Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. And to ensure the quality of a product, we always need to test — on a number of devices, and in a number of conditions.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences. Real user monitoring (RUM) is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about users’ interactions with an application. What is real user monitoring?

Best Practices 172

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 172

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 106

Testsigma

JANUARY 12, 2021

You reload the browser and wait for the website to load. Even though most of the web browsers adhere to the Open Web Standards and render HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, it does not guarantee constant performance throughout browsers. Enters Cross Browser Testing, a comprehensive way of finding and fixing compatibility bottlenecks.

Website 65

Website Benchmarking Operating System Testing Tools 65

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

At Perform 2021 , Dynatrace’s Kristof Renders, Services Practice Manager for Autonomous Cloud Enablement, joined Sumit Nagal, Principal Engineer at Intuit, to demonstrate how service-level objectives (SLOs) and business-level objectives (BLOs) can “shift left.” Nearly 42% do not perform manual or automated checks.

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Benchmarking Latency Speed Software 179

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Fight regressions and stay fast It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast. The best way to fight regressions is to create performance budgets on key metrics, and get alerted when they go out of bounds. Imagine that your website is a vault containing billions of dollars in jewels.

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Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast. If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. Background: How performance budgets work 1. What is a performance budget?

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Performance Metrics Media Google 98

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. Developers are already optimizing front end performance with: Fast web hosting. Suzanne Scacca.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Performance budgets are one of those ideas that everyone gets behind conceptually, but then are challenged to put into practice – and for very good reason. If you're just getting started with performance budgets – or if you've been using them for a while and want to validate your work – this post is for you.

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Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 134

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

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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Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

The usual caveats also apply: Performance is a deep and nuanced domain, and much can go wrong beyond content size and composition. How sites manage resources after-load can have a big impact on perceived performance. Until and unless teams have better data about their performance, the global baseline budget should be enforced.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Browser Networking. This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. High Performance Websites.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) solutions are a traditional way of addressing this. A key requirement for agent technology is avoiding a negative impact on performance. Existing RASP solutions often introduce a significant overhead negatively impacting application performance and customer experience.

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Traffic Benchmarking Innovation Java 231

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

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Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Today, the website is much faster and ranks highly in various showcases and benchmarks.

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 115

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

we also: Launched a series of new and improved dashboards to help you identify and fix your performance issues more quickly and efficiently (More on those below.). Expanded our test agent locations to bring you even more places to test from worldwide. The current status of your performance budgets. Synthetic Site.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

With another year winding down, it’s time for us to take stock of how our site performance compares to the average page load times for 2020. As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is.

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Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2021

And, precisely due to this diversity, the need for testing on many devices is paramount. With the ever-increasing and evolving sector of Android users, Android device testing is of the essence. . Why Is Android Device Testing Important? That’s the point that calls for comprehensive testing when it comes to Android development.

Testing 52

Testing Mobile Testing Tools Strategy 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The recently revealed [Meltdown and Spectre] bugs are not just extraordinary issues of security, but also performance. The patches that workaround Meltdown introduce the largest kernel performance regressions I've ever seen. Much of my testing was on Linux 4.14.11 and 4.14.12 a month ago, before we deployed in production.

Performance 75

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 75

KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

A WordPress website comprises many parts, including web servers and their settings, different plugins, and themes. Unoptimized content could also be one of the reasons why your WordPress website is not performing as per your expectations. Quite a number of brands prefer WordPress to maintain their website.

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Cache Website Speed Website Performance 52

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.

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

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.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2020

Software testing is the process of finding bugs or discrepancies in a software. As a beginner in software testing, you would make your own mistakes and learn from them to shape your career path. Following are a few common mistakes often made by software testing beginners when they start their journey in the world of testing.

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Software Software Testing Open Source 85

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

We apply this litmus test to everything we do, and I believe it's the secret of our success. Andy joined us in June , and since then he's already helped countless customers in his role as in-house performance consultant. Watch a demo video showing how to create custom charts and performance budgets for Web Vitals.).

Retail 52

Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 52

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

Create performance budgets and fight regression. Build a performance culture that embraces collaboration between design and dev. The critical rendering path is the set of steps browsers must take to convert HTML, CSS and JavaScript into living, breathing websites. FID is also available on your LUX Performance dashboard.).

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 78

Rigor

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Reading time 4 min It’s important for both technical and business teams to understand the different web performance monitoring options that are available as well as their various use cases and the benefits of each. Understanding Web Performance Monitoring Methodologies. Test at Every Stage of Development.

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Monitoring Benchmarking Website Traffic 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Testing And Monitoring.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

Running speed tests with tools like Google PageSpeed Insights , WebPageTest , or KeyCDN’s Website Speed Test are always a good way to help gauge your website’s performance. Your goal here isn’t to score 100/100 just for the sake of having 100/100, the goal is to improve your site’s overall performance.

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Google Cache Speed Analytics 103

Speed Curve

JULY 2, 2013

Over the last few years the web performance monitoring toolset has expanded dramatically with the introduction of many new services and products. There are two main types of web performance monitoring, uptime monitoring and real user monitoring. SpeedCurve focuses on a third which I like to call web performance benchmarking.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Performance Website Analytics 40

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The recently revealed [Meltdown and Spectre] bugs are not just extraordinary issues of security, but also performance. The patches that workaround Meltdown introduce the largest kernel performance regressions I've ever seen. Much of my testing was on Linux 4.14.11 and 4.14.12 a month ago, before we deployed in production.

Performance 40

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 40

Rigor

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Reading time 8 min There are many different classes of web performance tools, from synthetic monitoring to application performance monitoring ( APM) , to real user monitoring ( RUM ), and more. Can you manually edit recorded tests or do you need to completely re-record? Measure and Compare Performance Experiments.

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Monitoring Benchmarking Mobile Traffic 59

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

The HammerDB TPROC-C workload by design intended as CPU and memory intensive workload derived from TPC-C – so that we get to benchmark at maximum CPU performance at a much smaller database footprint. Fully audited configurations would require multiple racks of I/O capacity to reach maximum CPU performance.

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C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

Speed Curve

MAY 31, 2014

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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Testing Benchmarking Speed Website 40

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 5, 2020

At that time, I was working as a freelance website performance consultant. I wanted to compress every last possible byte for my clients’ websites in a drive to make them faster, but using pre-compression and allowing clients to update files on demand simultaneously was not always easy. Taking matters into my own hands.

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Cache Website Servers Open Source 79

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

By running basic optimizations of our videos before adding them to our websites, we can prevent these issues from occurring for good — well, most of them. It’s not uncommon to find websites with extremely large videos — for example, used used as hero background videos. There is a solution though! Real-World Data.

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Network Speed Website Mobile 143