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

Dynatrace

Social media was relatively quiet, and as always, the Dynatrace Insights team was benchmarking key retailer home pages from mobile and desktop perspectives. This year we saw few, if any, major issues with online retailers.

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The top 5 reasons to run your own database benchmarks

HammerDB

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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The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters

Smashing Magazine

While a vast majority of the time is spent in just a few mobile apps, social media platforms provide a gateway to the web and your services — especially in education. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known. Also, there was a 65% increase in video consumption on mobile devices in 2020. Large preview ).

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

When it comes to web content, you can easily find what you need through many different paths, from search engines and social media to playlists and blogs, jumping from one source to another with just a tap of a finger. Designing for Performance. High Performance Responsive Design.

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Fixing a slow site iteratively

CSS - Tricks

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. About the most complex part are some social media buttons for people to share the page. billion if the site slowed down by just one second. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018.

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Why is Wordpress Slow?

KeyCDN

Check out our performance benchmarks that we ran against WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache. Occasionally, they are for adding functionalities like social media sharing, analytics, etc. It's a lightweight caching plugin for WordPress that makes your website faster by generating static HTML files.

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Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Smashing Magazine

On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. Assuming you want to load a social media layout, you might add a loading spinner or a skeleton loader to ensure that you don’t load an incomplete site. At the bottom of the page, you can check how many kB of resources your client consumes. Large preview ).