Speed Curve

JANUARY 19, 2025

Annie leads the Chrome Speed Metrics team at Google, which has arguably had the most significant impact on web performance of the past decade. It's really important to acknowledge that none of this would have been possible without the great work from Annie and her small-but-mighty Speed Metrics team at Google. Nice job, everyone!

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Performance Google Speed Metrics 98

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Five years ago when Google published The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines it was a manifesto declaring the world of computing had changed forever. Since then the world has chosen to ride along with Google. If you like this kind of stuff, you might also like Google's New Book: The Site Reliability Workbook.

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Design Education Google Internet 54

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. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +. Downloading files such as images or videos over the network can be slow and costly.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 124

Highly Scalable

JANUARY 31, 2012

Several practical case studies are also provided. Case Study: Simulation of a Digital Communication System. Problem Statement: There is a network of entities and relationships between them. Solution: A network is stored as a set of nodes and each node contains a list of adjacent node IDs.

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C++ Network Ecommerce Processing 144

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. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +. Downloading files such as images or videos over the network can be slow and costly. Large view.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google. In this case, my website is “slow”, even when served on 4G networks. For example: Think with Google suggests the typical page speed optimizations.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 111

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. Improving Search Engine Visibility.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 142

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Have a look at the Financial Times Case study: “The speed of the site negatively impacts a user’s session depth, no matter how small the delay…The data suggests, both in terms of user experience and financial impact, that there are clear and highly valued benefits in making the site even faster. Want proof? Summing up.

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Speed Website Performance Website Mobile 93

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Self-hosted Kubernetes installations or services — such as Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, or the Google Kubernetes Engine — make it possible for enterprises to select and implement best-fit functions. Key metrics here include memory requests, CPU requests, disk utilization, and network throughput. Control plane performance.

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Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

A performance budget as a mechanism for planning a web experience and preventing performance decay might consist of the following yardsticks: Overall page weight, Total number of HTTP requests, Page-load time on a particular mobile network, First Input Delay (FID). You can also measure CWVs through real-user monitoring (RUM) like CrUX.

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Media Performance Mobile Latency 122

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Chances are, you're here because of Google's update to its search algorithm , which affects both desktop and mobile, and which includes Core Web Vitals as a ranking factor. If you're new to Core Web Vitals , this is a Google initiative that was launched in early 2020. When Google talks, people listen.

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Performance Google Metrics Mobile 97

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

The third-party in this case is someone (usually another commercial enterprise) other than you and your site visitors. 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.

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Website Design Network Testing 138

Smashing Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

Networking. Networking is an excellent way of doing this and is a reliable way of finding new work opportunities. The downside of networking is that it is time-consuming and doesn’t scale. There is now so much content out there that to get somebody’s attention, let alone rank well on Google, is incredibly hard.

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Social Media Media Network Website 145

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Software 2.0 , in case you missed it, is a term coined by Andrej Karpathy to describe software in which key components are implemented by neural networks. The particular system discussed in this paper is Google’s email information extraction system. I.e., Google engineers don’t have access to them.

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Systems Design Software Software 84

Tasktop

MAY 24, 2021

The program helps develop strong leaders who can build up a network of relationships and connections, broaden their understanding of the business and empower them to use technology to create amazing products for customers. With visionary leadership a major theme, it’s unsurprising to learn that OKRs were another. Any memorable quotes? .

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DevOps Metrics Healthcare Innovation 91

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. SEO is key to our success. Bookaway site search.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 78

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Case Study: Image Component In A Jamstack Site. As you may already know, image optimization is the process that a high-quality image has to go through to be delivered in ideal conditions, sometimes with the help of an Image Transformation API and a global Content Delivery Network (CDN) to make the process simpler and scalable.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 125

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Google recommends that TTFB be 800ms at the 75th percentile. The use of server-timing headers by content delivery networks closes a big gap. Recent server timing case studies It's great to see server timing starting to get more use in the wild. But what happens when it doesn't? Definitely worth a read!

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Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 64

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Similarly from cross-site navigation — think Google search results or the like and then clicking back. A disk cache is faster than having to fetch those resources from the network (though not always, oddly enough !), Though, personally, I am glad they did since it was an interesting case study. Large preview ).

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Cache Games Performance Website 106

Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

In such cases, content delivery network (CDN) is typically used to cache majority of the content and shield the system from high workload. This technique is used in a number of well-known systems, Google Big Table and Apache HBase are among them. Entity Gateway. Pattern: Probabilistic Test.

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Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100

KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

This is crucial due to mobile devices requiring additional optimizations because they typically have less powerful hardware and a slower network connection when compared to desktop devices. Image Processing Service We offer an image processing service that is fully integrated into our existing network. Google loves speed.

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Speed Website Mobile Latency 52

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Many surveys have indicated that uptime is number one factor when choosing a web host and although most, if not all, web hosting services “promise” 99.99% uptime, it’s not the case with our case-study. According to our latest research, the average uptime of 32 shared web hosting providers is 99.59%. MidPhase.com. Bluehost.com.

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Testing Website Servers Availability 53

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Based on the data provided by divante ’s findings on 30 PWA case studies, progressive web apps have a 36% larger mobile conversion rate than native applications. Hence, they can’t be promoted separately or found by users who’ve input a search query in Google. That wouldn’t be the case if they opted for a native application.

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Code Cache Mobile Retail 90

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites. Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient. A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0,

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ). This is difficult to prove because developers will say that “the experience” is what they are seeing on their computers using, for example, Google Chrome. A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0,

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Performance Speed Google Media 100

Speed Curve

JULY 8, 2024

In case you have any doubts, countless case studies have proven a consistent and demonstrable correlation between page speed and business and user engagement metrics like conversions, bounce rate, and search rank. CLS is a Core Web Vital, which means it's an important factor in Google's search algorithm.

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Speed Cache Benchmarking Metrics 139

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

The reasons for it are numerous, but the most important one is a huge difference in network conditions and device hardware across the world. Much of this data related to Core Web Vitals which Google has announced back in 2020, and which also contribute to and are exposed in Lighthouse. Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Mobile Network 111

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. It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data. How to get there?

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data. How to get there?

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Performance Cache Servers Network 112

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Study common complaints coming into customer service and see how improving performance can help relieve some of these common problems. How to get there?

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 111