Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

Time is a crucial usability factor If you don't consider time a crucial usability factor, you're missing a fundamental aspect of the user experience I'm embarrassed to admit that, in my previous career as a usability tester, I spent years testing websites in lab conditions. Some sensory memory does stick, of course.

Speed 133

Speed Website Mobile Cloud 133

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. This leads to longer startup times, and if the network cannot supply the video fast enough, the video will stall during video playback. There is a solution though! The Pumpkin Patch Story.

Network 144

Network Speed Website Mobile 144

Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

Key Takeaways Cloud security monitoring is a comprehensive approach involving both manual and automated processes to oversee servers, applications, platforms, and websites, using tools that are customized to fit unique cloud architectures. This includes servers, applications, software platforms, and websites.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Cloud Monitoring Strategy 130

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2020

Websites, mobile apps, and business applications are typical use cases for monitoring. However, with today’s highly connected digital world, monitoring use cases expand to the services, processes, hosts, logs, networks, and of course, end-users that access these applications – including your customers and employees.

Artificial Intelligence 185

Artificial Intelligence Social Media Monitoring IoT 185

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

Plesk VPS Hosting For Better Website Outcomes. Plesk VPS Hosting For Better Website Outcomes. In early discussions you have with clients about the website you’re tasked with designing, does the topic of web hosting ever come up? Of course , they’re going to look to other areas to offset those costs. Suzanne Scacca.

Website 48

Website Servers Design Virtualization 48

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 6, 2021

It’s certainly worth noting that the Space Jam website, which made its way into umpteen conference talks for being fabulous evidence of the web’s strength in backward compatibility, has been replaced. Of course, you knew folks would pull out their measuring sticks. We could have saw that coming. Everything is remake.

Website 82

Website Mobile Network Performance 82

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2020

Websites, mobile apps, and business applications are typical use cases for monitoring. However, with today’s highly connected digital world, monitoring use cases expand to the services, processes, hosts, logs, networks, and of course end-users that access these applications – including your customers and employees.

Monitoring 133

Monitoring Performance Social Media Artificial Intelligence 133

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

Souders presents his 14 rules throughout the course of the book while discussing the importance of front-end performance. Each performance chapter is supported by code snippets (via a companion website) and examples to aid in learning. and Google, they’ll do wonders for your website!

Speed 85

Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

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.

Speed 82

Speed Monitoring Testing Network 82

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Here is a website listing the various exporters: PromCat.io – A resource catalog for enterprise-class Prometheus monitoring. Most software technologies currently on the market are exposing observability metrics related to their product (CI/CD, network appliances, databases). Defining management zones.

Metrics 213

Metrics Infrastructure Database Open Source 213

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

According to Rich Howard, CEO of Optimal, a business dedicated to optimizing websites and mobile apps , there are ten steps your business can take now to start preparing your website or web application for the upcoming holiday season. Being proactive is a far better use of your team’s time than being reactive.

Website 74

Website Cache Traffic Ecommerce 74

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This way, you’ll not only have the information you need to read your performance reports come March 2024 but can proactively prepare your website for the change. Of course, we’re talking about the user doing something on the page, i.e., an action such as a click or keyboard focus. Let’s walk through the process.

Traffic 98

Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 98

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

I want to write a test for this website, Smashing Magazine. What’s the first thing to do when testing a website? Right, we need to open the website. In the context of Cypress, commands are everything that Cypress does to interact with your website. Example: Finding My Articles in Smashing Magazine. We need to continue.

Testing 136

Testing Website Code Efficiency 136

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 6, 2021

It’s certainly worth noting that the Space Jam website, which made its way into umpteen conference talks for being fabulous evidence of the web’s strength in backward compatibility, has been replaced. Of course, you knew folks would pull out their measuring sticks. We could have saw that coming. Everything is remake.

Website 52

Website Mobile Network Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Website and web application technologies have grown tremendously over the years. Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. They now allow users to interact more with the company in the form of online forms, shopping carts, Content Management Systems (CMS), online courses, etc.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Traffic 63

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. This might be very different for your company, of course, but that’s a close enough approximation of a majority of customers out there. One of the famous examples is Flipkart , India’s largest e-commerce website. Making A Case For Business.

Mobile 136

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 136

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The Chrome DevTools can greatly improve your workflow by helping you develop, test, and debug your websites right within your browser. You can do everything from testing the viewport on a mobile device to editing a website on the fly, and even measuring the performance of an entire website or individual assets.

Google 85

Google Website Network Media 85

CSS - Tricks

JANUARY 14, 2022

As much as we all love CSS, it’s still an important player in how websites load and using less of it is a good thing. The big benefit, of course, is that it lets you know what you’re up against. Stoyan is absolutely correct. Stoyan created a quick bookmarklet called CSS Me Not to see all those CSS files.

Website 75

Website Servers Network Testing 75

Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

If you think that static rendering is limited to generic, public content that is the same for every user of your website, you should definitely read this article. If users have a slow network or a slow computer, they will see an ugly loader while their joke is being downloaded. Eric Burel. 2022-07-18T11:00:00+00:00. Well, that’s it.

Cache 118

Cache Website Servers Energy 118

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

If you’re already familiar with the HTMHell website, then you can guess how interesting its advent calendar is going to get! Counting down to Christmas, this calendar is dedicated to sharing a new tip for protecting your devices, networks, and data each day. Accessible websites are simply better websites. Bekk Christmas.

Design 110

Design Development Programming Website 110

High Scalability

JULY 18, 2022

G-Core Labs CDN is a next-generation content delivery network that helps you accelerate the dynamic and static content of your websites or applications. In addition to other content written by seasoned industry experts, this path includes core material from our bestselling course Grokking the System Design Interview. Apply here.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Scalability 100

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Go ahead, briefly look at the things that Lighthouse says are wrong with the website. Before we do anything else, let’s see what happens when we first hit the website. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2 It gets redirected.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Mobile apps, websites, and business applications are typical use cases for monitoring. However, with today’s highly connected digital world, monitoring use cases expand to the services, processes, hosts, logs, networks, and of course, end-users that access these applications — including a company’s customers and employees.

Monitoring 148

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Infrastructure 148

High Scalability

JUNE 10, 2022

G-Core Labs CDN is a next-generation content delivery network that helps you accelerate the dynamic and static content of your websites or applications. In addition to other content written by seasoned industry experts, this path includes core material from our bestselling course Grokking the System Design Interview. Apply here.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Scalability 100

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Websites would magically become 50% faster with the flip of a switch! It also, however, takes a full network round trip to complete before anything else can be done on a connection. and lower), this typically takes two network round trips. For example, TCP requires a “ handshake ” to set up a new connection.

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. JavaScript-Heavy # Since at least 2015, building JavaScript-first websites has been a predictably terrible idea, yet most of the sites I trace on a daily basis remain mired in script. [1] What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript.

Performance 98

Performance Network Mobile Speed 98

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

It has never been easier to build a personalized website, digitalize a product and start seeing results. 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. Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. Alba Silvente.

Media 109

Media Cache Website Mobile 109

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 Of course, we can get that from the Performance API! We can now track INP scores on our website and break them down into specific components. Image source: Source: DebugBear.

Performance 99

Performance Metrics Monitoring Google 99

Alex Podelko

AUGUST 15, 2017

One could do the recording to analyze the queries to replicate in load yes, but in practice there are better and alternate ways to do that like with a network proxy, Wireshark, or the network analyzer tab/tool in browser’s debug toolset. If a single webpage or website transaction calls 20 APIs that’s ok, and manageable.

Testing Tools 100

Testing Tools Testing Website Open Source 100

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

I wasn’t progressing, our projects were being rejected or de-prioritized by management, and I spent months designing a mobile website and a separate desktop experience for two products only for these to be swiftly brushed to the side. Did you take a short course in front-end development basics? I was once stuck in a full-time job.

Design 128

Design Website Social Media Best Practices 128

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2022

Websites devoting their spaces to sections especially to download their mobile apps denotes how important mobile applications are for businesses. Network related scenarios in mobile testing. For a robust and reliable mobile application, it is extremely important to adjust according to the network. From the above list.

Mobile 52

Mobile Social Media Testing Media 52

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. Homepage with DevTools Network inspection enabled and open. There is a wealth of information on websites to help guide you along your learning path.

Media 74

Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 74

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. Network Configuration.

Network 108

Network Servers Cache Traffic 108

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. The Smashing team has done a lot to make a fast website, so even a fresh load (though this experiment may not be a completely fresh load if you came to this article from the home page). Here’s an experiment for you.

Cache 93

Cache Games Performance Website 93

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Options 1 and 2 are of course the ‘scale out’ options, whereas option 3 is ‘scale up’. An IDS/IPS monitors network flows and matches incoming packets (or more strictly, Protocol Data Units, PDUs) against a set of rules. The baseline for comparison is Snort 3.0 , “the most powerful IPS in the world” according to the Snort website.

Servers 128

Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 9, 2020

As you can see, the impact is considerable — especially on lower-end devices and slow network speed, where images are coming in separately. These are likely to be the very users suffering with network constraints and limited processing power that will suffer most from layout shifts! Large preview ). Conclusion.

Website 126

Website Code Mobile Availability 126

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.

Performance 127

Performance Network Cache Metrics 127