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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

In the fourteen years that I've been working in the web performance industry, I've done a LOT of research, writing, and speaking about the psychology of page speed – in other words, why we crave fast, seamless online experiences. In fairness, that was in the early 2000s, and site speed was barely on anyone's radar.

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Mobile Page Speed Testing

MachMetrics

In fact, failing to run a mobile page speed test is the number 1 speed testing mistake we see our users make! If you’re unsure of how your website performs on a mobile device (or even got a poor result on a speed audit), stick with us. All of these things can be achieved with a faster mobile speed.

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7 Best Performance Testing Tools to Look Out for in 2021

DZone

Performances testing helps establish the scalability, stability, and speed of the software application. Numerous kinds of performance testing imitate several possible user scenarios and know the behavior of the apps. Performance testing is mainly a subset of Performance engineering and is also referred to as ' Perf Tests.'

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Speeding Up Restores in Percona Backup for MongoDB

Percona

Bringing physical backups in Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) was a big step toward the restoration speed. Our tests showed physical database restores up to 5x faster than the logical ones. Our tests showed physical database restores up to 5x faster than the logical ones. But can we do better? Let’s try.

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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 speed – Google PageSpeed Insights. Performance. Accessibility.

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14 Best Performance Testing Tools and APM Solutions

DZone

With All of the Free and Enterprise Tools Available for Performance Testing, There’s No Excuse for Having a System Failure. Performance tests reveal how a system behaves and responds during various situations. In terms of performance, we wish to achieve three main goals: speed, scalability, and stability.

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How Dynatrace empowers performance engineering teams to test at scale

Dynatrace

As organizations develop more applications and microservices, they are discovering they also need to run more performance tests in the same amount of time or less to meet service-level objectives (SLOs) that fulfill service-level agreements (SLAs). How can organizations address this process bottleneck and run more tests in less time?