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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.

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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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Getting started with web performance? Here's what you need to focus on.

Speed Curve

The critical rendering path is the set of steps browsers must take to convert HTML, CSS and JavaScript into living, breathing websites. To optimize for performance, you need to understand what happens in the steps between receiving the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript bytes and the processing that's required to turn them into rendered pixels.

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Faster EC2 testing agents

Speed Curve

As of the 1st of June SpeedCurve has switched to using faster testing agents at Amazon EC2 data centers. As web pages become more Javascript and resource heavy I've noticed more and more pages max out the CPU while performance testing. medium instances which have 3.75GB of RAM with faster CPU and network performance.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

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 shares information about UX issues and the latest news from Chrome, with a web performance slant.

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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

Because pre-production environments are used for testing before an application is released to end users, teams have no access to real-user data. RUM works best only when people actively visit the application, website, or services. In some cases, you will lack benchmarking capabilities. RUM generates a lot of data.

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Measuring Network Performance in Mobile Safari

CSS Wizardry

But still, this is an amazing starting point for anyone wanting to start profiling web performance on iOS. Testing in Safari’s DevTools. What we really want to do, alongside capturing good benchmark- and more permanent data with WebPageTest, is interact with and inspect a site slightly more realtime. You can still grab tickets.

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