Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

So I thought it would be fun to spend some time poking around behind the scenes and give the site a holiday performance audit. Background For this performance audit, I looked at this synthetic test for the LEGO.com home page. (We The performance team is clearly doing a good job of fighting page bloat. Are images optimized?

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Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 67

Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

From site reliability engineering to service-level objectives and DevSecOps, these resources focus on how organizations are using these best practices to innovate at speed without sacrificing quality, reliability, or security. Learn more about DevOps and best practices to achieve it at scale.

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DevOps Best Practices Innovation Strategy 194

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. Large preview ) We’ve known for a long time that fast page performance influences search engine rankings.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This demand creates an increasing need for DevOps teams to maintain the performance and reliability of critical business applications. Setting a stringent SLO for an application that’s not business-critical can lead to wasted time and resources when it comes to remediating issues or performing tasks to ensure uptime.

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DevOps Metrics Best Practices Latency 192

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? Experiencing database performance issues?

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Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2022

But, manual steps — such as reviewing test results and addressing production issues resulting from performance, resiliency, security, or functional issues — often hinder these efforts. We refer to this culture and practice as observability-driven DevOps and SRE automation. The collected set of metrics are queries for some timeframe.

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DevOps Metrics Engineering Speed 215

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

DevOps automation is a set of tools and technologies that perform routine, repeatable tasks that engineers would otherwise do manually. Automatic validation against business-critical metrics not only prevents bad code from reaching production but ensures code meets both business and end-user goals. What is DevOps automation?

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DevOps Innovation Speed Monitoring 184

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 2, 2022

I have a handful of good links to articles about performance that are burning a hole in my bookmarks folder, and wanna drop them here to share. Performance: Making a Fast Framework Even Faster — Ben Schwarz says that Next.js But performance isn’t something that can be left entirely to a framework. You have to do work.

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Performance Cache Best Practices Strategy 68

Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2020

This extends Dynatrace visibility into SAP ABAP performance from the infrastructure and ABAP application platform perspective. They need to understand basic SAP performance counters and to have a common dialog platform with the SAP Basis team. No ABAP code instrumentation or injection is performed.

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Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure Servers 153

Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

When your website isn’t performing optimally, you risk not only your revenue but also your reputation as a trusted resource. Additionally, teams are measuring and tracking key business metrics – conversion rates, cart abandonment rates, customer lifetime value, revenue by traffic source, and so on.

Ecommerce 87

Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2019

We’re proud to announce the Early Access Program (EAP) for monitoring of SAP ABAP performance from the infrastructure and ABAP application platform perspective. They need to understand basic SAP performance counters and to have a common dialog platform with the SAP Basis team. ABAP platform performance characterization.

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Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure Programming 160

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

How To Make Performance Visible With GitLab CI And Hoodoo Of GitLab Artifacts. How To Make Performance Visible With GitLab CI And Hoodoo Of GitLab Artifacts. Performance degradation is a problem we face on a daily basis. Performance is a competitive advantage that can bring and retain customers. Anton Nemtsev.

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Performance Metrics Best Practices Code 98

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Through it all, best practices such as AIOps and DevSecOps have enabled IT teams to efficiently and securely transform. As part of this assessment, it should specify metrics that demonstrate whether and how well an organization achieves its business objectives to compare the results with the investment in the project.

Strategy 191

Strategy Artificial Intelligence Innovation Healthcare 191

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. Projects built using JavaScript-based frameworks often ship large bundles of JavaScript that take time to download, parse and execute, blocking page render and user input in the process. Performance Costs.

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Code Performance Network Website 89

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

In order for the browser to display the image, it has a fairly long chain of dependencies: Download the HTML. Download and parse the CSS. Download the image. So noticeable, in fact, that Core Web Vitals has a metric all about it called Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). Reconcile the CSS ruleset with the DOM.

Media 73

Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 73

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Browsers have lots of caches , the most well-known of which is the HTTP Cache that stores copies of downloaded resources on a local drive for later reuse. Barry Pollard. 2022-05-09T10:30:00+00:00. webperf #perfmatters.

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Cache Games Performance Website 91

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. But not everything about performance happens directly at the code level, right?

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 90

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. To investigate this topic, let’s first check how important your website performance is to your online business. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance? Main Performance Issues.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Smaller HTML means less time for Google to download and process those long strings of text. Part of having a small LCP is to let the user download as small HTML as possible. Part of having a small LCP is to let the user download as small HTML as possible. In the meanwhile, React javascript is being downloaded and executed.

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Google Architecture Servers Speed 110

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2020

If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. To investigate this topic, let’s first check how important your website performance is to your online business. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance? Main Performance Issues.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JULY 7, 2020

If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. To investigate this topic, let’s first check how important your website performance is to your online business. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance? Main Performance Issues.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome who was working all around web performance for decades. Jump to the details ↓ Download a free PDF sample (12MB). Download PDF , ePUB , Kindle. Image Decoding Performance. +. ePUB, Kindle, PDF.

Media 105

Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

If you've been working in the performance space for a while and you hear me start to talk about page growth, I'd forgive you if you started running away. ;). How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? More stylesheets equal more risk of performance degradation.

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You may have a lean, agile, responsive site design only to find it gradually loaded down with more and more “extras” that are often put onto the site by marketing departments or business leaders who are not always thinking about website performance. Measuring Performance Impact. You cannot always anticipate what you cannot control.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome and focusing around performance for decades. Jump to the details ↓ Download a free PDF sample (12MB). Download PDF , ePUB , Kindle. Image Decoding Performance. +. Get the book right away.

Media 92

Media Cache Google Best Practices 92

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

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. Of all those options, it’s safe to assume that text is the best choice for LCP performance because it loads and renders fast.

Media 69

Media Tuning Metrics Google 69

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. The better the performance, the better chance that users stay on a page, read content, make purchases, or just about whatever they need to do. seconds faster on average and it drove 60 million more Firefox downloads per year. Again, every millisecond counts.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Let’s add in some metrics ( click here if you need a refresher on these ): Time to First Byte (TTFB): 0.47s First Contentful Paint: 0.7s Look again at the metrics above. Fonts, images, CSS, and HTML are all in a very performant size range. Time to Interactive (TTI): 6.2s Total Blocking Time: 2.2s Page Complete Time: 8.6s.

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Retail Speed Website Google 82

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

While not render-blocking, they can indirectly impact render performance. If using 11ty for your static sites, try the 11ty high-performance blog template. Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS, a Core Web Vitals metric) measures the instability of content. We’ll cover this later. You may have heard of Core Web Vitals (CWV). Lighthouse.

Media 145

Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

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. Don’t think of it solely from a metric point of view.

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Google Cache Speed Analytics 103

Tasktop

OCTOBER 28, 2020

An online investment firm discovering a system bottleneck impeding digital channel innovation , t he remarkable success that organizations are witnessing with flow-based value stream metrics provides an exciting glimpse of what’s possible. Download e-book on data-driven value stream management. Introducing the Flow Institute.

Healthcare 90

Healthcare Innovation Government Best Practices 90

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. Perhaps the biggest win when it comes to making websites more sustainable is that performance, user experience and sustainability are all neatly intertwined. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Performance is a core feature of our company, Instant Domain Search —it’s in the name. We’ve recently grown to a small group based mostly in Victoria, Canada and we are working through a long backlog of new features and performance improvements. A 75th percentile (p75) metric strikes a reasonable balance for performance goals.

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Google Analytics Serverless Metrics 93

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Note : You can also just download the checklist (PDF, 158 KB). Table Of Contents. Quick Wins.

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Engineering Google Website Analytics 130