Benchmarking Network Performance Retail 
Speed Curve
DECEMBER 13, 2023
So I thought it would be fun to spend some time poking around behind the scenes and give the site a holiday performance audit. Background For this performance audit, I looked at this synthetic test for the LEGO.com home page. (We The performance team is clearly doing a good job of fighting page bloat. Are images optimized?
Speed Curve
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
That performance golden rule still holds true today. Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Charlie Vazac introduced server timing in a Performance Calendar post circa 2018.
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Speed Curve
OCTOBER 27, 2020
Six months in, I've had a chance to gather and look at a lot of data, talk with customers, and learn from our friends in the performance community. SpeedCurve's Industry Benchmarks dashboard – which tracks the performance of top sites in retail, media, travel, and other industries – is a good place to start.
Speed Curve
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
Here are some common questions I’m asked when I talk with people about performance: Which metrics should I care about? What are some good sites I can use for benchmarking? With Page Speed Benchmarks, you can do things like: See what the different metrics actually mean in terms of user-perceived performance.
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. Rick Byers.
Dynatrace
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability. But is five nines availability attainable?
Speed Curve
MARCH 7, 2022
If you've been working in the performance space for a while and you hear me start to talk about page growth, I'd forgive you if you started running away. ;). HTML – Typically the smallest resource on the page, HTML's performance risk is usually negligible. These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site.
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