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Performance Testing - Tools, Steps, and Best Practices

KeyCDN

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. Just because everything works perfectly during production testing doesn’t mean that will be the case when your website is flooded with traffic.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. But as it stands, websites are growing ever more obese, which means that the energy demand of the Internet is continuing to grow exponentially. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00.

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MySQL Performance Tuning 101: Key Tips to Improve MySQL Database Performance

Percona

This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. To maximize indexing benefits, be sure to follow best practices.

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MySQL Key Performance Indicators (KPI) With PMM

Percona

Database uptime and availability Monitoring database uptime and availability is crucial as it directly impacts the availability of critical data and the performance of applications or websites that rely on the MySQL database. Disk space usage Monitor the disk space usage of MySQL data files, log files, and temporary files.

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The Great Firewall of China: Obstacles to Monitoring Performance

Dotcom-Montior

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. IP Blocking. HTTP/S Certificate Filtering. DNS Hijacking and Phishing.

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Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober

Smashing Magazine

Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces presents and shares real information on hardware, people, interactions, and environments. Chapter 9 describes ways we can consider likely problems when planning the design of our apps and websites. Eye opening and practical, but above all, useful. menus, lists, floating bars, tabs).

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Web Standards

KeyCDN

Maybe the best phrase to describe web standards is a set of standardized "best practices" for building websites. While the following list is not exhaustive, these best practices consist primarily of the following three things: Recommendations published by W3C.