Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time Matt Zeunert 2025-02-12T17:00:00+00:00 2025-02-13T01:34:15+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Loading your website HTML quickly has a big impact on visitor experience. But actually, theres a lot more to optimizing this metric.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals Matt Zeunert 2024-04-16T10:00:00+00:00 2024-04-16T12:05:36+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative has increased the attention website owners need to pay to user experience.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

. “Because of the uncertainty of the times and the likely realities of the ‘new normal,’ more and more organizations are now charting the course for their journeys toward cloud computing and digital transformation,” wrote Gaurav Aggarwal in a Forbes article the impact of COVID-19 on cloud adoption.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

at Google, and “ Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks ” by Patrick Lewis, et al., For example, articles about former US vice president Al Gore might not discuss actor Tommy Lee Jones, although the two were roommates at Harvard and started a country band together. at Facebook—both from 2020. What is GraphRAG?

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum interconnect is the networking layer of the architecture, and manages communication between the Greenplum segments and master host network infrastructure. The multi-cloud platform allows you to deploy and manage on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud (coming soon) cloud platforms, or VMware on-premise environments.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In this article, we’ll answer some of the most frequently asked questions about the Log4Shell vulnerability, and continue to add on as new questions come up. In the consumer sector, Log4j 2 can also be found in network-enabled storage and smart home equipment, which users should disconnect from the Internet until updates are available.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2025

What I got back were two artifacts, one of them being the following video of Akamai web performance expert Robin Marx speaking at We Love Speed in France a few weeks ago: The other artifact is a Google document originally published by Patrick Meenan in 2015 but updated somewhat recently in November 2023. Lets touch on that now.

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CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This gives fascinating insights into the network topography of our visitors, and how much we might be impacted by high latency regions. These intermediates fall outside of the scope of this article, but if you’ve ever run a traceroute , you’re on the right lines. That’s exactly what this article is about. What is RTT?

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CSS Wizardry

JANUARY 10, 2023

This audit and, accordingly, this article, only deals with script injection using document.write() —not its usage in general. As well as exhibiting unpredictable and buggy behaviour as keenly stressed in the MDN and Google articles , document.write() is slow. The MDN entry for document.write(). What Makes Scripts Slow?

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Dean Hume

JULY 30, 2018

Without fail, there is this spot along the line where my network connection drops from a clear 4G signal to a 2G signal at best. This is where the Network Information API aims to change things. There are a number of use cases for the Network Information API. My journey to and from work involves a small journey on a train.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Kubernetes Dashboard as a part of a comprehensive monitoring solution This article introduces the key building blocks to consider when designing your Kubernetes monitoring solution. Some examples are the network (switches, routers), storage systems (especially when using thin provisioning ), and virtualization infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2019

That happens for both vertical dependencies (host, processes, services, applications) as well as vertical dependencies (process to process through network monitoring, service to service through automated tracing). A quick google search reveals several articles on Prometheus performance optimizations we should look into.

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DZone

JULY 8, 2022

Recently, Google Chrome 103 was released with a bunch of new features. This article will dive into the HTTP 103 status code with a quick demo. One of the notable features is the introduction of HTTP Status Code 103.

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Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

Who manage s the networking aspects? I f there was any company that was positioned to understand those problems and limitations of containers before anyone else, it was Google. . ? GKE (Google Cloud Platform) . In our next upcoming article, we’ll look at the concepts behind the architecture of a Kubernetes platform. .

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score. Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. What is Google Lighthouse?

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

According to a recent Forbes articles, Internet users are creating 2.5 According to data cited by McConnell, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform grew in the last quarter, ending in June [2023] and jointly delivered almost $50 billion. quintilion bytes of data each day. McConnell said. Cloud modernization.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

tomgara : "Slate makes more money from a single article that gets 50,000 page views on its site than it does from the 6 million page views it receives on Apple News in an average month". vl : I have a hilarious story about this from Google: I wanted second 30" monitor, so I filed a ticket. That's not an obvious statement at all.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

I’ve written a few articles here before on Core Web Vitals, and am always interested to see what’s in their annual Web Performance Checklist. LCP, or Largest Contentful Paint , is one of the three Core Web Vitals that you must “pass” to get the full search ranking boost from Google as part of their Page Experience Update.

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Speed Curve

APRIL 27, 2022

Experimentation tools that use asynchronous scripts – such as Google Optimize, Adobe Target, and Visual Web Optimizer – recommend using an anti-flicker snippet to hide the page until they've finished executing. Google Optimize) has finished applying its experiments. In Google Optimize's default case is the whole document.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 6, 2025

How To Fix Largest Contentful Issues With Subpart Analysis How To Fix Largest Contentful Issues With Subpart Analysis Matt Zeunert 2025-03-06T10:00:00+00:00 2025-03-06T14:50:25+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear The Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) in Core Web Vitals measures how quickly a website loads from a visitors perspective.

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High Scalability

JUNE 29, 2018

jedberg : Despite being a strong advocate for AWS, this is where I will say Google completely outshines Amazon. Google's approach to pricing is, "do it as efficiently and quickly as possible, and we'll make sure that's the cheapest option". Google applies bulk discounts after the fact, AWS makes you ask for them ahead of time.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

However, let’s take a step further and learn how to deploy modern qualities to PWAs, such as offline functionality, network-based optimizing, cross-device user experience, SEO capabilities, and non-intrusive notifications and requests. The following qualities are considered great additions to the basic PWA by Google developers.

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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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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

In my last article , I suggested using the SaveData API to deliver a different, more performant, experience to users that expressed that desire. In this article, I want to spend a bit more time on this, and also look at other signals we can similarly use to help us make decisions on what to load on our websites. Barry Pollard.

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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. We will discuss these features in more depth later in this article.

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Percona

MAY 29, 2023

In this article, you will learn how to set up disaster recovery with Percona Operator for PostgreSQL version 2. In this case, you can be sure that Main really failed, and it is not a network split situation. It can be done through various Kubernetes configurations and heavily depends on how your networking and application are designed.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

But pages keep getting bigger and more complex year over year – and this increasing size and complexity is not fully mitigated by faster devices and networks, or by our hard-working browsers. How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? This falls short of Google's threshold of 2.5

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. It measures the web performance of a single page using Google PageSpeed Insights. Network and CPU are throttled for lab data tests for more realistic conditions. The audits can be performed across various devices and network conditions.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Here’s another article about reducing JavaScript dependencies and the bundle size sent to the client. This article is about a couple of things that Bookaway faced and we (as a company in the traveling industry) managed to optimize our pages, so that the HTML we send is smaller. Both for Google bots (SEO) and to actual clients.

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Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

Who manage s the networking aspects? I f there was any company that was positioned to understand those problems and limitations of containers before anyone else, it was Google. . ? GKE (Google Cloud Platform) . In our next upcoming article, we’ll look at the concepts behind the architecture of a Kubernetes platform. .

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

That was when I first got to witness the power of network headers. This article focuses on various approaches to modify headers in a Selenium automation setup. There are tools like Requestly which is a one-stop tool to debug & modify network requests. There’s a lot more to it than what can be covered in this article.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Last year, Google started emphasizing the importance of Core Web Vitals and how they reflect a person’s real experience when visiting sites around the web. It wasn’t long before a sea of red “poor” and yellow “needs improvement” notices in our Google Search Console needed our attention. How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study).

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Most of you have probably seen the following Google PageSpeed Insights optimization suggestion at one point or another when running a speed test: By compressing and adjusting the size of … you can save 14.2 An easy way to compress images is with our image processing service that happens to also be fully integrated into our existing network.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. In this article, I’ll highlight some of the work we did and how we were able to achieve our speed. For this article, we will focus on the first three and the performance adjustments for these. Jennifer Brehm.

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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. Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. As for mobile network connection type, 84.7%

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Abhishek Tiwari

JANUARY 19, 2013

Way before Google-scale or Facebook-scale existed, there was Visa-scale. This COMPUTERWORLD article from 2001 provides some insights about early Visa payment processing infrastructure.

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