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Why Google’s CrUX Results Are Not Reproducible With Your Real-User Monitoring
Why Google’s CrUX Results Are Not Reproducible With Your Real-User Monitoring
About two contradicting data sources that can still both be right
Sophie Ferrlein
Jun 10, 2022
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Mobile Site Speed — Measurement Best Practices
Mobile Site Speed — Measurement Best Practices
Wolfram Wingerath
Apr 27, 2021
The Core Web Vital “Largest Contentful Paint” just changed dramatically
The Core Web Vital “Largest Contentful Paint” just changed dramatically
In this quick summary we present a finding around the central Google Core Web Vital Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) that is expected to…
Felix Gessert
Feb 4, 2021
Mobile Site Speed — The Business Perspective
Mobile Site Speed — The Business Perspective
Part 3 of our ongoing study on “Mobile Site Speed & The Impact on Web Performance”
Wolfram Wingerath
Aug 27, 2020
Mobile Site Speed — The User Perspective
Mobile Site Speed — The User Perspective
Part 2 of our ongoing study on “Mobile Site Speed & The Impact on Web Performance”
Benjamin Wollmer
Aug 7, 2020
Mobile Site Speed & The Impact on Web Performance
Mobile Site Speed & The Impact on Web Performance
Part 1: Study Kickoff
Wolfram Wingerath
May 19, 2020
Dynamic Cache Lifetime With Immutable Cache-Control Headers
Dynamic Cache Lifetime With Immutable Cache-Control Headers
or: What the Heck We Are Doing With Age & Max-Age Headers
Wolfram Wingerath
Apr 27, 2020
E-Commerce Loading Times in the COVID-19 Crisis
E-Commerce Loading Times in the COVID-19 Crisis
Not a Luxury Problem, But Existential
Felix Gessert
Apr 16, 2020
Video: Big Data Analytics With AWS Athena
Video: Big Data Analytics With AWS Athena
In the wake of our web performance study with Google and Uni Hamburg, we talked about the analytics stack behind our real-user monitoring…
Wolfram Wingerath
Dec 21, 2019
Video: Service Workers in Action — Building an Offline-Capable Webshop in under 90 minutes
Video: Service Workers in Action — Building an Offline-Capable Webshop in under 90 minutes
Recently on at code.talks 2019 in Hamburg, we held a hackathon to showcase how the Service Worker Web standard can be used to fight long…
Erik Witt
Dec 14, 2019
Video: Mobile Site Speed and the Impact on E-Commerce
Video: Mobile Site Speed and the Impact on E-Commerce
A few weeks ago, we were at code.talks 2019 and presented the key insights of our web performance study with Google and the University of…
Felix Gessert
Dec 7, 2019
AppelrathCüpper
AppelrathCüpper
How Speed Kit Helps in Fashion E-Commerce
Felix Gessert
Mar 11, 2019
Chrome's Service Workers Break HTTP/2 Priorities
Chrome's Service Workers Break HTTP/2 Priorities
Requests lose all HTTP/2 stream dependencies when requested through a Service Worker with extreme effects on page load time.
Erik Witt
Aug 9, 2018
Rethinking Web Performance with Service Workers
Rethinking Web Performance with Service Workers
30 Man-Years of Research in a 30-Minute Read
Wolfram Wingerath
Apr 29, 2018
Web Performance Made Simple:
Web Performance Made Simple:
The What, When, How, and Why in 20 Words
Wolfram Wingerath
Mar 9, 2018
New-Generation Travel Websites Load 7 Times Faster Than Traditional Hotel Sites
New-Generation Travel Websites Load 7 Times Faster Than Traditional Hotel Sites
The festive season is just behind us and the new year has already begun. For many people, it is time to plan this year’s holidays. Numerous…
Felix Gessert
Jan 12, 2018
A Real-Time Database Survey: The Architecture of Meteor, RethinkDB, Parse & Firebase
A Real-Time Database Survey: The Architecture of Meteor, RethinkDB, Parse & Firebase
Real-time databases make it easy to implement reactive applications, because they keep your critical information up-to-date. But how do…
Wolfram Wingerath
Jul 16, 2017
Going Real-Time Has Just Become Easy: Baqend Real-Time Queries Hit Public Beta
Going Real-Time Has Just Become Easy: Baqend Real-Time Queries Hit Public Beta
Real-time queries take the complexity out of building interactive apps and thus boost your productivity into orbit. They behave exactly…
Wolfram Wingerath
Jul 6, 2017
Building Static Sites in 2017: Cloud-Hosted, CMS-Backed, and API-Driven
Building Static Sites in 2017: Cloud-Hosted, CMS-Backed, and API-Driven
In this post, we survey modern static site generators and how they work with content management and APIs for dynamic data. As an example…
Felix Gessert
Jun 27, 2017
A Backend for Your React and React Native Apps: Baqend React Starters
A Backend for Your React and React Native Apps: Baqend React Starters
With our React and React Native starter kits for Baqend you can build blazingly fast single page applications in no time. The starters are…
Julian Tiemann
Jun 1, 2017
Lessons Learned Building a Backend-as-a-Service: A Technical Deep Dive
Lessons Learned Building a Backend-as-a-Service: A Technical Deep Dive
In this post we share our technical learnings from building a multi-tenant Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS). We cover how a BaaS works, how it…
Felix Gessert
May 17, 2017
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