Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The gotcha here is that, if your mobile experience isn’t optimized for various devices and network conditions, these customers will never appear in your analytics — just because your website or app will be barely usable on their devices, and so they are unlikely to return. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known.

Mobile 142

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 142

High Scalability

OCTOBER 19, 2018

four petabytes : added to Internet Archive per year; 60,000 : patents donated by Microsoft to the Open Invention Network; 30 million : DuckDuckGo daily searches; 5 seconds : Google+ session length; 1 trillion : ARM device goal; $40B : Softbank investment in 5G; 30 : Happy Birthday IRC!; They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.

Internet 123

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 123

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. I intentionally left out the numbers for video, because they seemed inconsistent. Clearly we need to keep talking about it.

Mobile 145

Mobile Google Benchmarking Metrics 145

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. Fundamentally enabling for video creation apps. This is as it should be.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. It essentially describes the lifetime of each file you download to load your page from the network. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

Cache 141

Cache Performance Servers Architecture 141

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We track LEGO.com, along with a handful of other leading ecommerce sites, in our public-facing Retail Benchmarks dashboard , which I encourage you to check out. LCP measures when the largest visual element in the viewport – typically a hero image or video – finishes rendering. Are non-essential or lesser resources deferred?

Performance 78

Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 78

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

The network constraints and what makes the web slow? An overview of tools for measuring performance, uptime monitoring, real user monitoring and performance benchmarking. Competitive Benchmarking SpeedCurve. Why speed matters, examples of the impact saving a few seconds of load time has had on revenue and engagement.

Speed 40

Speed Benchmarking Mobile Website 40

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

Video – For the first time in the many years that I've been covering the topic of page growth, I'm going to focus on the volume of video that pages contain. Largest Contentful Paint – LCP measures when the largest visual element (image or video) in the viewport finishes rendering. More on that later.) That's huge.

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

It was – like the hypothetical movie I describe above – more than a little bit odd, as you could leave a session discussing ever more abstract layers of virtualization and walk into one where they emphasized the critical importance of pinning a network interface to a specific VM for optimal performance. Watch the Video.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Performance issues surrounding Availability Groups typically were related to disk I/O or network speeds. While we were confident in the design of SQL Server 2012, several customers reported to us performance problems that did not appear to be with disk subsystems, CPU, or networks. Now disk I/O and CPU capacity were no longer an issue.

Availability 40

Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40

Apica

MAY 10, 2019

The spread of where consumers want to consume content, at home, at the office, at the gym, on a plane, at any time where there is connectivity, puts significant pressure on the network and performance monitoring teams for streaming brands. Load and stress-testing benchmark goals for the backend technological components.

Testing 40

Testing Performance Social Media Wireless 40

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

This allows your teams baseline, benchmark, review (including retroactively reviewing past data), report, and compare and contrast your data month-over-month or even year-over-year. The client base for most businesses is not all using the same device on the same network to access a website or web application.

Google 51

Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

Speed Curve

JULY 8, 2024

With many synthetic monitoring tools, you can benchmark your site against your competitors. Competitive benchmarking is a great way to see how you stack up – and how much you need to improve. Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive set of dashboards that anyone can explore and use for their own research.

Speed 139

Speed Cache Benchmarking Metrics 139

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

What are some good sites I can use for benchmarking? Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive dashboard that lets you explore and compare web performance data for leading websites across several industries – from retail to media. Identify sites you can use for your own competitive benchmarking. How fast should I be?

Benchmarking 138

Benchmarking Speed Performance Media 138

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Today, the website is much faster and ranks highly in various showcases and benchmarks. Of course, a shop needs interactive elements , be it product image zooming, some videos, a countdown to today’s shipping deadline, or a chat window to get in contact with customer support. Large preview ). Jump to online workshops ?.

Performance 132

Performance Cache Website Mobile 132

Rigor

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Does it capture screenshots or a video of script running, so you can see what the screen looked like when a button or form field couldn’t be found? Can you test with 3G, 4G, or different networking connections? Can you compare the videos or waterfalls side-by-side? Competitive & Industry Benchmarking.

Monitoring 59

Monitoring Benchmarking Testing Mobile 59

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik and detailed guide by Rick Viscomi) or Treo Sites , a RUM monitoring tool that is powered by Chrome UX Report. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.

Performance 112

Performance Cache Servers Network 112

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. Video Transcoding. We already use the public cloud to autoscale some async processing like Video Transcoding, text extraction, data migration, Search, etc. Document store.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 29, 2024

If you use a content delivery network (CDN), then you need to know that CDN performance is critical during the holiday season. Benchmark your site against your competitors. Check out these industry benchmarks for a current snapshot of how leading sites perform across a number of industries, including retail, travel, media, and more.

Speed 64

Speed Benchmarking Traffic Retail 64

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Follow him on Twitter @ RickByers and be sure to watch the video of his conversation at Chrome Dev Summit 2016 , where he discussed the ways Chrome is “improving predictability for developers.” Check out his how-to videos on his YouTube channel as well as his performance related dispatches on Twitter @ paulcalvano.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89