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Web Performance Testing — What, Why, How of Core Web Vitals

DZone

As a result, it has an advantage over others in terms of visibility, brand image, and driving traffic. This article will learn about web performance testing and how Core Web Vitals plays a crucial and strategic part in it. However, to tactically assess the website's performance , it needs to be measured in a well-thought-out manner.

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

Speed Curve

Server-timing headers are a key tool in understanding what's happening within that black box of Time to First Byte (TTFB). Cue server-timing headers Historically, when looking at page speed, we've had the tendency to ignore TTFB when trying to optimize the user experience. I mean, why wouldn't we?

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The road to observability with OpenTelemetry demo part 1: Identifying metrics and traces

Dynatrace

When software runs in a monolithic stack on on-site servers, observability is manageable enough. To demonstrate how that can work, we’ve chosen a pristine web application without any observability and are going to make it observable step-by-step during the next few chapters of this article.

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COVID-19 and Digital Services: An Action Plan for the Unexpected

Dynatrace

While most government agencies and commercial enterprises have digital services in place, the current volume of usage — including traffic to critical employment, health and retail/eCommerce services — has reached levels that many organizations have never seen before or tested against. So how do you know what to prepare for?

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Improving Core Web Vitals, A Smashing Magazine Case Study

Smashing Magazine

I’ve written a few articles here before on Core Web Vitals, and am always interested to see what’s in their annual Web Performance Checklist. Running a failing article page through WebPageTest highlighted the LCP element: The LCP image of a typical Smashing Magazine article. OK, so the article author photo is the LCP element.

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Optimizing Server Management With HAProxy’s Advanced Health Checks

DZone

This open-source software, lauded for its reliability and high performance, is a vital tool in the arsenal of network administrators, adept at managing web traffic across diverse server environments. When traffic to a website or application increases, HAProxy can seamlessly bring more servers online to handle the load.

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How Netflix brings safer and faster streaming experience to the living room on crowded networks…

The Netflix TechBlog

for streaming traffic. the server signs the entire handshake including the cipher suite negotiation and thus prevents the attacker from downgrading the cipher suite. At the time of writing this article, the Internet is experiencing higher than usual traffic and congestion. Now we support TLS 1.3 What is TLS?

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