The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

In the People space, our data teams contribute to consolidated systems of record on employees, contractors, partners and talent data to help central teams manage headcount planning, reduce acquisition cost, improve hiring practices, and other people analytics related use-cases.

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Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 185

Jos

MARCH 13, 2020

Look, there are many case studies proving a correlation between loading time and business metrics!” ?-?I It’s important to track these conversion events, and you can do it in your own system or leveraging tools like Google Analytics or Facebook Analytics. What is the business opportunity for web performance improvements?

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Performance Google Mobile Metrics 130

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

After all, when we look at our analytics, we will hardly find any customers browsing our sites or apps with a mid-range device on a flaky 3G connection. However, there are quite a few high-profile case studies exploring the impact of mobile optimization on key business metrics. That might come a little bit unexpected.

Mobile 142

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 142

Speed Curve

MARCH 11, 2024

What you need to know about INP on mobile devices How to debug and optimize INP And at the bottom of this post, we'll wrap thing up with some inspiring case studies from companies that have found that improving INP has improved sales, pageviews, and bounce rate. But we also approach each new metric with an analytical eye.

Mobile 88

Mobile Google Metrics Monitoring 88

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

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 …. Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. Ideally, shoot for 30% speed improvements.

Performance 100

Performance Speed Google Media 100

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

You can also disable the Back/Forward Cache in Chrome at chrome://flags/#back-forward-cache if you want to experiment more, but the above steps should hopefully be a sufficient enough test to give a rough feel for the potential speed gains. Though, personally, I am glad they did since it was an interesting case study.

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Cache Games Performance Website 106

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

In my experience, the vast majority of performance issues are caused by four things: Third parties, such as trackers and analytics. A typical retail web page these days can contain upwards of 75 third-party scripts, such as trackers and analytics beacons. What you can do: Monitor the speed of your third parties. Stylesheets.

Retail 40

Retail Performance Metrics Analytics 40

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Individual pages can be spot checked via the CrUX API or tools such as Page Speed Insights But as Cliff's already covered in How to find (and fix!) Within the longest event handler, the first group of processing creates an analytics event to record the visitor opening the menu. These calls happen before the menu is actually displayed.

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Analytics Processing Google Mobile 94

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

I’ve been excited about the potential for approximate query processing in analytic clusters for some time, and this paper describes its use at scale in production. In total, the clusters store a few exabytes of data and are primarily responsible for all of the batch analytics at Microsoft. VLDB’19. Approximate query support.

Big Data 57

Big Data Analytics Latency Azure 57

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

These services use requests to external hosts (not servers you control) to deliver JavaScript framework libraries, custom fonts, advertising content, marketing analytics trackers, and more. The most popular, by far, is the Google Lighthouse report (available in Chrome Developer Tools) and Google’s Page Speed Insights.

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Website Design Network Testing 138

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) LCP measures the perceived load speed of a webpage from a user’s perspective. Each stage has its unique challenges and potential pitfalls, as other case studies show. We can then forward this data to a custom analytics service. Here’s a breakdown of the moving pieces. One of the key Next.js

Performance 78

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 78

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Fighting regressions should be the top priority of anyone who cares about the speed of their site. Third parties add tons of value by increasing conversions (via targeting beacons) and helping you understand your users in unprecedented ways (via analytics tags). But they can significantly affect how – or even if!

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Benchmarking Metrics Website Testing 72

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Based on the data provided by divante ’s findings on 30 PWA case studies, progressive web apps have a 36% larger mobile conversion rate than native applications. This also implies that you don’t have to spend additional time and money on creating a PWA to suit various devices, greatly speeding up time-to-market. Why is that?

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Code Cache Mobile Retail 90

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Partner oriented session getting everyone up to speed on what AWS sees as the customer needs, motivations, business outcomes and architectures around sustainability. SUS209 — there was no talk with this code. Well presented, plenty of new content and viewpoints, builds on the AWS standard deck better than SUS303.

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AWS Energy Architecture Programming 64

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2018

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. Source: Google Analytics ) ( Large preview ). Speed in getting to and through checkout is another. Start With The Data.

Design 66

Design Google Website Mobile 66

Rigor

MAY 29, 2019

Cliff Crocker is an active contributor in the web performance community, evangelizing the importance of speed as it relates to user behavior and ultimately business ROI. and engineering leader for the performance, reliability, and site analytics initiatives for @WalmartLabs. Create case studies. Be visible. Bring data.

Performance 40

Performance Education Engineering Monitoring 40

KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

Running speed tests with tools like Google PageSpeed Insights , WebPageTest , or KeyCDN’s Website Speed Test are always a good way to help gauge your website’s performance. Why Care About Page Speed? There are a multitude of reasons why you should care about page speed. A site which loads in 2.6

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Google Cache Speed Analytics 103

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

> Speed Index (Synthetic). Speed Index was an important metric when it first came out several years ago. However, because Speed Index is dependent on how the page is built, it's not a one-size-fits-all metric. read industry case studies, like those gathered on WPOstats.com.

Performance 138

Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 138

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

A case in point: a page-load slowdown of a mere second could cost Amazon $1.6 Of the many factors that affect page-load speed, media is a significant one. At this stage, you might need to review your Real User Monitoring (RUM) and Analytics and identify the critical pages that lead to higher conversion and engagement rates.

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Media Performance Mobile Latency 122

Speed Curve

JANUARY 7, 2020

There's a ton of useful material and inspiring case studies in here, including some really great examples of using correlation charts to see the relationship between performance and conversions.

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Monitoring 93

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Study common complaints coming into customer service and sales team, study analytics for high bounce rates and conversion drops.

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Performance Cache Metrics Media 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data. How to get there?

Performance 112

Performance Cache Servers Network 112

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Study common complaints coming into customer service and see how improving performance can help relieve some of these common problems.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 111

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

Now, analytics tools and performance monitoring tools will provide this data when needed, but we looked specifically into CrUX , Chrome User Experience Report. A few requests were coming to the CDN, a cookie consent service Cookiebot, Google Analytics, plus our internal services for serving product panels and custom advertising.

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Performance Cache Mobile Network 111