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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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Creating a seamless end user experience with an AIOps platform approach to DEM

Dynatrace

Case study: The value of DEM for Vitality. First, the company uses synthetic monitoring to develop user experience benchmarks and determine if applications are performing within expected thresholds. “Our team helps customers get the most out of DEM through configuration, data expertise, and analysis,” says Voorhies.

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10 things I love about SpeedCurve (that I think you'll love, too)

Speed Curve

Benchmark your site against your competitors Our public-facing Industry Benchmarks dashboard gets a lot of visits, but did you know you can create your own custom competitive benchmarking dashboard in SpeedCurve? READ : How to create a competitive benchmark dashboard ––––– 4.

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Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2019

The Netflix TechBlog

In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle. This session looks at what it takes to accept, produce, encode, and stream your favorite content.

AWS 100
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Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2019

The Netflix TechBlog

In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle. This session looks at what it takes to accept, produce, encode, and stream your favorite content.

AWS 100
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An Opinionated Guide to Performance Budgets

Speed Curve

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. read industry case studies, like those gathered on WPOstats.com. Look at your own industry/competitor benchmarks and your own data! Is it loading?

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Synthetic Monitoring vs. RUM

Rigor

For example, in a case study published by Gilt Groupe , Eric Shepherd, who was formerly Gilt’s principal front end engineer, noted that: Both RUM and synthetic monitoring give different views of our performance, and are useful for different things. Benchmark Against Competitors.