O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

Degrading quality for higher profit It is instructive to consider how the algorithmic technologies that underpinned the aggregator platforms of old (think Amazon, Google and Facebook among others) initially deployed to benefit users, were eventually reprogrammed to increase profits for the platform. But it is far from alone.

Social Media 90

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 90

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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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.

Website 111

Website Speed Mobile Design 111

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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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The gotcha here is that, if your mobile experience isn’t optimized for various devices and network conditions, these customers will never appear in your analytics — just because your website or app will be barely usable on their devices, and so they are unlikely to return. Large preview ). Improving Search Engine Visibility.

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Testsigma

APRIL 23, 2021

Whether it’s social media, shopping, productivity or fitness, there’s a visible surge in the number of mobile apps and their users. 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.

Testing Tools 86

Testing Tools Mobile Testing Open Source 86

MachMetrics

MARCH 21, 2019

Web analytics such as click-through rates, bounce rates, website business transactions and sales, response times, web server usage, social media interaction, and many other key performance indicators will help ensure your site is optimal. Using a CDN (or Content Delivery Network) can help lower these load times.

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Metrics Social Media Performance Speed 74

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Knowing how that control happens, and how it fails, will help us to understand the breakdown of social media. Network propaganda works in much the same way as microphones and music. While many of our systems are vulnerable to attack, social networks have proven the most vulnerable.

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Social Media Media Network Energy 53

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. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

Cache 128

Cache Performance Servers Architecture 128

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.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

When it comes to web content, you can easily find what you need through many different paths, from search engines and social media to playlists and blogs, jumping from one source to another with just a tap of a finger. High Performance Browser Networking. Fail, and you can kiss your customers and profits goodbye.”

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2022

For example, if you have a social media application, the app will have access to the status posting section or the section to upload photos, chats etc. Network related scenarios in mobile testing. For a robust and reliable mobile application, it is extremely important to adjust according to the network. should work.

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Rigor

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Google recently announced the launch of their Speed Update. This change to how Google ranks websites for searches will now take mobile page speed into account in its ranking algorithm. This announcement is part of a Google’s ongoing efforts to incentivize good web performance. Get Familiar with your Analytics.

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Speed Social Media Google Mobile 40

Official Blog - World Web Technology

MARCH 13, 2024

For instance, some websites can automatically detect the presence of a Virtual Private Network (VPN) on a device. Improved Google Indexing Google prefers websites that have a responsive design layout and rely on CSS media queries for their functionality. This helps them cater better to their audience.

Ecommerce 52

Ecommerce Website Design Mobile 52

Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

All the major cloud providers use Linux, your cell phone company is likely using Linux to deliver phone calls, it’s used by streaming services, social media companies, and so forth. Consider all the projects in Google’s graveyard, like Google Reader, Stadia, G+, and too many messaging apps to even try to recount.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

With the latest introduction of the Core Web Vital section on GSC + upcoming Google’s core web vital update, site owners are forced to take note of their website speed and web vitals. Importance of page loading speed – Google checks your website load time and they like it as fast with a better user experience.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

Prioritize Networking Over Pushing Pixels. Prioritize networking over pushing pixels. Tip: Hover around at industry events, maybe dabble in replying to some social media posts of designers you know (or want to know!), Community is everything in the industry. Large preview ).

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 27, 2024

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Strategy Mobile Google Social Media 76

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%. Be Prepared to Add a New E in EAT We all know about the common Google EAT acronym, which is defined as Expertise, Authority, and Trust. Of all traffic, 53.3% comes from organic searches.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

The most preferred single-page applications are Gmail, Google Drive, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Low data usage and Offline accessibility: It works fine in low internet reception and is also possible to access offline like Google Maps. Users do not have to click on many links. Examples of SPAs. Progressive web applications (PWA).

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Tech News Gather

APRIL 20, 2023

A typical multi-service app will offer features such as messaging, social networking, shopping, ride-hailing, food delivery, and payment options, among others. You can launch your app on various app stores, including Google Play Store and Apple App Store.

Mobile 52

Mobile Development Social Media Strategy 52

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The advent of mobile and social media allow firms to interact more directly, more frequently and more intimately with customers than ever. Apple is now in the greeting card business, Google in travel. IT, the argument goes, is less a source of value and more a cost of doing business.

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Ecommerce Social Media Retail Airlines 45

Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

When machines and factories were all stopped – your social media, mobile applications, and all the digital world was still operating at the same pace as before. The first requirement for working from home efficiently is to use a tool that is available over the cloud network. Cloud-based infrastructure.

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Testing Social Media Artificial Intelligence Cloud 52

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Hence, they can’t be promoted separately or found by users who’ve input a search query in Google. As shown on the screenshots below, the product page of the store can be found via Google. PWAs don’t require installation from the App Store or Google Play to the device to be used (like native apps do). You need a site for that.

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Code Cache Retail Mobile 76

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Compression achieved is relevant because the higher the compression, the smaller the file size, and the lower the data required to transfer the image on the network. CDN servers are often located closer to users than origin servers and can have a shorter round-trip times (RTT), improving network latency. WebP Tooling And Support.

Open Source 145

Open Source Speed Website Google 145

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. Google cloud.

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Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to. 300ms RTT, 1.6

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G network in your office for faster testing. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

Performance 105

Performance Cache Metrics Network 105

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. You can download the spreadsheet as Google Sheets, Excel, OpenOffice document or CSV.

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