CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This gives fascinating insights into the network topography of our visitors, and how much we might be impacted by high latency regions. You can’t change that someone was from Nigeria, you can’t change that someone was on a mobile, and you can’t change their network conditions. Go and give it a quick read—the context will help.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Google search ranking. Large preview ). The Wix Challenge. Heavier websites.

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Website Performance Google Website Performance 129

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. The Optimizely script is 133.2kb, and it’s loaded as a blocking script (meaning, the browser won’t parse any more HTML until it gets downloaded and executed).

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Real-time scheduler run queue latency and tcp throughput charts after starting a wget download Many thanks to the great work by Andreas during his 2018 Google Summer of Code project. 10–20 MB/sec (it is, unsurprisingly, receiving lots of data). This allows us to create more complex single-pane dashboards.

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Performance Latency Open Source Metrics 217

High Scalability

OCTOBER 19, 2018

four petabytes : added to Internet Archive per year; 60,000 : patents donated by Microsoft to the Open Invention Network; 30 million : DuckDuckGo daily searches; 5 seconds : Google+ session length; 1 trillion : ARM device goal; $40B : Softbank investment in 5G; 30 : Happy Birthday IRC!; They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.

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Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 123

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.

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Smaller HTML means less time for Google to download and process those long strings of text. Both for Google bots (SEO) and to actual clients. Part of having a small LCP is to let the user download as small HTML as possible. In the meanwhile, React javascript is being downloaded and executed. How about errors?”

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

You have to be aware that at any of your digital touchpoints, the digital experience is measured against the best-in-class available coming from Google, Facebook and other digital leaders. If you fail, you are confronted with a complaint on the Google Play store like in the example below. But what happens when it works out differently?

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Social Media Mobile Google Ecommerce 160

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. South Korea has the fastest mobile download speed , averaging 52.4 Mbps download and 0.7

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Cache Mobile Google Network 97

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

In this blog, we will discuss both data and network-level compression offered in MongoDB. We will discuss snappy and zstd for data block and zstd compression in a network. By default, MongoDB provides a snappy block compression method for storage and network communication. Snappy is a compression library developed by Google.

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Storage Network Open Source Latency 115

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Last year, Google made two significant changes to their search indexing and ranking algorithms : In March, indexing became based on the mobile version of a page , rather than desktop. What is Google Lighthouse?

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Google Engineering Speed Mobile 72

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

But pages keep getting bigger and more complex year over year – and this increasing size and complexity is not fully mitigated by faster devices and networks, or by our hard-working browsers. How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? This falls short of Google's threshold of 2.5

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Mobile Google Benchmarking Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

How do I account for different network speeds in different environments? This solution is fine when network speeds are fast, but it can be problematic when network speeds are not fast (or fluctuate). And if there is one thing we all know — we cannot control the speed network our customers are using.

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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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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. seconds faster on average and it drove 60 million more Firefox downloads per year. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2 Lighthouse.

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Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this case, we are not going to be talking about infrastructure services, such as a cloud computing platform like Microsoft Azure or a content distribution network like Akamai. And JavaScript can certainly make requests for additional network resources. Sometimes, the visitor’s browser itself can be the origin of network activity.

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Website Design Network Testing 133

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Most of you have probably seen the following Google PageSpeed Insights optimization suggestion at one point or another when running a speed test: By compressing and adjusting the size of … you can save 14.2 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

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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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 134

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. It is important to note how much data the client needs to download.

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Cache Performance Servers Architecture 128

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

Dean Hume

MARCH 19, 2019

The benefit of using streams is that if you are sending large chunks of data over the web, you can start processing the data immediately as you receive it, without having to wait for the full download to complete. For example, if you think of a large video file and imagine how long it might take to download the whole file.

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Transportation Processing Servers Code 97

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The next layer is defined by the languages you want to use, Java, Python, Go, , Javascript, Rust etc, and the ecosystem of library functions you bought from a vendor or downloaded. The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2.

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Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

Randon ASCII

JULY 11, 2022

A bug had been filed suggesting that Chrome download speeds (such as those measured by speedtest.net ) seemed to be affected by some anti-virus software. Downloads go through the cache, the cache is saved to disk, and saves to disk are slowed by (some) anti-virus software. Okay – time for the details. It looks like this can happen.

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Cache Energy Processing Google 105

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

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations. It's possible that Amazon Luna , NVIDIA GeForce Go , Google Stadia , and Microsoft xCloud could have been built years earlier.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

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. Prioritization.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 108

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Factors such as the person’s current network connection and the general speed of the corresponding webpage will be considered. Therefore, having a faster site will improve your SEO rankings and the higher your web page in the Google search result, which we all know affects revenue. ” Page load time affects SEO. seconds faster.

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Speed Website Performance Website Mobile 93

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. Download Time of HTML This is the time it takes to download the page’s HTML file.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 75

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. The connection is done in advance, allowing the full script to download later.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 94

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 Metrics Cache 127

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. and Google, they’ll do wonders for your website! Sounders, along with 8 expert contributors, expands upon the tips in the first book and offers best practices in JavaScript, network, and browser optimization. Resumes don’t get much better than that in this industry.

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Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

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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Social Media Media Network Website 145

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

De-duplication can prevent multiple copies on disk, but we're out of luck on reducing network costs. Suppose a user has only downloaded part of the cache. One available proxy is the distribution of use from Google's hosted JS libraries. The bigger the download, the less likely users are to switch. Back of the Napkin #.

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Cache Government Traffic Network 89

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

This part of the actual SSPL language speaks volumes: If you make the functionality of the Program or a modified version available to third parties as a service, you must make the Service Source Code available via network download to everyone at no charge, under the terms of this License. Is MongoDB free to use?

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Open Source Programming Database Servers 86

MachMetrics

MARCH 21, 2019

Resource Download Time. Every single file that you reference in your website’s html has to be downloaded. Every font, css, javascript file, and image takes time to download. Looking at your page load ‘waterfall’ will show you all the resources and how long it takes to download each.

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Metrics Social Media Performance Speed 74

Testsigma

APRIL 23, 2021

It’s a cross-platform tool and comes with a GUI wrapper around the Appium server that lets us download it for pretty much every platform. Espresso: Designed by Google for Android, Espresso lets you write solid and reliable Android UI tests. Google has expanded it and it can interact with various Android apps.

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Testing Tools Mobile Testing Open Source 86