Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Yet, we wanted to put together our list of the top web performance books for anyone who cares about speed of the web and would like to explore the timeline of web performance engineering milestones over nearly two decades through the lens of published books. How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance. Time is Money.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Speed Curve

JULY 2, 2013

SpeedCurve focuses on a third which I like to call web performance benchmarking. It's often called synthetic testing as tests are run from servers in a data centre and don't accurately represent what speeds an actual user might get. Web Performance Benchmarking. Uptime Monitoring. Real User Monitoring.

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Benchmarking Performance Website Analytics 40

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"I made my pages faster, but my business and user engagement metrics didn't change. The performance poverty line is the plateau at which changes to your website’s rendering metrics (such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint) cease to matter because you’ve bottomed out in terms of business and user engagement metrics.

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Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 119

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

This post is targeted towards the questions most often asked by non-technical management who want to get up to speed on what HammerDB is (what it isn’t) and how it can benefit their organization. HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. What is HammerDB? Derived Workloads.

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Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What do the different metrics mean? While the focus in most cases tends to be directed toward front-end developers, it's important to remember the back-end as well if you see higher than normal start render times or increases in more basic metrics like time to first byte. What do the different metrics mean? Let's get started.

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Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"I made my pages faster, but my business and user engagement metrics didn't change. The performance plateau is the point at which changes to your website’s rendering metrics (such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint) cease to matter because you’ve bottomed out in terms of business and user engagement metrics.

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Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 52

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

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. However, there are quite a few high-profile case studies exploring the impact of mobile optimization on key business metrics. Driving Business Metrics. billion by 2026.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability. Instead, to speed up response times, applications are now processing most data at the network’s perimeter, closest to the data’s origin. But is five nines availability attainable? Each decimal point closer to 100 equals higher uptime. Automate IT operations.

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Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 185

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

HammerDB doesn’t publish competitive database benchmarks, instead we always encourage people to be better informed by running their own. So over at Phoronix some database benchmarks were published showing PostgreSQL 12 Performance With AMD EPYC 7742 vs. Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 Benchmarks .

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

To show that I can criticize my own work as well, here I show that sustained memory bandwidth (using an approximation to the STREAM Benchmark ) is also inadequate as a single figure of metric. (It Here I assumed a particular analytical function for the amount of memory traffic as a function of cache size to scale the bandwidth time.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Tracing as a foundation Logs, metrics, and traces are the three pillars of observability. Metrics communicate what’s happening on a macro scale, traces illustrate the ecosystem of an isolated request, and the logs provide a detail-rich snapshot into what happened within a service. The downside is that we have so many dashboards.

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Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 296

KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

Running speed tests with tools like Google PageSpeed Insights , WebPageTest , or KeyCDN’s Website Speed Test are always a good way to help gauge your website’s performance. While these metrics can be very helpful it is also important to keep this data in perspective. Why Care About Page Speed?

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Google Cache Speed Analytics 103

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Teams I've consulted are too often wrenched between celebration over "the big rewrite" launch and the morning-after realisation that the new stack is tanking business metrics. through one of the dozens of analytics tools they've inevitably integrated over the years), but nobody looks at it. Photo by von Vix. Photo by Jay Heike.

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Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The scale of the effect can be deeply situational or hard to suss out without solid metrics. Since then, the metrics conversation has moved forward significantly, culminating in Core Web Vitals , reported via the Chrome User Experience Report to reflect the real-world experiences of users. Today, either method returns a similar answer.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

These services use requests to external hosts (not servers you control) to deliver JavaScript framework libraries, custom fonts, advertising content, marketing analytics trackers, and more. The most popular, by far, is the Google Lighthouse report (available in Chrome Developer Tools) and Google’s Page Speed Insights.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 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. LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Get a free trial of LogRocket today.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Table Of Contents.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. We also use internal haproxy reports to plot upload/download speeds observed by the customer and proactively hunt them and use network pops and other strategies to accelerate packets.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52