Based on the top million sites in the HTTP Archive, the average Web page has now just surpassed the 2 megabyte mark. Images make up most of this with scripts coming second.
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The White House has issued the HTTPS-Only Standard directive, requiring all publicly accessible US Federal sites and Web services only provide service over a secure HTTPS connection.
While additional bandwidth has a positive impact on performance, it’s not the cure-all that some folks suppose it is. Tammy Everts looks at the numbers.
The environment isn’t probably the main reason you pick cloud based services, but Amazon’s Jeff Barr claims AWS customers get 88% reduced carbon emissions versus running their own data centers.
Can be used to determine the performance of the lower levels of the stack (e.g. the kernel), of the server application’s programming language abstractions for sockets, or of the libraries and code running within the application.
From July 2015, Heroku’s new pricing system will mean free dynos will need to sleep for at least six hours a day. This project is undoubtedly against the spirit of things, but a clever idea anyway.
Heroku Button was launched last year to make it easy for developers to deploy open source code to Heroku. It now supports projects in private GitHub repos too.
A lot of the Internet’s growth is coming from emerging economies dominated by slow, intermittent connectivity and low-end devices. These audiences need to be considered.
