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How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

Speed Curve

Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Pagespeed Benchmarks - US Retail - LCP When you examine a waterfall, it's pretty obvious that TTFB is the long pole in the tent, pushing out render times for the page.

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eCommerce & Retail: There’s No Excuse to Ignore Performance

Rigor

Whether it be time, money, or technical know how, every day we talk to eCommerce and Retail teams who explain why they aren’t monitoring their site’s performance. Since our team is preparing for eTail West , there is no better time to address some of the common objections I’ve seen when talking to eCommerce and Retail teams about performance.

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Monitor dynamic application workflows with placeholders and synthetic location context

Dynatrace

Synthetic clickpath monitors are a great way to automatically monitor and benchmark business-critical workflows 24/7. Checking out of a retail site. The post Monitor dynamic application workflows with placeholders and synthetic location context appeared first on Dynatrace blog. Dynatrace news. Contact forms.

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

Speed Curve

And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. In other words, images comprised almost 75% of the total page weight. More on that later.) How does page bloat hurt your visitors?

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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

SQL Performance

I wrote a number of blog posts about this back in January 2018, including these: Checking Your SQL Server Instance for Spectre/Meltdown Patches. So far, we don't know the official base and turbo clock speeds, but there was a recent leak of partial specifications and pricing by a European retailer that listed max boost clock speeds of up to 3.4

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. He keeps an updated archive of his blogs, articles, speaking engagements. You can find Barry blogging at tunetheweb.com or follow him on Twitter @ tunetheweb.

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First Interactive Metrics Add New Dimensions To User Experience Data (9 min read)

Rigor

Emily is the VP of Engineering for UGG, an American footwear and activewear retail company. As performance benchmarks go, 1.937 seconds is a significant delay in which the user could think your link or site is broken because it will not respond. Scenario: Through the Lens of Visual Metrics Alone. UGG First Interactive Time.

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