Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Synthetic monitoring. Synthetic monitoring is essentially a bot that does what you tell it to do ("go visit my home page from X location on X browser") and actively collects performance data. But for all the goodness of synthetic monitoring, it's missing a critical component: end users. Real user monitoring (RUM).

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

To this vital function is workload automation which optimizes scheduling, execution, and monitoring processes for each individual task or process within cloud-based workflows. Memory Allocation: Allocating sufficient memory linked directly to the assigned CPU ensures effective utilization resulting in better system speed.

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Fighting regressions should be the top priority of anyone who cares about the speed of their site. Benchmark your site against your competitors Our public-facing Industry Benchmarks dashboard gets a lot of visits, but did you know you can create your own custom competitive benchmarking dashboard in SpeedCurve?

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Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

You can then configure your monitoring tools to send you alerts – or even break the build, if you're testing in your staging environment – when your budgets are violated. For each of these metrics, I've included what type of tool you can use to track them: synthetic and/or real user monitoring (RUM). Is it loading?

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Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

It's an overview of why front-end performance matter, how to monitor it and the challenges faced when building for an increasingly mobile world. Why speed matters, examples of the impact saving a few seconds of load time has had on revenue and engagement. Bandwidth, latency and it's fundamental impact on the speed of the web.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

For each site, I used a month's worth of RUM (real user monitoring) data to generate correlation charts. Plateaus emerged for both Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint I expected the results for Start Render, as it's been around as a page speed metric for many years, and has been proven to correlate to business metrics.

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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. Site speed & SEO go hand in hand. Complete Web Monitoring.

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Speed Curve

JULY 2, 2013

Over the last few years the web performance monitoring toolset has expanded dramatically with the introduction of many new services and products. There are two main types of web performance monitoring, uptime monitoring and real user monitoring. Uptime Monitoring. Real User Monitoring.

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Benchmarking Performance Website Analytics 40

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In an earlier blog post, we discussed Telltale , our health monitoring system. In one request hitting just ten services, there might be ten different analytics dashboards and ten different log stores. Telltale provides Edgar with latency benchmarks that indicate if the individual trace’s latency is abnormal for this given service.

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Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 296

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. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ).

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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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Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

through one of the dozens of analytics tools they've inevitably integrated over the years), but nobody looks at it. These organisations may perform incidental data collection (from business analytics tools, e.g.) but are inconsistently reviewing performance metrics or considering them when formulating KPI s and OKR s. Photo by von Vix.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Testing And Monitoring. 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. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Setting Realistic Goals. Defining The Environment.

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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. When it goes to production you would monitor it using the various internal tools like New Relic/Grafana, Kibana and if there is a regression you would fix it. Message Queues.

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

For anyone benchmarking MySQL with HammerDB it is important to understand the differences from sysbench workloads as HammerDB is targeted at a testing a different usage model from sysbench. GHz. The governor "performance" may decide which speed to use within this range. monitoring.

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