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2023 Black Friday and Cyber Monday retail and e-commerce IT performance observations

Dynatrace

Over the years, I have watched and written about online retail and e-commerce IT performance. What I have seen is a maturing of the online retail channels when it comes to delivering customer experiences. This year we saw few, if any, major issues with online retailers. This is where many retailers have matured over the years.

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How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

Speed Curve

Server-timing headers are a key tool in understanding what's happening within that black box of Time to First Byte (TTFB). Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold.

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2022 in review: New dashboards, Core Web Vitals enhancements, third-party tracking & more!

Speed Curve

Your current competitive benchmarks status. We've added new capabilities for defining page labels with an easy, no-code, server-side (SpeedCurve) option using URL patterns. Expanded Industry Speed Benchmarks. You can see at a glance: Key metrics like Core Web Vitals and your User Happiness score. Lots of new videos!

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Author of the Pocket Guide to Web Performance and co-author of Using WebPageTest , Andy is an independent web performance consultant in the UK who has helped many leading retailers, newspapers and financial companies make their sites faster. The future of HTTP/2 server push. He is a co-organizer of the London Web Performance meetup.

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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

SQL Performance

A close monitoring of the hardware enthusiast community, including many of the most respected hardware analysts and reviewers paints an even more dire picture about Intel in the server processor space. Despite all of this, Intel is not going to lose their entire server processor business any time soon. So, what has changed my mind?

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Google PageSpeed Insights - Scoring 100/100 with WordPress

KeyCDN

Take these statistics from Google’s industry benchmarks for mobile page speed guide: We’ve said it before but it’s worth reiterating that as web page load times increase, so does the likelihood of your visitors. To fix this we simply add Cache-Control headers to our origin server by adding the following code to our.htaccess file.

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