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2023 Black Friday and Cyber Monday retail and e-commerce IT performance observations

Dynatrace

Social media was relatively quiet, and as always, the Dynatrace Insights team was benchmarking key retailer home pages from mobile and desktop perspectives. This type of issue would definitely affect conversion rates on a retail site. This year we saw few, if any, major issues with online retailers.

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Measure What You Impact, Not What You Influence

CSS Wizardry

Improving each of these should hopefully chip away at the timings of more granular events that precede the LCP milestone, but whenever we’re making these kinds of indirect optimisation, we need to think much more carefully about how we measure and benchmark ourselves as we work. It’s vital to measure what you impact, not what you influence.

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New web performance insights with additional metrics and enhanced Visually complete for synthetic monitors

Dynatrace

This is definitely a great starting benchmark against which to optimize your application. However, the downside of calculating Visually complete based on DOM changes is that it’s definitely a lot more complex. Largest contentful paint (LCP) was also selected as one of the three Core Web Vitals by Google.

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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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What is infrastructure monitoring and why is it mission-critical in the new normal?

Dynatrace

Dealing with an unstable website is stress that users don’t need, and definitely don’t want. AI-assistance: Use AI to detect anomalies and benchmark your system. A major case for infrastructure monitoring is being able to deal with these types of scenarios, proactively, which will prevent loss of time and money.

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Detecting Speech and Music in Audio Content

The Netflix TechBlog

To evaluate and benchmark our dataset, we manually labeled 20 audio tracks from various TV shows which do not overlap with our training data. One of the fundamental issues encountered during the annotation of our manually-labeled TVSM-test set, was the definition of music and speech. What constitutes music or speech?

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20X Faster Backup Preparation With Percona XtraBackup 8.0.33-28!

Percona

So, given a table_id, how do you get the table schema/definition? After the “data dictionary” (DD) engine and DD cache are initialized on a server, the Storage Engines can ask for a table definition. Benchmarks xtrabackup –prepare on backup directory of other sizes like 10K, 50K, 100K, and 250K tables.

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