The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Centralized data will be moved to third party services such as Google Sheets and Airtable for the stakeholders. It is generating heartbeat signals at a constant frequency with the objective of using them as a baseline to verify the health of the pipeline regardless of traffic patterns or occasional silences.

Big Data 256

Big Data Government Processing Analytics 256

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Note : We will soon improve the drill-downs to Davis problems directly from existing SLO definitions so that SRE teams can benefit more from the Dynatrace Davis AI engine. Google has a long history of shaping SRE processes for their global-scale services that are dedicated to making their services more scalable, reliable, and efficient.

Metrics 158

Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 158

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. We can expand the metric to glean insights into what exactly is causing traffic on the main thread. Analytics is a good example. It’s worth asking.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 94

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

App developers and digital teams typically rely on separate analytics tools, such as Adobe and Google Analytics, that may aggregate user behavior and try to understand anomalies in traffic. In this scenario, every team has an answer, but no one has the definitive answer. These teams may also have a separate mobile crash tool.

Mobile 171

Mobile Monitoring Analytics Google 171

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

Performance 75

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 75

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. In other words, the data is not looking at your actual web traffic but a simulated environment that gives you an approximate view of traffic when certain conditions are in place.

Traffic 98

Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 98

Scalegrid

APRIL 5, 2024

It enhances scalability and manages traffic surges, though it requires specific client support and limits multi-key operations to a single hash slot. Redis Sharding: An Overview Consider Redis Cluster as a multi-lane highway where the lanes represent hash slots, and traffic symbolizes data. This can be ensured using hash tags.

Scalability 130

Scalability Java Efficiency Database 130

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.

Google 141

Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 141

Tim Kadlec

APRIL 10, 2023

10% 90% Google 25% 75% MySpace 9% 91% MSN 5% 95% ebay 5% 95% Amazon 38% 62% YouTube 9% 91% CNN 15% 85% When Steve Souders repeated it in 2012 , he found much the same. I broke the percentages down by page rank (based on traffic to the site). The percentages are the median percentages for that group of sites. 1,001 - 10,000 12.5%

Performance 111

Performance Servers Mobile Metrics 111

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 25, 2020

For example, we might slap Google Analytics on a site, doing nothing but installing the generic snippet. This is going to tell us stuff like what pages are the most popular, how long people spend on the site, and what countries deliver the most traffic. I get why Google has to guess. Very clever. But, why guess?

Analytics 94

Analytics Google Metrics Performance Testing 94

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

Engineering 124

Engineering Traffic Government Google 124

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. 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.

Google 134

Google Mobile Engineering Games 134

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The third is that the Team Topologies book defined how to create and manage Platform Teams so there’s interest in the terminology and definition. Mobile app platforms are much more standardized around iOS and Android, with Apple and Google providing the platform.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

you should definitely check it out if you don’t already know it!). 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. most apps). Finding out how those apps leak data.

Systems 74

Systems Traffic Network Google 74

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

PurePath 4 supports serverless computing out-of-the-box, including Kubernetes services from Amazon Web Services (AWS) , Microsoft Azure , and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). In this example you can see on the left side that the Envoy payment service is running on a Linux host, deployed in the Google cloud.

Analytics 164

Analytics Technology Technology Cloud 164

Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

In 2016, Google made it clear that since mobile traffic is more than all else, mobile-friendly websites will be prioritised when a user searches on mobile. With such a boom in the IoT industry, in 2022, it will definitely be one thing to look forward to. 2015 saw the trend of scriptless testing and IoT focussed methodologies.

Artificial Intelligence 89

Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Properly size images: Scaled images will definitely reduce the overall website size. WebP is the way to go WebP was first developed by Google back in 2010 and has now become the successor of JPEG. WebP means faster loading times and less traffic. Our Image Processing service makes it easy to do that.

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Processing Cache Website Servers 127

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Google recommends that TTFB be 800ms at the 75th percentile. For example, processing of web application firewall (WAF) rules, detecting bots or other malicious traffic though security services, and growing in popularity, edge compute. Definitely worth a read!

Servers 57

Servers Cache Benchmarking Retail 57

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2019

At Neotys PAC 2019 in Chamonix, France, I presented approaches on how to solve this problem by looking at examples from companies such as Intuit, Dynatrace, Google, Netflix, T-Systems and others. On the left you see the Pitometer spec file with the list of indicator definitions as well as the total scoring objective.

Architecture 126

Architecture Open Source Azure Metrics 126

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

For example, if the device is a firewall, it might be configured to block all traffic containing (unknown) extensions. In practice, UDP is mostly used for live traffic that updates at a high rate and thus suffers little from packet loss because missing data is quickly outdated anyway (examples include live video conferencing and gaming).

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

For example, the data is limited to Chrome users who are logged into their Google account, so it’s not completely representative of all users. It’s another type of real-user monitoring takes real traffic from your site and sends the information over for extremely accurate results. See the “Prettify Code” option? ?(

Speed 82

Speed Monitoring Testing Network 82

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

That’s not all, the global mobile traffic is expected to increase sevenfold between 2017 and 2022. Popular search engines like Google give preference to websites that are mobile-ready[4]. Mobile-Friendly test from Google is another useful tool that helps in testing the mobile-friendliness of your website. Mobile-first indexing.

Website 98

Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

mvfst (Facebook), MsQuic , (Microsoft), (Google), ngtcp2 , LSQUIC (Litespeed), picoquic , quicly (Fastly). Note that there is an Apache Traffic Server implementation, though.). Traffic for one connection must, of course, always be routed to the same back-end server (the others wouldn’t know what to do with it!). Implementation.

Network 108

Network Servers Cache Traffic 108

Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

Additionally, teams are measuring and tracking key business metrics – conversion rates, cart abandonment rates, customer lifetime value, revenue by traffic source, and so on. Web Developer Programs Engineer at Google Rick Viscomi , the thresholds for fast/average/slow TTFB are 200 ms at the upper limit and 1000 ms at the lower limit.

Ecommerce 87

Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Definitions. This strategy is very simple and closely resembles the development environment, but cannot handle large or inconsistent amounts of traffic effectively. Previous Parts In The Series: Part 1 : User Models And Authentication. Part 2 : Templating Saves Lines. Part 3 : Models, Admin, And Harnessing The Relational Database.

Media 70

Media Cache Storage AWS 70

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

Keptn uses SLO definitions to automatically configure Dynatrace or Prometheus alerting rules. While Google’s SRE Handbook mostly focuses on the production use case for SLIs/SLOs, Keptn is “Shifting-Left” this approach and using SLIs/SLOs to enforce Quality Gates as part of your progressive delivery process.

Engineering 200

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 200

Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

However, we cannot outline the best, but we can definitely analyze which is the best framework to choose in which situations. Moreover, it endures one of the top JavaScript frameworks because of constantly updated technology and backing from Google and its coding power. So, Angular or React? Key Features of React. Time-Saving.

Development 52

Development Google Servers Open Source 52

The Symphonia

MAY 22, 2018

Fast forward to two years later and the article has had more than half a million visits, regularly appears in the top five Google search results for “Serverless”, and helped launched Symphonia ?—?my But I’ve already done that elsewhere, with John, so I left it with adding a link to our definition. but I didn’t realize quite how wide.

Serverless 40

Serverless Architecture Lambda Azure 40

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Sadly, data on latency is harder to get, even from Google's perch, so progress there is somewhat more difficult to judge. CrUX data collection and first-party RUM analytics of these metrics require live traffic, meaning results can be predicted but only verified once deployed. It's hard to escape thinking they're connected.

Performance 127

Performance Network Cache Metrics 127

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

LCP, or Largest Contentful Paint , is one of the three Core Web Vitals that you must “pass” to get the full search ranking boost from Google as part of their Page Experience Update. From an SEO perspective, it doesn’t really matter what other tools tell you, GSC is what Google Search sees. The issue was that LCP was too slow on mobile.

Google 143

Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Our metrics at Google show a conflicted picture (which I’m working to get to clarity on). Contended, over-subscribed cells can make “fast” networks brutally slow, transport variance can make TCP much less efficient , and the bursty nature of web traffic works against us. 75% of of connections occur on either 2G or 3G.

Performance 74

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 74

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

While a perfect understanding of these concepts is not needed for the rest of this post, having a common high-level definition would be good. One of the reasons Google saw very good 0-RTT results for QUIC was that it tested it on its already heavily optimized search page, where query responses are quite small. Congestion Control.

Performance 107

Performance Network Latency Servers 107

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

However, the above table is not actually representative of total traffic, and that’s another point to note about this data. The main one is that the definitions of the 4 types are all fixed, and based on quite old network data. This could be as simple as logging the values for these options in a Google Analytics Custom Dimension.

Website 105

Website Media Mobile Network 105

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Terabyte of wasted traffic. Low-effort/high-impact actions are easy wins, and definitely worth prioritizing. Do you really need Google Analytics on every site you build? On the Fact Sheets page, we can save approx. 85% of images’ file sizes without a noticeable loss of image quality. With approx. The difference is approx.

Strategy 127

Strategy Development Energy Website 127

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. Unless you can use Google Fonts with Cloudflare Workers , of course.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Servers 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. In 2015, Google introduced Brotli , a new open-source lossless data format, which is now supported in all modern browsers. Unless you can use Google Fonts with Cloudflare Workers , of course.

Performance 105

Performance Cache Network Metrics 105

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145