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. 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.

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Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

” 2020 will also see the end of support for Python 2.7 , which will likely cause its share of headaches among holdouts. ” As for the coming year, Evans suggests that 2020 will be about watching the 2019 trends play out: How close to a production version of Project Valhalla will we be?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. 2020-01-06T10:30:13+00:00. 2020-01-06T12:35:48+00:00. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? Back in the day, performance was often a mere afterthought.

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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. What is Google Lighthouse? Google Lighthouse is one of the best-automated tools available on a web developer's utility belt.

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Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Earlier this year, Google announced that Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is no longer an experimental metric. Core Web Vitals background It's been more than three years since the Core Web Vitals initiative was kicked off in May 2020. When it comes to new performance metrics, it's easy to jump on bandwagons.

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Google Traffic Ecommerce Metrics 112

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

The usual caveats also apply: Performance is a deep and nuanced domain, and much can go wrong beyond content size and composition. How sites manage resources after-load can have a big impact on perceived performance. Until and unless teams have better data about their performance, the global baseline budget should be enforced.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Chances are, you're here because of Google's update to its search algorithm , which affects both desktop and mobile, and which includes Core Web Vitals as a ranking factor. If you're new to Core Web Vitals , this is a Google initiative that was launched in early 2020. When Google talks, people listen.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Advancements in technology improve the lives of people and save time and money for organizations year after year and there is no reason that the next year, 2020 will be any different. In this article, we will be talking about the technologies and techniques that are expected to become test automation trends in 2020. Hyper Automation.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 11, 2024

After years of development and testing, Google has added Interaction to Next Paint (INP) to its trifecta of Core Web Vitals – the performance metrics that are a key ingredient in its search ranking algorithm. According to Google, an INP of 200 milliseconds or less is ideal. Not sure what INP means or why it matters?

Mobile 84

Mobile Google Metrics Monitoring 84

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. Large preview ) We’ve known for a long time that fast page performance influences search engine rankings.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Ten years is a lot of time to reflect, and over this past year our team has been thinking a lot about not just the "what" and "how" of web performance, but also the "why". Easier to measure the impact of Core Web Vitals on actual user experience It's been almost four years since the Core Web Vitals initiative was kicked off in May 2020.

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Performance Metrics Speed Google 58

DZone

JUNE 1, 2020

These mind-blowing software testing tools utilize test cases to make sure that the software and application meet its specification and performs the proposed functions. Some stats that prove that UI should not be taken lightly ever: By 2020, there will be around 6.1 Statistics Overview. billion Smartphone users.

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Testing Tools Open Source Mobile Internet 159

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

This is a mouthful of buzzwords” is how I started my recent presentations at the Online Kubernetes Meetup as well as the DevOps Fusion 2020 Online Conference when explaining the three big challenges we are trying to solve with Keptn – our CNCF Open Source project: Automate build validation through SLI/SLO-based Quality Gates. Dynatrace news.

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DevOps Metrics Innovation Azure 246

Dynatrace

MAY 30, 2020

Dynatrace Visually complete is a point-in-time web performance metric that measures when the visual area of a page has finished loading. New web performance metrics and r evamped Visually Complete. Analyze application performance with newly added web performance metrics. More precisely, you can now: .

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Metrics Performance Benchmarking Monitoring 133

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

I'm sure this delivered large performance improvements and I wouldn't try arguing against it. While that Java change led to discovering countless performance wins in application code, libc was still breaking some portion of the samples (as pictured in the example at the top of this post) and preventing off-CPU flame graphs.

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Speed Curve

MAY 9, 2023

Today at Google I/O 2023, it was announced that Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is no longer an experimental metric. It's been three years since the Core Web Vitals initiative was kicked off in May 2020. In that time, we've seen people's interest in performance dramatically increase, especially in the world of SEO.

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Metrics Google Mobile Analytics 96

DZone

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

When it comes to cross-browser testing, we tend to focus on executing test cases for bigwigs like Google Chrome, Firefox, or Safari. This is because Opera performs quite well even at slow internet speeds. This is because Opera performs quite well even at slow internet speeds. What about the other browsers? What about Opera?

Testing 109

Testing Internet Internet Speed 109

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. Every web performance story is similar, isn’t it? A day when a project, fully polished and carefully optimized, gets launched, ranking high and soaring above performance scores in Lighthouse and WebPageTest. Vitaly Friedman.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

2020 cemented the reality that modern software development practices require rapid, scalable delivery in response to unpredictable conditions. Giants like Google and Microsoft once employed monolithic architectures almost exclusively. Performance-wise, long call chains over the network can potentially decrease reliability.

Architecture 246

Architecture Software Software Development 246

Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2022

Andreas Grabner, DevOps Activist at Dynatrace, took to the virtual stage at the recent Dynatrace Perform conference to describe how the open source Keptn project automates the configuration of observability tools, dashboards, and alerting based on service-level objectives (SLOs). Dynatrace developed and released Keptn to open source in 2020.

Open Source 187

Open Source DevOps Cloud Metrics 187

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The events of 2020 accelerated the trend of organizations shifting to cloud-native technologies in response to the dramatic increase in demand for online services. 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.

DevOps 188

DevOps Software Engineering Speed Google 188

Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

2020 cemented the reality that modern software development practices require rapid, scalable delivery in response to unpredictable conditions. Giants like Google and Microsoft once employed monolithic architectures almost exclusively. Performance-wise, long call chains over the network can potentially decrease reliability.

Architecture 244

Architecture Software Software Development 244

Speed Curve

JULY 6, 2021

After Google's announcement about Lighthouse 8 this past month, we have updated our test agents. We've gotten a lot of questions about what has changed and the impact on your performance metrics, so here's a summary. In case you missed it, Lighthouse is a speed tool created by the Chrome Developer team at Google. Learn more.

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Google Metrics Best Practices Speed 108

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Offering 20 chapters with insights into Page Content, User Experience, Content Publishing, and Content Distribution, it can also be overwhelming, so we’ll be summarizing the web performance section in an easy-to-understand manner. We’ll be diving into Chapter 7 – Performance. 20% of sites are considered slow.

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Performance Speed Website Mobile 52

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. However, just as out-of-control spending bodes ill in the long run, so does unbudgeted digital media decimate site performance. Performance Budgets. “A A performance budget is ‘. Business Performance. Akshay Ranganath.

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Media Performance Mobile Latency 117

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? High Performance Browser Networking. This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. High Performance Websites.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Brendan Gregg

MAY 28, 2021

I've moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to Sydney, Australia, where I will continue the best job so far of my career: Performance engineering at Netflix. I began discussing Australian tech roles with different companies in Jan 2020. Sydney has AWS and Google offices and even a small Netflix office, just to name a few.

Google 144

Google Open Source Engineering AWS 144

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

2020-12-17T15:00:13+00:00. 2020-12-17T16:33:49+00:00. 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). With Google Search Console you can see exactly where your pages are (or aren’t) ranking for different keywords. Google Trends.

Engineering 130

Engineering Google Website Analytics 130

Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Shopify Themes (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Shopify Themes (Case Study). Code evolves over time with more features, new or changing dependencies, or maybe a goal of performance improvements. The hardest part was that Shopify required themes to support IE8, and up until late 2020, IE11.

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Performance Mobile Speed Code 89

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. The OpenCensus project was made open source by Google back in 2018, based on Google’s Census library that was used internally for gathering traces and metrics from their distributed systems. Dynatrace news.

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Open Source Metrics Google Java 182

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

In the US and the UK, Comscore’s Global State of Mobile 2020 report discovered in August 2020, that mobile usage accounted to 79% and 81% of total digital minutes respectively. Also, there was a 65% increase in video consumption on mobile devices in 2020. ComScore Global State of Mobile 2020 report. Large preview ).

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

How to measure performance The Website Speed Test is the ideal tool for measuring the performance of your website. It offers a full range of performance grades and suggestions where we outline the performance potential in detail. Further down, there are detailed performance grades for various topics.

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Processing Cache Website Servers 127

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

According to the 2020 Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) survey , 92 percent of organizations are using containers in production, and 83 percent of these use Kubernetes as their preferred container management solution. Kubernetes forged by the rise of Google. Google Cloud Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Dynatrace news.

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Virtualization DevOps Infrastructure Cloud 133