Rigor

JUNE 14, 2019

It’s true that what might be considered the “most important” or “best” web performance metrics can vary by industry. But there is some information that is universal for all websites – and everyone has to start somewhere, right? Time to Interactive. Why track it? First Contentful Paint. Visually Complete.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

The success of your website depends on the impression it leaves on its users. It can be measured based on real data from users visiting your sites ( field metric ) or in a lab environment ( lab metric ). In fact, several user-centric metrics are used to quantify web vitals. Zara Cooper. 2022-08-09T14:00:00+00:00.

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Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

Quality gates are benchmarks in the software delivery lifecycle that define specific, measurable, and achievable success criteria a service must meet before moving to the next phase of the software delivery pipeline. For example, improving latency by as little as 0.1 Enforcing benchmarks in real time. What are quality gates?

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. Some app categories skew toward mobile-only usage, while others (education, for example) see more desktop usage. However, there are quite a few high-profile case studies exploring the impact of mobile optimization on key business metrics.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"I made my pages faster, but my business and user engagement metrics didn't change. The performance poverty line is the plateau at which changes to your website’s rendering metrics (such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint) cease to matter because you’ve bottomed out in terms of business and user engagement metrics.

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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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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Let’s dive in and learn how (and what) to effectively monitor MySQL performance, along with examples from PMM, by understanding the critical KPIs to watch for. This includes metrics such as query execution time, the number of queries executed per second, and the utilization of query cache and adaptive hash index.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Web pages are unbelievably complex, and there are hundreds of different metrics available to track. A performance budget is a threshold that you apply to the metrics you care about the most. This is when you run into three important questions: Which metrics should you focus on? Which metrics should you focus on?

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Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast. A performance budget is a threshold that you apply to the metrics you care about the most. Let's continue with the example above, where the worst LCP time was 8.64 Let's get started! Background: How performance budgets work 1. The slowest LCP time is 8.64

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What the Lambda team introduced in 2018, for example, the new Firecracker VM, has since been fully rolled out. On the other hand, features needed for monitoring large applications, like memory dumps, code-level-visibility, or event loop metrics on Node.js In a future blog post, we’ll explain how to interpret Lambda metrics.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. Google's Core Web Vitals are a set of metrics that are intended to focus on measuring performance from a user-experience perspective. How does page bloat hurt your business?

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Rigor

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Visual Metrics Alone Paint Only Half The Picture. Existing metrics like DOM Content Loaded and Onload Time are giving way to user-centric metrics such as visual timings and user timings. Interactivity metrics can provide insight and uncover blind spots not yet realized and are a valuable addition to your metrics arsenal.

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Rigor

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Visual Metrics Alone Paint Only Half The Picture. Existing metrics like DOM Content Loaded and Onload Time are giving way to user-centric metrics such as visual timings and user timings. Interactivity metrics can provide insight and uncover blind spots not yet realized and are a valuable addition to your metrics arsenal.

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Metrics Social Media Website Retail 40

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"I made my pages faster, but my business and user engagement metrics didn't change. The performance plateau is the point at which changes to your website’s rendering metrics (such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint) cease to matter because you’ve bottomed out in terms of business and user engagement metrics.

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KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

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. Quantitative performance testing looks at metrics like response time while qualitative testing is concerned with scalability, stability, and interoperability.

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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. While these metrics can be very helpful it is also important to keep this data in perspective. Take the example below for instance.

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Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance. High Performance Websites. Even Faster Websites. Want your web site to display more quickly?

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

The critical rendering path is the set of steps browsers must take to convert HTML, CSS and JavaScript into living, breathing websites. That's why it's a good idea to not just focus on metrics like Start Render – you should also investigate Hero Rendering metrics , which track when the most meaningful content on your pages (e.g.,

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 77

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Real-life performance for your users and how the website “feels” when you’re using it should not be discounted, even if it costs you a point or two in Page Speed (otherwise, we would all just have a search bar and unstyled text). Today, the website is much faster and ranks highly in various showcases and benchmarks.

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Speed Curve

AUGUST 8, 2017

Because the average page is now 3MB in size, and this seems like a good time to pause, check our assumptions, and ask ourselves: Is there any reason to care about page size as a performance metric? And if we don't consider page size a meaningful metric, then what should we care about? Take Amazon, for example.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. billion if the site slowed down by just one second.

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Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

That's because video seems to have had a surge in growth, which should be a cause of concern for anyone who cares about metrics like Largest Contentful Paint, which measures the largest visual element on a page – including videos. These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. More on that below.)

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Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

For example HammerDB has not used tpmC terminology to report TPC-C based metrics instead using TPM and NOPM nomenclature. The HammerDB TPROC-C workload by design intended as CPU and memory intensive workload derived from TPC-C – so that we get to benchmark at maximum CPU performance at a much smaller database footprint.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Get a free trial of LogRocket today.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The scale of the effect can be deeply situational or hard to suss out without solid metrics. The risks embedded in these deep-wetware effects, and their cross-origin implications, mean that your website's success is partially a function of the health of the commons. The Moto G4 , for example. A 2021 Global Baseline.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. Key metrics such as CPU usage, memory usage, and disk I/O offer insights into how efficiently your database server operates. Next, take a look at your metrics for the InnoDB Log File usage.

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 19, 2015

The idea is to identify your performance goals and track the metrics that help you achieve your goals. Here's an example of tracking a budget for image size. Benchmark a variety of metrics and choose a target of 20% faster or less resources. Not all metrics are equal. This is great when doing a responsive redesign.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Table Of Contents. Quick Wins.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

I then analyzed performance during the benchmark ([active benchmarking]), and used other benchmarks to confirm findings. For example, using my [perf-tools]: sudo./perf-tools/bin/funccount See my previous post on [working set size estimation] and the full [website]. In more detail: ## 1. perf record 1. perf trace 1.

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Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Reading time 11 min As companies become more aware of the importance of web performance, internal teams begin to research tools they can use to use to track their metrics and improve the user experience of their websites and applications. Not everyone uses Chrome to access your website. Take an ecommerce site as an example.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Guy Podjarny’s recent research shows that only one in eight websites is responsive. A great example using the above techniques is the new Guardian newspaper website, currently in alpha. There are great tools available to monitor the actual in browser speed and benchmark your site against others. Source: SpeedCurve.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I then analyzed performance during the benchmark ([active benchmarking]), and used other benchmarks to confirm findings. For example, using my [perf-tools]: sudo./perf-tools/bin/funccount See my previous post on [working set size estimation] and the full [website]. In more detail: ## 1. perf record 1. perf trace 1.

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Two primary metrics verify the speed of an app: start-up time and runtime performance. For example, Vue is slightly slower in memory allocation and startup times, whereas React could be quicker at runtime. For example: The modification of a React element state triggers the re-rendering of all of the elements in its subtree.

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Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Over years, this article has evolved into a book – please visit Introduction to Algorithmic Marketing website to download]. Moreover, gross margin is not the only performance metric that is important for retailers. The gross margin metric, in the sense it is used in the equations (1.2) Predicted share of wallet.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Do you have a standard API to your website? We also generate quite a bit of internal application metrics using a home grown framework. The dedicated Security team runs automated security benchmark tests before every release. Do you have a separate operations team managing your website? If so, how do you implement it?

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