies.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The gotcha here is that, if your mobile experience isn’t optimized for various devices and network conditions, these customers will never appear in your analytics — just because your website or app will be barely usable on their devices, and so they are unlikely to return. Driving Business Metrics. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Next to videos, images are the heaviest, most requested assets on the web. Some of the biggest size savings and performance improvements can come through a better image optimization strategy. Packed with useful tips and techniques , the book has a sharp focus on practical application and longevity of your image optimization strategies.

Media 92

Media Cache Google Best Practices 92

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The three strategies we will discuss today are AB Testing , Replay Testing, and Sticky Canaries. We could also swap out the implementation of a field from GraphQL Shim to Video API with federation directives. So, we relied on higher-level metrics-based testing: AB Testing and Sticky Canaries.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. As for mobile network connection type, 84.7% For reference, the metric is $1.19 Mbps upload.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

This is helpful for those on poor or expensive networks, so they don’t have to pay an exorbitant cost just to visit your website. However, countless research (including the stats for our own site here, and others by the likes of Alex Russell ) has shown that Android devices are the platform of choice for poorer countries with slower networks.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

Image source: Lighthouse Metrics ) ( Large preview ). The reasons for it are numerous, but the most important one is a huge difference in network conditions and device hardware across the world. Especially with plenty of code or video embeds, the performance was dropping quite significantly. This is where we started.

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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. When talking to an executive, she explains, you have to bear in mind that they may not understand the language of performance metrics.

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The Morning Paper

JULY 16, 2019

of an image or video), a representation is a transformation of (typically to a lower dimensional space in order to be useful) that somehow preserves the salient information in the so that we can still use to extract useful information about the input (e.g. Disentanglement metrics mostly agree. Given a real-world observation (e.g.

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Logistics Metrics Network Strategy 43

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

to understand YouTube video performance) drive tens of thousands of canned (known in advance) queries per second, that need to be served with latency in the tens of milliseconds. Fast recovery from the loss of any single machine Sophisticated strategies for handling stragglers, badly behaving tasks, and periodic unavailability.

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 29, 2021

It may not be critical data to know, but sometimes it helps to understand the caching strategy. To make the most of these options, I usually set the “Slow 3G” preset under the “Network” tab. I sometimes record my screen and then slow down the video to find the layout shifts. Rendering panel. Layout Shift Regions ?—?shows

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Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Reading time 11 min As companies become more aware of the importance of web performance, internal teams begin to research tools they can use to use to track their metrics and improve the user experience of their websites and applications. When it comes to network speed, Lighthouse gives you three options – and no others.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Of course, a shop needs interactive elements , be it product image zooming, some videos, a countdown to today’s shipping deadline, or a chat window to get in contact with customer support. Here is a tip: If you haven’t seen people use a screen reader or navigate with just a keyboard, videos on this can be easily found on YouTube.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Follow him on Twitter @ RickByers and be sure to watch the video of his conversation at Chrome Dev Summit 2016 , where he discussed the ways Chrome is “improving predictability for developers.” Check out his how-to videos on his YouTube channel as well as his performance related dispatches on Twitter @ paulcalvano.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Images are crucial elements for performance and UX, and data extracted from Core Web Vitals metrics such as Largest Contentful Paint , which attempts to identify the most important piece of the above-the-fold content on a given page, proves this. The Relation Between Images And Web Performance. Large preview ). — Addy Osmani.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 105

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

These tools should be utilized along with your monitoring strategy. Like Slack, Microsoft is a real-time communication application that offers features like online messaging, video chat, and document sharing. Incident management, communication, and alerting tools can be some of the most important tools SRE teams utilize.

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Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. Video Transcoding. We already use the public cloud to autoscale some async processing like Video Transcoding, text extraction, data migration, Search, etc. Document store.

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Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Few teams I’ve encountered have actionable metrics associated with the real experiences of their users. Video of a single slow-loading page lands in a visceral way; abstract graphs don’t. Perhaps the global network landscape is shifting so dramatically that the budget for client-side JS runtime has increased.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

To do this, we have teams of experts that develop more efficient video and audio encodes , refine the adaptive streaming algorithm , and optimize content placement on the distributed servers that host the shows and movies that you watch. device types), and all metrics.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

To do this, we have teams of experts that develop more efficient video and audio encodes , refine the adaptive streaming algorithm , and optimize content placement on the distributed servers that host the shows and movies that you watch. device types), and all metrics.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

To do this, we have teams of experts that develop more efficient video and audio encodes , refine the adaptive streaming algorithm , and optimize content placement on the distributed servers that host the shows and movies that you watch. device types), and all metrics.

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CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 10, 2019

As you might have noticed in the video above, the URL of the page does not change as I type my search terms. Here is a short video (captured by WebPageTest) in which you can see that we indeed passed the authentication step: Navigating between pages. You can see the full results of the test at this address. Automating your scripts.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

While mobile devices have come a long way in terms of network and CPU speed, many of them are still significantly underpowered when compared to desktops, especially in countries where mobile connectivity is still poor. This includes features like videos and animations, sophisticated interactions, and greater customization.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

In previous articles from this series, we’ve covered auditing CSS codebase health and the incremental CSS refactoring strategy , testing, and maintenance. In this article, we’re going to cover CSS optimization strategies that can optimize CSS file size, loading times, and render performance. Adrian Bece. 2021-08-30T10:00:00+00:00.

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Media Performance Cache Strategy 108

Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

In this three-part series , we are going to go through the CSS refactor process from the beginning to the end, starting with knowledge on how to approach it and some general pros and cons of refactoring, then moving onto the refactoring strategies themselves and ending with some general best practices on CSS file size and performance.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

It’s used extensively in our media processing platform, which includes services like Archer and runs features like video encoding and title image generation on tens of thousands of Amazon EC2 instances. We are constantly innovating on video encoding technology at Netflix, and we have a lot of content to encode. We have one file?

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

A Type-M error occurs when, given that we observe a statistically-significant result, the size of the estimated metric movement is magnified (or exaggerated) relative to the truth. We’ve run many tests in this area and use the distribution of metric movements from past tests as an additional input to the analysis. Sensitivity analysis.

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