Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. It essentially describes the lifetime of each file you download to load your page from the network. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

Cache 125

Cache Performance Servers Social Media 125

Rigor

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Synthetic monitoring vendors provide a remote (often global) infrastructure that visits a website periodically and records the performance data for each run. Real user monitoring vendors provide an agent (Javascript) that is injected on each page of a website or application. Benchmark Against Competitors.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Benchmarking Website Traffic 40

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. Just because everything works perfectly during production testing doesn’t mean that will be the case when your website is flooded with traffic.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2021

Unlike iOS development, Android development requires proper standards and varying benchmarks for performance and optimization. Perform Tests On Real Devices: Because apps and websites act differently across different devices, it’s important for us to run tests on real devices.

Testing 52

Testing Mobile Testing Tools Strategy 52

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

What are some good sites I can use for benchmarking? Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive dashboard that lets you explore and compare web performance data for leading websites across several industries – from retail to media. Identify sites you can use for your own competitive benchmarking. How fast should I be?

Benchmarking 136

Benchmarking Speed Performance Media 136

Speed Curve

JULY 2, 2013

SpeedCurve focuses on a third which I like to call web performance benchmarking. Uptime services like Pingdom and Uptime Robot ping your website with an HTTP request every couple of minutes to check that it's online and available. Web Performance Benchmarking. Uptime Monitoring. Real user monitoring dashboard on New Relic.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Performance Website Analytics 40

Speed Curve

MARCH 23, 2016

Previously, geographic regions used average network speeds, but the new version of SpeedCurve allows you to test specific network configurations for different browsers. For example, you can now emulate the experience of a phone on a 2G network in Brazil or a desktop PC on fibre in Germany. Flexible Testing.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Speed Network Website 40

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

The network constraints and what makes the web slow? An overview of tools for measuring performance, uptime monitoring, real user monitoring and performance benchmarking. How to make your website faster. Competitive Benchmarking SpeedCurve. Bandwidth, latency and it's fundamental impact on the speed of the web.

Speed 40

Speed Benchmarking Latency Mobile 40

Speed Curve

MAY 31, 2014

medium instances which have 3.75GB of RAM with faster CPU and network performance. Overall this should provide more consistent results that are more on par with what an average user of your website might experience. Do note that SpeedCurve's strength is competitive benchmarking and detailed build analysis.

Testing 40

Testing Benchmarking Speed Website 40

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

If you want to vastly improve the startup and load performance of your website, you cannot miss the impactful observations and insights that Jake posts on jakearchibald.com/ and shares on Twitter @ jaffathecake. He writes about Progressive Web Apps on Medium as well as on his own website. Rick Byers. Rick Byers. Tammy Everts.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. Your website may be using more third-party services than you realize. Ken Harker.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 16, 2020

SaaS businesses are built upon the simplicity of computing, storage, and networking they provide to their users. Set benchmarks for performance metrics such as response time, threshold, error rate, flow, transaction health, resource utilization, and implement a monitoring solution to measure them.

Infrastructure 52

Infrastructure Monitoring Mobile Benchmarking 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

RUM works best only when people actively visit the application, website, or services. In some cases, you will lack benchmarking capabilities. Synthetic monitoring is well suited for catching regressions during development lifecycles, especially with network throttling. RUM generates a lot of data. Synthetic monitoring drawbacks.

Best Practices 175

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 175

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. If you’d like to dive deeper into the performance of Android and iOS devices, you can check Geekbench Android Benchmarks for Android smartphones and tablets, and iOS Benchmarks for iPhones and iPads. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known.

Mobile 133

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This is sometimes referred to as using an “over-cloud” model that involves a centrally managed resource pool that spans all parts of a connected global network with internal connections between regional borders, such as two instances in IAD-ORD for NYC-JS webpage DNS routing. This also aids scalability down the line.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed. In this case, my website is “slow”, even when served on 4G networks. Suzanne Scacca.

Website 110

Website Speed Mobile Design 110

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Go ahead, briefly look at the things that Lighthouse says are wrong with the website. Improvement #1: Redirects.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

But pages keep getting bigger and more complex year over year – and this increasing size and complexity is not fully mitigated by faster devices and networks, or by our hard-working browsers. These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. Don't assume hardware and networks will mitigate page bloat.

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

Lastly, I tried not to search for help on Google, Stack Overflow, or other websites, which is what I would normally be doing while programming. I could’ve written this code by hand, but I wanted to try using a JavaScript date parsing library since it would be more robust to date format variations that appear on various websites (e.g.,

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

With entrance into the industry being so easy and lack of proper benchmarking (Note: this is somewhat contradictory to point 2, but more on that later) around what makes a good designer, software engineer, or product manager, we’re forced to face the facts that it’s a recipe for poor quality products. I was once stuck in a full-time job.

Design 126

Design Social Media Website Best Practices 126

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. JavaScript-Heavy # Since at least 2015, building JavaScript-first websites has been a predictably terrible idea, yet most of the sites I trace on a daily basis remain mired in script. [1] What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The OSI Model is like a layer cake of how data moves through networks. This means it specifically looks at the content of the data (like the writing inside our letters from the analogy) rather than just the envelope.So, what is the difference between a Firewall at the application level and network level?Network-level

Traffic 52

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The OSI Model is like a layer cake of how data moves through networks. This means it specifically looks at the content of the data (like the writing inside our letters from the analogy) rather than just the envelope.So, what is the difference between a Firewall at the application level and network level?Network-level

Traffic 40

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 40

Rigor

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Of course, since websites change daily (in some cases) and scripts can stop working, it is also important to evaluate a tool based on its troubleshooting capabilities, such as: Can you test the script? Can you test with 3G, 4G, or different networking connections? Competitive & Industry Benchmarking.

Monitoring 59

Monitoring Benchmarking Mobile Traffic 59

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. Amazon is a good example of a site that serves large, fast pages, as you can see in this recent look at our Retail Page Speed Benchmarks : In the waterfall chart for this test run , you can see why the Amazon home page ranks fastest for Start Render. Possibly not.

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Reading time 11 min As companies become more aware of the importance of web performance, internal teams begin to research tools they can use to use to track their metrics and improve the user experience of their websites and applications. Not everyone uses Chrome to access your website. But that is the assumption that Lighthouse makes.

Google 51

Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2020

For example, when creating automation for testing a website, it is better to use reliable attributes like xpath, id, name, etc., an environment variable like network connectivity changed over time and is not aligned with the assumption with which test automation was built initially.

Software 85

Software Software Testing Open Source 85

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

The success of your website depends on the impression it leaves on its users. It’s worth mentioning that good Core Web Vitals scores don’t necessarily mean that your website scores in high 90s on Lighthouse. PageSpeed Compare is a page speed evaluation and benchmarking tool. Zara Cooper. 2022-08-09T14:00:00+00:00.

Performance 130

Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 130

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Real-life performance for your users and how the website “feels” when you’re using it should not be discounted, even if it costs you a point or two in Page Speed (otherwise, we would all just have a search bar and unstyled text). Today, the website is much faster and ranks highly in various showcases and benchmarks.

Performance 115

Performance Cache Website Mobile 115

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2022

While companies historically use patents to measure an organization’s innovation output, contributions to open source projects provide another innovation benchmark. Doing distributed tracing means there’s always a network in between,” Reitbauer continues, including middleware and cloud services. Drives a culture of innovation.

Open Source 191

Open Source Software Software Development 191

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2022

While companies historically use patents to measure an organization’s innovation output, contributions to open source projects provide another innovation benchmark. Doing distributed tracing means there’s always a network in between,” Reitbauer continues, including middleware and cloud services. Drives a culture of innovation.

Open Source 130

Open Source Software Software Development 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2022

While companies historically use patents to measure an organization’s innovation output, contributions to open source projects provide another innovation benchmark. Doing distributed tracing means there’s always a network in between,” Reitbauer continues, including middleware and cloud services. Drives a culture of innovation.

Open Source 130

Open Source Software Software Development 130

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? ( Large preview ). Moto G4) on a slow 3G network, emulated at 400ms RTT and 400kbps transfer speed. 300ms RTT, 1.6

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. Do you have a standard API to your website? We also put these nodes on a faster network compared to other nodes and we still aren't done with this problem :).

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52