KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

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. Quantitative performance testing looks at metrics like response time while qualitative testing is concerned with scalability, stability, and interoperability.

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Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

Additionally, teams are measuring and tracking key business metrics – conversion rates, cart abandonment rates, customer lifetime value, revenue by traffic source, and so on. Why Are User-centric Metrics Essential for Ecommerce? Which Metrics Matter for Ecommerce? At this point, you’re probably saying, “Great.

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Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Query performance Query performance is a key performance indicator (KPI) in MySQL, as it measures the efficiency and speed of query execution. This includes metrics such as query execution time, the number of queries executed per second, and the utilization of query cache and adaptive hash index.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 106

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. Metrics are a numeric representation of intervals over time.

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Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 161

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

RUM gathers information on a variety of performance metrics. Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed). Watch webinar now!

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Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 177

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

Large preview ) While browsers are generally pretty fast, these steps still take time to load, typically in seconds, and even longer on slower, high-latency network connections. So noticeable, in fact, that Core Web Vitals has a metric all about it called Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). WebPageTest waterfall timeline report.

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Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 73

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Performance is one of the core aspects to ensure our users are having a delightful user experience irrespective of their devices or network connection. We found out user-centric performance metrics to be the perfect fit for this purpose. This component incorporates several image-related best practices.

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Website Google Metrics Testing Tools 105

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Yet, we wanted to put together our list of the top web performance books for anyone who cares about speed of the web and would like to explore the timeline of web performance engineering milestones over nearly two decades through the lens of published books. High Performance Browser Networking. Site speed & SEO go hand in hand.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Rigor

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

According to Tim Kadlec : A performance budget is a clearly defined limit on one or more performance metrics that the team agrees not to exceed and that is used to guide design and development. A website’s speed makes the difference in whether users visit a site or not, so performance matters a great deal. Types of Performance Budgets.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Are you using a content delivery network (CDN) to bring elements like images closer to your users, so that delivery times are faster? The best way to investigate the critical rendering path is to look at a waterfall chart for the page page. Are non-essential or lesser resources deferred? Are images optimized?

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Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 67

CSS - Tricks

JANUARY 31, 2020

From 2016 (PDF warning) to 2019 , the average mobile download speed in the U.S. In Brazil and India, average mobile download speeds increased by 75% and 28%, respectively, in that same period of time. This is the time at which you develop and roll out training, documentation, best practices, and standards the organization can embrace.

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Innovation Mobile Best Practices Speed 50

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

You can also disable the Back/Forward Cache in Chrome at chrome://flags/#back-forward-cache if you want to experiment more, but the above steps should hopefully be a sufficient enough test to give a rough feel for the potential speed gains. 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices.

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Cache Games Performance Website 91

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Today’s applications are built on multiple technologies, relying on vast networks of third-party providers and CDN’s. Additionally, end users can access your site or applications from anywhere in the world using different browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, all with varying connection speeds.

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Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Certain SLOs can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. As organizations digitally transform, they’re also accelerating the speed of software delivery. But how do you get started, and what are some service level objective examples? for the workout video playback feature.

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Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 179

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Certain service-level objective examples can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. Measuring application performance is increasingly important because as organizations digitally transform, they’re also accelerating the speed of software delivery. for the workout video playback feature.

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Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

To function effectively, containers need to be able to communicate with each other and with network services. If containers are run with privileged flags, or if they receive details about host processes, they can easily become points of compromise for corporate networks. Network scanners. Best practices for container security.

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Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 252

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Effective application development requires speed and specificity. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) handles compute, storage, and network resources. Functional FaaS best practices. However, the following best practices can help FaaS fit your organization’s needs: Keep each function simple.

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Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 253

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Google’s Core Web Vitals is a set of performance metrics that site owners can use to evaluate performance and diagnose performance issues. These metrics provide a different perspective on user experience: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) Measures the time it takes for the main content on a webpage to load. One of the key Next.js

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

Most monitoring tools for migrations, development, and operations focus on collecting and aggregating the three pillars of observability— metrics, traces, and logs. The Framework is built on five pillars of architectural best practices: Cost optimization. Operational excellence. Performance efficiency. Reliability.

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Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics 190

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

But pages keep getting bigger and more complex year over year – and this increasing size and complexity is not fully mitigated by faster devices and networks, or by our hard-working browsers. How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? Clearly we need to keep talking about it.

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Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What do the different metrics mean? There are a ton of best practices for front-end developers to follow. It's also important to note that, while not all performance gains will show up in your metrics, users with poor bandwidth or restrictive data plans will thank you. This post covers: What makes a page slow?

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Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Total Blocking Time One thing I know would be more helpful than a set of Core Web Vitals scores from Lighthouse is knowing the time it takes to go from the First Contentful Paint (FCP) to the Time to Interactive (TTI), a metric known as the Total Blocking Time (TBT). You can see that Lighthouse does indeed provide that metric.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 90

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Having a slow site might leave you on page 452 of search results, regardless of any other metric. In DevTools, the Network inspector helps us see what the first webpage is doing too.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

A well-established metric we provide is APDEX , which tell us how users are perceiving page load times (time to the first byte, page speed, speed index), errors (JavaScript errors, crashes,) and also factors in the overall user journey (each user interaction) including their environment (browser, geolocation, bandwidth).

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Cache Database Architecture Government 199

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

High availability typically involves redundant hardware, software, applications, and network components that can quickly take over if the primary component fails; disaster recovery typically involves regular backups, replication to a secondary site, and a clear recovery plan with steps to be taken in the event of a disaster.

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Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 90

Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

But first, let’s talk about the importance of speed improvement. Why Is Speed Improvement Necessary To Our SEO Efforts? One of the best technical ways to improve the crawl budget is to help Google do more in less time : Q : “Does site speed affect my crawl budget? How about errors?” Conclusions. Performance Impact.

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Google Architecture Servers Speed 110

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Largest Contentful Paint (or LCP) is one of three metrics of the Core Web Vitals. These metrics are used by Google to evaluate the quality of user experience. To address this problem, I’ll provide an overview of the best practices for the integration and optimization of an LCP image. Optimizing The Image Element LCP.

Media 104

Media Mobile Website Metrics 104

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. Given that Google continues to dominate search usage, you should care about Vitals alongside the other metrics you should be tracking. More on that below.)

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Reading time 11 min As companies become more aware of the importance of web performance, internal teams begin to research tools they can use to use to track their metrics and improve the user experience of their websites and applications. But that is the assumption that Lighthouse makes.

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Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

We will, however, also be somewhat skeptical of the impact we can expect from these new features in practice. As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. A Primer on Speed. It details how and if you should change your web pages and resources as well.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 105

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. With the networks all around the world, theoretically, you can do business boundlessly. As we’ve noticed, website performance, especially its speed and availability, are essential to the success of your business.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this case, we are not going to be talking about infrastructure services, such as a cloud computing platform like Microsoft Azure or a content distribution network like Akamai. And JavaScript can certainly make requests for additional network resources. Sometimes, the visitor’s browser itself can be the origin of network activity.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Dotcom-Montior

JULY 7, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. With the networks all around the world, theoretically, you can do business boundlessly. As we’ve noticed, website performance, especially its speed and availability, are essential to the success of your business.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. With the networks all around the world, theoretically, you can do business boundlessly. As we’ve noticed, website performance, especially its speed and availability, are essential to the success of your business.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

To simplify this behavior, a best practice is to ensure your styles include resetting all elements to use border-box. Speaking of layers — speeding through the spec process is another new feature that was designed specifically to assist in orchestrating the cascade and alleviating clashes. Cumulative Layout Shift.

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Design Availability Mobile Website 145

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. Servers and Networks. However, if you’re still on HTTP/1.1,

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 104

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 1, 2019

Some of the metrics we use to measure performance on the Netflix TV app include animation frames per second (FPS), key input responsiveness (the amount of time before a member’s key press renders a change in the UI), video playback speed, and app start-up time. The SNG files have a relatively large download size at ~1.5MB each.

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Cache Design Testing Development 166