Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2022

Credits on content go to him and the work he has been doing around performance & resiliency testing automation. Our Application Performance Management (APM) and load test team at T-Systems MMS helps our customers reduce the risk of failed releases. Automation : Single load test executions can be repeated and tracked.

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Testing Open Source Metrics Infrastructure 223

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

As organizations digitally transform, they’re also accelerating the speed of software delivery. It encompasses factors such as page loading speed, responsiveness, and overall ease of use during the checkout process, optimizing user satisfaction and minimizing cart abandonment. for the workout video playback feature.

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Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 182

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The term “site reliability engineering” was coined in 2003 by Google VP of Engineering Ben Sloss , who famously noted on his LinkedIn profile that “if Google ever stops working, it’s my fault.” ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.”

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Engineering DevOps Government Latency 257

Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2022

Keptn: A reference implementation of Google’s SRE principles. Software engineer Taras Tsugrii of Meta (formerly Facebook) paid Keptn a high compliment, saying it feels like a reference implementation of Google’s SRE principles , which are the search giant’s techniques for ensuring the integrity of its sites and services.

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Open Source DevOps Cloud Metrics 193

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Measuring application performance is increasingly important because as organizations digitally transform, they’re also accelerating the speed of software delivery. Such testing makes it easier to detect any potential issues before they impact real users. Fitness app : For the fitness app, maintain an Apdex score of at least 0.85

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Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Cloud-native environments bring speed and agility to software development and operations (DevOps) practices. But with that speed and agility comes new complications and complexity, all while maintaining performance and reliability with less than 1% down-time per year. Adopting these practices is a culture shift.

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DevOps Software Engineering Speed Google 191

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

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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Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. But how can you ensure that your applications meet these pillars and deliver the best outcomes for your business?

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AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 252

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

One free tool has become prominent in the space – Google Lighthouse – and one question often bubbles up: “I use Google Lighthouse for one-off snapshots of my site’s performance, so why do I need a performance monitoring solution?” Where Google Lighthouse Shines Bright.

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Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

Speed Curve

JULY 6, 2021

After Google's announcement about Lighthouse 8 this past month, we have updated our test agents. In case you missed it, Lighthouse is a speed tool created by the Chrome Developer team at Google. There are five categories evaluated: Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, SEO, and Progressive Web App (PWA).

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Google Metrics Best Practices Speed 106

MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

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. The test will take a few seconds to complete, and results for both mobile and desktop devices will display in separate tabs.

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Speed Best Practices Google Website 49

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The term “site reliability engineering” was coined in 2003 by Google VP of Engineering Ben Sloss , who famously noted on his LinkedIn profile that “if Google ever stops working, it’s my fault.” ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.”

Engineering 181

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 181

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). Testing And Monitoring. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. Google Keyword Planner. Google Trends.

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Engineering Google Website Analytics 131

MachMetrics

JUNE 18, 2019

Many people reach out to us asking what is the #1 most important bang-for-your-buck tip on optimizing your website’s speed. The most important thing you can do to speed up your site is: Optimize your images! At MachMetrics, we always recommend using a tool like ours for site speed monitoring. Sounds simple, right?

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Speed Website Social Media Media 81

Speed Curve

APRIL 9, 2023

Weighting adjustments are highlighted in bold below: First Contentful Paint (FCP): 15 Speed Index: 10 Largest Contentful Paint (LCP): 25 Time To Interactive (TTI): 15 Total Blocking Time (TBT): 30 Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS): 15 -> 25 What impact will this have on my score? “ According to us: "It depends."

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Cache Best Practices Metrics Google 73

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. I’m hopeful this can serve as a good introduction for any developer interested in learning about how to work with Google Lighthouse programmatically.

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Google Latency Website Metrics 82

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

You can then configure your monitoring tools to send you alerts – or even break the build, if you're testing in your staging environment – when your budgets are violated. The tricky part comes when you try to put them into practice. The easiest way to do this is to look at rendering filmstrips in your synthetic test data.

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Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 133

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Commonly, teams create SLOs because they are simply following what others in the industry are doing, or because they are common best practices. Pitfall 3: Using SLOs reactively vs. proactively. But many fail to understand the business objective it is tied to. Let’s take service availability for example.

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DevOps Metrics Best Practices Latency 202

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

But with the growing smartphone user base, two things are a given: one — There will be more people who will want to access your website via mobile, ensuring great quality and usability for your websites for mobile and testing them well will become very important. What Is Mobile Web Testing? Why Should We Perform Mobile Web Testing?

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Mobile Testing Website Speed 65

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? A Google machine-learning study I participated in a few years ago found that the total number of page elements was the single greatest predictor of conversions. You can dive deeper into image optimization and SEO tips in this article in Google Search Central.).

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Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

While Google’s SRE Handbook mostly focuses on the production use case for SLIs/SLOs, Keptn is “Shifting-Left” this approach and using SLIs/SLOs to enforce Quality Gates as part of your progressive delivery process. The app description and supporting files such as load testing scripts are on the Keptn Example GitHub.

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Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 195

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

About two decades ago, testing was only limited to the desktop. With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. The native and mobile web browser testing is being performed more and more compared to desktop testing.

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Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. seconds or less, which is Google's recommendation for page experience and SEO. It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast.

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Performance Metrics Media Google 98

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. We can get a better view if we run the same test in another service, like SpeedCurve , which digs deeper into the metric. Analytics is a good example.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 91

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Core Web Vitals are the subset of Web Vitals that Google has identified as having the greatest impact on the end-user experience. As of 2022, there are three Core Web Vitals — First Contentful Paint (speed), Cumulative Layout Shift (stability), and First Input Delay (interactivity). Which one of these is the most important?

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Benchmarking Metrics Best Practices Monitoring 117

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

We use Lighthouse and WebPagetest as our synthetic testing tools for performance to measure CLS. Apart from that, we check the Google Search Console Core Web Vitals Report section to get an idea of any potential CLS issues in any of our pages. At first, we decided to run some tests using synthetic testing tools.

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Website Google Metrics Testing Tools 106

MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

And this is shocking since we all know that page load speed is directly correlated to site revenue (you’re aware that faster websites lead to increased conversion and sales, right?). ” This is because Target.com does an excellent job of improving user-perceived speed. Faster appeared first on MachMetrics Speed Blog.

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Retail Speed Website Google 82

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Google Fonts. Google Sheets sync. responsive design and testing. For accessible color palettes, Geenes.app is a reliable and sophisticated tool that allows you to create, maintain, sync and test color palettes and their variations. Google Fonts Pairings for Figma. You can get started at Figma’s Google Fonts page.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Assuming encode/decode speeds meet your needs. Encode/Decode Speed. Degree of compression, image quality, and decoding speed are key factors to be considered when comparing image performance for the web. Some tests have shown that AVIF offers a 50% saving in file size compared to JPEG with similar perceptual quality.

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Open Source Speed Website Google 144

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

For more than ten years, I've been writing about page bloat, its impact on site speed, and ultimately how it affects your users and your business. Core Web Vitals are a Google search ranking factor. Given that Google continues to dominate search usage, you should care about Vitals alongside the other metrics you should be tracking.

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Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

We apply this litmus test to everything we do, and I believe it's the secret of our success. Google's Core Web Vitals have been a huge topic this year. We've been tracking these as individual metrics – Largest Contentful Paint, First Input Delay, and Cumulative Layout Shift – since before Google branded them as a set.

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Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome who was working all around web performance for decades. Addy Osmani is an engineering manager working on Google Chrome. His team focuses on speed , helping keep the web fast. Let’s figure it all out.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 106

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. Site speed & SEO go hand in hand. Information Architecture. Web Performance Daybook-Volume-2. Web Performance In Action.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

Inspired by that post, I wanted to dig a bit deeper into a few of the best practices they mentioned, which fall loosely into these three buckets: Analyze your pages – understand the critical rendering path and page composition. Speed Index (synthetic only): 4 seconds recommended. What's blocking the user experience?

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 77

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You’ve tested and retested the site for errors. The most popular, by far, is the Google Lighthouse report (available in Chrome Developer Tools) and Google’s Page Speed Insights. Testing The Impact Of Specific Requests. Even with highly-detailed RUM or synthetic measurement data, it may not be practical.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Background For this performance audit, I looked at this synthetic test for the LEGO.com home page. (We You can drill down into the test details for each site and learn how the fastest sites stay fast.) Looking at the synthetic test results, we see that while Start Render time is an impressive 0.3 seconds, LCP lags at 3.96

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Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 66

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Testing And Monitoring Auditing workflow, proxy browsers, 404 page, GDPR cookie consent prompts, performance diagnostics CSS, accessibility. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145