Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database uptime and availability Monitoring database uptime and availability is crucial as it directly impacts the availability of critical data and the performance of applications or websites that rely on the MySQL database. Monitoring these metrics helps ensure data protection, minimize downtime, and ensure business continuity.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 103

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences. RUM gathers information on a variety of performance metrics. RUM is ideally suited to provide real metrics from real users navigating a site or application.

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Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 170

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Expanded our test agent locations to bring you even more places to test from worldwide. You can see at a glance: Key metrics like Core Web Vitals and your User Happiness score. Here you can still find time series charts that show how performance is trending over time across a number of key metrics, including Core Web Vitals.

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Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Web pages are unbelievably complex, and there are hundreds of different metrics available to track. A performance budget is a threshold that you apply to the metrics you care about the most. The tricky part comes when you try to put them into practice. Which metrics should you focus on? Here are some metrics to consider.

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Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 133

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

SLIs are the actual performance metrics of your services. For example, if your SLO states that your uptime must be 99.9%, the actual SLI must meet or exceed that performance metric in order meet that specific SLO. An agreement within the SLA that states specific metric, like uptime, response time, security, issue resolution, etc.

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Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 2, 2022

The new WebPageTest website design. And not just defining it in terms of specific metrics (even that is tricky), but answer questions like: What are this discipline’s guiding principles? What does it look like to practice web performance? Caching Header Best Practices — Simon Hearne’s dissertation on Cache headers.

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Performance Cache Best Practices Strategy 68

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. Create performance budgets and fight regression. Create performance budgets and fight regression.

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 77

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

My kids love LEGO, too, which means that every year I find myself spending a fair bit of time on the LEGO website during the holidays. 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.)

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Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 66

MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Unfortunately, Target.com is not a fast website. 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?). Look again at the metrics above. Time to Interactive (TTI): 6.2s Total Blocking Time: 2.2s

Retail 82

Retail Speed Website Google 82

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. The Smashing team has done a lot to make a fast website, so even a fresh load (though this experiment may not be a completely fresh load if you came to this article from the home page). Here’s an experiment for you.

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Cache Games Performance Website 92

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

So noticeable, in fact, that Core Web Vitals has a metric all about it called Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). This metric measures the time it takes, in seconds, to render the largest image or text block that is visible on the initial load. We can test for LCP in a number of ways. And most of all, we need to care.

Media 73

Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 73

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance. High Performance Websites. Even Faster Websites. Want your web site to display more quickly?

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

You’ve likely uttered the phrases “test early and often” and “shift left,” but do you always remind yourself of the importance of that phrase from the end user’s perspective? LoadView – Best Practices and Process. Distribute user load by geographical testing locations, simulating your customer base.

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Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

Rigor

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

According to Tim Kadlec : A performance budget is a clearly defined limit on one or more performance metrics that the team agrees not to exceed and that is used to guide design and development. A website’s speed makes the difference in whether users visit a site or not, so performance matters a great deal. Types of Performance Budgets.

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Performance Metrics Website Speed 45

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Synthetic testing simulates real-user behaviors within an application or service to pinpoint potential problems. Here’s a look at why this testing matters, how it works, and what companies need to get the most from this approach. What is synthetic testing? RUM, meanwhile, requires actual users.

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Testing Best Practices Testing Tools Monitoring 201

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

JavaScript, CSS, images, iframes, and other resources impact how quickly website loads, renders and becomes usable to the user. Loading experience is crucial to the user’s first impression and overall usability, so Google defined Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric to measure how quickly the main content loads and is displayed to the user.

Media 70

Media Tuning Metrics Google 70

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Certain SLOs can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. E-commerce websites are a great way to explain how IT teams can apply SLOs to any use case or application. E-commerce website : The e-commerce website should be available 99.9% or 99.99% of the time. Thus, an ApDex score of 0.85

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Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 171

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Certain service-level objective examples can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. E-commerce websites are a great way to explain how IT teams can apply SLOs to any use case or application. E-commerce website : The e-commerce website should be available 99.9%

Traffic 173

Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

Testsigma

MARCH 24, 2021

Such case studies uplift the importance of a better user interface and hence the importance of the user interface testing, or UI testing. Although UI testing is a requirement for anything you develop with a GUI, in this post, we will be focussed only on the Android applications. Android UI Testing and Its Types.

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Best Practices Testing Mobile Games 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. You’ve tested and retested the site for errors. Ken Harker. 2022-06-01T10:00:00+00:00.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 132

Speed Curve

APRIL 14, 2024

On websites, CMPs handle cookie popups. This can have an impact on most metrics – such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint – downstream. Masking third-party performance Assuming that you have visibility into your third-party performance is another pitfall when testing the first view of a site synthetically.

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Internet 126

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Given the momentum of DevOps and SRE, digital transformation goals can be achieved when automation enables organizations to apply best practices rapidly and to keep pace with the scale of the organization and applications. Additionally, you can easily use any previously defined metrics and SLOs from your environments.

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DevOps Latency Traffic Best Practices 212

Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

Email Testing Flow As It Should Be. Email Testing Flow As It Should Be. It is recommended to follow rules and best practices of building and sending emails. By testing every single email aspect! Let’s talk email testing! Are You Keeping On Top Of Your Email Metrics? Andriy Zapisotskyi. It’s doubtful.

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Testing Servers Social Media Automotive 110

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

What you may be overlooking is that peak-event readiness is about more than just load testing or ensuring that your servers are up throughout a specific timeframe. At a minimum, Optimal recommends that you have RUM, APM, synthetic, and load test tools set up, instrumented, and producing meaningful data.

Website 74

Website Cache Traffic Ecommerce 74

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast. A performance budget is a threshold that you apply to the metrics you care about the most. Which metrics should you start with? With hundreds of potential performance metrics to track, this is a huge question. What is a performance budget?

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Performance Metrics Media Google 98

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JULY 7, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

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. Google Lighthouse is one of the best-automated tools available on a web developer's utility belt. website if you prefer.

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Google Latency Website Metrics 82

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

We apply this litmus test to everything we do, and I believe it's the secret of our success. 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. and ultimately make your users' lives easier, too! Time period.

Retail 52

Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 52

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? Google's Core Web Vitals are a set of metrics that are intended to focus on measuring performance from a user-experience perspective. You can see this by looking at the synthetic test result for Sears.com (again, available via our Industry Benchmarks ).

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Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

CSS - Tricks

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Lighthouse is a free and open-source tool for assessing your website’s performance, accessibility, progressive web app metrics, SEO, and more. Clicking the “Generate report” button will run a series of tests on the web page and display the results right there in the Lighthouse tab.

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Performance Storage Servers Virtualization 78

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Total Blocking Time One thing I know would be more helpful than a set of Core Web Vitals scores from Lighthouse is knowing the time it takes to go from the First Contentful Paint (FCP) to the Time to Interactive (TTI), a metric known as the Total Blocking Time (TBT). You can see that Lighthouse does indeed provide that metric.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 92

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Reading time 11 min As companies become more aware of the importance of web performance, internal teams begin to research tools they can use to use to track their metrics and improve the user experience of their websites and applications. Not everyone uses Chrome to access your website.

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Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

Running speed tests with tools like Google PageSpeed Insights , WebPageTest , or KeyCDN’s Website Speed Test are always a good way to help gauge your website’s performance. While these metrics can be very helpful it is also important to keep this data in perspective.

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Google Cache Speed Analytics 103

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

To simplify this behavior, a best practice is to ensure your styles include resetting all elements to use border-box. While 100vh appears to work on most desktop contexts, you may have experienced the frustration of having what seems like unexpected behavior, particularly when tested on iOS in WebKit browsers.

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Design Availability Mobile Website 145

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

That's because video seems to have had a surge in growth, which should be a cause of concern for anyone who cares about metrics like Largest Contentful Paint, which measures the largest visual element on a page – including videos. It bears repeating: excessive JS can hurt all your user-oriented performance metrics.

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Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52