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. 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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Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 133

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Most Linux users cannot afford the amount of resource large enterprises like Google put into custom Linux performance tuning… For Google of course, there’s an economy of scale that makes all that effort worth it. On the exact same hardware, the benchmark suite is then used to test 36 Linux release versions from 3.0

Performance 108

Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

You can even go one step further and integrate your performance budgets with your CI/CD process, so that you not only get alerts but even break the build if a new deploy would violate any of your budgets. Integrating your budgets with your CI process is like having your security cameras trigger your guards to rush in and stop the bad guys.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Metrics Website Testing 62

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

Crafting Your Multi-Cloud Blueprint Formulating a comprehensive multi-cloud framework is an intricate process that requires a business’s specific requirements, choosing suitable cloud services, and optimizing for performance and affordability. Getting security right in a multi-cloud setup means doing a few key things.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

The Morning Paper

MAY 23, 2019

Last time out we saw how Google have been able to save millions of dollars though memory compression enabled via zswap. Looking across a set of eight Java benchmarks, we find that only two of them are array dominated, the rest having between 40% to 75% of the heap footprint allocated to objects, the vast majority of which are small.

Cache 61

Cache Benchmarking Hardware Java 61

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

A lot of the focus goes into the practice and processes of driving traffic to your site from an SEO perspective, but what if when visitors get to your site, they have a less than ideal experience? After all the elements are processed, a tree structure of all these objects is created and the page can be displayed.

Website 92

Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

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. Measurements refer to specific data points, such as the number of seconds it takes to process a request. Memory utilization: The amount of memory required to process a request.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

How To Benchmark And Improve Web Vitals With Real User Metrics. How To Benchmark And Improve Web Vitals With Real User Metrics. Different products will have different benchmarks and two apps may perform differently against the same metrics, but still rank quite similarly to our subjective “good” and “bad” verdicts.

Benchmarking 119

Benchmarking Metrics Best Practices Monitoring 119

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Jake Archibald. Jake Archibald. Rick Byers.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

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 was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Though still not “profitable” by many benchmarks, it’s a lot closer to being so, perhaps in a big way.) and partners) and in the process, stifling the upstarts, the truly open source little folks dreaming big. (Some might say this marked the beginning of MongoDB’s “cloud push” escalation.)

Open Source 86

Open Source Programming Database Servers 86

KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

So let's discuss the process one step at a time. KeyCDN Website Speed Test, GTmetrix, Google PageSpeed Insights, WebPageTest, and Pingdom Tools are some great choices. Optimus allows images to be optimized and then stored, which is helpful if you want to store optimized images instead of using a real-time image processing service.

Cache 52

Cache Website Speed Website Performance 52

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

To optimize for performance, you need to understand what happens in the steps between receiving the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript bytes and the processing that's required to turn them into rendered pixels. One of the most effective ways to fight performance regression is to integrate performance testing into your continuous delivery process.

Performance 77

Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 77

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. Every unnecessary bit of JavaScript code you bundle and serve will be more code the client has to load and process. On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. Agustinus Theodorus.

Cache 127

Cache Performance Servers Architecture 127

Rigor

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

But there are also eCommerce and Retail teams that integrate performance into their everyday process of building and releasing new content. I recommend checking out WebPageTest , Google PageSpeed Insights , or Rigor’s Free Performance Report. I don’t either, but I set up Benchmark, Uptime, API, and Real Brower Checks every day.

Ecommerce 40

Ecommerce Retail Performance Benchmarking 40

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

One free tool has become prominent in the space – Google Lighthouse – and one question often bubbles up: “I use Google Lighthouse for one-off snapshots of my site’s performance, so why do I need a performance monitoring solution?” Where Google Lighthouse Shines Bright.

Google 51

Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

Speed Curve

JULY 8, 2024

With many synthetic monitoring tools, you can benchmark your site against your competitors. Competitive benchmarking is a great way to see how you stack up – and how much you need to improve. Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive set of dashboards that anyone can explore and use for their own research.

Speed 135

Speed Cache Benchmarking Metrics 135

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

That’s why we’ve compiled an exhaustive list of web development blogs and newsletters to make this process easier. Be sure to check it out if your dev process needs a creative kick in the pants. Igvita Igvita is the blog of Google’s web performance engineer, Ilya Grigorik. Visit website 12. Visit website 19.

Development 75

Development Website Design Code 75

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

ScyllaDB offers significantly lower latency which allows you to process a high volume of data with minimal delay. In fact, according to ScyllaDB’s performance benchmark report, their 99.9 Google Cloud. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) was the second most popular cloud provider for ScyllaDB, coming in at 30.4%

Big Data 187

Big Data Database Open Source Azure 187

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. And now you do.

Network 242

Network Mobile Performance Traffic 242

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? A Google machine-learning study I participated in a few years ago found that the total number of page elements was the single greatest predictor of conversions. You can dive deeper into image optimization and SEO tips in this article in Google Search Central.).

Mobile 145

Mobile Google Benchmarking Metrics 145

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Before allowing a new third party, implement a vetting process to make sure it passes some basic guidelines around performance. If you are in this camp and getting pressure around improving SEO or responding to inbound questions regarding numbers seen in Google Console, you'll want to familiarize yourself with these metrics.

Performance 143

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

However still far from Google ($28B) and Facebook ($13.2B). We fairly frequently see performance get 5% or more worse over time in a single process execution. Eli Bendersky : Just for fun, I rewrote the same benchmark in Go; two goroutines ping-ponging short message between themselves over a channel.

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

In the realm of cloud-based business operations, there is an increasing dependence on complex information processing patterns. Examples include associations with Google Docs, Facebook chat group interactions, streaming live forex market feeds, and managing trading notices. Ultimately improving efficiency while minimizing errors.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. Helps media apps on the web save battery when doing video processing.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

This" can mean anything from design and features to our own internal processes. We've also grown our team, expanded our customer base, completed a full-scale site redesign, launched our in-house consulting practice, and refined our tools and processes. Google's Core Web Vitals have been a huge topic this year.

Retail 52

Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 52

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

LCP is relatively new, and has received a great deal of attention since it was introduced a couple of years ago as part of Google's Core Web Vitals. Fortunately, the process for identifying the low end of your site’s performance threshold is fairly straightforward. You need to look at your own real user data. (If

Performance 118

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 118

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

seconds or less, which is Google's recommendation for page experience and SEO. > Largest Contentful Paint (Synthetic and RUM) Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is one of Google's Core Web Vitals. > Cumulative Layout Shift (Synthetic and RUM) Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) is another one of Google's Core Web Vitals.

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Media Google 98

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

Lastly, I tried not to search for help on Google, Stack Overflow, or other websites, which is what I would normally be doing while programming. For a few years now Google has been transitioning developers to v3 , which I didn’t know about since I had no prior experience with Chrome extensions. And ChatGPT didn’t warn me about this.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

Core Web Vitals are a Google search ranking factor. Given that Google continues to dominate search usage, you should care about Vitals alongside the other metrics you should be tracking. Image size is another issue, as excessive image weight hurts your SEO ranking in Google Image Search. How does page bloat hurt Core Web Vitals?

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. billion if the site slowed down by just one second. Lighthouse.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

The Morning Paper

JULY 2, 2019

In data processing it seems, all roads eventually lead back to SQL! In particular, we need to take care to separate the event time from the processing time (which could be some arbitrary time later). We also need to understand that events will not necessarily be presented for processing in event-time order. SIGMOD’19.

Efficiency 65

Efficiency Processing Benchmarking Open Source 65

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. In early January a related paper was published by Satoshi Matsuoka et. petaflops, which is 0.8%

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

LCP is relatively new, and has received a great deal of attention since it was introduced a couple of years ago as part of Google's Core Web Vitals. Fortunately, the process for identifying the low end of your site’s performance threshold is fairly straightforward. You need to look at your own real user data. (If

Performance 52

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 52

Rigor

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

This is a great catch-all that allows you to connect the tool to the rest of your process, regardless of how the tools that make up the process evolve. Competitive & Industry Benchmarking. With a Synthetic product, benchmarking a competitor’s site is as easy as testing your own site…you simply provide a URL.

Monitoring 59

Monitoring Benchmarking Testing Mobile 59

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

For those with applications already built on MySQL or PostgreSQL, migrating to Aurora is a straightforward process requiring minimal code changes, as it supports the same protocols, tools, and drivers. Doing extensive benchmarks will be the subject of a future blog post. Learn more here! Want to learn more? Contact us today.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google. Although we’ve been told for years that visitors are willing to wait three seconds for a web page to load , Google considers 2.9 seconds too long.

Website 110

Website Speed Mobile Design 110