MachMetrics

APRIL 15, 2020

Using a page speed optimization audit tool like GTmetrix or WebPageTest is a great first step towards assessing how your website loads for visitors. However, you may be making one of the common page speed testing mistakes that often cost website owners engagement, and ultimately, revenue. Mistake #1: Only Testing Desktop.

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DZone

JUNE 3, 2020

I’ve recently talked about a testing framework called Cypress. In this article, I will talk about another one: a pretty simple testing framework for REST API Automation called Karate. Besides powerful JSON & XML assertions, you can run tests in parallel for speed – which is critical for HTTP API testing.

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Testing Open Source Speed Performance Testing 264

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? There's also a test and println() in the loop to, hopefully, convince the compiler not to optimize-out an otherwise empty loop. This will slow this test a little.) Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

However, you have likely used the Web UI that Google uses to allow you to test websites for speed – Google PageSpeed Insights. Lighthouse is a completely open-source tool that allows users to test any website in a multitude of ways. While PageSpeed Insights focuses solely on speed/performance, Lighthouse offers even more.

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CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I began writing this article in early July 2023 but began to feel a little underwhelmed by it and so left it unfinished. in this article. In one test, I concatenated it all into one big file, and the other had the library split into 12 files. Read the complete test methodology. If you are still running HTTP/1.1,

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Cache Latency Strategy Speed 291

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

What types of devices and connections should I test on? 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. How we set up our testing. Find out more about why it's so important to test at slow speeds.

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Benchmarking Speed Performance Media 134

MachMetrics

MAY 2, 2020

Our most recent article identified (and remedied) the 4 most common page speed testing mistakes we see website owners making, and it inspired us to do even more to help those who make mistake #2: Only testing from 1 location. There needs to be a little research put into where your visitors will come from.

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Speed Testing Website Mobile 52

MachMetrics

MARCH 21, 2020

Chrome’s DevTools suite contains some of the most powerful tools available to help you analyze and improve the speed of your website (or web app). In our most recent article , we covered one area of the DevTools that we can use to measure the load time of our site – the ‘Audit’ tab. To improve your site!

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Speed Performance Google Mobile 99

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals Matt Zeunert 2024-04-16T10:00:00+00:00 2024-04-16T12:05:36+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative has increased the attention website owners need to pay to user experience.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Image by Freepik On-demand testing has sparked a lot of discussion here at SpeedCurve over the past year. You've always had the ability to manually trigger a round of tests – based on the scheduled tests in your settings – using the 'Test Now' button. What are the two types of tests within SpeedCurve?

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Testing Benchmarking Performance Testing Metrics 73

Testsigma

APRIL 4, 2022

A common theme among most software testing organizations is their escalating interest in Test Automation. While test automation has grown in popularity, there are still many myths and biases surrounding it. Such myths can unknowingly create a self-limiting boundary and negatively impact the possibilities of test automation.

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Testing Open Source IoT Programming 95

Smashing Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

Tools And Practices To Speed Up The Vue.js Tools And Practices To Speed Up The Vue.js Note: This article is aimed at both beginners and seasoned developers who want to better their Vue.js There is also a test folder to carry out testing for this feature. Testing libraries. Component Testing.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 14, 2012

One of the challenges we faced was very slow automatic tests — full unit/integration test suite takes more than 2 hours for Hadoop core and more than 9 hours for Apache Pig. Although there are different ways to alleviate this problem (divide tests into suites, optimize tests by tweaking timeouts and sleeps, etc.),

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Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. Otherwise we wouldn’t see so many commercial tools built on the top of open source including BlazeMeter (it is ironic that the article is posted on the BlazeMeter site), Flood, and OctoPerf. What load testing tools did you use?

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MachMetrics

JUNE 18, 2019

We’ve written tons of articles giving you step-by-step advice on how to make your website faster – but not everyone wants to go through lots of steps. Many people reach out to us asking what is the #1 most important bang-for-your-buck tip on optimizing your website’s speed. Sounds simple, right?

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Speed Website Social Media Media 81

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In order for software development teams to balance speed with quality during the software development cycle (SDLC), development, security, and operations teams (or DevSecOps teams) need to ensure that their practices align with modern cloud environments. That can be difficult when the business climate can prioritize speed.

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Serverless Infrastructure Innovation DevOps 271

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? There's also a test and println() in the loop to, hopefully, convince the compiler not to optimize-out an otherwise empty loop. This will slow this test a little.) Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

DZone

MAY 5, 2022

There are three primary reasons for choosing AWS S3: affordability, speed, and reliability. Sometimes you need to upload a payload or file objects to S3 programmatically via your performance test script. This article will help you to upload files to AWS S3 in JMeter using Groovy.

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AWS Storage Scalability Speed 130

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 1, 2021

Testing is one of those things that you either get super excited about or kinda close your eyes and walk away. Whichever camp you fall into, I’m here to tell you that front-end testing is for everyone. In fact, there are many types of tests and perhaps that is where some of the initial fear or confusion comes from. Integration.

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Testing Performance Testing Website Code 95

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google do strongly encourage you to focus on site speed for better performance in Search, but, if you don’t pass all relevant Core Web Vitals (and the applicable factors from the Page Experience report) they will not push you down the rankings. While Core Web Vitals can help with SEO, there’s so much more to site-speed than that.

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Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. And to ensure the quality of a product, we always need to test — on a number of devices, and in a number of conditions. What’s a representative device to test on in 2021? Kelvin Omereshone. State Of Mobile 2021.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 134

Dynatrace

APRIL 11, 2023

Context is king: Converging security and observability to protect a digital-first world – Forbes.com article Many tools also don’t see deep enough inside cloud-native architectures to quickly pinpoint newly discovered zero-days for patching. If something doesn’t change, organizations will be unprepared when the next Log4Shell emerges.

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Cloud DevOps Open Source Retail 192

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Today’s competitive world demands “ Quality at Speed with minimal costs. ”. To meet this demand, tester’s rely on test automation tools to rapidly roll out high-quality software. They are leveraging open-source testing tools that are reliable, secure, and free to use. EXCITING NEWS – TESTSIGMA IS NOW OPEN-SOURCE!

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Open Source Testing Innovation Speed 81

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? There's also a test and println() in the loop to, hopefully, convince the compiler not to optimize-out an otherwise empty loop. This will slow this test a little.) Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

That we probably aren’t testing. Same page, same connection speed, same locale, same release year, different devices. If you don’t have an iPhone, well, you’ll struggle to test an iPhone. Testing with WebPageTest. Testing in Safari’s DevTools. So, we’re stuck only with Safari. Why This Isn’t a Huge Problem.

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Network Mobile Performance Traffic 225

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

David Gilbertson and the guys at Hackernoon have a great article and flowchart that will help you decide whether or not you really need to load a web font for your site. They’re all different and you should test both options. Do I really need to use a custom web font? Now, your site can take advantage of that gorgeous typography.

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Speed Performance Google Open Source 65

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

You test your application on multiple browsers and mobile devices – including the various versions and operating systems that your users might be on. Thus, cross-browser testing is crucial, and seeing the number of browsers/devices you will have to execute it on – no easy feat. How do you do it? via chrome developer tools.

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Cloud Testing Mobile Internet 82

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Cloud testing, in simple terms, means testing software applications using the resources provided by the cloud. Resources can be any element i.e., hardware, software, or infrastructure which are necessary to carry out tests. Cloud testing helps an organization gain competitiveness by reducing the cost of testing.

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Cloud Testing Mobile Scalability 59

Testsigma

JUNE 10, 2021

In this article, we will only discuss testing the OTP based authentication for obvious reasons. We cannot test third-party mobile apps like Twilio Authy or Google Authenticator. And then we will move on to learning how to test 2 Factor Authentication. How to test 2 Factor Authentication based systems.

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FinTech Mobile Speed Testing 140

Testsigma

AUGUST 28, 2021

We all know that if we are developing something that runs on the web using browsers then cross-browser testing needs to be done. There is another variation of cross-browser testing – cross-device testing. In this article, we will discuss the scenarios when automating your cross-browser testing would be a good idea.

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Testing Cloud C++ Operating System 75

MachMetrics

MAY 14, 2020

Check out that challenge again below, and read on to learn why our page weight test is maybe the most important first step you can take towards improving your website’s performance. Since we published that article at the start of 2020, the median website has grown ~4% larger according to HTTP Archive. MB for mobile.

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Website Testing Speed Cache 52

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

But with the growing smartphone user base, two things are a given: one — There will be more people who will want to access your website via mobile, ensuring great quality and usability for your websites for mobile and testing them well will become very important. What Is Mobile Web Testing? Why Should We Perform Mobile Web Testing?

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Mobile Testing Website Speed 65

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Cross Browser Testing also known as cross browser compatibility testing is all about creating a consistent experience for users across all browsers – but the question is how do you do that efficiently? Cross Browser compatibility testing helps us to pin-point compatibility errors which helps the developers to debug them quickly.

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Testing Tools Testing Efficiency Cloud 93

Testsigma

MAY 14, 2021

Cloud-based testing has become quite integral these days. Most businesses have already done the shift towards cloud-based testing. The traditional testing that was done on the software installed on local servers is now slowly fading away. Cloud-based testing comprises cloud-based test automation as well.

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Cloud Testing Testing Tools Internet 67

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2021

So how do the testing community ensure that this love for iPhone and iOS apps grows manifolds with time? With quality testing and automation, we can ensure the iPhone provides the best experience to its loyal users. In this article, we will be looking at mobile testing for iOS. Unit Testing.

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Testing Hardware Mobile Testing Tools 84

Testsigma

JUNE 26, 2021

MarketQuest (2021) predicts automation testing to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 9.8% That brings us to the crux of our conversation — codeless test automation. In the past, it was always important for testers to learn to code and keep updating their skills for performing automation tests.

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Testing Testing Tools Automotive Scalability 57