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2023 Black Friday and Cyber Monday retail and e-commerce IT performance observations

Dynatrace

What was once an onslaught of consumer traffic between Black Friday and Cyber Monday has turned into a weeklong event, with most retailers offering deals well ahead of Black Friday. Social media was relatively quiet, and as always, the Dynatrace Insights team was benchmarking key retailer home pages from mobile and desktop perspectives.

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2022 in review: New dashboards, Core Web Vitals enhancements, third-party tracking & more!

Speed Curve

Your current competitive benchmarks status. Evaluate CDN performance by exploring the impact of time-of-day traffic patterns. Fixing high-traffic but poor-performing areas of your site will help lift your overall metrics. Expanded Industry Speed Benchmarks. The current status of your performance budgets.

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The Importance of Selecting the Proper Azure VM Size

SQL Performance

Compute optimized – High CPU-to-memory ration, medium traffic web servers and application servers. The common trend is to choose a VM based exclusively on vCPU, memory, and storage capacity without benchmarking the current IO and throughput requirements. Benchmark Test. Storage optimized – High disk throughput and IO.

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Optimizing Video For Size And Quality

Smashing Magazine

Once the page is loaded, we can move to the Network tab, and filter by “media” to see all the video files: Filtering resources by 'Media' in DevTools. When I think of network speeds, I tend to rely on WebPageTest ’s traffic profiles: Traffic profiles to keep in mind on WebPageTest : ranging from Cable and DSL to 3G Slow and 2G.

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Have You Tested Your App Performance & Capacity Recently?

Apica

In addition in this age of social media, brands must perform at their best or expect negative word-of-mouth because 80% of consumers are likely to tell friends, colleagues, and anyone on blog or reviews site about unsatisfactory online experiences. Load and stress-testing benchmark goals for the backend technological components.

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The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters

Smashing Magazine

These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known. It provides a comprehensive support of media queries (e.g. Large preview ).

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Why you need to know your site's performance poverty line (and how to find it)

Speed Curve

Background For this new investigation, I selected four sites that experience a significant amount of user traffic. If you work on a media site, then page views and bounce rate matter. In this post, I'll show how to use your own data to find the poverty line for your site, and then what to do with your new insights.