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Performance Testing - Tools, Steps, and Best Practices

KeyCDN

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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How to Improve MySQL AWS Performance 2X Over Amazon RDS at The Same Cost

Scalegrid

ScaleGrid’s MySQL on AWS High Performance deployment can provide 2x-3x the throughput at half the latency of Amazon RDS for MySQL with their added advantage of having 2 read replicas as compared to 1 in RDS. MySQL on AWS Performance Test. AWS High Performance XLarge (see system details below). Amazon RDS. Instance Type.

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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed). In some cases, you will lack benchmarking capabilities.

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Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores

Smashing Magazine

PageSpeed Compare is a page speed evaluation and benchmarking tool. It measures the web performance of a single page using Google PageSpeed Insights. It can also compare the performance of multiple pages of your site or those of your competitors’ websites. WebPageTest Core Web Vitals Test. PageSpeed Compare.

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Measuring Network Performance in Mobile Safari

CSS Wizardry

Same page, same connection speed, same locale, same release year, different devices. But still, this is an amazing starting point for anyone wanting to start profiling web performance on iOS. Testing in Safari’s DevTools. This means that iOS devices tend to be faster and are found in ‘faster regions’. But, Can’t I Just Emulate?

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NEW: On-demand testing in SpeedCurve!

Speed Curve

In this post, we'll: Highlight the differences between on-demand and scheduled testing Cover the various types of on-demand testing, including some of the more common use cases we've heard from SpeedCurve users Step you through running an on-demand test Let's goooooooo! What are the two types of tests within SpeedCurve?

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Ten years of page bloat: What have we learned?

Speed Curve

These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. You can see this by looking at the synthetic test result for Sears.com (again, available via our Industry Benchmarks ). The problem isn't them – it's the scale of their sites, the speed of their release cycles, and the number of people who touch each page.

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