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Average Page Load Times for 2020 – Are you faster?

MachMetrics

In 2017, mobile internet usage passed desktop as the majority. Google’s best practice is to have a speed index under 3 seconds. Google’s best practice is to be below 0.5 However, Google’s best practice is to keep the number of requests below 50, so there is still work to be done.

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PostgreSQL vs. Oracle: Difference in Costs, Ease of Use & Functionality

Scalegrid

Recognized as the fastest growing database by popularity, PostgreSQL was named the DBMS of the year in both 2018 and 2017 by DB-Engines, and continues to grow in popularity in 2019. PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system with over 30 years of active development. In fact, PostgreSQL is so popular, 11.5%

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. ## 6. #include <sys/time.h> > int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int i, ret; struct timeval tv; struct timezone tz; for (i = 0; i.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. It is a very interesting idea that builds on previous best practices to find an optimal solution.

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Fixing a slow site iteratively

CSS - Tricks

A 2017 study by Akamai says as much when it found that even a 100ms delay in page load can decrease conversions by 7% and lose 1% of their sales for every 100ms it takes for their site to load which, at the time of the study, was equivalent to $1.6 It’s is a Google service that audit things performance, accessibility, SEO, and best practices.

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Real-Real-World Programming with ChatGPT

O'Reilly

To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022. Right now, widely-used benchmarks for AI code generation (e.g.,

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. ## 7. I also rewrote this in C and called gettimeofday(2) directly: $ cat gettimeofdaybench.c include <sys/time.h>

Speed 40