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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

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connectivity, access, user count, latency) of geographic regions. For example, real-user monitoring metrics might reveal a user performance issue that you can then apply to synthetic testing to replicate the issue by exercising the same transaction across several different variables. Performance testing based on variable metrics (i.e.,

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Service level objectives: 5 SLOs to get started

Dynatrace

Fitness app : The fitness app should offer a response time of less than 500 milliseconds for exercise tracking and data recording. This SLO enables a smooth and uninterrupted exercise-tracking experience. Note : you might hear the term latency used instead of response time. Latency primarily focuses on the time spent in transit.

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Service level objective examples: 5 SLO examples for faster, more reliable apps

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Fitness app : The fitness app should offer a response time of less than 500 milliseconds for exercise tracking and data recording. This SLO enables a smooth and uninterrupted exercise-tracking experience. Note : you might hear the term latency used instead of response time. Latency primarily focuses on the time spent in transit.

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Fixing a slow site iteratively

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With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. It’s is a Google service that audit things performance, accessibility, SEO, and best practices. I’m going to update my referenced URL to the new site to help decrease latency that adds drag to the initial page load.

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