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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

In some cases, you will lack benchmarking capabilities. For example, the ability to test against a wireless provider in a remote area. Because pre-production environments are used for testing before an application is released to end users, teams have no access to real-user data. RUM generates a lot of data.

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Have You Tested Your App Performance & Capacity Recently?

Apica

Global consumers have high expectations for seamless access via wireless and mobile networks, regardless of their location and the complex, technological components underneath. Load and stress-testing benchmark goals for the backend technological components. User scenarios specifically expected to have high-loads.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

And now we are even changing the change ! […] Benchmarking is that part of the design process where you ask how an existing system is performing against agreed performance requirements set at the scoping stage of the design process. Later on, in the 1980s, type started to be used in a digital context in computers.