Remove Metrics Remove Network Remove Traffic Remove Video
article thumbnail

All of Netflix’s HDR video streaming is now dynamically optimized

The Netflix TechBlog

by Aditya Mavlankar , Zhi Li , Lukáš Krasula and Christos Bampis High dynamic range ( HDR ) video brings a wider range of luminance and a wider gamut of colors, paving the way for a stunning viewing experience. 1) depicts the migration of traffic from fixed bitrates to DO encodes. By June 2023 the entire HDR catalog was optimized.

article thumbnail

Improving our video encodes for legacy devices

The Netflix TechBlog

by Mariana Afonso , Anush Moorthy , Liwei Guo , Lishan Zhu , Anne Aaron Netflix has been one of the pioneers of streaming video-on-demand content?—?we we announced our intention to stream video over 13 years ago, in January 2007?—?and how long it takes for the video to start playing), rebuffer rates, etc.,

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app

The Netflix TechBlog

As an example, to render the screen shown here, the app sends a query that looks like this: paths: ["videos", 80154610, "detail"] A path starts from a root object , and is followed by a sequence of keys that we want to retrieve the data for. Instead, it is part of a different path : [videos, <id>, similars].

Latency 233
article thumbnail

SEO and web performance: What to measure and how to optimize

Speed Curve

The metrics that comprise Web Vitals are still evolving. These metrics will (I think) always be in a state of evolution. We need to do our best to stay up to date – not just with which metrics to track, but also with what they measure and why they're important. Which performance metrics should you focus on for SEO?

article thumbnail

Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

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.

article thumbnail

Optimising Largest Contentful Paint

CSS Wizardry

This genuinely surprises me, because LCP is the simplest metric to improve. The metrics above don’t matter in and of themselves, but it’s going to help your LCP if you can get them as low as possible. Plan in suitable buffer time for traffic issues, etc. of origins had good LCP 94.9% of origins had good FID 70.6% First Paint.

article thumbnail

Migrating Netflix to GraphQL Safely

The Netflix TechBlog

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. To determine customer impact, we could compare various metrics such as error rates, latencies, and time to render.

Traffic 353