Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

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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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

Armed with this knowledge, we can soon understand why TTFB can often increase so dramatically on mobile. Surely, you’ve wondered before, the server has no idea that I’m on a mobile device—how can it be increasing its TTFB?! The reason is because mobile networks are, as a rule, high latency connections.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This allows the app to query a list of “paths” in each HTTP request, and get specially formatted JSON (jsonGraph) that we use to cache the data and hydrate the UI. Latencies The old api service was running on the same “machine” that also cached a lot of video metadata (by design). This meant that data that was static (e.g.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed. She understood how important mobile page speeds were to the user experience and, by proxy, SEO.

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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. When developing a PWA, you can cache the application shell’s resources and assets in the browser.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

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. A screenshot of one of the authors playing Triviaquest with a mobile device as the controller.

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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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 1, 2019

While web browsers and mobile phones have gigabytes of memory available for graphics, our devices are constrained to mere MBs. Our UI runs on top of a custom rendering engine which uses what we call a “surface cache” to optimize our use of graphics memory. The majority of legacy devices run at 28MB of surface cache.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Key Takeaways Redis offers complex data structures and additional features for versatile data handling, while Memcached excels in simplicity with a fast, multi-threaded architecture for basic caching needs. Redis is better suited for complex data models, and Memcached is better suited for high-throughput, string-based caching scenarios.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Six years ago, over 70% of sessions for Wix websites originated from desktops, with under 30% coming from mobile devices. Since then the situation has flipped, and now over 70% of sessions originate on mobile. Back in 2018 Google announced that sites with especially slow pages on mobile would be penalized. Google search ranking.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

Using a data-driven approach to size Azure resources, Dynatrace OneAgent captures host metrics out-of-the-box to assess CPU, memory, and network utilization on a VM host. Too many fine-grained services leading to network and communication overhead. Missing caching layers. Too much data requested from a database.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Many of us are lucky enough to be on mobile plans which allow several gigabytes of data transfer per month. 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. The Cost Of Mobile Data. Just how expensive are we talking?

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Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

TL;DR : To serve users at the 75 th percentile ( P75 ) of devices and networks, we can now afford ~150KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JavaScript (gzipped). This is a slight improvement on last year's budgets , thanks to device and network improvements. Networks #. This is an ethical crisis for the frontend.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

With a headless CMS, content is provided to different channels such as web, mobile, social, no-UI smart devices, IoT devices and even non-digital touchpoints such as a bricks-and-mortar shopfront. Working for a major airline not even a decade ago, I can remember trying to model content for mobile devices (yes!

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

If users have a slow network or a slow computer, they will see an ugly loader while their joke is being downloaded. Remember that most visitors browse via a mobile device! The “stale-while-revalidate” cache control strategy can reduce the TTFB issue by serving a cached version of the page until it’s updated. middlewares.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

To reach an individual you will look up him or her in your address book, and select a phone (home, work, mobile) and then a number to dial. There are two main types of DNS servers: authoritative servers and caching resolvers. Caching techniques ensure that the DNS system doesnt get overloaded with queries.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Photo by Freepik Part of the answer is this: You have a lot of control over the design and code for the pages on your site, plus a decent amount of control over the first and middle mile of the network your pages travel over. After DOCSIS 4.0 Browser use (and abuse) Browser age is just one issue.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Using a network request inspector, I’m going to see if there’s anything we can remove via the Network panel in DevTools. In DevTools, the Network inspector helps us see what the first webpage is doing too.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

Typical use cases for a relational database include web and mobile applications, enterprise applications, and online gaming. Typical use cases for a graph database include social networking, recommendation engines, fraud detection, and knowledge graphs. Amazon Neptune is a fully-managed graph database service.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The first 5G networks are now deployed and operational. The study is based on one of the world’s first commercial 5G network deployments (launched in April 2019), a 0.5 The 5G network is operating at 3.5GHz). The maximum physical layer bit-rate for the 5G network is 1200.98 The short answer is no.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Mobile image transfer size by year graphic from Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter. If we think about social networks, we can see two clear trends, those focusing on text and those focusing on multimedia content. A visual example of responsive images in 3 different viewports: desktop, tablet, and mobile. Large preview ).

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient. How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? This type of testing is called syntethic , since it’s performed automatically by a script with a predefined environment (device, network speed, location…).

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Ever since Google is switching towards “ mobile fast indexing ” it’s very important for a webmaster to keep the pages very well optimized to maintain visitor’s + search engine’s satisfaction level high. Yet 53% of visits are abandoned if a mobile site takes longer than three seconds to load. seconds on mobile devices.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

While caching continues to be a dominant use of ElastiCache for Redis, we see customers increasingly use it as an in-memory NoSQL database. There are some great examples and use cases for Redis, which you can see at companies like Hudl, which offers mobile and desktop video analytics solutions to sports teams and athletes.

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ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The “Mobile and Embedded Architectures” topic also has a 50% acceptance rate, followed by “Quantum Computing” with a 40% acceptance rate. Goodman, and “Speculative Cache Ways: On-Demand Cache Resource Allocation” published at MICRO 1999 by David H.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

You need to beware that slow server response times can significantly increase TTFB, often due to server overload, network issues, or un-optimized logic on the server side. You need to beware of large HTML files or slow network connections because they can lead to longer download times. The reportWebVitals function. LCP by device type.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this case, we are not going to be talking about infrastructure services, such as a cloud computing platform like Microsoft Azure or a content distribution network like Akamai. of mobile sites and 94.1% of requests on mobile and 45.1% And JavaScript can certainly make requests for additional network resources.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Critical in adapting web content to mobile, particularly regarding multi-touch gestures. Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations. Delayed five years. Gamepad API.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Each app was then executed on a physical mobile phone equipped with a custom OS and network monitor. The test mobile phones run an instrumented version of Android Marshmallow, on top of a custom Linux kernel which records all file I/O. The destination endpoint for the network traffic typically identifies the SDK responsible.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

KB and the average mobile page is 1,683.5 This means 51% of the average bytes per page, whether on desktop or mobile, are solely made up of images. An easy way to compress images is with our image processing service that happens to also be fully integrated into our existing network. jpg 480 KB 407 KB 43 KB 89% jpg-to-webp-2.jpg

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Tim Kadlec

JUNE 21, 2022

The TLS + QUIC layer makes UDP safer to use, but a lot of networks will likely still block for awhile. The RSVP problem: HTTP/3 might be blocked on the network or may not be enabled on the server. The browser stores alt-svc info in alt-svc cache. Google Search with QUIC: p90 went down 6% on desktop, 5% on mobile.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

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. The client is first served the cached statically generated page (generated with getStaticProps() ), in the background the server also begins the process of revalidating that page (read more here ).

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

Providing rich, interactive website experiences needs added assets that consume your users’ resources, from CPU and GPU to memory and network. Continue reading below ↓ Meet “Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces” , our brand-new Smashing Book on designing for mobile with proven, universal, human-centric guidelines.

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

Last year, Google made two significant changes to their search indexing and ranking algorithms : In March, indexing became based on the mobile version of a page , rather than desktop. In July, the SEO ranking algorithm was updated to include page speed as a ranking factor for both mobile pages and ads. Cache-Headers missing?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It also, however, takes a full network round trip to complete before anything else can be done on a connection. Here, the idea is that your mobile phone typically has both Wi-Fi and a (4G) cellular connection, so why not use them both at the same time for extra throughput and robustness? Another effort is called MultiPath TCP.

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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.

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