Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Earlier this year, Google announced that Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is no longer an experimental metric. Now that INP has arrived to dethrone FID as the responsiveness metric in Core Web Vitals, we've turned our eye to scrutinizing its effectiveness. When it comes to new performance metrics, it's easy to jump on bandwagons.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Analytics is a good example. Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. You can see that Lighthouse does indeed provide that metric. It replaces the First Input Delay (FI D ) metric.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 90

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Query performance Query performance is a key performance indicator (KPI) in MySQL, as it measures the efficiency and speed of query execution. This includes metrics such as query execution time, the number of queries executed per second, and the utilization of query cache and adaptive hash index.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 107

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. INP replaces First Input Delay (FID) as the Vitals responsiveness metric. This is what the INP metric assesses."

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Mobile Google Metrics Monitoring 82

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Making applications observable—relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and how it’s performing—has become increasingly important as workloads are shifting to multicloud environments. We also introduced our demo app and explained how to define the metrics and traces it uses.

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Metrics Monitoring Database Network 171

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

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. While high-volume traffic often boosts sales, it can also compromise uptimes. Instead, to speed up response times, applications are now processing most data at the network’s perimeter, closest to the data’s origin. Automate IT operations.

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Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 182

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). In the workshop, I also answered the question: How can we measure those metrics (=SLIs) that are behind our objectives?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Previous metrics measured variations of the first paint to screen (often this was a header or background color); incidentally content that isn’t really what the user actually wants to get out of the page. And the “contentful” part of the name shows this metric is intended to ignore (e.g. And NOW we were finally done. Why is that?

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Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

To speed up release frequency, they’re investing in delivery-pipeline automation. The flip side of speeding up delivery, however, is that each software release comes with the risk of impacting your goals of availability, performance, or any business KPIs. Which metrics are relevant for your business, anyway?

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Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 151

High Scalability

JUNE 4, 2019

For heads of IT/Engineering responsible for building an analytics infrastructure , Etleap is an ETL solution for creating perfect data pipelines from day one. Scalyr gives you instant visibility of your production systems, helping you turn chaotic logs and system metrics into actionable data at interactive speeds.

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Java Metrics Software Engineering Traffic 116

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. Win, win, win.

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Engineering Google Website Analytics 130

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

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

At the same time, they open a door to lots of concepts that might be overwhelming: PRPL, RAIL, Paint Timing API, TTI, HTTP/2, Speed Index, Priority Hints and more … Why Performance doesn’t get Prioritized Web performance at organizations is a real challenge. One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. Well, not so fast.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Fighting regressions should be the top priority of anyone who cares about the speed of their site. The best way to fight regressions is to create performance budgets on key metrics, and get alerted when they go out of bounds. Make sure you're tracking the right metrics There are a lot of performance metrics out there!

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Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. However, there are quite a few high-profile case studies exploring the impact of mobile optimization on key business metrics.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

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. The Core Web Vitals are a set of three metrics designed to measure the “core” experience of whether a website feels fast or slow to the users, and so gives a good experience.

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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

Once Dynatrace sees the incoming traffic it will also show up in Dynatrace, under Transaction & Services. These tags will allow us to create dashboards, request attributes or calculate service metrics specifically for our application under test. This allows us to analyze metrics (SLIs) for each individual endpoint URL.

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Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 192

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Modern web applications and pages, such as single-page applications, that put the user experience at its utmost priority are expected to be available 24/7, anywhere in the world, usable on any screen size, secure, flexible, scalable and be ready to meet traffic spikes on demand. Connection time. Network equipment like cable or router.

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Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

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

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

At the same time, they open a door to lots of concepts that might be overwhelming: PRPL, RAIL, Paint Timing API, TTI, HTTP/2, Speed Index, Priority Hints and more …. Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. One could argue this is a metric-driven decision.

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

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. Tap for a larger version. How bad is it?

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I asked around and heard that they are still working on it, but the AWS hiring freeze means that they don’t have the headcount they expected and are making slow progress on an API, more detailed metrics, and scope 3, which everyone is waiting for. Portfolio is currently reducing Amazons carbon footprint by 19 Million Metric Tons of CO2e.

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AWS Energy Architecture Programming 64

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Having worked on browsers for more than a decade, I think it would be shocking if a browser team agreed to more than 10 MiB for a feature like this, especially if it won't dramatically speed up the majority of existing websites. One challenge for fair inclusion is the tension between site-count-weighting and traffic-weighting.

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Cache Government Traffic Network 82

Apica

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

To keep up with the testing demand there are a number of feature requirements needed in order to be called a modern performance testing platform: Mega-scale load testing — load testing should scale up to millions of users within seconds to emulate the speed and scale of virtually any high-profile event worldwide.

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Performance Testing Testing Performance Games 40

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 11, 2019

This helps us do things like: correlate various performance metrics with user behavior, understand the user journey and popular pages so you can better model your synthetic testing, and. A lot of performance users really love that they can track business metrics specific to a session alongside their performance data.

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Retail Traffic Media Metrics 59

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

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.

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Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

Which metrics should I use?” Which values of these metrics are acceptable?”. The metrics selection is outside of the scope of this article and depends highly on the project context, but I recommend that you start by reading User-centric Performance Metrics by Philip Walton. Adding 20% to them and set as your next goals.

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Performance Metrics Best Practices Code 98

High Scalability

APRIL 16, 2019

Join Etleap , an Amazon Redshift ETL tool to learn the latest trends in designing a modern analytics infrastructure. Learn what has changed in the analytics landscape and how to avoid the major pitfalls which can hinder your organization from growth. View and analyze all your logs and system metrics from multiple sources in one place.

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Analytics Java Metrics Software Engineering 26

High Scalability

APRIL 10, 2019

Join Etleap , an Amazon Redshift ETL tool to learn the latest trends in designing a modern analytics infrastructure. Learn what has changed in the analytics landscape and how to avoid the major pitfalls which can hinder your organization from growth. View and analyze all your logs and system metrics from multiple sources in one place.

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Analytics Java Metrics Software Engineering 26

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.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

High Scalability

MAY 14, 2019

Join Etleap , an Amazon Redshift ETL tool to learn the latest trends in designing a modern analytics infrastructure. Learn what has changed in the analytics landscape and how to avoid the major pitfalls which can hinder your organization from growth. View and analyze all your logs and system metrics from multiple sources in one place.

Analytics 24

Analytics Java Metrics Software Engineering 24

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. They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic. Design Optimizations.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

Obviously, the application will see a huge spike in traffic and testers would have already made the application scale-proof. Cloud-based tools also provide detailed metrics with graphs to understand and analyze the performance. reporting mechanisms (reporting and analytics tools), physical system connections etc.

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Cloud Testing Infrastructure Testing Tools 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

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 on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Table Of Contents. Setting Realistic Goals. Defining The Environment.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103