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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CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Historically, I’d maybe look at Google Analytics—or a RUM solution if the client had one already—but this is only useful for showing me particular outliers, and not necessarily any patterns across the whole project. Of course, it’s a little more complex than that, but for this exercise it’s an incredibly reliable proxy. See entry 6.

Speed 311

Speed Ecommerce Metrics Analytics 311

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 27, 2024

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Strategy Mobile Google Social Media 76

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

There are ways around that, of course. The other issue is that the data I’m getting back is based on lab simulations where I can add throttling, determine the device that’s used, and the network connection, among other simulated conditions. On that note, it’s worth calling out that there are multiple flavors of network throttling.

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High Scalability

MARCH 22, 2019

At some point, the e-mail I send over WiFi will hit a wire, of course". It has 41 mostly 5 star reviews. They'll learn a lot and love you even more.5 5 billion : weekly visits to Apple App store; $500m : new US exascale computer; $1.7 slobodan_ : "It is serverless the same way WiFi is wireless. Yep, there are more quotes.

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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. Finally, QUIC also uses so-called flow-control and congestion-control mechanisms that prevent a sender from overloading the network or the receiver, but that also make TCP slower than what you could do with raw UDP.

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

O'Reilly

JUNE 18, 2024

Last month, TheNew York Times claimed that tech giants OpenAI and Google have waded into a copyright gray area by transcribing the vast volume of YouTube videos and using that text as additional training data for their AI models despite terms of service that prohibit such efforts and copyright law that the Times argues places them in dispute.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s the newest metric of the bunch and is set to formally be a ranking factor in Google search results beginning in March 2024. Of course, we’re talking about the user doing something on the page, i.e., an action such as a click or keyboard focus. DebugBear actually tests with a slower network, resulting in more accurate data.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. There are self-hosted alternatives to Google Analytics, after all. Analytics is a good example. That’s one example and a common one at that.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

In response to this trend, open source communities birthed new companies like WSO2 (of course, industry giants like Google, IBM, Software AG, and Tibco are also competing for a piece of the API management cake). Is it the WSO2-AM gateway itself, a networking issue, a sudden increase in demand, or something else entirely?

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

million : new image/caption training set; 32,408,715 : queries sent to Pwned Passwords; 53% : Memory ICs Total 2018 Semi Capex; 11 : story Facebook datacenter prison in Singapore; $740,357 : ave cost of network downtime; Quotable Quotes: @BenedictEvans : Recorded music: $18 billion. However still far from Google ($28B) and Facebook ($13.2B).

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Google Chrome is currently one of the most popular web browsers used by developers today. According to StatCounter , as of September 2019, Google Chrome holds 63.72% browser market share across the globe. What Are the Google Chrome DevTools? They provide developers deeper access into their web applications and the browser.

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 14, 2024

RUM can tell you where that time is being spent, whether its network related or due to CDN or origin issues. These thresholds are aligned with Google's recommended thresholds. Those three metrics tell us a lot about potential causes of a poor user experience: Backend Time isn't always a black box. Clearly there's room to improve LCP.

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Metrics Education Google Network 54

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. seconds on the target device and network profile, consuming 120KiB of critical path resources to become interactive, only 8KiB of which is script. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript. These are generous targets.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 98

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

, and the Head Performance Engineer at Google. Souders presents his 14 rules throughout the course of the book while discussing the importance of front-end performance. and Google, they’ll do wonders for your website! Resumes don’t get much better than that in this industry.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

And, of course, the result needs to be seamless and delightful — dare we say, even fun — to develop and maintain. One network hop up, Shopify’s CDN adds optimized edge-delivery with commerce specialized protection against malicious actors and shopping bots that now often operate at a scale that is able to DDoS many storefronts.

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Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 137

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Google's Search App and Facebook's various apps for Android undermine these choices in slightly different ways. [3] Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. For a browser to serve as the user's agent, it must also receive navigations.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 12, 2021

In some cases, like Google Optimize, it’s even free. The tests are all going to be run using WebPageTest , on a Moto G4, over a fast 3G network. While not perfect, Google’s Impact Calculator is a decent way to guess-timate potential improvements in revenue based on performance. That puts annual revenue at $1.44

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O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

We’re seeing more code that’s written (at least in first draft) by generative AI tools, such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT (especially with Code Interpreter), and Google Codey. One advantage of computers, of course, is that they don’t care about complexity. But that advantage is also a significant disadvantage.

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Software Software Development Programming 124

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. most apps).

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Systems Traffic Network Google 74

The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

In ProtoCache (a component of a widely used Google application), 27% of its latency when using a traditional S+RInK design came from marshalling/un-marshalling. The network latency of fetching data over the network, even considering fast data center networks. Horses for courses! Who knew! ;).

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Cache Latency Google Lambda 79

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. Servers and Networks. Implementation.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 108

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Google was the first company to create, embrace, and put support behind the role of site reliability engineering. Since that time, the SRE role has evolved as the industry has changed and shifted from the traditional monolithic structures to large, widely distributed networks and microservices.

Monitoring 91

Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

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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Performance Network Cache Metrics 127

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

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Faster is better, of course, but the way Lighthouse reports it, a “passing” score comes in between 0 and 1.8 Google keeps a full record of the changelog for reference, so that’s something to keep in mind when evaluating results, especially if you find yourself with different results from others on your team.

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Performance Metrics Monitoring Google 99

O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

So far, it’s been a painless shift in power, which as Eric Matthes, author of Python Crash Course , argues, should come as no surprise, since “Guido has carried himself, and his role in the community, with such poise for so long.” Will 2020 be the year that Kotlin makes a significant beachhead beyond Android?

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Programming Java Google C++ 132

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better. An easy way to compress images is with our image processing service that happens to also be fully integrated into our existing network.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

Interestingly, and perhaps not coincidentally, 100 milliseconds is Google's stated goal when it comes to page load times. Some sensory memory does stick, of course. In a 1999 study of workplace interruptions , groups of workers were subjected to various disruptions in the course of their day-to-day responsibilities.

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Speed Website Mobile Cloud 133

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The most obvious change 5G might bring about isn’t to cell phones but to local networks, whether at home or in the office. High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting. Those waits can be significant, even if you’re on a corporate network. Let’s get back to home networking.

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Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

Official Blog - World Web Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The top three results in Google SERPs get 54.4% Google is the most prominent global search market player with a market share of 83%. Yes, SEO is a long-term approach, but it offers some unparalleled advantages to businesses in terms of brand recognition, visibility, reputation, and of course, web traffic and revenues.

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Google Traffic Social Media Website 52

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2 Lighthouse.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. Large preview ).

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 74

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.

Monitoring 147

Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

Particular Software

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Decommissioning Public102 was an exercise in the mundane, gradually transitioning tiny service after tiny service to new homes over the course of weeks, as the development schedule allowed. Unfortunately, the network operations had a cruel surprise for us. It's not so easy with a junk drawer server. And so we started it all again.

Wireless 52

Wireless DevOps Infrastructure Network 52

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

And of course, scrapers could scrape your site to look for security vulnerabilities or exposed contact or sales lead details. If you are just starting out wondering if someone might be re-publishing your web content, the easiest thing to do is a Google search. The most common service of this type is Google Web Light.

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