HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

HammerDB doesn’t publish competitive database benchmarks, instead we always encourage people to be better informed by running their own. ” Usually when benchmark results are surprising it is a major hint that something could be misconfigured and that certainly seems the case here, so what could it be? rc3-custom x86_64).

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Application developers commonly leverage open-source software when building containerized applications. To properly secure applications, developers need to discover and eliminate these vulnerabilities. Many good security tools provide that function, and benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) are clear and prescriptive.

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CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Google has a pretty tight grip on the tech industry: it makes by far the most popular browser with the best DevTools, and the most popular search engine, which means that web developers spend most of their time in Chrome, most of their visitors are in Chrome, and a lot of their search traffic will be coming from Google. You Will Need….

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Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Leveraging pgbench , which is a benchmarking utility that comes bundled with PostgreSQL, I will put the cluster through its paces by executing a series of DML operations. And now, execute the benchmark: -- execute the following on the coordinator node pgbench -c 20 -j 3 -T 60 -P 3 pgbench The results are not pretty.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. And to ensure the quality of a product, we always need to test — on a number of devices, and in a number of conditions. What’s a representative device to test on in 2021? Kelvin Omereshone. State Of Mobile 2021.

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HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

PageSpeed Compare is a page speed evaluation and benchmarking tool. Network and CPU are throttled for lab data tests for more realistic conditions. Running the test takes a while, as each web page test is done one at a time. The tests can be run for both mobile and desktop. PageSpeed Compare.

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

MySQL on AWS Performance Test. Reads and writes to your Primary, and even reads from Slave-1 will work at SSD speed. MySQL Performance Benchmark Configuration. MySQL Performance Test Scenarios and Results. Amazon RDS. Instance Type. AWS High Performance XLarge (see system details below). DB Instance r4.xlarge

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HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

This post is targeted towards the questions most often asked by non-technical management who want to get up to speed on what HammerDB is (what it isn’t) and how it can benefit their organization. HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. Why HammerDB was developed. HammerDB development.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

You can then configure your monitoring tools to send you alerts – or even break the build, if you're testing in your staging environment – when your budgets are violated. The easiest way to do this is to look at rendering filmstrips in your synthetic test data. > Speed Index (Synthetic). Is it loading?

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John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).

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KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. What is Performance Testing?

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Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Sometimes developers only care about speed. Why RPC is “faster” It’s tempting to simply write a micro-benchmark test where we issue 1000 requests to a server over HTTP and then repeat the same test with asynchronous messages. But that’s just a micro-benchmark and doesn’t tell you the whole story.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. It's clear that developers are out of touch with market ground-truth , but it's not obvious why. You'll have to read on for what it is!

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

A micro-benchmark suite, LEBench was then built around tee system calls responsible for most of the time spent in the kernel. On the exact same hardware, the benchmark suite is then used to test 36 Linux release versions from 3.0 This causes average slowdowns of 66% across the select , poll , and epoll tests.

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KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

We will also discuss how you can speed up your slow WordPress site. Few web developers completely dismiss WordPress, claiming it is too slow. Many factors affect the speed of your WordPress website; some of them are: Your web host Server-side optimizations (PHP version, compression, caching, etc.) Why is WordPress slow?

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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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Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

There will be a considerable gain if we combine this with other sets of great improvements in WAL archiving in PostgreSQL 15, as discussed in previous posts New WAL Archive Module/Library in PostgreSQL 15 and Speed Up of the WAL Archiving in PostgreSQL 15. I couldn’t see any adverse effect on the TPS on quick tests.

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Percona

MAY 1, 2023

It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. Selecting the appropriate index type, creating composite indexes, and regularly analyzing and reindexing the database can substantially improve query speed.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

We apply this litmus test to everything we do, and I believe it's the secret of our success. Elena is an invaluable member of our development team – and as an athlete, adventurer, and traveller, she's equally invaluable as an inspiration for living our best lives outside work hours! Industry speed benchmarks for Japan.

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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. you're a front-end developer), it's a good idea to track it because it can delay all your other metrics. > What should a performance budget look like?

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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. Information Architecture.

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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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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Today, the website is much faster and ranks highly in various showcases and benchmarks. In this article, I’ll highlight some of the work we did and how we were able to achieve our speed. Jennifer Brehm.

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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. Pervasively poor results are part of why responsible public sector organisations are forced to develop HTML-first, progressive enhancement guidance in stark opposition to the "frontend consensus".

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Meanwhile, developer behaviour offers little hope: Median mobile JavaScript payloads have only grown since 2016, now hovering above 400KiB of script transferred, or nearly 2.5MiB of uncompressed JS. Compared to devices wealthy developers carry, the performance is night and (blinding) day. The Moto G7 very much looks the part.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 23, 2016

At the beginning of March we released a major redesign of our Settings UI that gives users more flexibility to get the exact test results they want. The two biggest changes were to the way we emulate devices and to allow different testing configurations for different sites. Flexible Testing. Emulated Phones & Tablets.

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Tim Kadlec

APRIL 18, 2019

Even if it is 4G (5G, or whatever else) that doesn’t exactly guarantee you’ll be getting the amazing, theoretical speeds promised. Once a new network does get rolled out, it takes years for carriers to optimize it to try and close in on the promised bandwidth and latency benchmarks. And those speeds aren’t constant.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You’ve tested and retested the site for errors. The upside to using third-party services on your site is that you do not need to develop everything you want to do yourself. For developers who know enough JavaScript to be dangerous. They are more of a benchmark than a true measurement of real user experience.

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Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

How to Restore MySQL Logical Backup at Maximum Speed. MySQL stored procedures, functions and triggers are tempting constructs for application developers. Not being entirely sure of what I was seeing during a customer visit, I set out to create some simple tests to measure the impact of triggers on database performance.

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Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

Keep reading to learn how you can apply these best practices to your own site and give your pages a speed boost. Speed Index (synthetic only): 4 seconds recommended. One of the most effective ways to fight performance regression is to integrate performance testing into your continuous delivery process. Connect the dots.

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PDC

APRIL 14, 2019

It ranks the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers based on their performance as measured by the Linpack benchmark. Published twice per year (in June and November) since 1993, the Top500 list records the development of supercomputers over the past two to three decades. Performance development. Source: [link].

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

How would we test to see if there is any difference between a good sans serif and a serif typeface with users? This diversity adds to the difficulty and complexity of defining and testing typefaces. For a proper test setup you would need to modify one parameter while keeping every other parameter unchanged.

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Speed Curve

AUGUST 8, 2017

These numbers should not in any way even remotely be taken as a benchmark for your own site. In this graph, the steep rise of onload slightly hides the fact that Speed Index trends upward quite significantly – from 2393 (~2.4 These numbers are mainly relevant when viewed in a historical context. Not all pages are getting bigger.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Testing And Monitoring Auditing workflow, proxy browsers, 404 page, GDPR cookie consent prompts, performance diagnostics CSS, accessibility. In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what strategies should be used to fix them. Quick Wins. Establish a performance culture.

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Quick summary: Choosing the correct JavaScript framework or library is essential for beginning a new web app development project. Both are among the most popular JavaScript frameworks in the developer community but React leads in popularity. Mobile Development. In this article, I will compare React.js and Vue.js Performance.

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Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Improving latency and reducing variance allows teams to test other product hypotheses with less noise. Even junior PM s internalise the notion that product quality is at risk if tests are not built, automated, and tracked. Teams that develop these advantages progress through a hierarchy of performance management practices.

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