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Optimising for High Latency Environments

CSS Wizardry

This gives fascinating insights into the network topography of our visitors, and how much we might be impacted by high latency regions. Round-trip-time (RTT) is basically a measure of latency—how long did it take to get from one endpoint to another and back again? What is RTT? RTT isn’t a you-thing, it’s a them-thing.

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How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing

Smashing Magazine

How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing Saad Khan 2025-01-07T14:00:00+00:00 2025-01-07T22:04:48+00:00 This article is sponsored by Cloudways Product launches and sales typically attract large volumes of traffic.

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Service level objectives: 5 SLOs to get started

Dynatrace

To illustrate how our five service level objective examples apply to different applications, we will explore the following two use cases: E-commerce websites : Whether you use Amazon, Walmart, BestBuy, or any other websites to buy and sell goods, we all expect a seamless shopping experience. or 99.99% of the time.

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Time to First Byte: What It Is and Why It Matters

CSS Wizardry

This is understandable—forgivable, almost—when you consider that TTFB begins to move into back-end territory, but if I was to sum up the problem as succinctly as possible, I’d say: While a good TTFB doesn’t necessarily mean you will have a fast website, a bad TTFB almost certainly guarantees a slow one. But what else is TTFB?

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The Three Cs: Concatenate, Compress, Cache

CSS Wizardry

Given that 66% of all websites (and 77% of all requests ) are running HTTP/2, I will not discuss concatenation strategies for HTTP/1.1 Plotted on the same horizontal axis of 1.6s, the waterfalls speak for themselves: 201ms of cumulative latency; 109ms of cumulative download. 4,362ms of cumulative latency; 240ms of cumulative download.

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Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time

Smashing Magazine

Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time Matt Zeunert 2025-02-12T17:00:00+00:00 2025-02-13T01:34:15+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Loading your website HTML quickly has a big impact on visitor experience. Here, Ive tested a website thats hosted in Brazil.

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How To Test Your Application in Different Network Conditions by Simulating Artificial Delays in Network Requests

DZone

As a frontend developer or QA, we want to test our website performance in different network conditions and with different API latencies too. Testing certain components of web applications requires simulating delay in one or more web app components. Here are some scenarios where you would like to delay the network requests.

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