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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.

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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

Because pre-production environments are used for testing before an application is released to end users, teams have no access to real-user data. RUM works best only when people actively visit the application, website, or services. In some cases, you will lack benchmarking capabilities. RUM generates a lot of data.

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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. What's blocking the user experience?

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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. . large-pages.

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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 ). I meet with so many people whose job it is to build and optimize websites. Not all pages are getting bigger. Takeaways.

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Google Lighthouse vs Rigor

Rigor

Reading time 11 min As companies become more aware of the importance of web performance, internal teams begin to research tools they can use to use to track their metrics and improve the user experience of their websites and applications. Not everyone uses Chrome to access your website.

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

Speed Curve

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 numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. Takeaways I meet with so many people who build and optimize websites. Possibly not.

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