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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Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Key metrics like throughput, request latency, and memory utilization are essential for assessing Redis health, with tools like the MONITOR command and Redis-benchmark for latency and throughput analysis and MEMORY USAGE/STATS commands for evaluating memory. Both RDB persistence and AOF persistence are important aspects to keep track of.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed). In some cases, you will lack benchmarking capabilities.

Best Practices 179

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 179

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. Automating quality gates creates reliable checks and balances and speeds up the process by avoiding manual intervention.

Benchmarking 188

Benchmarking Latency Speed Software 188

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

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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Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

CSS Wizardry

JUNE 30, 2023

I never thought I’d write an article in defence of DOMContentLoaded , but here it is… For many, many years now, performance engineers have been making a concerted effort to move away from technical metrics such as Load , and toward more user-facing, UX metrics such as Speed Index or Largest Contentful Paint. In fact, this is what Next.js

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Metrics Google Monitoring Analytics 326

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Many good security tools provide that function, and benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) are clear and prescriptive. In fact, in our recent CISO research, 28% of CISOs told us that application teams sometimes bypass these types of tests to speed up delivery. Why is container security tricky? Remove privileges.

Open Source 255

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 255

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In today’s world, the speed of innovation is key to business success. Let me describe this new capability with the help of an example you may have stumbled upon Log4Shell. A perfect OWASP benchmark score for injection attacks – 100% accuracy and zero false positives – impressively proves the precision of our approach.

Traffic 237

Traffic Benchmarking Innovation Java 237

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Fighting regressions should be the top priority of anyone who cares about the speed of their site. 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?

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2020

These metrics are tightly connected to the perceived load speed of your application. First contentful paint : The time spent from navigation to when the browser renders the first bit of content (for example, text, images). This is definitely a great starting benchmark against which to optimize your application.

Metrics 220

Metrics Monitoring Performance Benchmarking 220

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

Poverty lines emerged for both Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint I expected the results for Start Render, as it's been around as a page speed metric for many years, and has been proven to correlate to business metrics. The blue bar represents the change in bounce rate across all cohorts. That's early! seconds to work toward.

Performance 119

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 119

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

For example: Work with your vendor manager if you have one, or directly with the stakeholders responsible, to set and enforce performance budgets on your third parties. Synthetic is great for trending over time, especially when looking at the number and size of requests (images, JavaScript, CSS), which collectively have a big impact on speed.

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Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

PageSpeed Compare is a page speed evaluation and benchmarking tool. For example, it could recommend that you remove unused CSS and show you the savings this would give in a graph. Treo Site Speed also performs site speed audits using data from the Chrome UX Report, Lighthouse and PageSpeed Insights.

Performance 130

Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 130

Brendan Gregg

MAY 22, 2021

For example, benchmarks. As an analogy, a car's dashboard is a collection of observability tools that let you understand how the car is operating (speed, rpm, temperature). Wait, aren't all performance tools observability tools? _Experimental_ tools change the state of the system to understand it.

Benchmarking 117

Benchmarking Metrics Speed Database 117

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

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. Without naming names, here's an example of mobile home page metrics for a mainstream news site, which I was able to find without much searching.

Performance 134

Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 134

Dynatrace

MAY 30, 2020

To deliver outstanding customer experience for your applications and websites, you need reliable benchmarks that measure what good customer experience looks like. First input start : The point in time when the user first interacts (for example, clicks) with the page. Dynatrace news.

Metrics 133

Metrics Performance Benchmarking Monitoring 133

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. What is HammerDB? Derived Workloads.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Various forms can take shape when discussing workloads within the realm of cloud computing environments – examples include order management databases, collaboration tools, videoconferencing systems, virtual desktops, and disaster recovery mechanisms. What is an example of a workload? This also aids scalability down the line.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Programmers continue to write applications in them, and they continue to evolve: the just approved C++20 standard is the latest example. I suggest it’s long past time to move beyond C and SPEC benchmarks and our exclusive focus on “metal” languages. Despite their age, these languages are far from dead!

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C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

For example, if you are buying the latest Amazon memory-optimized EC2 instance (R7iz), the AWS page ( [link] ) tells us the following: Up to 3.9 For example, if you are buying the latest Amazon memory-optimized EC2 instance (R7iz), the AWS page ( [link] ) tells us the following: Up to 3.9 For storage, FIO is generally used. and 8.0.32

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

Page speed has been a key factor in Google’s ranking algorithm since 2010 , so it is essential to understand the various ways you can optimize your pages and why implementing synthetic monitoring can ensure your pages perform flawlessly and revenue isn’t lost. Remember, speed is key to the user experience. Optimize Your Pages.

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Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. You can see this by looking at the synthetic test result for Sears.com (again, available via our Industry Benchmarks ). Amazon is a good example of a site that serves large, fast pages. Not all pages are getting bigger. The CLS score for this page is 1.0468.

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Percona

OCTOBER 12, 2023

An example of a flame graph can be found below: Each box is a function in the stack, and wider boxes mean more time the system was busy on CPU on these functions. The idea behind this is to speed up cluster resources such as garbage collection, reduce image transfer over the network, and accelerate the application launch.

Code 106

Code Tuning C++ Benchmarking 106

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Why speed matters, examples of the impact saving a few seconds of load time has had on revenue and engagement. Bandwidth, latency and it's fundamental impact on the speed of the web. An overview of tools for measuring performance, uptime monitoring, real user monitoring and performance benchmarking. Performance Tools.

Speed 40

Speed Benchmarking Latency Mobile 40

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. 5% might not sound like much, but it’s a huge figure when you consider that many VM optimisations aim to speed things up by 1% at most.

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Page labels give you the ability to: Compare and benchmark similar pages across different sites. Here are a few examples. Compare and benchmark similar pages across different sites. Benchmark key pages against those of your competitors. Benchmark Dashboard from SpeedCurve. Why should I care about page labels?

Benchmarking 57

Benchmarking Best Practices Monitoring Traffic 57

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. Query performance Query performance is a key performance indicator (KPI) in MySQL, as it measures the efficiency and speed of query execution.

Performance 102

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 102

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

Plateaus emerged for both Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint I expected the results for Start Render, as it's been around as a page speed metric for many years, and has been proven to correlate to business metrics. The blue bar represents the change in bounce rate across all cohorts. That's early! seconds to work toward.

Performance 52

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 52

Rigor

JUNE 14, 2019

For example, a media organization may be interested in tracking Time to Interactive because its site relies on third-party advertising for revenue, while an ecommerce business might want to dig deeper into First Meaningful Paint so it can ensure that customers can quickly take action to purchase an item. Speed Index. Why track it?

Metrics 101

Metrics Performance Speed Ecommerce 101

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

For example: “Red Hat and Suse normally required 6-18 months to optimise the performance an an upstream Linux kernel before it can be released as an enterprise distribution”, and. A micro-benchmark suite, LEBench was then built around tee system calls responsible for most of the time spent in the kernel. Headline results.

Performance 108

Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

Some app categories skew toward mobile-only usage, while others (education, for example) see more desktop usage. If you’d like to dive deeper into the performance of Android and iOS devices, you can check Geekbench Android Benchmarks for Android smartphones and tablets, and iOS Benchmarks for iPhones and iPads. Large preview ).

Mobile 133

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The less Gen 0 allocation used, the more speed can be squeezed out of the message handling pipeline, which ultimately means more speed for our users. In the simple example, when the state is just a fixed number, the variable can be marked as a constant to get rid of the CS8820 compiler error. <>9__0_1 ?? Behaviors[1]).Invoke(ctx1,

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Lambda C++ Benchmarking Code 98

KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

We will also discuss how you can speed up your slow WordPress site. Many factors affect the speed of your WordPress website; some of them are: Your web host Server-side optimizations (PHP version, compression, caching, etc.) Several website speed testing tools available could be used for this purpose. Why is WordPress slow?

Cache 52

Cache Website Speed Website Performance 52

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

This means for example that it can be applied to analyse source code repositories and pull requests, be used as an additional test in CI pipelines, and even give assistance in your IDE if it’s fast enough. For example, the notions of entry point, controller, filter, and bean. JackEE in action. over the original HashMap implementation.

Java 80

Java Cache Benchmarking Programming 80

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. Let's continue with the example above, where the worst LCP time was 8.64 It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast.

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Media Google 98

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. Take the example below for instance.

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Google Cache Speed Analytics 103

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. Site speed & SEO go hand in hand. Inclusive Components. Using Webpagetest. Web Performance In Action. Javascript Good Parts.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75