Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL Backup and Recovery Best Practices In this section, we’ll explore essential MySQL backup and recovery best practices to safeguard your data and ensure smooth database operations. Our best recommendation is: One or two physical backups locally on the backup server (as long as space allows it).

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). Note : You can also just download the checklist (PDF, 158 KB). Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. Google Keyword Planner.

Engineering 135

Engineering Google Website Mobile 135

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome who was working all around web performance for decades. Jump to the details ↓ Download a free PDF sample (12MB). Download PDF , ePUB , Kindle. Download PDF , ePUB , Kindle. Get the eBook.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 124

Testsigma

MARCH 24, 2021

2020, a new game called FAU-G was released on the Google play store. Android’s official application store, the Google play store, hosts 2.87 This number is excluding the third-party hostings which are large in number and are not on the Google play store. Check For File Upload/Download. Always maintain a report.

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Best Practices Testing Mobile Games 52

Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Smaller HTML means less time for Google to download and process those long strings of text. Both for Google bots (SEO) and to actual clients. Part of having a small LCP is to let the user download as small HTML as possible. In the meanwhile, React javascript is being downloaded and executed. How about errors?”

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Download Links. However, they might become a non-fancy yet practical solution for copy-pasting. Download Links. A link that guides to some downloadable resource needs a slightly different treatment. A good practice for download links is to show the file format and size. Download the recording”.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome and focusing around performance for decades. Jump to the details ↓ Download a free PDF sample (12MB). Download PDF , ePUB , Kindle. Download PDF , ePUB , Kindle. 100 days money-back-guarantee.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Google Fonts. Google Sheets sync. The plugin supports copy and paste from Excel, Google sheet, Numbers and it also can sync with Google Sheets and remote JSON. Google Fonts Pairings for Figma. If you use Google Fonts, Google Font Pairings can come in handy, too. Also, take a look at the other.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? Poorly executed stylesheets can create a host of performance problems, ranging from stylesheets taking too long to download and parse, to improperly placed stylesheets that block the rest of the page from rendering. This falls short of Google's threshold of 2.5

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Mobile Google Benchmarking Metrics 145

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. I’m hopeful this can serve as a good introduction for any developer interested in learning about how to work with Google Lighthouse programmatically.

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Google Latency Website Metrics 86

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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Google Analytics Serverless Metrics 111

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

The most popular, by far, is the Google Lighthouse report (available in Chrome Developer Tools) and Google’s Page Speed Insights. Configuring WebPageTest to run a test measurement that simulates a failure of the Google Fonts third-party service. These tools fall into several categories. Other blocking effects. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

” in which he stated that the Google Chrome team are already developing the feature and intend to ship it in Chrome 75. In case your website’s images are downloaded all at once at page landing without lazy loading, you can enable (where supported) native lazy loading in your website as easily as adding an HTML attribute.

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Website Best Practices Media Open Source 106

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Jump to the details ↓ Download a free PDF sample (6MB). Download PDF , ePUB , Kindle. Chapter 10 covers best practices in how the UIs of interactive elements are designed to attract the eye, afford action, be readable, and inspire confidence that they can be safely tapped. Download PDF , ePUB , Kindle.

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Mobile Design Best Practices Website 106

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

It’s an initiative by Google to share unified guidance for quality signals that can be key to delivering a great user experience on the web. CWV is part of a set of page experience signals Google Search will be evaluating for ranking. From Speed at Scale with Katie Hempenius and I at Google I/O. Large preview ). MB of images.

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Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

Author Steve Souders writes about the best practices that he gained as the Chief Performance Yahoo!, and the Head Performance Engineer at Google. and Google, they’ll do wonders for your website! Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices For Web Developers.

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Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

As a second example, TCP sees all of the data it transports as a single “file” or byte stream , even if we’re actually using it to transfer several files at the same time (for example, when downloading a web page consisting of many resources). It combines decades of deployment experience and best practices of TCP with some core new features.

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Despite the large number of product images that are on Target’s homepage, only 50kb is downloaded when the user navigates to the page, with the rest only being downloaded when the user scrolls down. Of course, any major retailer is going to have its fair share of ads and integration with Google. This is exceptional.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. seconds faster on average and it drove 60 million more Firefox downloads per year. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2

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Cache Social Media Media Website 94

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

As a result, AVIF files download faster and consume lower bandwidth. Lighthouse-best practices audit now considers that AVIF image compression can bring significant improvements. AVIF contributors at Google have also reported some nice performance gains. AVIF And Performance. AVIF images take longer to encode and create.

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Open Source Speed Website Google 145

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 2, 2022

It’s like when Google Fonts finally got a redesign and the broad community let out a collective exhale of appreciation. Caching Header Best Practices — Simon Hearne’s dissertation on Cache headers. When I first started caring about web performance, this was, like, the main thing.

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Performance Cache Best Practices Strategy 71

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. This is because, as I stated in the introduction to part 1 , much of the early HTTP/2 content was overly optimistic about how well it would work in practice, and some of it, quite frankly, had major mistakes and bad advice.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 120

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

According to Google's thresholds, an LCP time of 3.96 HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images, and fonts) weighing in at 1,410 kilobytes. : Observations The LCP image is added to the page using JavaScript Because of this, the browser doesn't know about the image until the JS is downloaded and fully executed. seconds, LCP lags at 3.96

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Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 78

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. Download Time of HTML This is the time it takes to download the page’s HTML file.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 78

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

Loading experience is crucial to the user’s first impression and overall usability, so Google defined Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric to measure how quickly the main content loads and is displayed to the user. Let’s focus on how these resources are requested and downloaded. See the Pen Prioritizing stylesheets by Adrian Bece.

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Media Tuning Metrics Google 78

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

These updates will disable access of Google apps downloader, for example. One can only download apps using the manufacturer’s downloader software, where VPN installers and other banned apps are not available for installation. The use of VPN however, usually slows down downloading and accessibility by 30 percent or more.

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Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

After all, content marketing: Should lead to good search engine rankings if well written and targeted; Educates clients about best practices; Demonstrates to readers your expertise; Builds a relationship with your followers at scale; Offers the ability to reach a large number of potential clients. On paper, this is a good move.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

These metrics are used by Google to evaluate the quality of user experience. To address this problem, I’ll provide an overview of the best practices for the integration and optimization of an LCP image. This approach allows images with smaller dimensions to be downloaded for users on smaller devices. Eloïse Martin.

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Media Mobile Website Metrics 120

Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

Web Developer Programs Engineer at Google Rick Viscomi , the thresholds for fast/average/slow TTFB are 200 ms at the upper limit and 1000 ms at the lower limit. <200 ms “fast” TTFB is based on the server responsiveness best practice recommendation. Note: According to Sr. First Meaningful Paint: Is It Useful?

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Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Similarly from cross-site navigation — think Google search results or the like and then clicking back. Browsers have lots of caches , the most well-known of which is the HTTP Cache that stores copies of downloaded resources on a local drive for later reuse. 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices.

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Cache Games Performance Website 106

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

Applications that do not require to be downloaded and can be accessed via hitting the URL on a mobile browser are known as mobile web applications. The applications which are required to be downloaded on your smartphone before you start using them are known as Native applications. Best Practices For Mobile Website Testing.

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Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Most sites were all hosted on a single physical server somewhere on our own hosting infrastructure, and it was the server we thought about defending when it came to security best practices. The browser downloads the file, then quickly computes to make sure that it is a match with the hash in the integrity attribute.

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Sutter's Mill

MARCH 11, 2024

In that context, I’ll focus on C++ and try to: highlight what needs attention (what C++’s problem “is”), and how we can get there by building on solutions already underway; address some common misconceptions (what C++’s problem “isn’t”), including practical considerations of MSLs; and leave a call to action for programmers using all languages.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Drew McLellan: He’s an engineer at Skypack and a major contributor to a new project called Astro, which aims to combine performance best practices with the developer experience improvements we see from component based approaches. I think Jason Miller of Google came up with this terminology. Transcript. Matthew: No.

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Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Google and Bing teamed up to present results from their respective experiments with page load time. Google’s results were perhaps even more startling. This boost in performance increased their download conversions by 15.4%. million additional downloads per year. drop in revenue per user, as well as a 1.8%

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Performance Energy Google Internet 40

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Since the users can also read the code, it increases the trust factor which in turn increases the acceptability rates and hence the downloads. State of the software supply chain 2021 shows the download trends for open-source projects: Open-source software is also free-to-use for everyone and everyone is invited to contribute.

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 27, 2025

Poorly executed stylesheets can create a host of performance problems, ranging from stylesheets taking too long to download and parse, to improperly placed stylesheets that block the rest of the page from rendering. Review some CSS optimization tips and best practices. Core Web Vitals are a Google search ranking factor.

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Mobile Best Practices Google Metrics 97