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Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

Dynatrace

Microservices-based architectures and software containers enable organizations to deploy and modify applications with unprecedented speed. Aligning site reliability goals with business objectives Because of this, SRE best practices align objectives with business outcomes.

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Google Lighthouse Audits – How to use Chrome’s built-in speed testing tool

MachMetrics

If you’re not a developer/designer, you may not be familiar with the Chrome DevTools and the extremely powerful Google Lighthouse Audits that can be found inside. However, you have likely used the Web UI that Google uses to allow you to test websites for speedGoogle PageSpeed Insights. Best Practices.

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Why Page Speed Scores can be Dangerous

MachMetrics

All of the popular speed testing tools typically provide a page speed score along with their objective results. Google PageSpeed Insights has a their “Speed Score.” While these do have a purpose, most people use them incorrectly, in a way that can be dangerous to your real site speed. seconds to.27

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Google planning a new ‘Badge of Shame’ for slow websites

MachMetrics

Google has announced plans for a new badging system that would let users know whether a website typically loads slowly. If you’re using best practices and keeping web performance in mind, you shouldn’t need to worry about being badged. Most stemmed from Google exercising too much power with this move.

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Average Page Load Times for 2020 – Are you faster?

MachMetrics

As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is. By analyzing the data from Backlinko.com and their Page Speed Stats article, we’ll look to answer these questions: What size should be a website be?

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How to Speed Up Page Load Times with Google’s PageSpeed Insights

MachMetrics

According to Google, a website can lose as many as half its visitors while loading. Google’s PageSpeed Insights tools may be just what you need to leverage data collected through speed testing. As part of the PageSpeed Tools suite, Insights is designed to guide your response to slow speeds, resulting in optimal performance.

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Performance Testing - Tools, Steps, and Best Practices

KeyCDN

When the word “performance” is heard, most people immediately think of speed. Our page speed tests gives you a full waterfall breakdown of how your website performs, and you can test how fast your page loads from 14 different locations.