Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. And to ensure the quality of a product, we always need to test — on a number of devices, and in a number of conditions. Also, there was a 65% increase in video consumption on mobile devices in 2020.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 135

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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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

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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Google Latency Website Metrics 82

DZone

JUNE 1, 2020

As applications are designed and developed for varied platforms, spanning mobile, desktop, and cloud, testing user interfaces has turned into an increasingly complicated and risk-prone job. While having its series of challenges and loopholes, automated UI testing is gaining traction. 55% of businesses conduct UX testing.

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Testing Tools Open Source Mobile Internet 165

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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Performance Google Metrics Mobile 96

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 242

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

With the latest developments in IT sector services, the sector of QA testing has seen significant improvement and growth. The implementation of emerging technologies has helped improve the process of software development, testing, design and deployment. Many changes are rendered through automated testing. Hyperautomation.

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Artificial Intelligence Software Software IoT 92

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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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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.

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Open Source DevOps Cloud Metrics 177

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

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 241

Architecture Software Software Development 241

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 81

Mobile Google Metrics Monitoring 81

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.

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DevOps Software Engineering Speed Google 183

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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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

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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Java Cache Google Hardware 145

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.

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Google Metrics Best Practices Speed 106

MachMetrics

APRIL 15, 2020

However, you may be making one of the common page speed testing mistakes that often cost website owners engagement, and ultimately, revenue. Often, their test results are good, but visitors are reporting slow load times (or they see a high bounce rate ). Mistake #1: Only Testing Desktop. That’s only half of the story!

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Speed Testing Website Mobile 88

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). Testing And Monitoring. Google Keyword Planner. Google Trends. Google Mobile-Friendly Test. Quick Wins.

Engineering 132

Engineering Google Website Analytics 132

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

It also needs to handle third-party integration with Google Drive, making copies of PDFs with watermarks specific to each recipient, adding password protection, creating revocable links, generating thumbnails, and sending emails and push notifications. Early prototypes and load tests validated that the offering could meet our needs.

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Traffic Latency Java Google 160

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

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.

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Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Speed Curve

JUNE 30, 2020

The much-anticipated update to Lighthouse is now available to SpeedCurvers as part of our latest test agent updates. Keep reading to find out what this means and how it may affect your performance metrics. Lighthouse performance scores for desktop tests should be much higher. Desktop tests in Lighthouse v6.1

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Metrics Mobile Google Network 98

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

Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2021

And, precisely due to this diversity, the need for testing on many devices is paramount. As of September 2020, Statista reports that around 30,40,000 apps are available on Google Playstore. With the ever-increasing and evolving sector of Android users, Android device testing is of the essence. .

Testing 52

Testing Mobile Testing Tools Strategy 52

Testsigma

JANUARY 22, 2021

In 2020, in the first nine months, we were already hitting 1590 million units and this trend has been growing every year. In this post, we will analyze these challenges of mobile app testing and how we can manage them. Each one of them has its own set of challenges and testing methods. This will be the crux of this post.

Mobile 74

Mobile Testing Energy Operating System 74

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. At its start in 2013, Docker was mainly used by developers as a sandbox for testing purposes. Dynatrace news.

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Virtualization DevOps Infrastructure Cloud 132

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

About two decades ago, testing was only limited to the desktop. With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. The native and mobile web browser testing is being performed more and more compared to desktop testing.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Speed Curve

JULY 31, 2023

Google's Core Web Vitals are an attempt to help folks new to web performance focus on three key metrics. Old-school CLS In May 2020, Google introduced CLS as part of Core Web Vitals. I've always found it odd that Google left the representation of CLS as a decimal score. As we all know, naming things is hard.

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Google Metrics Testing Performance 52

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

We were going through Adobe Retail Shopping Insights (2020) and found out that more than 42% of consumers have done their holiday shopping via smartphones. So, in this post, we’ll talk about mobile web testing, why it’s important, and its best approaches. What Is Mobile Web Testing? Why Should We Perform Mobile Web Testing?

Mobile 65

Mobile Testing Website Speed 65

Testsigma

MARCH 24, 2021

2020, a new game called FAU-G was released on the Google play store. Such case studies uplift the importance of a better user interface and hence the importance of the user interface testing, or UI testing. The parameters and consequences of UI testing remain consistent across various fields though. .

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Testing Mobile Games 52

Testsigma

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

We shall also see how decisions are made in an enterprise and why cross-browser testing is the most important thing in 2021 to sustain a healthy business. Throughout this post, we shall see the bits of these components and relate them to the testing scenario. What does enterprise mean from a tester’s POV? Needs of an enterprise.

Testing 52

Testing Website Small Business Internet 52

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

The world of automation testing is rapidly evolving and we need to keep up with the pace. It’s no rocket science that the demand for automation testing is massive — according to Markets & Markets , the automation testing market size is projected to grow from $12.6B What Is Cloud-Based Test Automation Tool?

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Cloud Testing Testing Tools Small Business 52

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

What follows are my findings on React performance as I’ve tried to meet this challenge in a way that’s best for users. You might remember a little while ago when Tim Kadlec did some research on HTTPArchive about web framework performance, and came to the conclusion that React wasn’t exactly a stellar performer.

Performance 101

Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Defenders of Apple's monopoly offer hard-to-test claims, but many boil down to the idea that Apple's product is inferior by necessity. Nobody frames it precisely this way; instead they'll say, if WebKit weren't mandated, Chromium would take over , or Google would dominate the web if not for the WebKit restriction.

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

By mandating proof of developer enthusiasm for features, extensive test suites, and accurate specifications, the catch-up process has been put on rails for Apple. In early 2020, after months of background conversations and research, Mason Freed posted a new set of design alternatives , which included extensive performance research.

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Energy Games Engineering Design 79

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. High-performing fast sites attract and preserve users better than low-performing ones. The screenshot below explains that page load time and lighthouse performance scores are not the same, yet they are really close to each other.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2021

ConsoleMe: A Central Control Plane for AWS Permissions and Access By Curtis Castrapel , Patrick Sanders , and Hee Won Kim At AWS re:Invent 2020, we open sourced two new tools for managing multi-account AWS permissions and access. We’re very excited to bring you ConsoleMe (pronounced: kuhn-soul-mee ), and its CLI utility, Weep (pun intended)!

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