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. What is a performance budget? Here are mine.

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CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Let me address that by combining my two favourite topics: CSS and performance. It’s really, really bad for Start Render performance. The introduction of the Preload Scanner improved web page performance by around 19%, all without developers having to lift a finger. What’s the Big Problem? Avoid using @import in your CSS files.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2021

When disabled, OneAgents don’t perform any monitoring tasks, and consequently, don’t consume any licensing. In such cases you might want to make sure that OneAgent is able to perform to its full potential, including any newly released functionality, the moment that monitoring is enabled. Why is this important? How it works.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. Recently, I spent some time checking on the Performance (not a very detailed study) of the various programming languages.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

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. Typical Dynatrace use cases cover SLOs for service availability, web application performance, mobile application availability, and synthetic availability.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. Large preview ) We’ve known for a long time that fast page performance influences search engine rankings.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2024

To wit: somebody has to hold management accountable for keeping delivery and operations performing within investment parameters and, if it is not, either fix the performance with or without that management or negotiate a change in parameters with investors. None of these definitions are correct, though.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 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. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Jos

APRIL 6, 2018

It turns out this component structure provides a great foundation to improve the performance of our sites. Lazy-loading and bundle splitting can have a huge impact on page performance: less code requested, parsed, and executed. Improving performance of our sites by loading only what is needed Imagine a typical web page.

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Jos

APRIL 5, 2018

It turns out this component structure provides a great foundation to improve the performance of our sites. Lazy-loading and bundle splitting can have a huge impact on page performance: less code requested, parsed, and executed. Improving performance of our sites by loading only what is needed Imagine a typical web page.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Ten years is a lot of time to reflect, and over this past year our team has been thinking a lot about not just the "what" and "how" of web performance, but also the "why". In that time, we've seen people's interest in performance dramatically increase, especially in the world of SEO. Among other things, we turned ten !

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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. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

In this blog, I will be going through a step-by-step guide on how to automate SRE-driven performance engineering. Keptn uses SLO definitions to automatically configure Dynatrace or Prometheus alerting rules. Step-by-step guide: SRE-driven performance analysis with Dynatrace. This is what this blog is all about.

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. What is Google Lighthouse? Google Lighthouse is one of the best-automated tools available on a web developer's utility belt.

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Alex Podelko

JUNE 12, 2019

If we talk about commercial vendors targeting the corporate market, I guess only Neotys remains independent and active (I mean contributing into the performance testing ecosystem – innovation, publishing content, participating in events, etc). Microfocus acquired both LoadRunner from HP and Silk Performer (as a part of Borland).

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

There are many definitions of environmental sustainability, most of which converge on a common theme: collectively and individually, we have a responsibility to act to protect global ecosystems and support health and wellbeing, now and in the future. General availability is planned for the second quarter of 2023.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. For this article, we will focus on the first three and the performance adjustments for these.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

The key to accomplishing both these goals is having effective mobile app monitoring that quickly identifies the root cause of performance issues. App developers and digital teams typically rely on separate analytics tools, such as Adobe and Google Analytics, that may aggregate user behavior and try to understand anomalies in traffic.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

In the podcast, Grabner recalled his interview with Kelsey Hightower at the Perform 2023 conference. He recalls Dynatrace’s nascent days in the application performance monitoring space when observability was becoming a hot topic. One of the main roadblocks that arises with a broader definition for DevOps is responsibility.

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MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

Luckily we’ve recommended some of the best web performance books to read while stuck at home. And if you absolutely have to have it on a device, most of them are available via Kindle as well. High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge For Front-End Engineers. and the Head Performance Engineer at Google.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2020

Perform Post Incident Review (PIR)? —?Review Review how the incident process was performed, tracking actions to be performed after the incident, and driving learning through structuring informal knowledge. status, title, description, priority, etc,) and Google Doc and Google Drive for managing data itself.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

If you've been working in the performance space for a while and you hear me start to talk about page growth, I'd forgive you if you started running away. ;). How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? Image size is another issue, as excessive image weight hurts your SEO ranking in Google Image Search.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

While DevOps is often referred to as “agile operations,” the widely quoted definition from Jez Humble, co-author of The DevOps Handbook, calls it “a cross-disciplinary community of practice dedicated to the study of building, evolving, and operating rapidly-changing resilient systems at scale.” Deployment frequency.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Sometimes it’s easy enough to find the answer to that question and the site just needs to invest in performance. Sometimes though, it’s a little trickier and, despite thinking your site was great on the performance for some reason it still fails. Many developers have been asking themselves that question lately.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. But not everything about performance happens directly at the code level, right?

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2021

The Google Site Reliability Engineering page is a great read for understanding and embracing the idea of defining SLOs for reliable global IT services. SLO templates for the most popular use cases are available out-of-the-box. Proactive SLO impact analysis is available with the release of Dynatrace version 1.220. Learn more.

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CSS - Tricks

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Lighthouse is a free and open-source tool for assessing your website’s performance, accessibility, progressive web app metrics, SEO, and more. If you don’t use Chrome or Chromium-based browsers, like Microsoft Edge or Brave, you can run Lighthouse through its web interface but it only works with publicly available web pages.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

If you’re reading this before March 2024 and fire up your favorite performance monitoring tool, you’re going to to get a Core Web Vitals report like this one pulled from PageSpeed Insights: ( Large preview ) You’re likely used to seeing most of these metrics. INP will officially replace FID when it becomes an official Core Web Vital metric.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2021

As a strong supporter of open source and open standards, I’m aware that the wide availability of standards, open-source tools, and some newly coined terms are causing a lot of confusion. In the mid 2000s, Google published their Dapper paper which describes techniques for distributed tracing at Google. W3C Trace Context.

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The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

This makes memory a critical factor in the total cost of ownership (TCO) of large compute clusters, or as Google like to call them “Warehouse-scale computers (WSCs).” ” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016. Enter zswap!

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Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. ” Others — including CockroachDB, TimescaleDB, Redis, and Confluent — followed suit to some extent by changing licenses for key parts of their platforms from open source to source-available. Now, back to MongoDB itself.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

That performance golden rule still holds true today. Google recommends that TTFB be 800ms at the 75th percentile. Charlie Vazac introduced server timing in a Performance Calendar post circa 2018. This data is available by enabling the mPulse behavior in property manager.

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Engine diversity is essential, as it is the mechanism that causes competition to deliver better performance, capability, privacy, security, and user controls. Google's Search App and Facebook's various apps for Android undermine these choices in slightly different ways. [3] More on that when we get to iOS. " you might ask?

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CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

Yet, this criticism of React isn’t completely unwarranted: React and ReactDOM total about 120 KiB of minified JavaScript, which definitely contributes to slow startup time. What follows are my findings on React performance as I’ve tried to meet this challenge in a way that’s best for users. Setting the scene.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

We normally focus solely on the performance aspect, but today we want to dive into additional ways you can optimize images for the web. The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better. KB (30%) without losses.

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