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Performance Testing - Tools, Steps, and Best Practices

KeyCDN

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. What is Performance Testing?

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

In 1991 I wrote a white paper on performance that was widely read, and in 1993 (with help from Brian Wong) that got me a job in the USA, working alongside Brian for Mike Briggs in technical product marketing. Paul Reithmuller was yet another imported Australian engineer who did amazing work.

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Getting started with web performance? Here's what you need to focus on.

Speed Curve

Inspired by that post, I wanted to dig a bit deeper into a few of the best practices they mentioned, which fall loosely into these three buckets: Analyze your pages – understand the critical rendering path and page composition. Create performance budgets and fight regression. Benchmark your site against your competitors.

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Google Lighthouse vs Rigor

Rigor

When you run Lighthouse, you can choose to receive up to five different scores, including SEO, Best Practices, Progressive Web App (PWA), Accessibility, and Performance , that can provide valuable insight for your dev team to act on. Google Lighthouse is a great place to start for performance analysis.

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What is page bloat? And how is it hurting your business, your search rank, and your users?

Speed Curve

HTTP Archive research: Background and caveats Before we get into the analysis, some context: The numbers cited below all come from the HTTP Archive. This is to try to understand how a "typical" page might perform, as well as pages in the "longtail". It's super important to understand longtail performance.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

Alternatively, you can also use Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing). Treo Sites provides competitive analysis based on real-world data. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19).