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Introducing Page Speed Benchmarks – a new resource for the performance community

Speed Curve

What are some good sites I can use for benchmarking? Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive dashboard that lets you explore and compare web performance data for leading websites across several industries – from retail to media. Identify sites you can use for your own competitive benchmarking. How fast should I be?

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In Defence of DOM­Content­Loaded

CSS Wizardry

However, as an internal benchmark, there are compelling reasons why some of you may actually want to keep tracking these ‘outdated’ metrics… Measure the User Experience The problem with using diagnostic metrics like Load or DOMContentLoaded to measure site-speed is that it has no bearing on how a user might actually experience your site.

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Web Performance for Product Managers

Speed Curve

Recommendations can come out of audits from consultants or from automated tools like Lighthouse (or SpeedCurve, of course). Think of RUM as performance-based analytics measured from the end user's actual browser. Benchmark yourself. Another great tool to have in your bag is benchmarking. Real user monitoring (RUM).

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The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters

Smashing Magazine

After all, when we look at our analytics, we will hardly find any customers browsing our sites or apps with a mid-range device on a flaky 3G connection. This might be very different for your company, of course, but that’s a close enough approximation of a majority of customers out there. That might come a little bit unexpected.

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What programming languages does HammerDB use and why does it matter?

HammerDB

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. However, it is crucial that the benchmarking application does not have inherent bottlenecks that artificially limits the scalability of the database. Basic Benchmarking Concepts. To benchmark a database we introduce the concept of a Virtual User.

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HCI Performance testing made easy (Part 3)

n0derunner

Creating a HCI benchmark to simulate multi-tennent workloads. A particular problem occurs when a reporting / analytical workload shares storage with a transactional workload. The DB Colocation test utilizes two properties of X-Ray not found in other benchmarking tools. Time based benchmark actions.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

Not as much as we'd like, of course, but the worldwide baseline has changed enormously. Using a global ASP as a benchmark can further mislead thanks to the distorting effect of ultra-high-end prices rising while shipment volumes stagnate. There are differences, of course, but not where it counts. Talk about a hard target.