Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Have you ever looked at the page speed metrics – such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint – for your site in both your synthetic and real user monitoring tools and wondered "Why are these numbers so different?" End-user connection speed If you live in an urban centre, you may enjoy connection speeds of 150 Mbps or more.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 27, 2019

While it’s important to check various speed metrics , the Web Almanac uses data from the Chome UX Report which focuses on how Chrome users actually experience the web. As we mentioned in our article Average Page Load Times for 2020 , mobile page speed is a huge deal going forward. First Contentful Paint. Page Weight.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Smaller HTML means less time for Google to download and process those long strings of text. In 2019, we sold 500k tickets a year, so our operations are complex and we need to showcase it with our landing pages in an appealing and fast manner. Both for Google bots (SEO) and to actual clients. How about errors?”

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

## References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: - [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] Jul 2008 - [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] 2010 - [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

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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. Well, according to HTTP Archive , as of June 1, 2019 the average desktop page is 1,896.8 Search engines, such as Google, sees hyphens as a separator.

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MachMetrics

APRIL 12, 2019

It’s no secret that we’re a huge fan of lazy loading your below-the-fold images to improve page speed. But now it appears the Google Chrome team has jumped aboard and is planning to implement it natively in an upcoming Chrome release. Exciting! .’ Optimistically it’ll happen this summer. I’m celebrating!

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

2019-07-29T14:00:59+02:00. 2019-07-29T13:06:57+00:00. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. Perhaps surprisingly, users experience faster speeds over a mobile network than WiFi in at least 30 countries worldwide, including Australia and France. Chris Ashton. per GB respectively.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. Many people often confuse site speed with page speed grades of performance testing tools, which are actually calculated based on multiple factors of a page including its loading speed. Daniel An, Google, 2017.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

We’ve been covering papers from VLDB 2019 for the last three weeks, and next week it will be time to mix things up again. I really do want to cover this one at some point, along with Implementation of cluster-wide logical clock and causal consistency in MongoDB from SIGMOD 2019. for machine generated emails sent to humans). Yes please!

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Google Chrome is currently one of the most popular web browsers used by developers today. According to StatCounter , as of September 2019, Google Chrome holds 63.72% browser market share across the globe. What Are the Google Chrome DevTools? Read more in-depth about Chrome DevTools on the official Google Developers page.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

India has been the epicentre of smartphone growth in recent years, owing to the sheer size of its market and an accelerating shift away from feature phones which made up the majority of Indian mobile devices until as late as 2019. So what did $150USD fetch in 2019? The smooth, dulcet tones of 2019's Moto E6. " package.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 31, 2019

We recently learned about a major breakthrough: Google says it has achieved “quantum supremacy” with a 53-qubit computer. Google performed a computation in a few minutes (3 minutes, 20 seconds to be precise ) that would have taken more than 10,000 years on the most powerful computers we currently have.

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Artificial Intelligence Google Software Architecture Cloud 56

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

## References I've reproduced the talk references below, so you can click on links: - [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] Jul 2008 - [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] 2010 - [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency? Ford, et al., “TCP

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

2019-05-06T13:30:59+02:00. 2019-05-06T11:34:08+00:00. Lazy loading is a way to improve the performance of a website or web application by maximizing the rendering speed of the above-the-fold images and iframes (and sometimes videos) by deferring the loading of below-the-fold content. Andrea Verlicchi.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Nobody frames it precisely this way; instead they'll say, if WebKit weren't mandated, Chromium would take over , or Google would dominate the web if not for the WebKit restriction. The New York Times reported in late 2020 that Google now pays Apple between $8-12 billion per year , up from $1 billion in 2014. And that's a choice. "WebKit

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Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

As per April 2019 data of Statistica[1], the global mobile population accounted for 4 billion unique users. Popular search engines like Google give preference to websites that are mobile-ready[4]. Speed and Accuracy. That’s not all, the global mobile traffic is expected to increase sevenfold between 2017 and 2022.

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Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

We look forward to providing you with even better articles, news and information in 2019. As 2018 moves into 2019, let’s take a quick look back at some of the most popular posts on the blog this year. How to Restore MySQL Logical Backup at Maximum Speed. How to Speed Up Pattern Matching Queries. Top 10 Most Read.

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Database Tuning Performance AWS 53

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Instead of going to Google or Facebook, for example, advertisers will list directly onto Brave’s blockchain-based browser. It is also involved with a project to speed insurance payments to health providers. According to Deloitte in their 2019 Global Blockchain Survey , “the question for executives is no longer, ‘will blockchain work?’

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Blockchain Retail Innovation Healthcare 74

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Web development is evolving at a rapid speed with each passing year. And so, it optimizes the page loading speed and reduces the bounce rate. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. Let’s dive deep into the top website development trends to expect in 2022.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] , Jul 2008 [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] , 2010 [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2018

2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. A couple of years ago, Google announced a new mobile-first initiative it wanted web designers and marketers to pick up on. Google Analytics will help you decipher where they’re spending the most time productively on your website. An example of Google Analytics’ visitor behavior breakdowns.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The major application for high quality compression of photos is Internet speed. was released and approved in February of 2019 and is therefore ready to be used in production. This speeds up page loading times, increases website storage capabilities, and allows web pages to be accessed even in low speed areas.

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Media Internet Internet Speed 43

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting. Rural connectivity is a persistent problem; many rural users (and some urban users) are still limited to dial-up speeds. We’ve seen the reaction to news that Amazon’s Echo and Google Home send recordings of conversations back to the server.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 22, 2021

In 2019, the worldwide sales of mobile devices were 1524 million units. Consider a scenario where we are using Google Chrome 86 as the latest version. Fifteen days later, Google Chrome was updated to version 87 with an FTP API being deprecated. The number was just 296 million units ten years back in 2010 ( [link] ).

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Rigor

JULY 2, 2019

Google sometimes refers to such practices as sneaky redirects , and if your page engages in what search engines deem inappropriate, your page will be penalized in the rankings. Originally published September 2016, updated July 2019. However, prior to implementing JavaScript redirection, carefully consider whether this is necessary.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

2019-04-09T12:30:59+02:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. Googling for your own platform of choice with SRI or Sub Resource Integrity will likely point you in the right direction. Understanding Subresource Integrity. Understanding Subresource Integrity. Drew McLellan.

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

According to Google Trends, development companies were more interested in hiring React developers, followed by Vue over the past year. Two primary metrics verify the speed of an app: start-up time and runtime performance. SSR provides more extensive visibility for websites once Google crawls sites for its results pages.

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Testsigma

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In the summer of 2019, British Airways faced a technical issue on its website. Notice how March 2020 has shown an extremely positive change in website users with respect to March 2019. Alternatives today such as Google Meet do not even require an installation hence there is no trouble in switching from A to B.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Speed Up Your Website With WebP. 2019-10-29T12:30:59+02:00. 2019-10-29T13:36:09+00:00. Spend enough time running websites through PageSpeed Insights and you’ll notice that Google has a major beef with traditional image formats like JPG, PNG and even GIF. Suzanne Scacca.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Assuming encode/decode speeds meet your needs. Encode/Decode Speed. Degree of compression, image quality, and decoding speed are key factors to be considered when comparing image performance for the web. It was released in February 2019 by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia). JPEG is also a lossy compression format.

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KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

Well, according to HTTP Archive , as of June 1, 2019 the average desktop page is 1,896.8 For example, while the average mobile download speed on 4G in Switzerland is fast at 35.2 Mbps, countries with a growing Internet users like India is only at an average mobile download speed of 6.8 KB and the average mobile page is 1,683.5

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2019

2019-10-22T12:30:59+02:00. 2019-10-22T13:06:35+00:00. Plus, now that Google has made mobile-first indexing the default, you really can’t afford to let any performance optimizations fall by the wayside what with how difficult it can be to get your mobile site as speedy as your desktop. A Guide To Optimizing Images For Mobile.

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Mobile Media Website Storage 73

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2019

2019-08-09T12:30:59+02:00. 2019-08-09T12:36:17+00:00. In this article, we’ll start by exploring the impact unused CSS can have on page load speeds. A quick Google search reveals plenty of online tools up to the job, but I prefer to use the coverage tool in Chrome, which can be run straight from Chrome’s DevTools.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. In addition to MVC separation, we can (for security reasons or speed improvements) place the JS App on a separate server like in the schema below: Decoupled WordPress diagram. The downside of using it is its speed. But if you still need convincing, Google penalizes slow websites. Denis Žoljom.

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KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

However, in 2019, the expectation for a good user experience is now higher than ever. The lower conversion rate on mobile could be due to a variety of reasons including the website not being responsive for mobile devices, the speed isn’t up to par, etc. Improve Site Speed In 2019, having fast site speed is imperative.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. 2019-01-07T12:00:13+00:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. Start Render time, Speed Index ). Vitaly Friedman. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? Intended as a RUM metric only.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.

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