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Secrets Detection: Optimizing Filter Processes

DZone

While increasing both the precision and the recall of our secrets detection engine, we felt the need to keep a close eye on speed. In a gearbox, if you want to increase torque, you need to decrease speed. So it wasn’t a surprise to find that our engine had the same problem: more power, less speed.

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In Defence of DOM­Content­Loaded

CSS Wizardry

Honestly, I started writing this article, for no real reason and somewhat without context, in December 2022—over half a year ago! Instead, we have: domContentLoadedEventStart : This is the one we’re interested in, and is equivalent to the concept we’ve been discussing in this article so far. log ( window. performance. performance.

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Measure What You Impact, Not What You Influence

CSS Wizardry

As I see it, there are two main issues when it comes to measuring performance changes (note, not improvements , but changes) in the lab: Site-speed is nondeterministic 1. We can take reasonable measures (always refresh from a cold cache; throttle to a constant network speed), but we can’t account for everything. Isolate Your Impact.

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Average Page Load Times for 2020 – Are you faster?

MachMetrics

Similar to our article Average Page Load Times for 2018 , we’ll go over the averages for metrics and help you determine if your site is faster or slower than average. As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is.

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How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

Speed Curve

Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Pagespeed Benchmarks - US Retail - LCP When you examine a waterfall, it's pretty obvious that TTFB is the long pole in the tent, pushing out render times for the page.

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NEW: On-demand testing in SpeedCurve!

Speed Curve

Benchmarking. Based on feedback from our customers – as well as the industry at large – we now give you the ability to run tests when debugging, benchmarking, or just because you feel like it. Read this article to learn more about deployments. What are the two types of tests within SpeedCurve?

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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.