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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Better tooling and metrics standardization. But which metrics should be measured in order to determine website performance? Dan Shappir. 2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-22T11:06:56+00:00.

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? There is a lot research on how performance optimization improves key metrics and sites like WPO Stats are a good source of case studies. Well, not so fast.

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Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache

Smashing Magazine

Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. With that caveat out of the way, let’s get to the guts of the article: What is the Back/Forward Cache and why does it matter so much? Didn’t The HTTP Cache Do All That Anyway? Barry Pollard.

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ZFS Is Mysteriously Eating My CPU

Brendan Gregg

I summarized this case study at [Kernel Recipes] in 2017 and have shared the full story here. ## 1. Problem Statement The microservice was for metrics ingestion and had recently updated their base OS image (BaseAMI). Monitoring I started with the cloud-wide monitoring tool, [Atlas], to check high-level CPU metrics.

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Optimizing Your Images Didn’t Improve Your Load Time? Here’s Why

MachMetrics

His article in the Web Performance Calendar, The ugly truth about optimizing beautiful images , explores a few case studies and offers some solutions as well. This allows you to see metrics such as First Contentful Paint, frame by frame. In the final case study in Michael’s article, the total image size was reduced by 95%.

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How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

Speed Curve

However, that pesky 20% on the back end can have a big impact on downstream metrics like First Contentful Paint (FCP), Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), and any other 'loading' metric you can think of. Caching the base page/HTML is common, and it should have a positive impact on backend times. But what happens when it doesn't?

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Designing far memory data structures: think outside the box

The Morning Paper

A far memory data structure has: far data in far memory, containing the core content of the data structure data caches at clients algorithms for operations. Processor caches can help to hide local accesses too, but not remote accesses. Clients cache the entire tree, but not the hash tables. Refreshable vectors. A worked example.

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