This document discusses factors that can affect website speed. It addresses file-related factors like file size and type, noting that larger files and uncompressed files tend to slow sites down. It also addresses user-related factors like computer performance and internet connection speed. Finally, it discusses server-side factors like server capacity, hardware speed, and number of requests that can overload servers and slow response times. It assigns creating a leaflet explaining these various website performance factors to new clients.
With the increasing variety of web enabled devices entering the market, the next generation of the web will need to be more flexible than ever before. In this session we will explore how Responsive Design can help build "A Foundation for the Web" and ensure maximum compatibly on any device now or in the future. We'll also take a glimpse at how using solutions like Zurb's Foundation and ASP.Net MVC can jump start development, and produce effective results fast.
Pofo is creative and modern, stylish and visually stunning, highly flexible and powerful portfolio WordPress theme. With lots of pre-built homepages crafted this way we are sure you will find one to suit your needs. Beautiful demos of agencies, corporate, business, portfolio, blogs, magazines, design and more at your fingertips, all with sleek animations and parallax effects that blend in rather than jar your eye, POFO is full of the kind of design aspects that will impress your clients, and create lasting business.
Sallie Goetsch shows several examples of ways to customize Modern Tribe's plugins The Events Calendar and Events Calendar Pro, including importing events from another plugin, setting up an event slider with Meta Slider Pro, integrating The Events Calendar into a Genesis child theme, using shortcodes from Event Rocket, creating a horizontal list widget with photos, and modifying the Photo view to show an equal-heights grid instead of a masonry grid.
Need help learning Twitter Bootstrap? This is your chance! We're covering:
• What is it?
• Why is it so popular?
• Installation
• Theming
• Usage (grid, controls, etc...)
You need some knowledge of CSS, HTML, and JavaScript to get the most out of this. Contact me if you need a primer reference.
Plugins and themes are the power under WordPress’ hood. Are you using the latest and greatest? In this session you’ll get a rundown of today’s must-have plugins, why they’re important and how to use them.
Bonus: In addition I’ll review some free and paid themes that make customization a breeze.
Presented at the Minnesota Blogger Conference 2011.
This chapter covers:
- What Web-based multimedia is and how it is used today
- The advantages and disadvantages of using multimedia
- A look at basic multimedia elements
- Steps and principles in designing a multimedia site
- How a multimedia Web site is developed and the software used during this process
- A look at the future of Web-based multimedia
Super speed around the globe - SearchLeeds 2018Bastian Grimm
My talk covering some of the very latest in web performance optimisation (paint timings, critical rendering path, custom web fonts, etc.) for technical marketers & SEOs from SearchLeeds 2018.
SearchLeeds 2018 - Bastian Grimm - Peak Ace - International site speed: Going...Branded3
Especially in a mobile-first world, fast loading websites are of utmost importance. Also, Google has been very vocal about anything web performance in the last few years and is pushing hard to innovate repeatedly. But performance is so much more! User satisfaction should be the main goal because expectations are clear: You’ve got two to three seconds maximum to deliver, so make it count. During Bastian's SearchLeeds 2018 talk he walked through various advanced topics around web performance optimisation going way beyond Accelerated Mobile Pages (and other short-term solutions) to make any website really, really fast.
Practical Performance Tips and Tricks to Make Your HTML/JavaScript Apps FasterDoris Chen
How to tackle real-world web platform performance problems in modern websites and apps? This session starts with a basic understanding of the web platform and then explores to a set of problem/solution pairs built from industry-standard performance guidance. In the talk, we will demonstrate performance tips and tricks that will help you improve the performance of your apps and sites today. We will discuss the following respond to network requests, speed and responsiveness, optimizing media usage, and writing fast JavaScript. These performance tips and tricks apply equally to web sites that run on standards based web browsers, as well as to modern apps.
With the increasing variety of web enabled devices entering the market, the next generation of the web will need to be more flexible than ever before. In this session we will explore how Responsive Design can help build "A Foundation for the Web" and ensure maximum compatibly on any device now or in the future. We'll also take a glimpse at how using solutions like Zurb's Foundation and ASP.Net MVC can jump start development, and produce effective results fast.
Pofo is creative and modern, stylish and visually stunning, highly flexible and powerful portfolio WordPress theme. With lots of pre-built homepages crafted this way we are sure you will find one to suit your needs. Beautiful demos of agencies, corporate, business, portfolio, blogs, magazines, design and more at your fingertips, all with sleek animations and parallax effects that blend in rather than jar your eye, POFO is full of the kind of design aspects that will impress your clients, and create lasting business.
Sallie Goetsch shows several examples of ways to customize Modern Tribe's plugins The Events Calendar and Events Calendar Pro, including importing events from another plugin, setting up an event slider with Meta Slider Pro, integrating The Events Calendar into a Genesis child theme, using shortcodes from Event Rocket, creating a horizontal list widget with photos, and modifying the Photo view to show an equal-heights grid instead of a masonry grid.
Need help learning Twitter Bootstrap? This is your chance! We're covering:
• What is it?
• Why is it so popular?
• Installation
• Theming
• Usage (grid, controls, etc...)
You need some knowledge of CSS, HTML, and JavaScript to get the most out of this. Contact me if you need a primer reference.
Plugins and themes are the power under WordPress’ hood. Are you using the latest and greatest? In this session you’ll get a rundown of today’s must-have plugins, why they’re important and how to use them.
Bonus: In addition I’ll review some free and paid themes that make customization a breeze.
Presented at the Minnesota Blogger Conference 2011.
This chapter covers:
- What Web-based multimedia is and how it is used today
- The advantages and disadvantages of using multimedia
- A look at basic multimedia elements
- Steps and principles in designing a multimedia site
- How a multimedia Web site is developed and the software used during this process
- A look at the future of Web-based multimedia
Super speed around the globe - SearchLeeds 2018Bastian Grimm
My talk covering some of the very latest in web performance optimisation (paint timings, critical rendering path, custom web fonts, etc.) for technical marketers & SEOs from SearchLeeds 2018.
SearchLeeds 2018 - Bastian Grimm - Peak Ace - International site speed: Going...Branded3
Especially in a mobile-first world, fast loading websites are of utmost importance. Also, Google has been very vocal about anything web performance in the last few years and is pushing hard to innovate repeatedly. But performance is so much more! User satisfaction should be the main goal because expectations are clear: You’ve got two to three seconds maximum to deliver, so make it count. During Bastian's SearchLeeds 2018 talk he walked through various advanced topics around web performance optimisation going way beyond Accelerated Mobile Pages (and other short-term solutions) to make any website really, really fast.
Practical Performance Tips and Tricks to Make Your HTML/JavaScript Apps FasterDoris Chen
How to tackle real-world web platform performance problems in modern websites and apps? This session starts with a basic understanding of the web platform and then explores to a set of problem/solution pairs built from industry-standard performance guidance. In the talk, we will demonstrate performance tips and tricks that will help you improve the performance of your apps and sites today. We will discuss the following respond to network requests, speed and responsiveness, optimizing media usage, and writing fast JavaScript. These performance tips and tricks apply equally to web sites that run on standards based web browsers, as well as to modern apps.
Topics covered:
1. Generating a new Remix project
2. Conventional files
3. Routes (including the nested variety)
4. Styling
5. Database interactions (via sqlite and prisma)
6. Mutations, Validation, and Authentication
7. Error handling
8. SEO with Meta Tags and much more
Art and Science of Web Sites Performance: A Front-end ApproachJiang Zhu
People love fast web sites, but up until now developers have been focusing on the wrong area. Network (TCP, buffers, routing) performance and Backend (web server, database, etc.) performance are important for reducing hardware costs and improving efficiency, but for most pages 80% of the load time is spent on the frontend (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images, iframes, and others). We will talk about the best practices for making web pages faster, provide case study from top web site, and introduce the tools we use for researching performance. In addition to know how to improve web performance, we will also try to gain an understanding of the fundamentals of how the Internet works including DNS, HTTP, and browsers. This talks was given as an Educational Series called Fog Computing Reading Group at Cisco Advanced Architecture and Research. The content is derived from the materials by Steven Sounders (Google/Stanford), Collin Jackson (Stanford/CMU) and Daniel Austin (eBay).
In this session I will show you how modern browsers and sites can coordinate the dance of loading & rendering to deliver a web that is fast where it matters to users. The biggest leaps in browser improvements, including Firefox Quantum, focused on areas like scheduling, breaking up and parallelizing work. Discover where you can benefit from fine control and what aspects of performance you can leave to the browser. Applying this knowledge will help you build fluid, native-like experiences that can handle the growing complexity of the web.
Talk delivered in New York, Sep 19, 2016 during an O'Reilly meetup before Velocity Conference about Web Performance and Images, including HTTP Client Hints and new Image Formats
Mage uk-2013-1345-chris-wells-131030120920-phpapp01Karla Mae Tejon
Your site's performance directly correlates to order volume. A tuned Magneto install can instantly mean more sales and the converse is also true. This session is meant to give you an overview of the importance of performance for your e-commerce site as well as provide steps to make Magento perform as your business grows.
The Importance of Site Performance and Simple Steps to Achieve ItNexcess.net LLC
Your site's performance directly correlates to order volume. A tuned Magneto install can instantly mean more sales and the converse is also true. This session is meant to give you an overview of the importance of performance for your e-commerce site as well as provide steps to make Magento perform as your business grows.
Cambridge Nationals R001 Revision lesson - for more details & resources see http://1000computing.wordpress.com/2014/11/18/the-thing-with-cambridge-nationals-lesson-resources/
Cambridge Nationals R001 Revision lesson - for more details & resources see http://1000computing.wordpress.com/2014/11/18/the-thing-with-cambridge-nationals-lesson-resources/
Cambridge Nationals R001 Revision lesson - for more details & resources see http://1000computing.wordpress.com/2014/11/18/the-thing-with-cambridge-nationals-lesson-resources/
Cambridge Nationals R001 Revision lesson - for more details & resources see http://1000computing.wordpress.com/2014/11/18/the-thing-with-cambridge-nationals-lesson-resources/
Cambridge Nationals R001 Revision lesson - for more details & resources see http://1000computing.wordpress.com/2014/11/18/the-thing-with-cambridge-nationals-lesson-resources/
Cambridge Nationals R001 Revision lesson - for more details & resources see http://1000computing.wordpress.com/2014/11/18/the-thing-with-cambridge-nationals-lesson-resources/
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
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Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
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Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
1. Why are some websites
fast? (And others not?)
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2. Objectives
• Demonstrate an understanding of a
variety of factors that affect the
performance of a website
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3. Website Performance
• Assignment 2 – due one week today
– 21 November
• Email it to me before the start of the
lesson
• You should be able to complete this
task in today’s lessons!
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4. Assignment 2
Create a leaflet that explains to new
clients of YellowZebra the various
different factors that influence the
performance of a website. This should
include both server side and client side
(user side) factors. Include the benefits of
particular server side capabilities and also
the limitations of the equipment and
software that website users might be
using to access the website.
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5. What makes a Website Slow?
Part 1 – the files you’re using
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6. General Rule:
Bigger files = slower to load
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7. File Sizes
Rank the following types of file in
order biggest to smallest (on average)
• Audio
• Video
• Image (photo)
• Animation
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8. So what to do?
• If the files your website uses are too
big, what can you do?
1. Change the physical size of the file
2. Change the file type you chose
3. Increase compression
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9. Change physical size
• Zooming an image can make it
smaller
• Download an image from google
(anything appropriate!)
• Save it
• Resize to 50% in both dimensions
• Save again and compare file size
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10. Change physical size
• Images can be zoomed or cropped to
reduce the number of pixels –
more pixels = bigger file size
• Audio and video can be trimmed to
take less time –
more seconds = bigger file size
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11. File Types
• Download an image from google
(anything appropriate!)
• Open it in Paint and go to
File > Save As
• Save it in 3 different formats:
–.jpg
–.bmp
–.png
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12. Filet types and file size
• Not all image files are the same (the
same goes for video, audio, etc.)
• Some image types are uncompressed
– e.g. bmp, tiff
• Others compress data in different
ways - .jpg and png both reduce the
size from the .bmp but in different
ways
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13. Rule of thumb for images
• .jpg is smaller for photos
• .png is smaller (and looks better) for
vector images
• .gif can move
• All the other formats are not really
any good for the web
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14. Compression
• In some image editing programs (not
paint!) you can change the
compression settings for .jpg files
–A slider for image quality from 0 to 100
–Smaller file sizes means worse image
quality and visa versa
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16. Compression
• Video and Audio can also be
compressed
• MP3 is a common compressed audio file
that can be adjusted to sound better or
have smaller file size
• AVI or M4V are video files that can be
customised in the same way
• There are lots of other video and audio
file types that can do the same
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17. Assignment 2
Create a leaflet that explains to new clients of
YellowZebra the various different factors that influence
the performance of a website. This should include both
server side and client side (user side) factors. Include
the benefits of particular server side capabilities and
also the limitations of the equipment and software that
website users might be using to access the website.
You should make sure that you include some
information about file types (image files, sound
files, video and animation files and their different
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formats)…
18. What makes a Website Slow?
Part 2 – the user’s computer
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19. The User’s Computer
Obviously, if your computer is slow
and/or if your internet connection is
slow it will affect the way websites
work on your computer
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20. What can the designer do?
• You can’t make users get a faster
computer
• You can make sure your website
doesn’t have too many features that
will slow their computer down or
take ages to load over a slow
connection
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21. Assignment 2
Create a leaflet that explains to new clients of
YellowZebra the various different factors that influence
the performance of a website. This should include both
server side and client side (user side) factors. Include…
the limitations of the equipment and software that
website users might be using to access the website.
You should make sure that you include some
information about … user or client side factors
(download speed, computer performance factors –
cache memory, processor speed)…
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22. What makes a Website Slow?
Part 3 – Your web server
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23. Issues at your server
Obviously if the server is
overloaded, has slow hardware or a
slow internet connection your site will
seem slow
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24. Reasons for Overloaded Servers
• Too many people are accessing the site at
once
– Load balancing allows you to share one
website between several different servers to
share the pain
• The server has to sent loads and
loads of separate files for every
single page (e.g. image files)
– Combine images and use only part
of the mega image each time – this
is called “sprites”
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25. Reasons for Overloaded Servers
• The server has to rebuild a dynamic
page every time it’s loaded and that
takes more time than loading from
disk
–Dynamic pages are super useful (e.g.
all blogs are dynamic as are search
engines) but if there’s a lot of traffic
they can break
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26. Server Side Capabilities
• Turn compression on
–Most web servers can compress (like
ZIP) the actual HTML pages and other
text/code files as they are downloaded
• Use web caching
–Keep a copy of a dynamic page and
send that to the user instead of
rebuilding it each time
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27. Assignment 2
Create a leaflet that explains to new clients of
YellowZebra the various different factors that
influence the performance of a website. This
should include both server side and client
side (user side) factors. Include the benefits
of particular server side capabilities …
You should make sure that you include some
information about … server side factors (web
server capacity - bandwidth, and executions
to be performed before page load)
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28. Deadline Reminder
• Assignment 2 – due one week today
– 21 November
• Email it to me before the start of the
lesson
• You should be able to complete this
task in today’s lessons!
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