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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed). RUM works best only when people actively visit the application, website, or services.

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Performance Testing - Tools, Steps, and Best Practices

KeyCDN

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. What is Performance Testing?

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Ten years of page bloat: What have we learned?

Speed Curve

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 ). The problem isn't them – it's the scale of their sites, the speed of their release cycles, and the number of people who touch each page.

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HammerDB MySQL and MariaDB Best Practice for Performance and Scalability

HammerDB

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. .

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Getting started with web performance? Here's what you need to focus on.

Speed Curve

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. Create performance budgets and fight regression. Benchmark your site against your competitors.

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What is page bloat? And how is it hurting your business, your search rank, and your users?

Speed Curve

For more than ten years, I've been writing about page bloat, its impact on site speed, and ultimately how it affects your users and your business. This is to try to understand how a "typical" page might perform, as well as pages in the "longtail". It's super important to understand longtail performance. These are smart people.

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Google Lighthouse vs Rigor

Rigor

When you run Lighthouse, you can choose to receive up to five different scores, including SEO, Best Practices, Progressive Web App (PWA), Accessibility, and Performance , that can provide valuable insight for your dev team to act on. Even better, Rigor holds that performance data for 2 years.

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