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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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

We will then present a case study of using these components in order to optimize, scale, and solidify an existing pipeline. Training Performance Media model training poses multiple system challenges in storage, network, and GPUs. In this section, we showcase the use of this infrastructure through the case study of Match Cutting.

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Media Storage Infrastructure Systems 297

Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

On the other hand, when one is interested only in simple additive metrics like total page views or average price of conversion, it is obvious that raw data can be efficiently summarized, for example, on a daily basis or using simple in-stream counters. This opportunity is leveraged in the following case study. Case Study.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In this session, we discuss the technologies used to run a global streaming company, growing at scale, billions of metrics, benefits of chaos in production, and how culture affects your velocity and uptime. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 38

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Key metrics for OpenShift monitoring. Here are some key metrics for monitoring an OpenShift cluster to understand how it’s performing: Number and state of pods and nodes. These metrics can tell you the condition of the underlying nodes and the number of pods running in each node. Resource usage. Control plane performance.

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Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +. Downloading files such as images or videos over the network can be slow and costly. HTTP caching, service workers, image spriting, and preloading help optimize network requests. Image Content Delivery Networks. +. Twitter’s Image Pipeline (Case Study). +.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 124

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. Driving Business Metrics.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 142

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). Large preview ). Business Performance. Serve the right format.

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Media Performance Mobile Latency 122

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +. Downloading files such as images or videos over the network can be slow and costly. HTTP caching, service workers, image spriting, and preloading help optimize network requests. Image Content Delivery Networks. +. Twitter’s Image Pipeline (Case Study). +.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

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. Moving from Project to Product with Flow Metrics. I want to dig into this further. Any memorable quotes? .

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DevOps Metrics Healthcare Innovation 91

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

The metrics that comprise Web Vitals are still evolving. These metrics will (I think) always be in a state of evolution. We need to do our best to stay up to date – not just with which metrics to track, but also with what they measure and why they're important. Which performance metrics should you focus on for SEO?

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Performance Google Metrics Mobile 97

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In this session, we discuss the technologies used to run a global streaming company, growing at scale, billions of metrics, benefits of chaos in production, and how culture affects your velocity and uptime. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In this session, we discuss the technologies used to run a global streaming company, growing at scale, billions of metrics, benefits of chaos in production, and how culture affects your velocity and uptime. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

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

AUGUST 3, 2023

Google’s Core Web Vitals is a set of performance metrics that site owners can use to evaluate performance and diagnose performance issues. These metrics provide a different perspective on user experience: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) Measures the time it takes for the main content on a webpage to load. One of the key Next.js

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 78

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. To address this, a set of counter metrics are computed for every field extractor. By examining these counters (e.g., These areas can then be targeted for improvement.

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Systems Design Software Software 84

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Case Study: Image Component In A Jamstack Site. Images are crucial elements for performance and UX, and data extracted from Core Web Vitals metrics such as Largest Contentful Paint , which attempts to identify the most important piece of the above-the-fold content on a given page, proves this. Fixes To Common Problems.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 125

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

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. The use of server-timing headers by content delivery networks closes a big gap. But what happens when it doesn't?

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Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 64

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

Large preview ) While browsers are generally pretty fast, these steps still take time to load, typically in seconds, and even longer on slower, high-latency network connections. So noticeable, in fact, that Core Web Vitals has a metric all about it called Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). Let’s use that instead of a standard JPG.

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Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 77

The Morning Paper

JUNE 25, 2019

There’s another emerging option that we didn’t talk about there: the use of far-memory , memory attached to the network that can be remotely accessed without mediation by a local processor. Last time out we looked at some of the trade-offs between RInKs and LInKs , and the advantages of local in-memory data structures. A worked example.

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Design Cache Hardware Scalability 80

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

A disk cache is faster than having to fetch those resources from the network (though not always, oddly enough !), Manual testing may also show this, especially if you can slow down your network, but that is a little subjective, so can be prone to false positives and false negatives. The HTTP Cache is a disk cache. Large preview ).

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Cache Games Performance Website 106

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Case studies abound. This information can then be used to set up tests within a synthetic monitoring data platform such as Rigor to test how a user experience those flows on every type of device, network, connection, and location. The Cost of Site Failure During High-Load Days. STEP 7: Tune Your CDN Performance.

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Website Cache Traffic Ecommerce 74

CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 10, 2019

by Jake Archibald explains how analyzing WebPageTest results can lead you to performance improvements on a Formula 1-themed case study. WebPageTest allows us to select which location, browser and network conditions the test will use. The problem with testing Single Page Applications. Instead of letting the back end (e.g.

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Performance Testing Testing Performance Open Source 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. Moreover, Garten-und-Freizeit, a German e-commerce store that sells furniture, saw an amazing improvement in their metrics after getting a PWA. Large preview ).

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Code Cache Mobile Retail 90

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient. 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. Only then it will be built.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

Speed Curve

JULY 8, 2024

A recent analysis of twenty leading websites found a surprising number of page speed optimizations that sites are not taking advantage of – to the detriment of their performance metrics, and more importantly, to the detriment of their users and ultimately their business. Only 3 out of 20 sites passed this audit.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. Again, it’s easy to fake performance optimization by leaving out the bad metrics, blocking users who spoil the stats. Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient. Lots of case studies where changes in performance led to key metric improvement.

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Performance Speed Google Media 100

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

Image source: Lighthouse Metrics ) ( Large preview ). The reasons for it are numerous, but the most important one is a huge difference in network conditions and device hardware across the world. Because font files are quite small, hopefully they get through the network quite quickly. This is where we started.

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Performance Cache Mobile Network 111

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics Performance culture, Core Web Vitals, performance profiles, CrUX, Lighthouse, FID, TTI, CLS, devices. Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Table Of Contents.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. 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. Quick Wins.

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Performance Cache Servers Network 112

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. 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. Table Of Contents. Setting Realistic Goals. Assets Optimizations.

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