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.

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Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

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.

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Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

2015-2020: Overhead As part of production rollout I did many performance overhead tests, which I've described publicly before: The overhead of adding frame pointers to everything (libc and Java) was usually less than 1%, with one exception of 10%. Google should be no surprise because they pioneered continuous profiling.)

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. PageSpeed Compare is a page speed evaluation and benchmarking tool. It measures the web performance of a single page using Google PageSpeed Insights. Network and CPU are throttled for lab data tests for more realistic conditions.

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Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 130

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.).

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Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

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? READ : How to create a competitive benchmark dashboard ––––– 4.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

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% So what are some of the reasons why users would pick ScyllaDB vs. Cassandra? So this type of performance has to come at a cost, right?

Big Data 187

Big Data Database Open Source Azure 187

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

You can then configure your monitoring tools to send you alerts – or even break the build, if you're testing in your staging environment – when your budgets are violated. The easiest way to do this is to look at rendering filmstrips in your synthetic test data. The tricky part comes when you try to put them into practice.

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Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 134

Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

The Spring framework is popular because it enables software engineers to more easily write and test code to maintain modular applications. Operation Aurora was a series of cyberattacks in 2009 that specifically targeted major enterprises, including Google, Adobe Systems, Yahoo, and more.

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Java Traffic Benchmarking Strategy 185

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

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. Google’s best practice is to achieve a time under 1.3 seconds on desktop and 11.4

Best Practices 105

Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Background For this performance audit, I looked at this synthetic test for the LEGO.com home page. (We 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

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Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 67

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

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Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. 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. What is Performance Testing?

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Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2021

And, precisely due to this diversity, the need for testing on many devices is paramount. As of September 2020, Statista reports that around 30,40,000 apps are available on Google Playstore. With the ever-increasing and evolving sector of Android users, Android device testing is of the essence. .

Testing 52

Testing Mobile Testing Tools Strategy 52

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 27, 2020

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.

Retail 81

Retail Benchmarking Google Metrics 81

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

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

You can then configure your monitoring tools to send you alerts – or even break the build, if you're testing in your staging environment – when your budgets are violated. seconds or less, which is Google's recommendation for page experience and SEO. What should a performance budget look like? It's important to have your 2.5

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Performance Metrics Media Google 98

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. Source: Test My Site ) ( Large preview ). All you need to do is enter your domain name into the field and let the test run.

Website 110

Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

We apply this litmus test to everything we do, and I believe it's the secret of our success. Google's Core Web Vitals have been a huge topic this year. We've been tracking these as individual metrics – Largest Contentful Paint, First Input Delay, and Cumulative Layout Shift – since before Google branded them as a set.

Retail 52

Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 52

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. All modern browsers are fast, Chromium and Safari/WebKit included. Lower is better.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

Running a website speed test can help to determine what factors may be slowing your pages down. There are tools available such as Dotcom-Monitor’s free speed test that you can utilize to gauge performance. The tool gives you the option to run a speed test from 25 locations around the world. Optimize Your Pages.

Website 92

Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You’ve tested and retested the site for errors. The most popular, by far, is the Google Lighthouse report (available in Chrome Developer Tools) and Google’s Page Speed Insights. They are more of a benchmark than a true measurement of real user experience. Testing The Impact Of Specific Requests.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Rigor

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

One of the key benefits of synthetic monitoring is that you can define the specific actions of a test, allowing you to walk through key flows of your application like a checkout flow or a sign-up flow, to verify its functionality and performance. Can you manually edit recorded tests or do you need to completely re-record?

Monitoring 59

Monitoring Benchmarking Mobile Traffic 59

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

Doing a good job in an uneven network environment requires thinking about availability and engineering for resilience and a lightweight footprint — always better to avoid testing the radio gods than it is spending weeks or months appeasing them after the damage is done. You'll have to read on for what it is! 30% of worldwide volume."

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

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

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Today, the website is much faster and ranks highly in various showcases and benchmarks. Additionally, page speed is a ranking factor for search and also for your Google Ads. Jennifer Brehm. 2021-06-02T10:30:00+00:00.

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 115

KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Page loading speed test Before conducting any further tests, a website owner must determine at what speed his website loads. Several website speed testing tools available could be used for this purpose. KeyCDN Website Speed Test, GTmetrix, Google PageSpeed Insights, WebPageTest, and Pingdom Tools are some great choices.

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Cache Website Speed Website Performance 52

Speed Curve

JULY 2, 2013

SpeedCurve focuses on a third which I like to call web performance benchmarking. It's often called synthetic testing as tests are run from servers in a data centre and don't accurately represent what speeds an actual user might get. Web Performance Benchmarking. Uptime Monitoring. Real User Monitoring.

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Benchmarking Performance Website Analytics 40

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 5, 2020

In the show, Google is portrayed by the fictional company Hooli, which is after Pied Piper’s intellectual property. The funny thing is that, while being far from a startup, Google does indeed have a powerful compression engine in real life called Brotli. This article is about my experience using Brotli at production scale.

Cache 79

Cache Website Servers Open Source 79

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. Data-driven strategies and battle tested techniques will make you a master of mobile-and improve your non-mobile design, too!

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Jake is a frequent speaker at many popular conferences and events, such as 100 Days of Google Dev , JAMstakConf , JSConf , SmashingConf , and dozens of others.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Testing And Monitoring Auditing workflow, proxy browsers, 404 page, GDPR cookie consent prompts, performance diagnostics CSS, accessibility. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Not being entirely sure of what I was seeing during a customer visit, I set out to create some simple tests to measure the impact of triggers on database performance. AMD EPYC Performance Testing… or Don’t get on the wrong side of SystemD. So I started a couple of instances to test Percona Server for MySQL under this CPU.

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Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

eCommerce Conversion Rate Benchmarks First off, we’ll start with some benchmarks. Google’s PageSpeed Insights tool is a great way to check your speed score for both mobile and desktop devices. All of these things come into play when discussing the conversion rate of any eCommerce store.

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Ecommerce Speed Website Mobile 41

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Using a global ASP as a benchmark can further mislead thanks to the distorting effect of ultra-high-end prices rising while shipment volumes stagnate. Sadly, data on latency is harder to get, even from Google's perch, so progress there is somewhat more difficult to judge. Today, either method returns a similar answer.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

According to Google Trends, development companies were more interested in hiring React developers, followed by Vue over the past year. You’ll be able to use a scaffolding tool referred to as create-react-app to begin building your project , establish a local development server, check your code for errors, and execute unit tests/e2e.

Open Source 52

Open Source Mobile Scalability Google 52

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

Since Google research suggests that you should aim to be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor, it might also be a good idea to monitor your competitors' sites so you can create budgets that will help you stay faster than the competition. Read: Performance testing in CI: Let's break the build! Connect the dots.

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 78