Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Jumped into in-person events, and were so happy to catch up with some of you at SmashingConf and performance.now() (You can watch videos of my talk about performance budgets and Andy Davies' talk about third parties.). Your current competitive benchmarks status. Expanded Industry Speed Benchmarks. Lots of new videos!

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Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Benchmark your site against your competitors Our public-facing Industry Benchmarks dashboard gets a lot of visits, but did you know you can create your own custom competitive benchmarking dashboard in SpeedCurve? READ : How to create a competitive benchmark dashboard ––––– 4.

Benchmarking 64

Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 64

n0derunner

JULY 23, 2019

In this video I migrate a Postgres DB running PGbench benchmark. The variation in the transaction rate is due to the benchmark itself, the transaction rate is not expected to be uniform. Effect of removing CPU constraints and maintaining data locality on a running DB instance.

Benchmarking 76

Benchmarking Storage Tuning Cache 76

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We track LEGO.com, along with a handful of other leading ecommerce sites, in our public-facing Retail Benchmarks dashboard , which I encourage you to check out. LCP measures when the largest visual element in the viewport – typically a hero image or video – finishes rendering. Those are already big wins.

Performance 69

Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 69

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2020

This is definitely a great starting benchmark against which to optimize your application. Dynatrace made the decision when we first introduced Visually complete three years ago to base our calculations on changes to the DOM rather than measure Visually complete based on a video capture of the page load.

Metrics 223

Metrics Monitoring Performance Benchmarking 223

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Throughout this post I've used examples from our public Industry Benchmarks dashboard , which I'd encourage you to check out so that you can explore these metrics on your own. Tracking critical content such as images and videos is a good place to start. > It's only tracked on certain elements, e.g., IMG and VIDEO (learn more here ).

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Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 135

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 7, 2020

To serve this need I summarized Linux systems performance in 40 minutes at USENIX LISA 2019, touring six important areas: observability tools, methodologies, benchmarking, profiling, tracing, and tuning. It was a little rushed for 90 minutes, but I've heard people found it valuable anyway.

Systems 52

Systems Performance Benchmarking Tuning 52

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 7, 2020

To serve this need I summarized Linux systems performance in 40 minutes at USENIX LISA 2019, touring six important areas: observability tools, methodologies, benchmarking, profiling, tracing, and tuning. It was a little rushed for 90 minutes, but I've heard people found it valuable anyway.

Systems 52

Systems Performance Benchmarking Tuning 52

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

GPU – Heavy graphic rendering and video editing. The common trend is to choose a VM based exclusively on vCPU, memory, and storage capacity without benchmarking the current IO and throughput requirements. Benchmark Test. Use caution if you plan to benchmark real production servers. Generation. Conclusion.

Azure 76

Azure Benchmarking Storage Virtualization 76

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

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. Identify sites you can use for your own competitive benchmarking. How fast should I be?

Benchmarking 136

Benchmarking Speed Performance Media 136

High Scalability

OCTOBER 19, 2018

stephenbalaban : We've benchmarked the 2080 Ti, V100, Titan V, 2080, and 1080 Ti. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. Gbit/s : t3.2xlarge Network Performance; 60% : chances DNA can be used to find your family; 12 : Happy birthday Hacker News! Only few astute folks take seriously. This was foolish on multiple dimensions.

Internet 123

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 123

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

Netflix engineers run a series of tests and benchmarks to validate the device across multiple dimensions including compatibility of the device with the Netflix SDK, device performance, audio-video playback quality, license handling, encryption and security. Detect a regression in a test case.

Testing 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2023

Understanding these elements and how they relate to each other is crucial for tasks such as video summarization and highlights detection, content-based video retrieval, dubbing quality assessment, and video editing. As a result of DTW, the scene headers have timestamps that can indicate possible scene boundaries in the video.

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Benchmarking C++ Availability Programming 253

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account. In 2019 our stunning colleagues in the Cloud Database Engineering (CDE) team benchmarked EBS performance for our use case and migrated existing clusters to use EBS Elastic volumes. which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Speed Curve

MAY 31, 2020

If you're more into watching than reading, my fellow SpeedCurver Cliff Crocker has created a great trio of short explainer videos, which I've included at the bottom of this post.). Looking at this list, it's pretty clear where some of the issues lie: Video size has jumped from 32KB to more than 4MB. Generate comparison videos.

Metrics 62

Metrics Retail Benchmarking Testing 62

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

Web performance solutions like Dotcom-Monitor offer real browser-based monitoring for your web pages and applications to establish performance benchmarks. Additionally, the solution captures a video that is synced with the waterfall chart, so you can easily diagnose page errors, minimize downtime, and ultimately, impact to visitors.

Website 92

Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

n0derunner

MARCH 7, 2019

I use the “built in” benchmark pgbench to run a simple set of queries. Then reboot the kernel I used these excellent resources How to modify the kernel command line How to enable hugepages and this great video on Linux virtual memory. For this experiment I am using Postgres v11 on Linux 3.10

Performance 40

Performance Benchmarking C++ Virtualization 40

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

An overview of tools for measuring performance, uptime monitoring, real user monitoring and performance benchmarking. Competitive Benchmarking SpeedCurve. Impact of performance improvements Optimizing the Critical Rendering Path for Instant Mobile Websites (Video) What are responsive websites made of? Muti-device challenges.

Speed 40

Speed Benchmarking Latency Mobile 40

Speed Curve

AUGUST 8, 2017

These numbers should not in any way even remotely be taken as a benchmark for your own site. Here you can see page growth from 2011 to now, broken out by content type: The first thing that jumps out is the large amount of page real estate being taken up by video. These numbers are mainly relevant when viewed in a historical context.

Metrics 81

Metrics Website Speed Benchmarking 81

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

In addition, such custom systems could only be benchmarked once they were deployed, so by the time multiple layers of management had each added a 50% safety margin to the initial SWAG , it was not unusual to see them running at 10% of capacity (but 150% of the lucky hardware salesman’s annual quota). Watch the Video.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Unoptimized content (generally images) Slow WordPress themes Sluggish WordPress plugins A huge number of HTTP requests from external sources Not utilizing a specifically dedicated resource to serve content (video hosting, CDN, etc.) Check out our performance benchmarks that we ran against WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache.

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Cache Website Speed Website Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. At the bottom of the page, you can check how many kB of resources your client consumes.

Cache 125

Cache Performance Servers Social Media 125

Apica

MAY 10, 2019

When more and more video content is streaming directly into the consumer’s hands, how will your streaming services ensure the performance of those services, and at what level will you ensure high service levels? Load and stress-testing benchmark goals for the backend technological components.

Testing 40

Testing Performance Social Media Wireless 40

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

JavaScript, fonts, and video carry the bulk of the rest of the weight. Benchmark your site against your competitors. It’s important to remember that these numbers are medians. I routinely see pages that are between 5 and 10 MB in size. Images account for roughly half the size. Take Amazon, for example. Connect the dots.

Performance 79

Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 79

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Its videos and blog articles address issues such as web performance, extensible component development and the intersection of CSS with other technologies, like HTML and JavaScript. It also has a helpful element index that’s worth investigating in and of itself. Visit website 3. Visit website 19. Visit website 20. Visit website 36.

Development 75

Development Website Design Code 75

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

An example of using Machine Learning to find shots of Eleven in Stranger Things and surfacing the results in studio application for the consumption of Netflix video editors. We must quickly surface the most stand-out highlights from the titles available on our service in the form of images and videos in the member experience.

Media 291

Media Innovation Energy Architecture 291

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

Also, there was a 65% increase in video consumption on mobile devices in 2020. According to Tim Kadlec (video), that’s an Android device that’s couple of years old, and costs around $200. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known. Hot-reloading is supported as well, as well as video recording and screenshots.

Mobile 133

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This includes: waterfall charts with details about every request, filmstrips and videos that help you visualize the rendering experience, and. Using filmstrips or videos to illustrate a point goes a really long way when speaking to stakeholders that are out of the loop on performance. Benchmark yourself.

Performance 143

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Telltale provides Edgar with latency benchmarks that indicate if the individual trace’s latency is abnormal for this given service. In Edgar’s early days, as we strove to build valuable abstractions on top of trace data, the Edgar team first targeted streaming video use cases. Is this an anomaly or are we dealing with a pattern?

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Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 296

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Many factors are invisible, as Paul Luna — a professor at the University of Reading’s Department of Typography & Graphic Communication — mentions in this video Paul Luna on the typographer’s task.

Performance 110

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 110

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Follow him on Twitter @ RickByers and be sure to watch the video of his conversation at Chrome Dev Summit 2016 , where he discussed the ways Chrome is “improving predictability for developers.” Check out his how-to videos on his YouTube channel as well as his performance related dispatches on Twitter @ paulcalvano.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. Fundamentally enabling for video creation apps. This is as it should be.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

Video – For the first time in the many years that I've been covering the topic of page growth, I'm going to focus on the volume of video that pages contain. Largest Contentful Paint – LCP measures when the largest visual element (image or video) in the viewport finishes rendering. More on that later.) That's huge.

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Watch a video walkthrough of the Vitals dashboard.). Watch a demo video showing how to create custom charts and performance budgets for Web Vitals.). This video shows you how to use SpeedCurve to investigate CLS issues.). More: Watch this video for a walkthrough of the RUM Sessions dashboard. Time period.

Retail 52

Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 52

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

I intentionally left out the numbers for video, because they seemed inconsistent. 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 ). The CLS score for this page is 1.0468.

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Rigor

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Does it capture screenshots or a video of script running, so you can see what the screen looked like when a button or form field couldn’t be found? Can you compare the videos or waterfalls side-by-side? Competitive & Industry Benchmarking. Benchmarking your performance against your competitors and industries.

Monitoring 59

Monitoring Benchmarking Mobile Traffic 59

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

It's only tracked on certain elements, e.g., IMG and VIDEO. > Page Size and Weight (Synthetic) If you're concerned about serving huge pages to your mobile users, or if you're worried about site contributors accidentally publishing huge unoptimized image and video files, then you should consider tracking metrics like page size and weight.

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Media Google 98