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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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Staying ahead of customer needs requires speed and agility from all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC). DevOps automation is a set of tools and technologies that perform routine, repeatable tasks that engineers would otherwise do manually. It helps to assess the long- and short-term efficiency and speed of DevOps.

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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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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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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. Dynatrace makes this easy by offering a collection of best-practice SLO definitions for various use cases beyond the observability domain.

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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. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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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

HammerDB

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This post gives a HOWTO guide on system configuration for achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB PostgreSQL TPC-C test. Firstly for system choice a 2 socket system is optimal for PostgreSQL OLTP performance at the time of writing. Make sure that your CPU is configured for optimal performance. Setting cpu: 0.

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This post complements the previous best practice guides this time with the focus on MySQL and MariaDB and achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB MySQL TPC-C test. As is exactly the same with PostgreSQL for system choice a 2 socket system is optimal for MySQL OLTP performance. current CPU frequency: 1.99

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Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

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?

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Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

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.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the speed at which organizations digitally transform — especially in industries such as eCommerce and healthcare — as expectations for a great customer experience dramatically increased. Through it all, best practices such as AIOps and DevSecOps have enabled IT teams to efficiently and securely transform.

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Strategy Artificial Intelligence Innovation Healthcare 191

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. We see that an MP4 file is being downloaded. In this case, the partial download is 87 MB, and the entire file is 157,715,457 bytes. Bitrate is the playback speed of the video.

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Network Speed Website Mobile 143

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The limited number access points, compounded with the fact that traffic is controlled by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, creates performance bottlenecks for all users in China when trying to access websites from inside and outside of the country. These updates will disable access of Google apps downloader, for example.

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Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

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

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?

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?

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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. But first, let’s talk about the importance of speed improvement. Why Is Speed Improvement Necessary To Our SEO Efforts? Part of having a small LCP is to let the user download as small HTML as possible. How about errors?”

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 25, 2021

Netflix’s internal teams strive to provide leverage by investing in easy-to-use tooling that streamlines the user experience and incorporates best practices. Dynomite is a high-speed in-memory database, providing highly available cross datacenter replication while preserving Redis-like semantics.

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Metrics Best Practices Strategy Design 152

Tim Kadlec

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

At several locations in the application, such as when new polls were loaded, it would take some time for those elements to download and be displayed. Given the constraints the app faced with the network and web view performance at the time, they were a bit limited on what they could do from a technical perspective.

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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. Large preview ) The image file used for the hero component’s background is the ninth item in the report, taking 1,041 milliseconds to even begin the download.

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Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 73

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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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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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. Lighthouse.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

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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MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

And this is shocking since we all know that page load speed is directly correlated to site revenue (you’re aware that faster websites lead to increased conversion and sales, right?). ” This is because Target.com does an excellent job of improving user-perceived speed. Unfortunately, Target.com is not a fast website.

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Retail Speed Website Google 82

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.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

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. Why Care About Page Speed? There are a multitude of reasons why you should care about page speed. A site which loads in 2.6

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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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Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 9, 2022

Having worked with something like 70 large and small companies over the past decade, the business processes and best practices have been tested and work well. The group has deep roots in High Performance Computing (that’s what Shahin, Steve, and I did at Sun).

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IoT Best Practices AWS Media 52

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.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 92

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

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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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. ;). HTML – Typically the smallest resource on the page, HTML's performance risk is usually negligible. More stylesheets equal more risk of performance degradation.

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Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

Lazy loading is a way to improve the performance of a website or web application by maximizing the rendering speed of the above-the-fold images and iframes (and sometimes videos) by deferring the loading of below-the-fold content. It’s not very hard to write the JavaScript code required to perform these operations on your own.

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Website Best Practices Media Open Source 103

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

The native and mobile web browser testing is being performed more and more compared to desktop testing. Applications that do not require to be downloaded and can be accessed via hitting the URL on a mobile browser are known as mobile web applications. The reason behind being the speed and convenience of using mobile phones.

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