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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

At the same time, they open a door to lots of concepts that might be overwhelming: PRPL, RAIL, Paint Timing API, TTI, HTTP/2, Speed Index, Priority Hints and more … Why Performance doesn’t get Prioritized Web performance at organizations is a real challenge. Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient.

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Bringing Rich Experiences to Memory-constrained TV Devices

The Netflix TechBlog

Some of the metrics we use to measure performance on the Netflix TV app include animation frames per second (FPS), key input responsiveness (the amount of time before a member’s key press renders a change in the UI), video playback speed, and app start-up time. One such area is our graphics memory management.

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WordPress Cache Enabler Plugin Updates

KeyCDN

In October 2015 KeyCDN released a free WordPress caching plugin called Cache Enabler. This plugin was initially released as a lightweight caching plugin that was able to speed up WordPress websites by generating static HTML files that could then be minified and even converted for WebP support. Add site cache clearing behavior.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. Ford, et al., “TCP

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Virtualized in Hardware**: Hardware support for virtualization, and near bare-metal speeds. In this configuration, the AMI and boot is paravirt (PV), the kernel is making hypercalls instead of privileged instructions, and the system is using paravirt network and storage drivers. AWS called this [enhanced networking]. Impressive!

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Yet, we wanted to put together our list of the top web performance books for anyone who cares about speed of the web and would like to explore the timeline of web performance engineering milestones over nearly two decades through the lens of published books. High Performance Browser Networking. Site speed & SEO go hand in hand.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024

Alex Russell

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. JavaScript-Heavy # Since at least 2015, building JavaScript-first websites has been a predictably terrible idea, yet most of the sites I trace on a daily basis remain mired in script. [1] What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript.