Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database uptime and availability Monitoring database uptime and availability is crucial as it directly impacts the availability of critical data and the performance of applications or websites that rely on the MySQL database. This KPI is also directly related to Query Performance and helps improve it.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 103

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We track LEGO.com, along with a handful of other leading ecommerce sites, in our public-facing Retail Benchmarks dashboard , which I encourage you to check out. While this unused JS isn't the culprit behind the slow LCP time, it's still considered a best practice to remove unused scripts. seconds (which is a lot!)

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Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 69

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

RUM works best only when people actively visit the application, website, or services. In some cases, you will lack benchmarking capabilities. This includes development, user acceptance testing, beta testing, and general availability. RUM generates a lot of data. Application or service lifecycle testing at every stage.

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Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 175

Percona

MARCH 17, 2023

The VictoriaMetrics team has also published some best practices , which can also be referred to while planning for resources for setting up PMM2. The point is that scaling up PMM isn’t linear, and this post is only meant to give you a general idea and serve our users as a good starting point when planning to set up PMM2.

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Monitoring Scalability Cache Database 97

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Performance budgets are one of those ideas that everyone gets behind conceptually, but then are challenged to put into practice – and for very good reason. Web pages are unbelievably complex, and there are hundreds of different metrics available to track. Hat tip to Harry Roberts for this best practice.)

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Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 135

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. MySQL relies heavily on the availability of hardware resources to perform at its best. To maximize indexing benefits, be sure to follow best practices.

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Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Percona

JULY 19, 2023

You can build within the extracted source tree, but this goes against best practices. Look for part two, where we benchmark ULID in MySQL! Now that we have the code tree extracted and our plugin code ready, we need to create a build location. Once inside the build directory, execute cmake targeted to the source tree.

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C++ Servers Benchmarking Best Practices 78

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Another big jump, but now it was my job to run benchmarks in the lab, and write white papers that explained the new products to the world, as they were launched. I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R.

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Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

PostgreSQL performance optimization aims to improve the efficiency of a PostgreSQL database system by adjusting configurations and implementing best practices to identify and resolve bottlenecks, improve query speed, and maximize database throughput and responsiveness. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning?

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Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

Inspired by that post, I wanted to dig a bit deeper into a few of the best practices they mentioned, which fall loosely into these three buckets: Analyze your pages – understand the critical rendering path and page composition. At SpeedCurve we call these metrics "IX Time" and they're available on your LUX Performance dashboard.)

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 79

High Scalability

DECEMBER 3, 2019

By having appropriate indexes on your MySQL tables, you can greatly enhance the performance of SELECT queries. But, did you know that adding indexes to your tables in itself is an expensive operation, and may take a long time to complete depending on the size of your tables?

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Best Practices Performance Systems Processing 21

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. It is a very interesting idea that builds on previous best practices to find an optimal solution.

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Performance Design Best Practices Testing 110

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In general, the bitrate of your video should be about 80% of the available throughput on the network. In FFMPEG, the principal quality/size benchmark is the Constant Rate Factor (CRF) compression, with values ranging from 0 (no compression) to 50 (high compression). Video Playback On The Web: Video Delivery Best Practices (Part 2).

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Network Speed Website Mobile 143

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. This guide provides an overview of what high availability means, the components involved, how to measure high availability, and how to achieve it. How does high availability work?

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Thus, using Dedicated Log Volumes (DLVs), though new in AWS RDS, has been one of the recommended best practices and is a welcome setup improvement for your RDS instance. Benchmarking AWS RDS DLV setup Setup 2 RDS Single DB instances 1 EC2 Instance Regular DLV Enabled Sysbench db.m6i.2xlarge 2xlarge c5.2xlarge MySQL 8.0.31

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AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 95

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Many good security tools provide that function, and benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) are clear and prescriptive. Best practices for container security. Here is a checklist of best practices for how to approach container security. Why is container security tricky? Pretty neat, isn’t it?

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Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 250

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Dynatrace OneAgent deployment and life-cycle management are already widely considered to be industry benchmarks for reliability and efficiency. The same default deployment approach applies to all future updates, too—the experience can best be described as “fully SaaSified.” Dynatrace news.

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Best Practices Storage Java Benchmarking 196

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

All rely heavily on utilizing allocated portions from existing pools made available through specific providers as part of their service offerings. There are numerous choices available for deploying these workloads on various cloud provider platforms that offer unique capabilities.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

HammerDB doesn’t publish competitive database benchmarks, instead we always encourage people to be better informed by running their own. So over at Phoronix some database benchmarks were published showing PostgreSQL 12 Performance With AMD EPYC 7742 vs. Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 Benchmarks .

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Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This post complements the previous best practice guides this time with the focus on MySQL and MariaDB and achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB MySQL TPC-C test. InnoDB is the storage engine that will deliver the best OLTP throughput and should be chosen for this test. . HammerDB difference from Sysbench.

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Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

There are a ton of best practices for front-end developers to follow. This traditionally manifests more in back-end time, but can have a huge impact on front-end as well when you factor in asset delivery (images, static content) as well as some advanced optimizations available at the edge. Benchmark yourself.

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Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. ## 6. Checking those available: $ cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource. If you know they did, please drop a comment.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. You can see this by looking at the synthetic test result for Sears.com (again, available via our Industry Benchmarks ). Here are some tips and best practices to help on that journey. Not all pages are getting bigger. How quickly do they show up?

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Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Performance Culture Best Practices. Industry speed benchmarks for Japan. We have a number of SpeedCurve users who want an ongoing understanding of how popular Japanese websites perform, so we added Japan to our Industry Page Speed Benchmarks dashboard. Performance Budgets 101. Web Performance for Product Managers.

Retail 52

Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 52

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

While this has the benefit of respecting user privacy by minimizing permissions (which is a best practice that ChatGPT may have learned from its training data), it made my coding efforts a lot more painful since I kept running into unexpected errors when I tried adding new functionality to my Chrome extension.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. Running this on the two systems saw similar results. clocksource Experimentation My second experiment was to change the clocksource.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

LCP is only available in Chromium-based browsers, so if you have a significant number of users that come in via other browsers, you should also consider tracking Last Painted Hero, below. > Several metrics are available in both tools, so you can create charts in which you track the same metric in both synthetic and RUM.

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Performance Metrics Media Google 98

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

This means that multiple partitions can be processed simultaneously, making better use of available hardware resources and further enhancing query performance. Any partitioning strategy should improve query performance , not lead to suboptimal queries — test and benchmark strategies before implementation.

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Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. The code for the site is available on GitHub for reference. It’s is a Google service that audit things performance, accessibility, SEO, and best practices. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. ## 7. Running this on the two systems saw similar results. clocksource Experimentation My second experiment was to change the clocksource.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

The most popular, by far, is the Google Lighthouse report (available in Chrome Developer Tools) and Google’s Page Speed Insights. They are more of a benchmark than a true measurement of real user experience. Some of the popular synthetic measurement tools are WebPageTest , SiteSpeed.io , Splunk Synthetic Monitoring , and Dynatrace.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

By understanding these challenges and following best practices, you can make the most of triggers while minimizing potential drawbacks. Testing and Benchmarking : Thoroughly test triggers in a staging environment to evaluate their impact on performance. Carefully design transactions to avoid unnecessary locking and contention.

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Cache Database Games Healthcare 59

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Recently Grigorik has been championing this approach and the Google Pagespeed Insight rules have been updated to reflect this best practice with recommendations on how to reduce the size of "above the fold" content. There are great tools available to monitor the actual in browser speed and benchmark your site against others.

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Performance Mobile Website Benchmarking 60

Speed Curve

JANUARY 31, 2018

In this post, I'm going to share some proven tips and best practices to help you create a healthy, happy, celebratory performance culture. Here's how to set up ongoing competitive benchmarking and generate comparison videos. Make things visible (but not overwhelming).

Performance 40

Performance Metrics Traffic Monitoring 40

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Talent availability. It has a vast community that explains online courses, many available tutorials, articles, and three times more questions on Stack overflow. Vue vs React: Talent Availability. Its documentation has set a benchmark that beats anything from react camp. In this article, I will compare React.js and Vue.js

Open Source 52

Open Source Mobile Scalability Google 52

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Compare PostgreSQL vs. Oracle functionality across available tools, capabilities and services. Not available. Not available. Not available. See how open source PostgreSQL Community version costs compare to Oracle Standard Edition and Oracle Enterprise Edition. Compare Functionality. Compare Ease of Use. Total Cost. $0.

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Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

eCommerce Conversion Rate Benchmarks First off, we’ll start with some benchmarks. Here are a couple of examples from Etsy’s website: Limited quantities available Product added to customer carts 3. All of these things come into play when discussing the conversion rate of any eCommerce store.

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Ecommerce Speed Website Mobile 41