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. Monitoring these metrics helps ensure data protection, minimize downtime, and ensure business continuity.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 106

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

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Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JULY 7, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. Key metrics such as CPU usage, memory usage, and disk I/O offer insights into how efficiently your database server operates. To maximize indexing benefits, be sure to follow best practices.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

Running speed tests with tools like Google PageSpeed Insights , WebPageTest , or KeyCDN’s Website Speed Test are always a good way to help gauge your website’s performance. While these metrics can be very helpful it is also important to keep this data in perspective.

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Google Cache Speed Analytics 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. But as it stands, websites are growing ever more obese, which means that the energy demand of the Internet is continuing to grow exponentially. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 2, 2022

The new WebPageTest website design. And not just defining it in terms of specific metrics (even that is tricky), but answer questions like: What are this discipline’s guiding principles? What does it look like to practice web performance? Caching Header Best Practices — Simon Hearne’s dissertation on Cache headers.

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Performance Cache Best Practices Strategy 68

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

According to Rich Howard, CEO of Optimal, a business dedicated to optimizing websites and mobile apps , there are ten steps your business can take now to start preparing your website or web application for the upcoming holiday season. Review OWASP’s recommendations and best practices with your developers.

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Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

However, you have likely used the Web UI that Google uses to allow you to test websites for speed – Google PageSpeed Insights. Lighthouse is a completely open-source tool that allows users to test any website in a multitude of ways. These checks ensure that your website or web app is accessible to all visitors.

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Google Speed Testing Tools Testing 82

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Having a slow site might leave you on page 452 of search results, regardless of any other metric. Go ahead, briefly look at the things that Lighthouse says are wrong with the website.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Get a free trial of LogRocket today.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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. Are you compressing and caching the right things? The best way to investigate the critical rendering path is to look at a waterfall chart for the page page. I love LEGO. Are images optimized?

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Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 67

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Largest Contentful Paint (or LCP) is one of three metrics of the Core Web Vitals. These metrics are used by Google to evaluate the quality of user experience. To address this problem, I’ll provide an overview of the best practices for the integration and optimization of an LCP image. Optimizing The Image Element LCP.

Media 104

Media Mobile Website Metrics 104

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Table Of Contents. Quick Wins.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Table Of Contents. Quick Wins.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 29, 2021

To truly audit CSS, we would need to dig deeper and find places that are not considered best practices. It may not be critical data to know, but sometimes it helps to understand the caching strategy. The most interesting metrics to me are First Paint, First Contentful Paint, Layout Shifts, and Largest Contentful Paint.

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Code Media Cache Energy 110

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

JavaScript, CSS, images, iframes, and other resources impact how quickly website loads, renders and becomes usable to the user. Loading experience is crucial to the user’s first impression and overall usability, so Google defined Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric to measure how quickly the main content loads and is displayed to the user.

Media 69

Media Tuning Metrics Google 69

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Guy Podjarny’s recent research shows that only one in eight websites is responsive. Recently Grigorik has been championing this approach and the Google Pagespeed Insight rules have been updated to reflect this best practice with recommendations on how to reduce the size of "above the fold" content. Source: SpeedCurve.

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Performance Mobile Website Benchmarking 60

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. This is because, as I stated in the introduction to part 1 , much of the early HTTP/2 content was overly optimistic about how well it would work in practice, and some of it, quite frankly, had major mistakes and bad advice.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 104

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites written by Dan Shappir. Adding A Dyslexia-Friendly Mode To A Website written by John C Barstow. We last talked to him in July 2020 , where we asked if modern best practices about for the web. Chris on Twitter. The Vanilla JavaScript Podcast. Weekly Update. Chris: Indeed.

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Technology Technology Servers Code 94

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

For web-page loading, this slow-start approach can also affect metrics such as the first contentful paint, because only a small amount of data (tens of to a few hundred KB) can be transferred in the first few round trips. This means that it will not magically download your website resources much more quickly than TCP.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 105

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Websites would magically become 50% faster with the flip of a switch! Five years later, we know that server push doesn’t really work in practice, streams and prioritization are often badly implemented , and, consequently, (reduced) resource bundling and even sharding are still good practices in some situations.

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145