Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Fighting regressions should be the top priority of anyone who cares about the speed of their site. The best way to fight regressions is to create performance budgets on key metrics, and get alerted when they go out of bounds. Fight regressions and stay fast It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast.

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Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

As an ad publisher, your revenue depends on two main factors: traffic to your site and ad optimization. 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? Optimize Your Pages.

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Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

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. However, there are quite a few high-profile case studies exploring the impact of mobile optimization on key business metrics.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"I made my pages faster, but my business and user engagement metrics didn't change. The performance plateau is the point at which changes to your website’s rendering metrics (such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint) cease to matter because you’ve bottomed out in terms of business and user engagement metrics.

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Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 52

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

To show that I can criticize my own work as well, here I show that sustained memory bandwidth (using an approximation to the STREAM Benchmark ) is also inadequate as a single figure of metric. (It Here I assumed a particular analytical function for the amount of memory traffic as a function of cache size to scale the bandwidth time.

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Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Page labels give you the ability to: Compare and benchmark similar pages across different sites. 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? How do page labels help me?

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Benchmarking Best Practices Monitoring Traffic 57

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. Quantitative performance testing looks at metrics like response time while qualitative testing is concerned with scalability, stability, and interoperability.

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Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Enhanced User Experience Whether you operate an e-commerce platform, a content management system, or any other application reliant on MySQL, users will notice and appreciate the improved speed and responsiveness. Key metrics such as CPU usage, memory usage, and disk I/O offer insights into how efficiently your database server operates.

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Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The scale of the effect can be deeply situational or hard to suss out without solid metrics. Since then, the metrics conversation has moved forward significantly, culminating in Core Web Vitals , reported via the Chrome User Experience Report to reflect the real-world experiences of users. Today, either method returns a similar answer.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics Performance culture, Core Web Vitals, performance profiles, CrUX, Lighthouse, FID, TTI, CLS, devices. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. DOM complete, time to first byte, first input delay, client CPU and memory usage. Get a free trial of LogRocket today.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Teams I've consulted are too often wrenched between celebration over "the big rewrite" launch and the morning-after realisation that the new stack is tanking business metrics. Competent managers will begin to look for more general "industry standard" baseline metrics to report against their data. Photo by Jay Heike.

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Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic. Researchers and major companies have been publishing case studies for years , proving that slower page load experiences impact business metrics, including conversion rate, revenue, bounce rate, and more. Design Optimizations.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Speed Curve

JANUARY 31, 2018

search traffic. Over the years, I've learned that performance can be mapped to all of these metrics – and almost any other business metric you can think of. To hook different people on performance, you need to understand which metric motivates them. conversions. time on site. page views. user satisfaction.

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Performance Metrics Traffic Monitoring 40

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. This helps support executive sponsors who then have meaningful metrics to point to in justifying the investments being made. Very rarely have we seen a team succeed that doesn’t set budgets, gather RUM metrics, and carry representative customer devices.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Table Of Contents.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Edgar captures 100% of interesting traces , as opposed to sampling a small fixed percentage of traffic. Tracing as a foundation Logs, metrics, and traces are the three pillars of observability. Telltale provides Edgar with latency benchmarks that indicate if the individual trace’s latency is abnormal for this given service.

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Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 296