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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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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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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences. Real user monitoring (RUM) is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about users’ interactions with an application. What is real user monitoring?

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. Rich became co-author of the second edition of the Sun Performance Tuning book, to describe how it worked.

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Best Practice for Creating Indexes on your MySQL Tables

High Scalability

By having appropriate indexes on your MySQL tables, you can greatly enhance the performance of SELECT queries. During this time, you are also likely to experience a degraded performance of queries as your system resources are busy in index-creation work as well.

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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. As is exactly the same with PostgreSQL for system choice a 2 socket system is optimal for MySQL OLTP performance.

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Ten years of page bloat: What have we learned?

Speed Curve

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. ;). HTML – Typically the smallest resource on the page, HTML's performance risk is usually negligible. These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site.

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