MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

Gzip works by greatly reducing the amount of duplicate code and white space in a website’s files. If you’re using an Apache server, the below code can be added to your.htaccess file. If you’re using an NGINX web server, you’ll add the following code to your config file to enable Gzip. Never change, Internet Explorer.

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Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Jake is a frequent speaker at many popular conferences and events, such as 100 Days of Google Dev , JAMstakConf , JSConf , SmashingConf , and dozens of others.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Before we dive in, I’d just like to note that the authors responsibly disclosed their findings to Google, who have announced that they will be fixing many of the identified issues in AndroidQ. Google, to their credit, have announced that they are addressing many of the issues that we reported to them. xamdeco0962.

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Systems Traffic Network Google 74

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Have we optimized enough with tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, progressive hydration, clients hints, HTTP/3, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? You can download the spreadsheet as Google Sheets, Excel, OpenOffice document or CSV.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

Most sites, even those that aspire to be "lived in", feature short median sessions, which means we can't actually justify much in the way of up-front code, and first impressions always matter. Most sorts of sites have shallow sessions, making up-front script costs hard to justify. In the U.S.,

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The major application for high quality compression of photos is Internet speed. While bandwidth does continue to increase each year, so does the quality and size of most Internet media. AV1 is the royalty-free video coding format that has most tech experts believing it is the next step in media compression.

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Media Internet Internet Speed 43

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Nobody frames it precisely this way; instead they'll say, if WebKit weren't mandated, Chromium would take over , or Google would dominate the web if not for the WebKit restriction. The New York Times reported in late 2020 that Google now pays Apple between $8-12 billion per year , up from $1 billion in 2014. And that's a choice. "WebKit

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Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Spend enough time running websites through PageSpeed Insights and you’ll notice that Google has a major beef with traditional image formats like JPG, PNG and even GIF. Here’s what Google suggests: PageSpeed Insights demonstrates how much storage and bandwidth websites stand to save with WebP. Source: Google ) ( Large preview ).

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Website Speed Cache Google 72

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? It’s much easier to reach performance goals when the code base is fresh or is just being refactored.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink).

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Recommendations can come out of audits from consultants or from automated tools like Lighthouse (or SpeedCurve, of course). The internet. If you are in this camp and getting pressure around improving SEO or responding to inbound questions regarding numbers seen in Google Console, you'll want to familiarize yourself with these metrics.

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Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Webpack Fundamentals is a very comprehensive 4h course with Sean Larkin, released by FrontendMasters.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

This attribute contains seemingly endless alphanumeric junk that you may be tempted to strip out in the quest for cleaner code. If they can compromise that one file, they can very quickly have code running in millions of web pages across the globe. It doesn’t matter what that code is. So it’s work using SRI there too.

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Website Servers Code Best Practices 59

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Check out the Almanac for CSS property and selector-specific insights, or dive straight into the Snippets to grab some reusable code. Subjects like version control, crowdfunding, database selection and code editor choices are essential to efficient modern workflows, and this is a good place to start learning about them.

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Development Website Design Code 75

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The Google DevTools console can give you real-time feedback to help you trace the source of errors, and you can set handlers to automate exception data collection. Source: Google Keep in mind that not all code errors are noticeable to users. That’s why human testers will always be necessary.

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Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R. We ended up hiring Phil Parkman to take over managing our group, which by then also included my friend Dave Fisk, who I still hang out with regularly.

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Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 18, 2016

Over the course of a single load test you can generate millions of site visits, simulating peak load times on your website. The “hug of death” as some internet users call an accidental stress test can theoretically hit a website at any time due to a number of causes such as content going viral.

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Software Software Testing Website 40

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. In that case, you can always use the <picture> HTML tag, as shown in the code below, so that the browser can pick the image format supported in the order provided. <picture> A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites. Alba Silvente.

Media 108

Media Cache Website Mobile 108

Sutter's Mill

MARCH 11, 2024

Many of the most damaging recent security breaches happened to code written in MSLs (e.g., We can and do write “good” code and secure applications in C++. Note: And safety categories are of course interrelated. Log4j ) or had nothing to do with programming languages (e.g., Kubernetes Secrets stored on public GitHub repos ).

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C++ Programming Code Java 143

J. Paul Reed

JANUARY 24, 2017

With the Internet-of-Things heating up, being able to build and integrate native binaries once again becomes an important skill. We’ve raised an entire generation of engineers who are used to writing interpreted code, and may have never actually compiled anything. Of course, I could be wrong.

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DevOps Engineering IoT C++ 40

High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

Cliff Click : The JVM is very good at eliminating the cost of code abstraction, but not the cost of data abstraction. Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading).

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Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Most of us work on connections that are typically quite a bit faster than that of the average internet user. In the early days of the web when we were browsing the internet via a dialup connection, improving performance meant removing the images from your site. Google’s results were perhaps even more startling.

Performance 40

Performance Energy Google Internet 40

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And of course, companies that don’t use AI don’t need an AI use policy. While experienced AI developers are starting to leave powerhouses like Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft, not enough are leaving to meet demand—and most of them will probably gravitate to startups rather than adding to the AI talent within established companies.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 111

O'Reilly

MARCH 23, 2023

It can explain code that you don’t understand, including code that has been intentionally obfuscated. Sydney The internal code name of the chatbot behind Microsoft’s improved search engine, Bing. LaMDA Developed by Google; few people have access to it, though its capabilities appear to be very similar to ChatGPT.

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Google Open Source Programming Code 107

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

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. As another example, most applications on the Internet use TCP internally to ensure that all of their data are transmitted in full. Did You Know?

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is because HTTP/3 and QUIC mainly help deal with the somewhat uncommon yet potentially high-impact problems that can arise on today’s Internet. On the Internet, however, we typically have a long series of connected pipes , some of which can be wider than others (leading to so-called bottlenecks at the narrowest links).

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Performance Network Latency Servers 107