Brendan Gregg

JUNE 30, 2018

These have inspired me to summarize another performance activity: evaluating benchmark accuracy. Accurate benchmarking rewards engineering investment that actually improves performance, but, unfortunately, inaccurate benchmarking is more common. If the benchmark reported 20k ops/sec, you should ask: why not 40k ops/sec?

Benchmarking 54

Benchmarking Latency Cache Network 54

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 29, 2018

These have inspired me to summarize another performance activity: evaluating benchmark accuracy. Accurate benchmarking rewards engineering investment that actually improves performance, but, unfortunately, inaccurate benchmarking is more common. If the benchmark reported 20k ops/sec, you should ask: why not 40k ops/sec?

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Latency Cache Network 40

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. With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. Compressing, minifying and caching assets. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92