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Performance Testing - Tools, Steps, and Best Practices

KeyCDN

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. What is Performance Testing? In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances.

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HammerDB MySQL and MariaDB Best Practice for Performance and Scalability

HammerDB

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.

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Why Your Performance Testing Strategy Needs to Shift Left

Dotcom-Montior

LoadView – Best Practices and Process. LoadView, our on-demand, cloud-based load and stress testing platform , takes an outside-in approach to performance testing. Distribute user load by geographical testing locations, simulating your customer base.

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Ten years of page bloat: What have we learned?

Speed Curve

All the fancy performance monitoring tools in the world can't help you if you don't have a strong performance culture at your organization. Here are some tips and best practices to help on that journey. Don't assume hardware and networks will mitigate page bloat. Fight regression.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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Mobile browser testing – what is it and when is it done?

Testsigma

Each smartphone comes with various screen sizes and resolutions, operates on different network speeds, and has different hardware capabilities. Keeping all these differences, it becomes very important that a website is tested thoroughly before it is launched on different platforms. Best Practices For Mobile Website Testing.

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What is page bloat? And how is it hurting your business, your search rank, and your users?

Speed Curve

Make sure everyone who touches a page understands the performance impact of what they do All the fancy performance monitoring tools in the world can't help you if you don't have a strong performance culture at your organization. Here are some tips and best practices to help on that journey.

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