Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf. I didn't end up getting published in SysAdmin directly, but my performance work did make it as a feature article (thanks Matty). Or even on a plane.

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. Blocking IP Access.

Website 97

Website Internet Internet Performance 97

CSS - Tricks

MAY 24, 2021

— Jeremy Wagner sets up a “Streaming” Service Worker that caches common partials on a website (e.g. the header and footer) such that the people of Waushara County, Wisconsin, who have slow internet can load the site somewhere in the vicinity of twice as fast. Who has the fastest F1 website in 2021?

Performance 78

Performance Website Cache Internet 78

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This article is sponsored by Storyblok. Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. But if you’re worried that you’re not getting the performance you expected because of large, poorly optimized images, don’t worry because that’s what you’re reading this article for! Cache Your Images.

Media 109

Media Cache Website Mobile 109

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

This article is part of a series in which I attempt to use the web under various constraints, representing a given demographic of user. Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. I downloaded TripMode ; an application for Mac which gives you control over which apps on your Mac can access the internet.

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Cache Google Mobile Network 97

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. By analyzing the data from Backlinko.com and their Page Speed Stats article, we’ll look to answer these questions: What size should be a website be?

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Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

In this article, we will particularly look at the average page load time in 2021 and importance of web vitals. Quote : “40% of people abandon a website that takes more than 3 seconds to load” Neil Patel, Internet Marketing expert. Enable caching. We usually consider a site fast when its pages load in lesser than 3 seconds.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2021

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. Blocking IP Access.

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Website Internet Internet Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

These statements and articles typically skip over some crucial technical details , are lacking in nuance, and usually are only partially correct. In this article series, I will discuss the new protocol, especially its performance features , with more nuance. Did You Know?

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 27, 2021

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. Blocking IP Access.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf. I didn't end up getting published in SysAdmin directly, but my performance work did make it as a feature article (thanks Matty). Or even on a plane.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. That’s what this article is about.

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Speed Google Website Metrics 100

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. If you’re on the latter end of this scale, you probably need more specialized advice than this article is prepared to give. Option 1: Default Django.

Media 70

Media Cache Storage AWS 70

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Measuring the carbon footprint of the web isn’t an exact science, but a report by the BBC in 2020 estimates that all internet activity accounts for around 3.7% Check out this article by Eric Bailey for some ideas. For this article, we’re going to take a deeper dive into one particular area. The Impact Of Social Media Embeds.

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Social Media Media Website Airlines 104

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Now let’s upload our lazy-loading updates and try again: (Note that you’ll have to do hard-reload, clear cache, or use a new private browser to ensure we’re not taking advantage of the browser cache in our testing). My previous article implemented lazy loading in plain javascript, but I wanted something more robust.

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Cache Speed Internet Internet 75

MachMetrics

MAY 14, 2020

Since we published that article at the start of 2020, the median website has grown ~4% larger according to HTTP Archive. This is the inspiration behind this article, which will go into detail on how you can check your website’s page weight with MachMetric’s Page Speed Audit service. Compress and cache your website.

Website 52

Website Testing Speed Cache 52

CSS - Tricks

MAY 24, 2021

— Jeremy Wagner sets up a “Streaming” Service Worker that caches common partials on a website (e.g. the header and footer) such that the people of Waushara County, Wisconsin, who have slow internet can load the site somewhere in the vicinity of twice as fast. Who has the fastest F1 website in 2021?

Performance 40

Performance Website Cache Internet 40

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

So in this article, we’ll pit Gzip vs Brotli and completely end the debate! As we discussed in our article on how to test your page weight , compression is pretty much standard practice in web performance now, so you absolutely want to make sure you’re taking advantage of it. Never change, Internet Explorer. OK, not really.

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Speed Servers Google Cache 67

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Internet of Things (IoT). Besides that, these apps do well in areas with a slow internet connection. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. Internet of Things (IoT). Internet of things (IoT) – Number of IoT devices 2015-2025 Statista.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. We should use HTTP2 over HTTPS.

Website Performance 74

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 74

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this article, we will review what third-party resource requests are, consider how impactful they can be to the user experience, and discuss common optimization strategies to reduce the impact on the user experience. Every major website on the Internet today relies — to some degree — on third-party services.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 133

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

I had my website with funny photos and links to favorite websites live on the internet, and better yet, I could edit directly on the server. It’s safe to say WordPress, the platform now powering 40% of the internet, won that battle, but MovableType paved the way for Jamstack CMSs in the future. But, when it worked, it was magical.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 140

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

This article will cover many areas that database administrators need to be aware of in order to properly license, recover, and tune a Reporting Services installation. In the early days of SSRS, a requirement was to also install and configure Internet Information Services (IIS). Reporting Services Infrastructure.

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Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

Percona

JULY 17, 2023

First, some stage-setting for this blog article. A survey of 90,240 companies using MongoDB listed the leading uses as Technology and Services (23%), Computer Software (16%), and Internet (6%). An in-memory caching mechanism supports horizontal scaling, which enables it to handle large-scale applications and workloads effectively.

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Open Source Database Scalability Software 80

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

The images used in the article’s Codepen demonstrations will be integrated with TwicPics to save time in their creation and speed up the optimization of the LCP metric. Read this “ Optimize Largest Contentful Paint ” article by Philip Walton and Barry Pollard to learn more about the four LCP subparts and their relation to each other.

Media 108

Media Mobile Website Metrics 108

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In this article, we’ll go over the similarities and differences between HTTP Preload vs HTTP/2 Push and discuss when it makes sense to use each. Push however has more support as it is an HTTP/2 feature which is now the latest version of the HTTP protocol for the Internet. This allows you to better leverage browser caching.

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Speed Servers Website Efficiency 99

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Due to the use of modern frameworks, advanced caching and rendering, and data transmission via API, properly developed PWAs can be a seven-league step up to boost the store’s speed. To specify, users can continue using those parts of the site that were cached if the Internet connection is unstable or when offline.

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Code Cache Retail Mobile 76

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 19, 2019

Disclaimer: This article is mostly satire. You know, there are a lot of articles out there telling you how to make your page smaller: optimize your images, remove extraneous CSS rules, re-write the whole thing in Dreamweaver using framesets. What we don’t have are enough articles showing you how to increase your page size.

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Cache Internet Internet Code 64

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

One example could be using an RDBMS for most of the Online transaction processing ( OLTP) data shared by country and having the products as distributed memory cache with a different technology. If there is no distinction in the article between a simple database and an RDBMS, run away.

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Traffic Scalability Database Servers 127

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? It ticked all the 6 ideas that I have talked about in the article. Why was the proposal valuable?

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 27, 2019

As we mentioned in our article Average Page Load Times for 2020 , mobile page speed is a huge deal going forward. TTFB is typically reduced via server-side optimizations, such as enabling caching and database indexes. Page weight has recently become an area that is overlooked, thanks to high speed internet and powerful mobile devices.

Performance 52

Performance Speed Website Mobile 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

In this article I’ll outline my mental model why multithreading is important on the web, I’ll give you an introduction to the primitives that we as developers have at our disposal, and I’ll talk a bit about architectures that make it easy to adopt multithreading, even incrementally. At the same time, we have a widening performance gap.

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Games Architecture Code C++ 145

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

This article is an effort to explore techniques used by developers of in-stream data processing systems, trace the connections of these techniques to massive batch processing and OLTP/OLAP databases, and discuss how one unified query engine can support in-stream, batch, and OLAP processing at the same time. Interoperability with Hadoop.

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Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2019

This article was updated on January 31, 2019 to react to readers’ feedback. We will explore these in details throughout the article, but first, let’s explore what components actually are and how we can build a site based on such components, and finally, explore how a component-based API works. Introducing The Component-Based API.

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Social Media Database Media Website 65

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

In this article, we’ll take a look at what SRI is, how it can help protect you, and how you can start using it in your own projects, not just for files hosted on CDNs. They’d take the hit for the first site to use the file, but then it would sit in their local browser cache and downloads could be skipped for each subsequent site.

Website 59

Website Servers Code Best Practices 59

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? It ticked all the 6 ideas that I have talked about in the article. Light Work , a picture by Émile Perron.

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

In this article I’m trying to provide more or less systematic description of techniques related to distributed operations in NoSQL databases. In the rest of this article we study a number of distributed activities like replication of failure detection that could happen in a database. Consistency. Read-Write consistency. References.

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Database Latency C++ Scalability 213