Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

However, there are quite a few high-profile case studies exploring the impact of mobile optimization on key business metrics. WPO stats collects literally hundreds of them — case studies and experiments demonstrating the impact of web performance optimization (WPO) across verticals and goals. Driving Business Metrics.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A Case Study in Misleading AI Advice An example of this disconnect in action comes from an interview with Jake Heller, CEO of Casetext. In the next chapter, well share a counterintuitive approach to AI strategy that can save you time and resources in the long run. The AI is taking too long to reply; we need to speed it up.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Speeds up development. Automation has become an essential part of many organizations’ overall digital transformation strategies for cloud-native environments. OpenShift incorporates all the tools necessary to manage the underlying nodes and control plane. Enhances DevOps productivity. The answer lies in automation.

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Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. When it comes to the impact of page speed on metrics like conversion rate and bounce rate, some pages are more critical than others. Let's get started!

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Percona

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Here, we will look through a case study with an example. In the case of a query having an ORDER BY or GROUP BY and a LIMIT clause, the optimizer tries to choose an ordered index by default when it appears doing so would speed up the query execution. Let’s first understand the problem.

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Tasktop

MAY 24, 2021

While Smart gave a concise overview of what OKRs are and what good and bad OKRs look like, our CEO and founder Dr. Mik Kersten shared a compelling case study into the role of flow in OKRs. How do we give the software delivery organization a louder voice in business strategy? Register today .

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Thanks to the build speed of static site generators like Hugo and modern Jamstack CMSs designed to handle vast amounts of content, even prominent blogs like Smashing Magazine , web.dev , and JFK International Air Terminal can take advantage of a Jamstack approach. For the more complex enterprise use cases, we have fewer examples.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this article, we will review what third-party resource requests are, consider how impactful they can be to the user experience, and discuss common optimization strategies to reduce the impact on the user experience. Even if you cannot prevent all third-party requests, web designers can make choices that will have an impact.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Case Study: Image Component In A Jamstack Site. 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. Why Image Optimization Is So Important For A Jamstack Site? Fixes To Common Problems. The Benefits Of Using An Image Service CDN. Conclusion.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 125

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

case studies and ROI studies, along with industry-specific consulting and integration services—that will assist them as they plan their RPA implementations. An RPA initiative must be aligned with the organization’s overall digital transformation strategy. RPA Don’ts.

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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. This also implies that you don’t have to spend additional time and money on creating a PWA to suit various devices, greatly speeding up time-to-market. Why is that?

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Code Cache Mobile Retail 90

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

All three sampling strategies are heavily used at Microsoft. Such case studies lead us to strongly believe that the batched log analytics jobs that are prevalent in production big-data clusters can benefit substantially from query-time sampling. Microsoft are running hundreds of sampled jobs every day.

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Big Data Analytics Latency Azure 57

Rigor

MAY 29, 2019

Cliff Crocker is an active contributor in the web performance community, evangelizing the importance of speed as it relates to user behavior and ultimately business ROI. Create case studies. He was previously vice president of product for SOASTA, Inc., Be visible. Bring data. Socialize the information. Send reports.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. There are several ways you can affect this, and the speed of your website is a big one.

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 132

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. The margin for speed is tight.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

A case in point: a page-load slowdown of a mere second could cost Amazon $1.6 Of the many factors that affect page-load speed, media is a significant one. According to a study by Citrix , a multi-CDN strategy can reduce latency even further and offer continued availability in case of localized outages in the CDN’s edge nodes.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Some of the biggest size savings and performance improvements can come through a better image optimization strategy. Packed with useful tips and techniques , the book has a sharp focus on practical application and longevity of your image optimization strategies. Twitter’s Image Pipeline (Case Study). +. Get the eBook.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Some of the biggest size savings and performance improvements can come through a better image optimization strategy. Packed with useful tips and techniques , the book has a sharp focus on practical application and longevity of your image optimization strategies. Twitter’s Image Pipeline (Case Study). +. Get the eBook.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what strategies should be used to fix them. It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!),

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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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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.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

We chose to focus specifically on slow mobile devices — with slow 3G, 400ms RTT and 400kbps transfer speed, just to be on the pessimistic side of things. We’ve re-established a strategy for optimizing images (preferably AVIF or WebP — still work in progress though). That’s It, Folks!

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