Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

For example, a budget can help them decide if a page should contain five images — or three images and one video — and still remain within the planned limits. If you splurge a lot of bytes on nonoptimal videos and images, the rich-media experience will not be so rich anymore. Appeal Of Videos. Large preview ).

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Common Infrastructure ExpensesYour first step in optimizing CDN expenses isn’t to look for the best-priced solution but to remember that a cheaper price isn’t always the best deal. A low-cost CDN may not always be as reliable and high-performing as a high-cost one. Some CDNs offer features like security and load balancing.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Examples include real-time video conferencing, gaming, or personalized web pages. Today, 40% of the online traffic is made up of dynamic content, CDN also did their part of the effort to adopt this new reality. It’s a static file, and CDN can cache it, enabling quick delivery to various locations.

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Dynatrace

JULY 1, 2020

In the below 4 minute video, Lucas Hocker shows you how it is done. Traffic being handled within the CDN in front of your data center is missing. The answer that, I’ve heard throughout the years working with Dynatrace customers was pretty consistent: “marketing campaign”. Thanks, Lucas!

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Turbocharge Your Content Delivery With CDN Multiple Origins Load Balancer! Enter the concept of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) with Multiple Origins Load Balancing. Enter the concept of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) with Multiple Origins Load Balancing. What is a CDN Multiple Origins Load Balancer?‍

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Common Infrastructure ExpensesYour first step in optimizing CDN expenses isn’t to look for the best-priced solution but to remember that a cheaper price isn’t always the best deal. A low-cost CDN may not always be as reliable and high-performing as a high-cost one. However, if your traffic is dynamic, you'll need a CDN that can adapt.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

This could be an image, a block of text, or even an embedded video. We’ll also discuss our thoughts on implementing a Content Delivery Network (CDN) , which could allow us to fully leverage the advantages of static content serving. Leveraging A CDN For Content Delivery Global map with CDN markers.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Turbocharge Your Content Delivery With CDN Multiple Origins Load Balancer! Enter the concept of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) with Multiple Origins Load Balancing. What is a CDN Multiple Origins Load Balancer?‍ Think of a CDN Load Balancer (or LB, if you like to keep things short and sweet) as the internet’s traffic police.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Defining The Environment Choosing a framework, baseline performance cost, Webpack, dependencies, CDN, front-end architecture, CSR, SSR, CSR + SSR, static rendering, prerendering, PRPL pattern. Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2020

At the beginning of this year, we provided you with additional visibility into your CDN-related HTTP errors that goes beyond JavaScript error detection to further help you reduce your Mean Time To Identify (MTTI). Dynatrace Real User Monitoring provides you with full visibility into your real users’ actions and behavior in your applications.

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Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 6, 2022

Users can also watch the actual URL loading video in the browser window. It’s important to mention that within the Dotcom Monitor platform there is a feature that a user can watch the actual URL loading video in the browser window (shown below). To reduce the green, the user should move the static content to a CDN.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Also called “static assets,” these files include CSS and JavaScript, both written by the application developer and third-party libraries, as well as PDFs, software installers, images, music, videos, and icons. Static files range from a few kilobytes of CSS to gigabytes of video. Static Assets On A CDN. Media Files.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The Benefits Of Using An Image Service CDN. As you may already know, image optimization is the process that a high-quality image has to go through to be delivered in ideal conditions, sometimes with the help of an Image Transformation API and a global Content Delivery Network (CDN) to make the process simpler and scalable. Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

While working on a site recently, I noticed that an embedded YouTube video loaded around 600kB of JS for any visitor regardless of whether that user even chose to watch the video. On closer inspection, it appeared that other content embedded within tweets (video in particular) was contributing to this. With video.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Automatically Transforming And Optimizing Images And Videos On Your WordPress Website. Automatically Transforming And Optimizing Images And Videos On Your WordPress Website. Leonardo Losoviz. 2021-11-09T09:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-09T14:02:28+00:00. Adding Transformations To The Images.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2020

At the beginning of this year, we provided you with additional visibility into your CDN-related HTTP errors that goes beyond JavaScript error detection to further help you reduce your Mean Time To Identify (MTTI). Dynatrace Real User Monitoring provides you with full visibility into your real users’ actions and behavior in your applications.

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Analytics Tuning Monitoring Website 162

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 6, 2020

Users can also watch the actual URL loading video in the browser window. It’s important to mention that within the Dotcom Monitor platform there is a feature that a user can watch the actual URL loading video in the browser window (shown below). The user may use a CDN. CDN Utilization. Page tracking link.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Thanks to their simplicity and widespread support, GIF files remain wildly popular despite the dozens of other image and video formats available today. There’s a debate among web developers whether or not animated image formats should be ditched altogether in favor of video formats.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Jumped into in-person events, and were so happy to catch up with some of you at SmashingConf and performance.now() (You can watch videos of my talk about performance budgets and Andy Davies' talk about third parties.). Evaluate CDN performance by exploring the impact of time-of-day traffic patterns. Lots of new videos!

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Optimize Images for Performance When it comes to optimizing images for performance there are a lot of things you can do, such as scaling, compression, using responsive images, serving from a CDN, and choosing the right file format. Images can now be compressed in real time with simple query parameters and will then be delivered by our CDN.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

And then there is the CDN cache, which sits between the client and the server; resources are cached at the CDN level to prevent the CDN from requesting the resource from the origin server over and over again. A Cache-Control directive of public allows the resource to be cached in both the client and the CDN.

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MachMetrics

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Modern design often calls for large “hero” images, video backgrounds, and gifs, all of which are large taxes on bandwidth. All 3 sites get checkmarks in the ‘Use of a CDN’ category as well. Am I using a reputable hosting service, Gzip or Brotley compression , and a CDN?

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KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

One thing any eCommerce store owner can do to instantly improve their global page speed is to implement a CDN. With a CDN, you can offload your static assets such as product images, videos, GIFs, CSS files, and much more to the CDN’s edge servers. a clothing brand).

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

LCP measures when the largest visual element in the viewport – typically a hero image or video – finishes rendering. Are you using a content delivery network (CDN) to bring elements like images closer to your users, so that delivery times are faster? Are non-essential or lesser resources deferred? Are images optimized?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

Some of you might know that we are running on JAMStack , with all articles and pages stored as Markdown files, Sass files compiled into CSS, JavaScript split into chunks with Webpack and Hugo building out static pages that we then serve directly from an Edge CDN. That’s the one with plenty of video embeds. Large preview ).

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Content Delivery Networks (CDN) like Akamai, Fastly, Cloudflare, Cloudfront can sometimes have a big impact on performance. This includes: waterfall charts with details about every request, filmstrips and videos that help you visualize the rendering experience, and. Paint a picture of performance. Benchmark yourself.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The first is where an application package is downloaded from the service or a CDN. An example of this is Netflix’s video player or the TV UI javascript package. The goal of this blog post is to highlight the investment areas for this vision and the challenges we are facing today.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik and detailed guide by Rick Viscomi) or Treo Sites , a RUM monitoring tool that is powered by Chrome UX Report. Choose your CDN wisely.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

You make an asynchronous call to an API, after which you get the URL for the asset on the CDN. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. However, Jamstack apps serve pre-generated HTML directly from the CDN.

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CSS Wizardry

JANUARY 31, 2019

If you’re streaming video, the difference between a 2Mb 1 connection and a 20Mb connection will surely be appreciated. a CDN) or mitigating network overhead (e.g. …the maximum rate of data transfer across a given path. so what we’re really looking to do is reduce the amount of transfer. with Resource Hints). Use Large Request Rows.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

As a website that hosts a ton of videos, it’s impressive that TED provides its service with nearly 50 servers. It could be solved by the use of CDN. The first byte issue suggested moving the static content to a CDN. That’s the major drawback when accessing overseas websites from China. Performance Insights.

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 27, 2021

You can watch the video right here on the site, or over on their Twitch channel , which is worth a subscribe for more performance investigations like these. Things to fix: Make sure the LCP area, which was ultimately a big image, is properly optimized, has a responsive srcset , and is CDN hosted.

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MachMetrics

JULY 21, 2018

If you thought images were heavy, consider video – which is essentially a collection of images – plus audio. Luckily compression has come a long way, but that doesn’t mean you have the right to include a 10 MB video on your homepage. One smart way to avoid letting video make too big a footprint on your website?

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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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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. To minimize this we have done few changes: We have self-hosted the fonts instead of loading from 3rd party CDN. More after jump! On design systems, CSS/JS and UX.

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KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Unoptimized content (generally images) Slow WordPress themes Sluggish WordPress plugins A huge number of HTTP requests from external sources Not utilizing a specifically dedicated resource to serve content (video hosting, CDN, etc.) A CDN that has broad global coverage.

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Cache Website Speed Website Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2020

As a website that hosts a ton of videos, it’s impressive that TED provides its service with nearly 50 servers. It could be solved by the use of CDN. The first byte issue suggested moving the static content to a CDN. That’s the major drawback when accessing overseas websites from China. Performance Insights.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52