Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

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. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In other words, PWAs are websites that users can use as stand-alone applications. The web app manifest is the core for making a website run as a stand-alone application in full-screen mode. The service workers enable the offline usage of the PWA by fetching cached data or informing the user about the absence of an Internet connection.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high on the wish list of our customers for some time already. DNS is an absolutely critical piece of the internet infrastructure. There are two main types of DNS servers: authoritative servers and caching resolvers.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. With that in mind, perhaps the first thing to consider is how do we measure the energy usage of our website?

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Where aws ends and the internet begins is an exercise left to the reader. As of today, we’ve expanded our list of candidate devices even further to nearly a billion devices, including mobile devices running the Netflix app and the website experience. This initial functionality was built out for FireTVs and was expanded from there.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

Today AWS has launched Amazon ElastiCache , a new service that makes it easy to add distributed in-memory caching to any application. Amazon ElastiCache handles the complexity of creating, scaling and managing an in-memory cache to free up brainpower for more differentiating activities. Recent Entries. Amazon DynamoDB â??

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps. How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps. However, it’s not always easy to maintain high performance in websites. Even if your website is designed with usability in mind, these factors impede users from fully benefiting from the website’s features.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

The world’s first website was made from static HTML files created in a text editor. Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. Mike Neumegen. released 1998.

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KeyCDN

MARCH 10, 2021

Dubai - UAE Dubai has grown significantly over the past decades, not just demographically but also in terms of internet penetration. With an internet penetration of almost 92% , the UAE is among the highest worldwide. According to Wikipedia, Greece has an average internet connection speed of just over 30 Mbps.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

APRIL 29, 2024

When it comes to website redesigning, an outdated one is the last one you want but relative to some website that was designed by you in the past, it definitely would look better. Responsiveness Years ago people got the opportunity to access the internet through their PCs which had huge monitors.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

APRIL 29, 2024

When it comes to website redesigning, an outdated one is the last one you want but relative to some website that was designed by you in the past, it definitely would look better. Responsiveness Years ago people got the opportunity to access the internet through their PCs which had huge monitors.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

As of writing, they have been viewed over 29 trillion times across the web and it’s easy to understand why — the collection gives you access to over 900 beautiful fonts you can use on your website for free. If I change my user-agent to Internet Explorer 11, I’m served the font in the WOFF format instead. Browser Caching.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. Just dropping your website in an S3 bucket brings all that power to you. And it is not just purely static websites. Comments (). Recent Entries.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Your dev environment is not your user’s environment Light Work , a picture by Émile Perron I use a Macbook Pro to develop websites. Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. What happens when a browser tries to load a website? Present it to the team.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is. 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

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. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

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. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. I wanted to simulate a slow connection like those experienced by users in Uzbekistan, to see what kind of experience websites would give me. I installed ModHeader and set the ‘Save-Data’ header to let websites know I want to minimise my data usage.

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MachMetrics

APRIL 24, 2019

Who is your website’s users – Google, or your real customers? The information under the score tells us that this site now loads faster than 99% of websites, but for someone who is chasing the elusive grade of 100, they are frustrated for no reason. Generally, this is the wrong way to look at the problem. PSI Score Reality.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Choosing the correct programming language for web development is critical for producing outstanding websites. In this post, we’ll look at why web professionals use PHP for unique website creation. Web developers choose PHP for significant website development due to several reasons.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

We are increasingly seeing customers wanting to build Internet-scale applications that require diverse data models. Though to a customer the Expedia website looks like a single application, behind the scenes Expedia.com is composed of many components, each with a specific function. Purpose-built databases. Take Expedia, for example.

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MachMetrics

MAY 14, 2020

When we gave a complete overview of the state of the web in 2020 we challenged our readers to compare their own website metrics to the multiple metric averages. In the above infographic, you’ll see that the average website size (or page weight) was nearing 2 MB for desktop sites, and 1.8 Compress and cache your website.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. It has never been easier to build a personalized website, digitalize a product and start seeing results. Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. Alba Silvente.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. With the latest introduction of the Core Web Vital section on GSC + upcoming Google’s core web vital update, site owners are forced to take note of their website speed and web vitals. How to get these matrics right and not mess up?

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

For some websites this works, but for others (such as Hack Club’s Scrapbook , a site built by @lachlanjc that I help maintain), the user expects the data to be kept up to date. The solution used in Scrapbook was to use the SWR library of React hooks to update the cached page from the server with client side data fetching.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

Even more surprisingly, websites that are marked as spam on email portals lose 95 percent of their traffic. It works by flagging emails as spam or by preventing certain websites from loading. Since email communication is one of the primary channels for e-commerce websites, this can prove to be a costly side effect to being blacklisted.

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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?

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

We use high-performance transactions systems, complex rendering and object caching, workflow and queuing systems, business intelligence and data analytics, machine learning and pattern recognition, neural networks and probabilistic decision making, and a wide variety of other techniques. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Websites would magically become 50% faster with the flip of a switch! It’s also one of the reasons we can keep using the Internet with many concurrent users, because it smartly limits each user’s bandwidth usage to their fair share. For this reason, TCP is one of the most widely used and deployed protocols on the Internet.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

For example, if we have a website with an index.html file and a style.css file, the browser would traditionally first request the index.html and once received/parsed, would then make another request for the style.css file. This allows you to better leverage browser caching.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 20, 2018

So then why are you serving an entire page of images to your website visitors when they’re only looking above the fold? I scoured the internet for popular lazy-loading libraries until I found the jQuery Lazy plugin. Think about the last time you went out to dinner. Did you order a 5 course meal, but then only eat 2 of them?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

This data is distinct from CrUX because it’s collected directly by the website owner by installing an analytics snippet on their website. Simulated throttling starts by collecting data on a fast internet connection , then estimates how quickly the page would have loaded on a different connection. So why use lab data at all?

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The entire country of China’s internet connectivity is shielded by the Great Firewall (GFW). There are three state-owned ISP providers, China Unicom, China Telecom, and China Mobile , that control internet in China. All foreign websites hosted outside China undergoe screening and analysis for blacklisting and whitelisting.

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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% Third-party Javascript accounts for a lot of bloat on websites, with analytics, chatbots, and embedded widgets being common contributors. The Impact Of Social Media Embeds.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Django websites involve a lot of files. As if that wasn’t enough already, sometimes users come along and want to upload their own files to your website. Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Quick Summary:- Upgrading your website as per the current trend in the web development industry is crucial to get an edge over your competitors in the digital world. Let’s dive deep into the top website development trends to expect in 2022. Internet of Things (IoT). The Top web development trends in 2022. AI-powered Chatbots.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

This way, the image loads faster, and your website will get a better LCP score. For the LCP score and its “Resource load time” subpart to be really optimal, you may also consider compressing your images using modern image formats , setting far-future cache expiry headers, or even using a CDN to reduce network distance. Large preview ).

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