Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

One free tool has become prominent in the space – Google Lighthouse – and one question often bubbles up: “I use Google Lighthouse for one-off snapshots of my site’s performance, so why do I need a performance monitoring solution?” Where Google Lighthouse Shines Bright.

Google 51

Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The term “site reliability engineering” was coined in 2003 by Google VP of Engineering Ben Sloss , who famously noted on his LinkedIn profile that “if Google ever stops working, it’s my fault.” ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.”

Engineering 252

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 252

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is. By analyzing the data from Backlinko.com and their Page Speed Stats article, we’ll look to answer these questions: What size should be a website be?

Best Practices 105

Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2022

Keptn: A reference implementation of Google’s SRE principles. Software engineer Taras Tsugrii of Meta (formerly Facebook) paid Keptn a high compliment, saying it feels like a reference implementation of Google’s SRE principles , which are the search giant’s techniques for ensuring the integrity of its sites and services.

Open Source 184

Open Source DevOps Cloud Metrics 184

MachMetrics

JUNE 18, 2019

Many people reach out to us asking what is the #1 most important bang-for-your-buck tip on optimizing your website’s speed. The most important thing you can do to speed up your site is: Optimize your images! At MachMetrics, we always recommend using a tool like ours for site speed monitoring. Sounds simple, right?

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Speed Website Social Media Media 81

Speed Curve

JULY 6, 2021

After Google's announcement about Lighthouse 8 this past month, we have updated our test agents. In case you missed it, Lighthouse is a speed tool created by the Chrome Developer team at Google. There are five categories evaluated: Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, SEO, and Progressive Web App (PWA).

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Google Metrics Best Practices Speed 107

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

When the word “performance” is heard, most people immediately think of speed. Unlike spike tests, scalability tests involve gradually increasing workload while monitoring the effects on performance. Google Lighthouse Google Lighthouse is a free and open source tool that is part of the Google Chrome DevTools family.

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Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

According to Google, a website can lose as many as half its visitors while loading. Google’s PageSpeed Insights tools may be just what you need to leverage data collected through speed testing. As part of the PageSpeed Tools suite, Insights is designed to guide your response to slow speeds, resulting in optimal performance.

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Speed Best Practices Google Website 49

Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

According to the 2022 Dynatrace CIO Report , the average organization uses 10 monitoring tools across its technology stack due to silos and inability to scale. At its core, DevOps encourages collaboration between development and operations teams to speed up software delivery.

DevOps 160

DevOps Engineering Innovation Best Practices 160

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The term “site reliability engineering” was coined in 2003 by Google VP of Engineering Ben Sloss , who famously noted on his LinkedIn profile that “if Google ever stops working, it’s my fault.” ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.”

Engineering 173

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 173

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). Testing And Monitoring. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. Google Keyword Planner. Google Trends.

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Engineering Google Website Analytics 130

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Establish the relevant service level indicators (SLIs) that need to be monitored, the process for remediating any issues, the relevant tools required, and timeframes for resolution. Commonly, teams create SLOs because they are simply following what others in the industry are doing, or because they are common best practices.

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DevOps Metrics Best Practices Latency 192

Speed Curve

APRIL 9, 2023

Weighting adjustments are highlighted in bold below: First Contentful Paint (FCP): 15 Speed Index: 10 Largest Contentful Paint (LCP): 25 Time To Interactive (TTI): 15 Total Blocking Time (TBT): 30 Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS): 15 -> 25 What impact will this have on my score? “ According to us: "It depends."

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Cache Best Practices Metrics Google 74

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Examples include associations with Google Docs, Facebook chat group interactions, streaming live forex market feeds, and managing trading notices. To this vital function is workload automation which optimizes scheduling, execution, and monitoring processes for each individual task or process within cloud-based workflows.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The censorship and monitoring of internet have evolved from anti-virus-like and firewall software to hardware security patches for all devices that uses internet. These updates will disable access of Google apps downloader, for example. All chat or messenger applications are also being monitored by the Great Firewall.

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Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

As organizations move workloads and software development to multicloud environments to operate more efficiently and flexibly, traditional monitoring tools often fall short. To address these issues, organizations that want to digitally transform are adopting cloud observability technology as a best practice. 2021 DevOps Report.

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AWS Lambda Artificial Intelligence Serverless 225

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? A Google machine-learning study I participated in a few years ago found that the total number of page elements was the single greatest predictor of conversions. You can dive deeper into image optimization and SEO tips in this article in Google Search Central.).

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

You can then configure your monitoring tools to send you alerts – or even break the build, if you're testing in your staging environment – when your budgets are violated. For each of these metrics, I've included what type of tool you can use to track them: synthetic and/or real user monitoring (RUM). > Can I use it?

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Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 134

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Web performance is a broad topic with thousands of metrics that you could potentially monitor and improve. Web Vitals are Google’s answer to standardizing web performance. Core Web Vitals are the subset of Web Vitals that Google has identified as having the greatest impact on the end-user experience. Application Monitoring.

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Benchmarking Metrics Best Practices Monitoring 116

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. Monitoring The Main Thread If you’re like me, I immediately reach for DevTools and open the Lighthouse tab when I need to look into a site’s performance.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 90

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. What is Google Lighthouse? Google Lighthouse is one of the best-automated tools available on a web developer's utility belt.

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Google Latency Website Metrics 82

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. seconds or less, which is Google's recommendation for page experience and SEO. It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast.

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Performance Metrics Media Google 98

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While speeding up development processes and reducing complexity does make the lives of Kubernetes operators easier, the inherent abstraction and automation can lead to new types of errors that are difficult to find, troubleshoot, and prevent. Monitoring makes sense of observability data. The Kubernetes experience.

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Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 160

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Easier to fight regressions Integrating SpeedCurve into your development pipeline – so you can take advantage of performance budgets and alerts to catch issues before (or right after) they go into production – has been a popular practice over the last several years. In 2021, Google relaunched CLS with a session window.

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Performance Metrics Speed Google 57

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

While Google’s SRE Handbook mostly focuses on the production use case for SLIs/SLOs, Keptn is “Shifting-Left” this approach and using SLIs/SLOs to enforce Quality Gates as part of your progressive delivery process. This will enable deep monitoring of those Java,NET, Node, processes as well as your web servers.

Engineering 189

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 189

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

For more than ten years, I've been writing about page bloat, its impact on site speed, and ultimately how it affects your users and your business. Core Web Vitals are a Google search ranking factor. Given that Google continues to dominate search usage, you should care about Vitals alongside the other metrics you should be tracking.

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. SEO is key to our success. Bookaway site search. Here’s how we do it at Bookaway.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 22, 2023

However, amidst the drive for speed, ensuring policy compliance is often overlooked, leading to potential security vulnerabilities and compliance risks. In traditional software development practices, compliance checks often occur late in the development lifecycle, closer to deployment. Checkov: Checkov is a static code analysis tool.

AWS 52

AWS Best Practices Infrastructure Traffic 52

Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2022

Any testing that’s done without getting insights with an observability platform or monitoring solution ends up consuming too much time to analyze problems. While the test step, use case, and thread group name context are helpful we also want to speed up the analysis of individual requests that fail.

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Testing Open Source Metrics Infrastructure 214

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Google's Core Web Vitals have been a huge topic this year. We've been tracking these as individual metrics – Largest Contentful Paint, First Input Delay, and Cumulative Layout Shift – since before Google branded them as a set. Performance Culture Best Practices. Industry speed benchmarks for Japan.

Retail 52

Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 52

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

There are a ton of best practices for front-end developers to follow. Synthetic monitoring. Synthetic monitoring is essentially a bot that does what you tell it to do ("go visit my home page from X location on X browser") and actively collects performance data. Real user monitoring (RUM). As in, not real.

Performance 143

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

She was speaking about how her team is providing Visibility as a Service (VaaS) in order to continuously monitor and optimize their systems running across private and public cloud environments. We have several studies from Google, Facebook & Co that show that faster services and apps ultimately lead to increased user adoption.

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Cache Architecture Database Government 195

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. In this chapter, we will look into how to use Lighthouse to audit for unoptimized images and how to monitor a web performance budget for images.

Media 105

Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

Inspired by that post, I wanted to dig a bit deeper into a few of the best practices they mentioned, which fall loosely into these three buckets: Analyze your pages – understand the critical rendering path and page composition. Monitor your longest Long Tasks. Speed Index (synthetic only): 4 seconds recommended.

Performance 78

Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 78

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. In this chapter, we will look into how to use Lighthouse to audit for unoptimized images and how to monitor a web performance budget for images. About the Author.

Media 92

Media Cache Google Best Practices 92

Rigor

JANUARY 8, 2020

If you are already monitoring and optimizing your site for performance, you can also use your existing platform to establish data-based thresholds and set alerts that notify key players when those thresholds are broken. Mark notes that Steve* first experienced performance budgets while Head Performance Engineer at Google.

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Performance Mobile Metrics Speed 122

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. Site speed & SEO go hand in hand. Complete Web Monitoring. Speed Up Your Site. Web Performance In Action.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75