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How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

Speed Curve

Server-timing headers are a key tool in understanding what's happening within that black box of Time to First Byte (TTFB). Google recommends that TTFB be 800ms at the 75th percentile. Server Timing is a specification that allows communication of data from the server to the client through the use of a server-timing header.

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Google PageSpeed Insights - Scoring 100/100 with WordPress

KeyCDN

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. With that being said, see how we easily achieved a 100/100 score with WordPress and Google PageSpeed Insights. Why Care About Page Speed?

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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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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as an internal benchmark, there are compelling reasons why some of you may actually want to keep tracking these ‘outdated’ metrics… Measure the User Experience The problem with using diagnostic metrics like Load or DOMContentLoaded to measure site-speed is that it has no bearing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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Google Lighthouse vs Rigor

Rigor

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.

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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

Back-end servers. 2022: Upstreaming, first attempt Other large companies with OS and perf teams (Meta, Google) hinted strongly that they had already enabled frame pointers for everything years earlier. Google should be no surprise because they pioneered continuous profiling.) The main users of this change are enterprise Linux.

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Average Page Load Times for 2020 – Are you faster?

MachMetrics

How fast is the average time to first byte (server delay)? Google’s best practice is to have a speed index under 3 seconds. Google’s best practice is to be below 0.5 However, Google’s best practice is to keep the number of requests below 50, so there is still work to be done. seconds on desktop and 11.4