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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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Measuring Network Performance in Mobile Safari

CSS Wizardry

Google has a pretty tight grip on the tech industry: it makes by far the most popular browser with the best DevTools, and the most popular search engine, which means that web developers spend most of their time in Chrome, most of their visitors are in Chrome, and a lot of their search traffic will be coming from Google. Why This Is a Problem.

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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

RUM, however, has some limitations, including the following: RUM requires traffic to be useful. Because pre-production environments are used for testing before an application is released to end users, teams have no access to real-user data. In some cases, you will lack benchmarking capabilities. Real user monitoring limitations.

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Android Device Testing: A No-hassle Guide For Testers

Testsigma

Owing to the wide market range of Android apps, an average user has plenty of other alternatives and if we have to retain our existing customer base and attract new users, our apps have to perform without any snag. Unlike iOS development, Android development requires proper standards and varying benchmarks for performance and optimization.

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Have You Tested Your App Performance & Capacity Recently?

Apica

These virtual users simulate realistic scenarios scripted and recorded with Apica’s ZebraTester tool so that hundreds, thousands, and millions of tests run concurrently in a Streaming companies/studios’ pre-production or production environments before the episodes are actually ‘aired.’

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. Lighthouse , a performance auditing tool integrated into DevTools. Set up "clean" and "customer" profiles for testing. Test with network throttling, and emulate a high-DPI device.