CSS Wizardry

JUNE 30, 2023

I never thought I’d write an article in defence of DOMContentLoaded , but here it is… For many, many years now, performance engineers have been making a concerted effort to move away from technical metrics such as Load , and toward more user-facing, UX metrics such as Speed Index or Largest Contentful Paint. for the vast minority of sessions.

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Metrics Google Monitoring Analytics 326

Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2023

While digital experience has many facets, transaction speed usually ranks among the most important. Almost two decades ago, a Google experiment showed that fast-loading transactions are more important to customers than content quality—even small increases in transaction delay result in substantially more abandoned sessions.

Retail 198

Retail Logistics Innovation Analytics 198

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2021

Great user experiences start with Core Web Vitals (CWVs) — a set of metrics defined by Google to help measure user experience at scale. They are part of Web Vitals , a quality standards initiative by Google that helps web developers deliver great user experiences. If sites take 6 seconds to load, bounce rates mushroom by 106%.

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Metrics Google Website Speed 133

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. This feature-packed database provides powerful and rapid analytics on data that scales up to petabyte volumes. What Exactly is Greenplum? At a glance – TLDR.

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Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

We’re able to help drive speed, take multiple data sources, bring them into a common model and drive those answers at scale.”. As the number of apps and services deployed increases, teams face increased pressure to speed up native mobile app innovation and resolve app issues quicker. Next-gen Infrastructure Monitoring.

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Performance Analytics Mobile Innovation 232

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

And how can you verify this performance consistently across a multicloud environment that also uses Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform frameworks? This is where unified observability and Dynatrace Automations can help by leveraging causal AI and analytics to drive intelligent automation across your multicloud ecosystem.

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AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 243

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

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). Implementing SEO well means open communication between different members of the team — from SEO execs to writers to developers. Google Keyword Planner. Google Trends.

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Engineering Google Website Analytics 130

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. Analytics is a good example. That’s one example and a common one at that.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 90

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. This frustration is hardwired, as you can learn in this post about the psychology of site speed and human happiness.)

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Mobile Google Metrics Monitoring 82

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

Adding video to your website immediately adds value, but also a new level of complexity to your web development. How do I account for different network speeds in different environments? This solution is fine when network speeds are fast, but it can be problematic when network speeds are not fast (or fluctuate).

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Media Speed Network Analytics 106

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

It provides significant advantages that include: Offering scalability to support business expansion Speeding up the execution of business plans Stimulating innovation throughout the company Boosting organizational flexibility, enabling quick adaptation to changing market conditions and competitive pressures.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. Many people often confuse site speed with page speed grades of performance testing tools, which are actually calculated based on multiple factors of a page including its loading speed. Daniel An, Google, 2017.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

Jos

JUNE 17, 2017

In a recent post about Chrome 60 Beta , Google announced the support of the Paint Timing API to get metrics on when your page starts rendering and when the user gets content that can be consumed (more info on the definition of the events below). Here I’m going to describe this new API a bit and show you how to use it. round ( entry.

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Google Analytics Metrics Speed 130

Official Blog - World Web Technology

JUNE 28, 2023

Developing a WordPress website is not enough, you should be able to reap all the benefits of having a powerful WordPress website. You can also hire professional WordPress development services to help you out. You can also develop custom themes and plugins for your custom business requirements. What is WordPress?

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Website Social Media Media Traffic 52

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Serverless architecture enables organizations to deliver applications more efficiently without the overhead of on-premises infrastructure, which has revolutionized software development. Adding to the complexity are containers–tools for cloud development—which can be ephemeral. What is AIOps? AI for ITOps–and beyond.

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AWS Lambda Artificial Intelligence Serverless 225

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

SLOs created by upper management without buy-in from relevant development, operations, and SRE stakeholders can lead to finger-pointing, blaming, and chaotic war rooms when violations occur. Being reactive also does not prevent similar violations from reoccurring in the future, instead takes away critical time from your developers.

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DevOps Metrics Best Practices Latency 192

Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

One of the metrics produced when you run a test using webpagetest.org is called Speed Index and it changed the way I thought about web performance. Speed Index is important because it goes a step further and measures how much of the "above-the-fold" content is visually complete until the web page has finished loading.

Speed 40

Speed Analytics Google Retail 40

Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

One of the metrics produced when you run a test using webpagetest.org is called Speed Index and it changed the way I thought about web performance. Speed Index is important because it goes a step further and measures how much of the "above-the-fold" content is visually complete until the web page has finished loading.

Speed 40

Speed Analytics Google Retail 40

Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

One of the metrics produced when you run a test using webpagetest.org is called Speed Index and it changed the way I thought about web performance. Speed Index is important because it goes a step further and measures how much of the "above-the-fold" content is visually complete until the web page has finished loading.

Speed 40

Speed Analytics Google Retail 40

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Cloud-native architecture is a structural approach to planning and implementing an environment for software development and deployment that uses resources and processes common with public clouds like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. This adds up to a significant productivity boost for developers.

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Cloud Architecture Serverless Infrastructure 162

Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2023

More development teams across enterprises are adopting new mobile UI frameworks, namely SwiftUI,NET MAUI, and Android’s latest toolkit, Jetpack Compose. This allows developers to focus more of their efforts on innovation and delivering the best user experience to their customers.

Mobile 259

Mobile Monitoring Entertainment Innovation 259

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

It’s about creating awareness amongst both developers and non-developers. They can be run as a one-off or integrated in our development and deployment pipelines. Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Examples include associations with Google Docs, Facebook chat group interactions, streaming live forex market feeds, and managing trading notices. Memory Allocation: Allocating sufficient memory linked directly to the assigned CPU ensures effective utilization resulting in better system speed. This also aids scalability down the line.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Many developers have been asking themselves that question lately. LCP, or Largest Contentful Paint , is one of the three Core Web Vitals that you must “pass” to get the full search ranking boost from Google as part of their Page Experience Update. Improving Core Web Vitals, A Smashing Magazine Case Study. Barry Pollard.

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Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2022

As strained IT, development, and security teams head into 2022, the pressure to deliver better, more secure software faster has never been more consequential. A key arrow in the quiver for game-changers for developing and managing modern software is automatic, intelligent observability. Dynatrace news.

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Artificial Intelligence DevOps Performance Games 176

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Service-level objectives (SLOs) are a great tool to align business goals with the technical goals that drive DevOps (Speed of Delivery) and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) (Ensuring Production Resiliency). Introduction Objective Driven Development (ODD) for some Business SLOs. Dynatrace news. Mobile Crashes. Availability.

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DevOps Social Media Mobile Metrics 201

Jos

JUNE 17, 2017

In a recent post about Chrome 60 Beta , Google announced the support of the Paint Timing API to get metrics on when your page starts rendering and when the user gets content that can be consumed (more info on the definition of the events below). Here I’m going to describe this new API a bit and show you how to use it. round ( entry.

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Google Analytics Metrics Speed 100

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

The average user doesn’t spend much time waiting for a web page to load or to interact with the page: According to Google, if a page’s load time goes up from 1 second to 3 seconds, the probability of the user bouncing increases by 32%. Consider Google Analytics, which collects and sends tracking data using navigator.sendBeacon().

Website 80

Website Google Open Source Mobile 80

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. It's clear that developers are out of touch with market ground-truth , but it's not obvious why. You'll have to read on for what it is! target="_new"> the U.K.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Improved analytic context. While data analysis tools such as Google Analytics provide statistics based on user experiences, they lack details about what the user is doing and experiencing. Develop a broad recording strategy. Enhancing error correction. Analyzing session recordings. Ready to master session replay?

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Mobile Website Analytics Cache 243

Tasktop

JANUARY 5, 2022

This is by no means a unique phenomenon: Any marketing expert could tell you, for example, how Google Analytics can paint a very different picture depending on the selected date range. . Flow Metrics tell a story about the speed, throughput and efficiency of a value stream. Be content with the speed of completed work .

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Metrics Speed Analytics Azure 98

Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2022

In recent years, customer projects have moved towards complex cloud architectures, including dozens of microservices and different technology stacks which are challenging to develop, maintain, and optimize for resiliency. A decent solution is the W3C Trace context standard , created by Dynatrace, Google, Microsoft, and others.

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Testing Open Source Metrics Infrastructure 214

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Our customers are increasingly transitioning to agile software development, DevOps, and progressive continuous delivery to deliver business value faster. To speed up release frequency, they’re investing in delivery-pipeline automation. Read more: Google’s definition of the term Site Reliability Engineering.

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Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 150

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

you're a front-end developer), it's a good idea to track it because it can delay all your other metrics. > Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is one of Google's Core Web Vitals , so it's been getting a lot of attention lately. Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) is another one of Google's Core Web vitals.

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Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 134

Tasktop

JUNE 20, 2019

But here’s the rub: Agile development teams do not work in isolation. And why, in lieu of a single tool or process, organizations need to identify and eliminate long cycles and wait times within development itself, and beyond. The disconnect between the business and Agile development.

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Development DevOps Google Innovation 45

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

A cornerstone of our business model lies in the development of effective landing pages. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) LCP measures the perceived load speed of a webpage from a user’s perspective.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74