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In Defence of DOM­Content­Loaded

CSS Wizardry

However, as an internal benchmark, there are compelling reasons why some of you may actually want to keep tracking these ‘outdated’ metrics… Measure the User Experience The problem with using diagnostic metrics like Load or DOMContentLoaded to measure site-speed is that it has no bearing on how a user might actually experience your site.

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Implementing service-level objectives to improve software quality

Dynatrace

Instead, they can ensure that services comport with the pre-established benchmarks. Using data from Dynatrace and its SLO wizard , teams can easily benchmark meaningful, user-based reliability measurements and establish error budgets to implement SLOs that meet business objectives and drive greater DevOps automation.

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

Dynatrace

Largest contentful paint (LCP) was also selected as one of the three Core Web Vitals by Google. Google considers an LCP of less than 2.5 This is definitely a great starting benchmark against which to optimize your application. seconds to be good user experience. Validate synthetic results with real user data.

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Performance audit: Lego.com

Speed Curve

We track LEGO.com, along with a handful of other leading ecommerce sites, in our public-facing Retail Benchmarks dashboard , which I encourage you to check out. According to Google's thresholds, an LCP time of 3.96 second mark, the LCP event is prevented from firing for another second. seconds, LCP lags at 3.96

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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. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is one of Google's Core Web Vitals , so it's been getting a lot of attention lately. Is it loading?

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Cumulative Layout Shift: What it measures, when it works (and doesn't), and how to use it

Speed Curve

Back in May, we shared that SpeedCurve supports Google's Core Web Vitals in both our synthetic monitoring and LUX real user monitoring tools. According to Google, pages should maintain a CLS score of less than 0.1 Here are the current US media benchmarks on a fast desktop connection , ranked by CLS score. recommended by Google.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

Another big jump, but now it was my job to run benchmarks in the lab, and write white papers that explained the new products to the world, as they were launched. I also learned how marketing worked, and began to build my presentation and training skills as I was sent around the world by Sun to teach workshops and speak at events.

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