Velocity Santa Clara 2016 talk!
Users’ ad blockers are impacting your site’s perceived performance, but measuring the impact of ad blockers on actual and perceived performance can be difficult. While ad blockers are reported to improve performance, the lack of proper tooling can make metrics difficult to collect and their true impact difficult to measure. Karan Kumar offers an overview of new testing he has created that measures the overall impact ad blockers have on the quality of user experience and performance across a number of sites.
Topics include:
How ad blockers work
The components of these extensions that cause the biggest impact on performance
Issues that arise in terms of user experience
The impact of ad blockers on top Alexa and Internet retailer sites
How to create a private instance to measure the impact of ad blockers on your own website with open source technology
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4. **Multiplexer and Demultiplexer**: At the transmitting end, a multiplexer combines multiple input signals into a single composite signal by assigning each signal to a specific time slot. At the receiving end, a demultiplexer separates the composite signal back into individual signals based on their respective time slots.
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This document provides information about the third edition of the magazine "Sthapatya" published by the Association of Civil Engineers (Practicing) Aurangabad. It includes messages from current and past presidents of ACEP, memories and photos from past ACEP events, information on life time achievement awards given by ACEP, and a technical article on concrete maintenance, repairs and strengthening. The document highlights activities of ACEP and provides a technical educational article for members.
Using recycled concrete aggregates (RCA) for pavements is crucial to achieving sustainability. Implementing RCA for new pavement can minimize carbon footprint, conserve natural resources, reduce harmful emissions, and lower life cycle costs. Compared to natural aggregate (NA), RCA pavement has fewer comprehensive studies and sustainability assessments.
A review on techniques and modelling methodologies used for checking electrom...nooriasukmaningtyas
The proper function of the integrated circuit (IC) in an inhibiting electromagnetic environment has always been a serious concern throughout the decades of revolution in the world of electronics, from disjunct devices to today’s integrated circuit technology, where billions of transistors are combined on a single chip. The automotive industry and smart vehicles in particular, are confronting design issues such as being prone to electromagnetic interference (EMI). Electronic control devices calculate incorrect outputs because of EMI and sensors give misleading values which can prove fatal in case of automotives. In this paper, the authors have non exhaustively tried to review research work concerned with the investigation of EMI in ICs and prediction of this EMI using various modelling methodologies and measurement setups.
Batteries -Introduction – Types of Batteries – discharging and charging of battery - characteristics of battery –battery rating- various tests on battery- – Primary battery: silver button cell- Secondary battery :Ni-Cd battery-modern battery: lithium ion battery-maintenance of batteries-choices of batteries for electric vehicle applications.
Fuel Cells: Introduction- importance and classification of fuel cells - description, principle, components, applications of fuel cells: H2-O2 fuel cell, alkaline fuel cell, molten carbonate fuel cell and direct methanol fuel cells.
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Popular browser extensions
> 500 million downloads
> 200M + active users
100M + active users
Adblock Plus blog, 9th May 2016
http://i.imgur.com/IG8oVar.png
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/popular
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“”The results: For a number of websites
that contained mobile ads with a lot of
data, web page data sizes decreased
significantly and load times accelerated
enormously with ad blockers turned on.””
NY Times Oct 1st 2015
Performance Impact
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/technology/personaltech/ad-blockers-mobile-iphone-browsers.html?_r=1
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Experimental Setup
• Private WebPagetest instance
• WebPagetest replay
Record live website and playback
Reduce outliers (time of day, network, DNS, server load etc.)
Normalize the results
• Cable connection
• Chrome 51 Browser on Windows
Vs.
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Observations
• CPU cycles for blocking content
• Varies by industry
• Huge filter list
Blocked list
• 580 KB (~1.9 MB)
Allowed list
• 422 KB (~1.9 MB)
• User experience could be worse
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Takeaways
Overheads of Ad blocker's
Benefit from blocking content
performance != universal
Invest in tooling
Measure it
User end point diversity
Webserver stack
Network
Application
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Conversions
More and more of this complexity is moving towards the user end point and thus factors impacting application performance on user end point become important
Browser will make a GET request, and html page is served, browser beings to parse the page, and create DOM (document Object model), fires other requests on the page ( blocks rendering)
Intercept network requests before sending it out from browser
Pass through its filter list and either allow or block it
Source: http://adforads.com/category_images/website.jpg
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/adblocklogo.png
http://findicons.com/files/icons/1579/devine/256/list.png
Website Content filtering
Mainly browser based extensions
Filter list
Chrome Extension overview https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/overview
Content scripts https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/content_scripts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock_Plus
But lets take a pause here for a minute, what we were hearing was
Adblockers could imporve user experience
They could make the page load faster
They could reduce battery usage
Adblocks are a UX problem
How could I produce the same set of results on my end
Spectrum of tools
Running locally
No standard way of measuring/quantifying