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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 had the effect of dramatically speeding up its performance and reducing support costs. This year we saw few, if any, major issues with online retailers.

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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. Site speed & SEO go hand in hand. Speed Up Your Site. Web Performance In Action. The real beauty?

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Why is Wordpress Slow?

KeyCDN

We will also discuss how you can speed up your slow WordPress site. Many factors affect the speed of your WordPress website; some of them are: Your web host Server-side optimizations (PHP version, compression, caching, etc.) Several website speed testing tools available could be used for this purpose. Why is WordPress slow?

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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. Data-loading patterns are one way you can optimize your applications’ speed. Large preview ).

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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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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. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile.

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