Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

That performance golden rule still holds true today. Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Charlie Vazac introduced server timing in a Performance Calendar post circa 2018.

Servers 57

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in August 2018 and was updated in May 2023. In this blog post, we will delve into the world of PostgreSQL performance tuning and establish some basic guidelines for setting database parameters to enhance the performance of your PostgreSQL database, based on the workload.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

With another year winding down, it’s time for us to take stock of how our site performance compares to the average page load times for 2020. Similar to our article Average Page Load Times for 2018 , we’ll go over the averages for metrics and help you determine if your site is faster or slower than average.

Best Practices 105

Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The recently revealed [Meltdown and Spectre] bugs are not just extraordinary issues of security, but also performance. The patches that workaround Meltdown introduce the largest kernel performance regressions I've ever seen. Some older kernels have the KAISER patches for Meltdown, and so far the performance overheads look similar.

Performance 75

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 75

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. The better the performance, the better chance that users stay on a page, read content, make purchases, or just about whatever they need to do. Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

If you are new to running Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL TPC-C workloads with HammerDB and have needed to investigate I/O performance the chances are that you have experienced waits on writing to the Redo, Transaction Log or WAL depending on the database you are testing. Logging Waits. so what are your options?

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database C++ Virtualization 40

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The recently revealed [Meltdown and Spectre] bugs are not just extraordinary issues of security, but also performance. The patches that workaround Meltdown introduce the largest kernel performance regressions I've ever seen. Some older kernels have the KAISER patches for Meltdown, and so far the performance overheads look similar.

Performance 40

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 40