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. What is Performance Testing?

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Expanded our test agent locations to bring you even more places to test from worldwide. Your current competitive benchmarks status. As you may already know, we run full Lighthouse audits on every page you test in synthetic. Expanded Industry Speed Benchmarks. The current status of your performance budgets.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

My kids love LEGO, too, which means that every year I find myself spending a fair bit of time on the LEGO website during the holidays. Background For this performance audit, I looked at this synthetic test for the LEGO.com home page. Background For this performance audit, I looked at this synthetic test for the LEGO.com home page. (We

Performance 67

Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 67

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

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. By analyzing the data from Backlinko.com and their Page Speed Stats article, we’ll look to answer these questions: What size should be a website be?

Best Practices 105

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

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. But this article won't just help you figure out why your WordPress website is not fast enough.

Cache 52

Cache Website Speed Website Performance 52

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database uptime and availability Monitoring database uptime and availability is crucial as it directly impacts the availability of critical data and the performance of applications or websites that rely on the MySQL database. This KPI is also directly related to Query Performance and helps improve it.

Performance 108

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 108

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 Websites. Even Faster Websites. How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance. Want your web site to display more quickly?

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Rigor

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Synthetic monitoring vendors provide a remote (often global) infrastructure that visits a website periodically and records the performance data for each run. Real user monitoring vendors provide an agent (Javascript) that is injected on each page of a website or application. Test at Every Stage of Development.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Benchmarking Website Traffic 40

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

You can then configure your monitoring tools to send you alerts – or even break the build, if you're testing in your staging environment – when your budgets are violated. The easiest way to do this is to look at rendering filmstrips in your synthetic test data. The tricky part comes when you try to put them into practice.

Performance 134

Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 134

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. Do note that SpeedCurve's strength is competitive benchmarking and detailed build analysis.

Testing 40

Testing Benchmarking Speed Website 40

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.

Network 143

Network Speed Website Mobile 143

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

What types of devices and connections should I test on? What are some good sites I can use for benchmarking? Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive dashboard that lets you explore and compare web performance data for leading websites across several industries – from retail to media. How we set up our testing.

Benchmarking 135

Benchmarking Speed Performance Media 135

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. more transactions than system B in the fully audited benchmark then the HammerDB result was also 1.5X I.e. if system A generated 1.5X

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Visit website 2. Visit website 3. Visit website 4. Visit website 5. Visit website 6. Visit website 7. Visit website 8. Visit website 9. HTML5 Doctor HTML5 Doctor covers many of the features and topics that you might have missed when moving from HTML to HTML5.

Development 75

Development Website Design Code 75

Speed Curve

JULY 2, 2013

SpeedCurve focuses on a third which I like to call web performance benchmarking. Uptime services like Pingdom and Uptime Robot ping your website with an HTTP request every couple of minutes to check that it's online and available. Web Performance Benchmarking. Uptime Monitoring. Real user monitoring dashboard on New Relic.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Performance Website Analytics 40

PDC

APRIL 14, 2019

It ranks the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers based on their performance as measured by the Linpack benchmark. The ranking of the supercomputers in the Top500 list is determined by their performance as measured in specific tests. You may have heard of the Top500 list. Performance development. Statistics for (co-)processors.

Energy 40

Energy Benchmarking Efficiency Website 40

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.

Mobile 133

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

Speed Curve

MARCH 23, 2016

At the beginning of March we released a major redesign of our Settings UI that gives users more flexibility to get the exact test results they want. The two biggest changes were to the way we emulate devices and to allow different testing configurations for different sites. Flexible Testing. Emulated Phones & Tablets.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Speed Network Website 40

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

The critical rendering path is the set of steps browsers must take to convert HTML, CSS and JavaScript into living, breathing websites. According to HTTP Archive data for the top million websites , the median page served to desktop is close to 1900 KB. Read: Performance testing in CI: Let's break the build! Connect the dots.

Performance 78

Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 78

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. You’ve tested and retested the site for errors. Ken Harker. 2022-06-01T10:00:00+00:00.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Speed Curve

AUGUST 8, 2017

They don't represent the "typical" website, because there's no such thing as a typical website. These numbers should not in any way even remotely be taken as a benchmark for your own site. Custom font use continues to increase : 69% of the top 500,000 websites use them. They represent trends – that's all.

Metrics 80

Metrics Website Speed Benchmarking 80

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

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 writes about Progressive Web Apps on Medium as well as on his own website. Rick Byers. Rick Byers. Tammy Everts.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences. Because pre-production environments are used for testing before an application is released to end users, teams have no access to real-user data. What is synthetic monitoring?

Best Practices 175

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 175

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 16, 2020

Set benchmarks for performance metrics such as response time, threshold, error rate, flow, transaction health, resource utilization, and implement a monitoring solution to measure them. To get a complete understanding, you need to monitor the outside-in flow from the end user’s perspective to capture the experience.

Infrastructure 52

Infrastructure Monitoring Mobile Benchmarking 52

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.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

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. Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site.

Website 110

Website Speed Mobile Design 110

CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

That we probably aren’t testing. If you don’t have an iPhone, well, you’ll struggle to test an iPhone. Testing with WebPageTest. 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.

Network 225

Network Mobile Performance Traffic 225

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.

Software 85

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. We've made LCP events easy to spot by highlighting them in your Vitals dashboard, your test details, and your Sites dashboard, where you'll also see how key metrics are trending over time. Relaunched website. RUM Live dashboard.

Retail 52

Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 52

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. You can see this by looking at the synthetic test result for Sears.com (again, available via our Industry Benchmarks ). I meet with so many people whose job it is to build and optimize websites. Not all pages are getting bigger. Takeaways.

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast. You can then configure your monitoring tools to send you alerts – or even break the build, if you're testing in your staging environment – when your budgets are violated. What should a performance budget look like?

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Media Google 98

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Much of my testing was on Linux 4.14.11 I then analyzed performance during the benchmark ([active benchmarking]), and used other benchmarks to confirm findings. Also microbenchmarks, which often stress-test the system, will suffer the largest losses. and 4.14.12 a month ago, before we deployed in production.

Performance 75

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 75

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

Swift Papers felt like a well-scoped project to test how well AI handles a realistic yet manageable real-world programming task. Lastly, I tried not to search for help on Google, Stack Overflow, or other websites, which is what I would normally be doing while programming. Right now, widely-used benchmarks for AI code generation (e.g.,

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Rigor

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

One of the key benefits of synthetic monitoring is that you can define the specific actions of a test, allowing you to walk through key flows of your application like a checkout flow or a sign-up flow, to verify its functionality and performance. Can you manually edit recorded tests or do you need to completely re-record?

Monitoring 59

Monitoring Benchmarking Mobile Traffic 59

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Much of my testing was on Linux 4.14.11 I then analyzed performance during the benchmark ([active benchmarking]), and used other benchmarks to confirm findings. Also microbenchmarks, which often stress-test the system, will suffer the largest losses. and 4.14.12 a month ago, before we deployed in production.

Performance 40

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 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. KB 21.24% D3.js

Cache 79

Cache Website Servers Open Source 79