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.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. In the world of HTTP Headers, there is one header that I believe deserves more air-time and that is the Server-Timing header. Setting Server-Timing. Sean Roberts. 2022-05-16T10:00:00+00:00.

Servers 93

Servers Monitoring Cache Network 93

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Achieving 100 Gbps intrusion prevention on a single server , Zhao et al., Today’s paper choice is a wonderful example of pushing the state of the art on a single server. An IDS/IPS monitors network flows and matches incoming packets (or more strictly, Protocol Data Units, PDUs) against a set of rules. OSDI’20.

Servers 128

Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed. In this case, my website is “slow”, even when served on 4G networks. Suzanne Scacca.

Website 110

Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. This shift requires infrastructure monitoring to ensure all your components work together across applications, operating systems, storage, servers, virtualization, and more.

Infrastructure 209

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 209

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. To this end, having a solid caching strategy can make all the difference for your visitors. ?? This includes CDNs, proxy servers, and the like. public and private.

Cache 264

Cache Latency Strategy Servers 264

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Are Imposter Domains Re-Publishing Your Website? Are Imposter Domains Re-Publishing Your Website? When your content is delivered by other means, from other servers or platforms, it can put the user experience and commercial relationship you have built up with your users at risk. Ken Harker. 2021-09-20T11:30:00+00:00.

Website 89

Website Analytics Google Cache 89

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.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

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 These are unchanging entities, served straight off the server, pre-generated, and devoid of server-side processing.

Cache 52

Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

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. Deploying the refactored codebase shouldn’t result in worse website performance and worse user experience. After all, users won’t wait around forever for the website to load.

Media 109

Media Performance Cache Strategy 109

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed). RUM works best only when people actively visit the application, website, or services.

Best Practices 183

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 183

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. Critical assets are far too valuable to leave on someone else’s servers. Penalty: Network Negotiation.

Cache 274

Cache Latency Infrastructure Website 274

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 These are unchanging entities, served straight off the server, pre-generated, and devoid of server-side processing.

Cache 52

Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

Synthetic Monitoring is used to simulate defined customer behavior, for example when opening a website and clicking a certain button. When using autoscaling-mechanisms and having a lot of application containers, tracing requests through the network is a challenging task.

Analytics 249

Analytics Infrastructure AWS Operating System 249

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.

Architecture 221

Architecture Latency Servers Website 221

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 29, 2020

As companies decide whether or not to move ahead with an “everything in the cloud” strategy for providing consumer-facing applications, enterprise applications are also getting a new shape with web-based applications to support internal business operations. Internal Monitoring Strategy. Server Monitoring.

Monitoring 75

Monitoring Strategy Infrastructure Latency 75

Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

If you think that static rendering is limited to generic, public content that is the same for every user of your website, you should definitely read this article. Segmented Rendering is a new pattern for the Jamstack that lets you personalize content statically, without any sort of client-side rendering or per-request Server-Side Rendering.

Cache 115

Cache Website Energy Servers 115

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

One of the biggest pains of working with statically generated websites is the incrementally slower builds as your app grows. And once all that is done: remember Jamstack serves our apps from the edges of the Content Delivery Network. So we still need to move things from the server they were compiled at to the edges of the network.

Cache 130

Cache Website Strategy Traffic 130

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

For example, if you’re deploying the infrastructure for an e-commerce website, security becomes a fundamental requirement. Transition to a Multi-CDN SetupA multi-CDN strategy has multiple advantages, like ensuring network redundancy and enhanced performance. Some CDNs offer features like security and load balancing.

Infrastructure 52

Infrastructure Traffic Cache Strategy 52

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

However, let’s take a step further and learn how to deploy modern qualities to PWAs, such as offline functionality, network-based optimizing, cross-device user experience, SEO capabilities, and non-intrusive notifications and requests. In other words, PWAs are websites that users can use as stand-alone applications. Web App Manifest.

Cache 124

Cache Internet Internet Google 124

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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.

Media 118

Media Performance Mobile Latency 118

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 21, 2020

External synthetic monitoring tools are intended to test external applications by emulating end users from external networks and locations. Is my website speed good? Who exactly is responsible for code failure – developers, DevOps team, or the network team? Synthetic Monitoring Tools. Are my APIs in good health?

Monitoring 94

Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Network 94

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. In that spirit, what we’re looking at in this article is focused more on the incremental wins and less on providing an exhaustive list or checklist of performance strategies. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2 Lighthouse.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Today’s applications are built on multiple technologies, relying on vast networks of third-party providers and CDN’s. Analyzing server performance (CPU, memory, bandwidth, disk I/O) and database response times. All resources are dedicated to this test – no shared servers. Identifying performance bottlenecks.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. What is AWS Lambda? The Amazon Web Services ecosystem.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 186

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. With the latest introduction of the Core Web Vital section on GSC + upcoming Google’s core web vital update, site owners are forced to take note of their website speed and web vitals. How to get these matrics right and not mess up?

Cache 78

Cache Speed Google Website 78

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

For example, if you’re deploying the infrastructure for an e-commerce website, security becomes a fundamental requirement. Transition to a Multi-CDN SetupA multi-CDN strategy has multiple advantages, like ensuring network redundancy and enhanced performance. Some CDNs offer features like security and load balancing.

Infrastructure 52

Infrastructure Traffic Cache Strategy 52

Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

Synthetic Monitoring is used to simulate defined customer behavior, for example when opening a website and clicking a certain button. When using autoscaling-mechanisms and having a lot of application containers, tracing requests through the network is a challenging task.

Analytics 136

Analytics Infrastructure AWS Operating System 136

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

Each performance chapter is supported by code snippets (via a companion website) and examples to aid in learning. and Google, they’ll do wonders for your website! Sounders, along with 8 expert contributors, expands upon the tips in the first book and offers best practices in JavaScript, network, and browser optimization.

Speed 85

Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

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. High Performance Websites. Even Faster Websites. Fail, and you can kiss your customers and profits goodbye.”

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). This difference by itself doesn’t do all that much (it mainly reduces the overhead on the server-side), but it leads to most of the following points. Server Sharding and Connection Coalescing.

Network 105

Network Servers Cache Traffic 105

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. This goes way beyond basic optimizations such as color contrast and server response times. One of the famous examples is Flipkart , India’s largest e-commerce website. This optimization is quite complex in nature though. Making A Case For Business.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 134

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

This occurs when you are revalidating the page on the server. For some websites this works, but for others (such as Hack Club’s Scrapbook , a site built by @lachlanjc that I help maintain), the user expects the data to be kept up to date. Now we’ve explored the theory of this strategy, let’s explore how we put it into practise.

Cache 103

Cache Internet Internet Servers 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? It used to provide an insight into how quickly the server outputs any data. when web fonts aren’t loaded yet).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Case-in-point, most enterprise CMS vendors lack robust full-site content delivery network (CDN) integration. Any organisation pursuing microservices strategy will find hard to fit a traditional CMS in their ecosystem. can generate an HTML-only website without involving a CMS. At the core, a traditional CMS is a monolith.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Long FMP usually indicates JavaScript blocking the main thread, but could be related to back-end/server issues as well.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 104