Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Webhosting Compared: Testing The Uptime Of 32 Hosts In 2018. Webhosting Compared: Testing The Uptime Of 32 Hosts In 2018. That’s approximately 35 hours 32 minutes of downtime per year, per website. After that, we set up a basic WordPress website and start monitoring them with Pingdom.com. John Stevens. MidPhase.com.

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Testing Website Servers Availability 53

KeyCDN

MARCH 10, 2021

With Tel Aviv being the technology capital of Israel, it's the ideal edge server location. 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. In fact, latency has been reduced by almost 50%!

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Latency Internet Internet Speed 110

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

In 2018, AOM has published a specification for the AV1 video codec. SVT-AV1 uses parallelization at several stages of the encoding process, which allows it to adapt to the number of available cores including newest servers with significant core count. AWCY was the framework used to evaluate AV1 tools during its development.

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Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 167

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

What you may be overlooking is that peak-event readiness is about more than just load testing or ensuring that your servers are up throughout a specific timeframe. In one high-profile example, Amazon dealt with significant outages on Prime Day 2018 , which may have cost them as much as $99 million in sales. Case studies abound.

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Website Cache Traffic Ecommerce 74

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Similar to our article Average Page Load Times for 2018 , we’ll go over the averages for metrics and help you determine if your site is faster or slower than average. As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is.

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Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

KeyCDN

MARCH 14, 2019

Progressive Web Apps Being responsive is no longer enough; today’s websites need to be progressive. Progressive web apps are websites that resemble native mobile apps. Companies that have switched from traditional websites to progressive web apps have seen higher conversions and customer engagement.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The truth is that the two tools were fairly distinct until PSI was updated in 2018 to use Lighthouse reporting. This data is distinct from CrUX because it’s collected directly by the website owner by installing an analytics snippet on their website. So why use lab data at all? Source: Source: DebugBear.

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Speed Google Website Metrics 117

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

The new AWS EU (Stockholm) Region will have three Availability Zones and will be ready for customers to use in 2018. Icelandic low-cost airline carrier WOW air is using AWS for its Internet-facing IT infrastructure, including its booking engine, development platforms, and web servers.

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AWS Airlines Latency Games 107

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Source: “Adding and Leveraging a CDN on Your Website”.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

A 2018 study by cable.co.uk found that Zimbabwe was the most expensive country in the world for mobile data, where 1 GB cost an average of $75.20, ranging from $12.50 Meanwhile, a study of the cost of broadband in 2018 shows that a broadband connection in Niger costs $263 ‘per megabit per month’. Just how expensive are we talking?

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Cache Mobile Google Network 99

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2019

What if you could present a preview image to the website visitor without having to load additional data? If your website consists of many JPEGs, you will notice that even progressive JPEGs load one after the other. With Ajax, however, this is possible, provided that the server delivering the image supports HTTP Range Requests.

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Network Servers Programming Code 106

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?

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

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.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 120

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s take a look at some of the best error monitoring tools and strategies for 2018. Back-End Error Tracking Back-end, or server-side, errors include things like page exceptions and JavaScript errors. Back-end error tracking is relatively straightforward since all server-side code runs in the same place.

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Monitoring Strategy Website Google 67

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

As the primary source of third-party JavaScript packages for the client-side, server-side, and other platforms, npm is the centrerpiece of a large and important software ecosystem. To share a package on npm, a maintainer creates an account on the npm website and runs npm publish in a local folder containing a package.json file.

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Code Strategy Website Network 76

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

If we asked whether their companies were using databases or web servers, no doubt 100% of the respondents would have said “yes.” A year after the first web servers became available, how many companies had websites or were experimenting with building them? Until AI reaches 100%, it’s still in the process of adoption.

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Open Source Google Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 137

KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

That’s why back in September of 2018, we were happy to announce that we launched TLS 1.3 back in March of 2018. Automatic DDoS Protection DDoS attacks can be one of the biggest disruptors to a website’s infrastructure. with 0-RTT support. Below, is a diagram showing the difference between 1-RTT and 0-RTT.

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Transportation Website Google Infrastructure 47

KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

Customer want to know they can trust the website they are buying from, they want to access the website fast, and they want a great offer. According to Monetate , the following conversion rate results were gathered for Q3 of 2017 until Q3 of 2018. The global conversion rate for Q3 of 2018 was 2.42% down from 2.78% in Q2.

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Ecommerce Speed Mobile Website 41

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. As data centers and volumes of servers have grown, so has the overall amount of electricity consumed around the world. Server power consumption extends to the power supplies, memory, disk, fan and even motherboard.

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Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. As data centers and volumes of servers have grown, so has the overall amount of electricity consumed around the world. Server power consumption extends to the power supplies, memory, disk, fan and even motherboard.

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Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. As data centers and volumes of servers have grown, so has the overall amount of electricity consumed around the world. Server power consumption extends to the power supplies, memory, disk, fan and even motherboard.

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Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Historically MySQL has been positioned for supporting web-based applications this is in contrast to enterprise based database workloads that have been served by commercial databases such as Oracle, Db2 and SQL Server. For more details on MySQL and optimization see the website by Dimitri Kravtchuk. . c_ytd_payment: 10.00 large-pages.

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Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Although a beta version was released in 2014, the first stable release of Kubernetes was just made available in September 2018. A Kubernetes cluster typically consists of: The Master Server The master server is the primary machine responsible for facilitating communication between the cluster’s different components.

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Virtualization Open Source Network Architecture 47

SQL Performance

APRIL 26, 2019

The DTU calculator is a free tool you can use to upload performance metrics from your server, and use the data to determine the appropriate service tier if you were to migrate that server to an Azure SQL Database (or to a SQL Database elastic pool ). The default is -1, which means copy all watched SQL Servers. EXEC SentryOne.

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Azure Database Metrics Servers 40

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

virtual (bgregg-c5.9xl-i-xxx) 02/09/2018 _x86_64_ (36 CPU) 05:24:51 PM proc/s cswch/s. See my previous post on [working set size estimation] and the full [website]. Context Switch & Page Fault Rate These are tracked by the kernel and easily read via /proc or sar(1): # sar -wB 1. Linux 4.14.12-virtual 05:24:52 PM 0.00

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Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 72

Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

Server rendering in Angular vs React. In addition, React JavaScript framework uses server-side rendering to give a flexible, performance-oriented solution. In addition, it has a collection of well-integrated libraries and features like client-server communication, routing, and many more. React can support server-side rendering.

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Development Google Servers Code 52

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

In 2018, Brody stepped down from his position as Dean of the School of Communication at the Royal College of Art. Using an inline SVG for this graphic image means one fewer requests to a server, and provides the ability to change the Capri’s paint colour to match any colour background. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Design Media Testing Entertainment 117

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

virtual (bgregg-c5.9xl-i-xxx) 02/09/2018 _x86_64_ (36 CPU) 05:24:51 PM proc/s cswch/s. See my previous post on [working set size estimation] and the full [website]. Context Switch & Page Fault Rate These are tracked by the kernel and easily read via /proc or sar(1): # sar -wB 1. Linux 4.14.12-virtual 05:24:52 PM 0.00

Performance 40

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 40

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites. Your dev environment is not your user’s environment Light Work , a picture by Émile Perron I use a Macbook Pro to develop websites. What happens when a browser tries to load a website? Aim for that.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. The Mozilla Internet Health Report 2018 states that — especially as the Internet expands into new territory — “sustainability should be a bigger priority.” Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 78

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

They understood that most websites lack tight latency budgeting, dedicated performance teams, hawkish management reviews, ship gates to prevent regressions, and end-to-end measurements of critical user journeys. "Server-Side Rendering", a.k.a. "SSR" " [ an intro to "isomorphic javascript", a.k.a. "Server-Side

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Social Media Website Technology Technology 130

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

Around 600,000 websites have installed SSL certificates for security. These certificates are then activated on the company’s website which ensures that a secure connection is always set up between the web browser and the web server. Over 90 percent of the time, Chrome users prefer secure websites with SSL certificates.

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Monitoring Website Internet Internet 77

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ). I use a Macbook Pro to develop websites. What happens when a browser tries to load a website? How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? How do you scale it through different servers? A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0,

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Performance Speed Google Media 100

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

If you want to vastly improve the startup and load performance of your website, you cannot miss the impactful observations and insights that Jake posts on jakearchibald.com/ and shares on Twitter @ jaffathecake. He writes about Progressive Web Apps on Medium as well as on his own website. Rick Byers. Rick Byers. Tammy Everts.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2018

2018-10-15T14:30:13+02:00. A website today receives a large chunk of its traffic from evergreen browsers — most of which have good support for ES6+, new JavaScript standards, new web platform APIs and CSS attributes. Smart Bundling: How To Serve Legacy Code Only To Legacy Browsers. Shubham Kanodia. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00.

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Code Retail Mobile Website 63

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The risks embedded in these deep-wetware effects, and their cross-origin implications, mean that your website's success is partially a function of the health of the commons. India became a 4G-centric market sometime in 2018. If there's a bright spot in our construction of a 2021 baseline for performance, this is it.

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