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

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Key metrics like throughput, request latency, and memory utilization are essential for assessing Redis health, with tools like the MONITOR command and Redis-benchmark for latency and throughput analysis and MEMORY USAGE/STATS commands for evaluating memory.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? 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. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Memory Allocation: Allocating sufficient memory linked directly to the assigned CPU ensures effective utilization resulting in better system speed. Ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and best practices also poses a significant obstacle for workload management in the realm of cloud computing platforms.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Your current competitive benchmarks status. Expanded Industry Speed Benchmarks. Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive dashboard that lets you explore and compare web performance data for leading websites across several industries – from retail to media – over the past year. Lots of new videos!

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? 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. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

There are a ton of best practices for front-end developers to follow. Synthetic is great for trending over time, especially when looking at the number and size of requests (images, JavaScript, CSS), which collectively have a big impact on speed. Benchmark yourself. Another great tool to have in your bag is benchmarking.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Throughout this post I've used examples from our public Industry Benchmarks dashboard , which I'd encourage you to check out so that you can explore these metrics on your own. Google Lighthouse is an open-source tool that checks your page against rules for Performance, PWA, Accessibility, Best Practice, and SEO. Is it loading?

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Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 135

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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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 ). In this recent test run from our Industry Page Speed Benchmarks , you can see that the Amazon home page ranks fastest in terms of Start Render.

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Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

Running speed tests with tools like Google PageSpeed Insights , WebPageTest , or KeyCDN’s Website Speed Test are always a good way to help gauge your website’s performance. Why Care About Page Speed? There are a multitude of reasons why you should care about page speed. A site which loads in 2.6

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Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Page labels give you the ability to: Compare and benchmark similar pages across different sites. Compare and benchmark similar pages across different sites. Benchmark key pages against those of your competitors. Benchmark Dashboard from SpeedCurve. Why should I care about page labels? How do page labels help me?

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Benchmarking Best Practices Monitoring Traffic 58

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Query performance Query performance is a key performance indicator (KPI) in MySQL, as it measures the efficiency and speed of query execution. As a best practice, It is advisable to have different mounts for MySQL data and log files with specific system configurations.

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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. Those are already big wins.

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Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 69

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. Why is PostgreSQL performance tuning important?

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Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. Bitrate is the playback speed of the video. However, all the other connections have a downlink speed that’s significantly lower than 20 MBPS. There is a solution though! Large preview ).

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Network Speed Website Mobile 143

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Enhanced User Experience Whether you operate an e-commerce platform, a content management system, or any other application reliant on MySQL, users will notice and appreciate the improved speed and responsiveness. To maximize indexing benefits, be sure to follow best practices. This does not apply to read (SELECT) traffic.

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Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

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 Retailers.

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Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 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. Speed Index (synthetic only): 4 seconds recommended. What's blocking the user experience?

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 79

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Yet, we wanted to put together our list of the top web performance books for anyone who cares about speed of the web and would like to explore the timeline of web performance engineering milestones over nearly two decades through the lens of published books. Site speed & SEO go hand in hand. Speed Up Your Site. Still good.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

Each partition holds data that falls within a specific range, optimizing data handling and query speed. This version also notably integrates native backing for range and list partitioning of spatial indexes, amplifying geospatial query speed for substantial datasets. Additionally, MySQL 8.0 Periodically review and adjust.

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Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. When it comes to the impact of page speed on metrics like conversion rate and bounce rate, some pages are more critical than others.

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Performance Metrics Media Google 98

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

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. These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. Here are some tips and best practices to help on that journey. How quickly do they show up?

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Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

eCommerce Conversion Rate Benchmarks First off, we’ll start with some benchmarks. The lower conversion rate on mobile could be due to a variety of reasons including the website not being responsive for mobile devices, the speed isn’t up to par, etc. Improve Site Speed In 2019, having fast site speed is imperative.

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Ecommerce Speed Website Mobile 41

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. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

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

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

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. When it comes to network speed, Lighthouse gives you three options – and no others.

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Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

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. Synthetic web performance measurements use scripts to visit one or more pages on your website from one or more probe locations.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

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

Particular Software

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Do you want speed or reliability? A simple algorithm or the fastest speed? What we found was that adding in the additional pieces to create that flexibility was also adding significant overhead to pipeline execution, and that overhead was adversely impacting the speed at which NServiceBus could process messages.

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Lambda Speed Efficiency Infrastructure 40

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

Two primary metrics verify the speed of an app: start-up time and runtime performance. Its documentation has set a benchmark that beats anything from react camp. Having this in mind, they both are in a neck-to-neck battle. React jobs are more popular in the job market of 2020. . Vue vs React: Performance.

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Open Source Mobile Scalability Google 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!),

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Start Render time, Speed Index ). Treo Sites provides competitive analysis based on real-world data.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ The backup operation ​​ avoids touching individual bytes of the data pages or log blocks to maximize ​​ its ​​ throughput as a high speed copy implementation. ​​ For example, ​​ the I/O speed of a snapshot database could limit certain query scalabilities.

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