Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Site reliability engineering first emerged to address cloud computing’s new performance needs. Joining them for the discussion was Saim Safdar, Cloud Native Community Foundation (CNCF) ambassador and member of the CNCF TAG App Delivery Platform Working Group.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

I’d say many — if not most — sites and apps rely on some number of third-party scripts where we might not have any influence over the code. Let’s look at it for a site that’s much “heavier” than Smashing Magazine. I removed analytics from my personal site long ago because I rarely, if ever, looked at them.

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CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

When first working on a new site-speed engagement, you need to work out quickly where the slowdowns, blindspots, and inefficiencies lie. Unless a client hires you to specifically improve the performance of one page, you’ll need a broad view of the whole site or application. For example, my site has a homepage, content pages (e.g.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 4, 2024

Another common impediment is manual data tagging and handling, an error-prone process that teams should minimize. It improves time management and event prioritization by helping developers, administrators, and site reliability engineers identify the alerts that matter most.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2021

This mapping can be generated through role tags that indicate which users/groups are allowed to retrieve credentials for the role, ConsoleMe’s Dynamic Configuration , or through an organization’s custom logic. Administrators use it to manage permissions and tags for common resource types. Where can I learn more?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Saving your cloud operations and site reliability engineering teams hours of guesswork and manual tagging, the Davis AI engine analyzes billions of events in real time. Insights into how serverless functions are affecting customer-facing applications. Purpose built with low overhead to detect function with cold start.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

For example, StatsD doesn’t support dimensions and tagging. Many metric libraries today like Spring micrometer, Dropwizard, or OpenMetrics support such tags, which aren’t supported by StatsD. This means that site reliability engineers and operation teams can analyze ever more data with less effort than before.

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Speed Curve

APRIL 27, 2022

But as you can see in these filmstrips of Wiggle, a UK cycling retailer, hiding the page can have a dramatic impact on a visitor's experience: Comparison of a site loading with (top) and without (bottom) the anti-flicker snippet enabled. I chose Wiggle semi-randomly after searching the HTTP Archive for sites that use Google Optimize.).

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 24, 2022

A thing I see developers do time and time again is make performance-facing changes to their sites and apps, but mistakes in how they measure them often lead to incorrect conclusions about the effectiveness of that work. In fact, I do that on this site. This can go either way: under- or overestimating the efficacy of those changes.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 28, 2023

Incident management with clearly defined responsibilities Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) are challenged not only to detect problems and identify the root cause quickly but also to remediate problems immediately. Metadata and tags can be assigned to dedicated parts of your environment, such as hosts, services, and Kubernetes objects.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites. A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites. Why Image Optimization Is So Important For A Jamstack Site? Case Study: Image Component In A Jamstack Site. percent of pages contain at least one <img> tag, and 99.9 Alba Silvente. 2022-11-17T10:00:00+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

So, you want to give personality to your site by making it stand out from all other websites out there. To do that, you develop a personalized design style, including a certain combination of colors, typography, spacing, animations, and others, and apply the style consistently throughout your site. Leonardo Losoviz. What about images?

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Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

They answer the question "How can I keep my site from getting slower while I work toward my performance goals?" Performance budgets mitigate two of the biggest challenges you probably face in your daily life: not enough time, plus too many people touching the site. Media sites are particularly prone to this issue. You're busy.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2023

If you are unfamiliar with Gatsby , it’s a React-based static site generator that uses GraphQL to pull structured data from various sources and uses webpack to bundle a project so it can then be deployed and served as static files. It’s essentially a static site generator with reactivity that can pull data from a vast array of sources.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 24, 2019

The most common example is when the IIS default application pool is used for deploying a web site instead of using a dedicated pool. This is when tagging comes to the rescue! Automated Tagging. Tagging is a very powerful way to identify components. With manual tags, there is no validation. Tibo.ems, tibco, Tibco.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

I’ll cover the following: How to improve the LCP Resource load time subpart with the help of the <img> tag and a focus on proper LCP image sizing. Some explanations on the browsers’ behavior for this <img> tag and its attributes, so you can really understand and integrate your LCP image correctly. Large preview ).

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Media Mobile Website Metrics 104

Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2023

It also baselines the performance of an application under load, including response times, error rates, and behavior.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Image Alt Text Alt text, also referred to as alt tags, describe the image and purpose for it on the page. Image Title Tags The image title attribute, also referred to as title tags, are not required by Google. Now there are a few more things to consider here before going back and adding title tags to all your images.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

Tim Kadlec

MAY 21, 2020

I’ve wanted to give instant.page a proper try out on my site for a while now. By serving one version of the site with instant.page in place to some traffic, and a site without it to another, I could compare the performance of them both over the same timespan and see how it shakes out. It’s a pretty clever approach.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Like all Core Web Vitals, INP has a set of thresholds: INP thresholds for Good, Needs Improvement, and Poor Many sites tend to be in the Needs Improvement or Poor categories. These may get populated during testing, but we can clear them at any time via Application > Storage > Clear Site Data in DevTools.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

Exploratory analytics with collaborative analytics capabilities can be a lifeline for CloudOps, ITOps, site reliability engineering, and other teams struggling to access, analyze, and conquer the never-ending deluge of big data. “I could, for example, fetch a list of whole studies based on a specific tag or filter,” he explains.

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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In addition, you’ll see a filmstrip of your site loading, as well as some additional diagnostics. These are typically a measure of how fast the site gets content up on the screen. This is especially helpful in measuring how your visitors are perceiving the site’s speed. Accessibility. Best Practices.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

SEO-Friendly Interface: Certain WordPress website builders support SEO with customizable plugin integration, meta tags, and schema markup, enhancing website rankings and visibility. Responsive Design: Most WordPress page builders ensure responsive design, optimizing sites for diverse devices.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2021

This not only improves the user experience, but also increases user retention and boosts conversion as users can now explore beyond what brought them to our site in the first place. We’ll build a Nuxt site with Nuxt Content with a search feature using Algolia InstantSearch, for styling, we’ll use TailwindCSS. Prerequisites.

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KeyCDN

DECEMBER 12, 2019

SEO is simply the process of getting your website rated highly on search engines so that when people search for content related to your site, it is the first to show up in the results. What is a canonical tag? A canonical tag is one method to ensure that there is one URL connected to every resource on your website.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

We think of web scraping as a tool used to harvest web content for information analysis purposes, sometimes to the detriment of the site owner. For example, someone might web scrape all the product pages of a competitor’s retail site to harvest information about products being offered and current pricing to try to gain a competitive edge.

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CSS Wizardry

JULY 21, 2018

Wikipedia defines ctags as: …a programming tool that generates an index (or tag) file of names found in source and header files of various programming languages. These tags allow definitions to be quickly and easily located by a text editor or other utility.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

If you want to optimize your site, start by making as few requests as possible. This is especially true of sites that maintain a large product catalog or include a fair amount of user-generated content. Maybe you create a tag budget that you can enforce with the responsible party. That withstanding, you are a product manager.

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Testlodge

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) uses tags and attributes to control how the text in the front end of a website is displayed. It can be easy to overlook issues like open tags or misspellings during a visual check. If you are creating a site from scratch, this should be straightforward. Suddenly, the site needs to go live.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. A 2017 study by Akamai says as much when it found that even a 100ms delay in page load can decrease conversions by 7% and lose 1% of their sales for every 100ms it takes for their site to load which, at the time of the study, was equivalent to $1.6 Improvement #1: Redirects.

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Speed Curve

JUNE 4, 2023

You may already know that SpeedCurve lets you test multiple URLs for a site across a wide selection of browsers , devices , connection types , and geolocations. You may also know that SpeedCurve lets you add synthetic scripts to your test settings , which lets you easily do things like simulate a repeat view or block a third party.

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MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The main reason that a developer might choose to hide certain images for the mobile version of a site is to serve images that are better scaled for mobile. The large HD image you use for a hero image on the desktop version of your site isn’t going to look near as good on a small screen. Using <picture> with srcset.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 17, 2020

A large manufacturing company is using it to track their error rates by production site. Analyze only services that matter by filtering them by service tags, a management zone, or a request attribute. Optimize your application and business performance by analyzing request- and service-based metrics.

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 15, 2020

But yeah, it’s true that even a Jamstack site can suffer hits to performance just like any other site. Let’s see if we can spot some of the poor decisions that can lead to a “slow” Jamstack site. To do that, we’re going to build a really slow Gatsby site. To do that, we’re going to build a really slow Gatsby site.

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CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 27, 2018

A lot of the time I’m auditing client sites, many of the issues and inefficiencies I uncover could have quite easily been discovered by the development team. You’re out on the world wide web—you have no idea who is turning up to the site, what their context is, what hardware, software, or infrastructure they’re using, or anything.

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CSS Wizardry

MAY 21, 2018

Next up, if you’re comfortable with the command line, let’s run a quick AWK one-liner to strip out the non-Target Site entries: $ awk -F',' '$2 != Target Site" { print $1 }' cnn.csv. Target Site" means if the second field is not Target Site. Example questions include: Can you talk me through Google Tag Manager?

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

As a result, there are limits to how much time Googlebot can spend crawling any single site. Google’s amount of time and resources to crawling a site is commonly called the site’s crawl budget.” — “ Advanced SEO ,” Google Search Central Documentation. How about errors?” How about errors?” Considerable reduction.

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