Speed Curve

MARCH 17, 2025

Downtime makes headlines: 2015 – 12-hour Apple outage cost the company $25 million 2016 – 5-hour outage caused an estimated loss of $150 million for Delta Airlines 2019 – 14-hour outage cost Facebook an estimated $90 million It's easy to see why these stories capture our attention. seconds) was much less – just $4,100.

Metrics 66

Metrics Website Airlines Speed 66

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016. 9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world. In 2008, AWS opened a point of presence (PoP) in Hong Kong to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency.

AWS 126

AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 126

KeyCDN

MARCH 10, 2021

So far, traffic from Nigeria has been routed to Europe. With a population of almost 200 million people, Nigera is by far the largest country in Africa and millions of internet users will benefit from faster websites if powered by KeyCDN. Compared to other countries in the region, the connection speed has room to grow.

Latency 110

Latency Internet Internet Speed 110

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It’s about ensuring that your front-end is also working perfectly, that your site can deliver a delightful experience to your users or customers, and that it is functional – even when it’s experiencing up to seven or more times the typical traffic load. Traffic patterns outside of normal [RUM or Analytics].

Website 74

Website Cache Traffic Ecommerce 74

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

There is no way to model how much more traffic you can send to that system before it exceeds it’s SLA. I presented this analysis of response time distributions talk in 2016 — at Microxchg in Berlin ( video ). What Is the Expected Distribution of Website Response Times? I’ve been thinking about this for a long time.

Lambda 98

Lambda Latency Cache C++ 98

Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

In 2016, Google made it clear that since mobile traffic is more than all else, mobile-friendly websites will be prioritised when a user searches on mobile. The software industry goes through a lot of research and modified methodologies that keep the software quality top-notch for the end-user.

Artificial Intelligence 89

Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Because the HTML parser stopped, all network traffic also stopped (because no other HTML tags were parsed to initiate HTTP requests). In other words, website owners need to make an extra effort to get their scripts to load asynchronously. The number of sync dropped and async rose in June 2016. Enter the Preloader.

Internet 53

Internet Internet Website Traffic 53