Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Performance budgets are one of those ideas that everyone gets behind conceptually, but then are challenged to put into practice – and for very good reason. Web pages are unbelievably complex, and there are hundreds of different metrics available to track. What is a performance budget? Here are mine. Can I use it?

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KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. 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. What is Performance Testing?

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Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

However, you have likely used the Web UI that Google uses to allow you to test websites for speed – Google PageSpeed Insights. While PageSpeed Insights focuses solely on speed/performance, Lighthouse offers even more. It offers audits for best practices, accessibility, progressive web apps, SEO and of course, performance.

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Google Speed Testing Tools Testing 82

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? Experiencing database performance issues?

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Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Staying ahead of customer needs requires speed and agility from all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC). DevOps automation is a set of tools and technologies that perform routine, repeatable tasks that engineers would otherwise do manually. It helps to assess the long- and short-term efficiency and speed of DevOps.

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DevOps Innovation Speed Monitoring 184

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. The framework comprises six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.

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AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 243

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

SLOs, together with service-level indicators (SLIs), deliver the performance promised in service-level agreements (SLAs) and other business level objectives (BLOs) while staying within error budgets. In layman’s terms, SLOs represent the performance or health of a service. But what are SLOs? What are SLIs? Watch webinar now!

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Metrics Best Practices DevOps Infrastructure 187

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

With another year winding down, it’s time for us to take stock of how our site performance compares to the average page load times for 2020. Similar to our article Average Page Load Times for 2018 , we’ll go over the averages for metrics and help you determine if your site is faster or slower than average.

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Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

So I thought it would be fun to spend some time poking around behind the scenes and give the site a holiday performance audit. Background For this performance audit, I looked at this synthetic test for the LEGO.com home page. (We The performance team is clearly doing a good job of fighting page bloat. Are images optimized?

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Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 67

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This demand creates an increasing need for DevOps teams to maintain the performance and reliability of critical business applications. Setting a stringent SLO for an application that’s not business-critical can lead to wasted time and resources when it comes to remediating issues or performing tasks to ensure uptime.

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DevOps Metrics Best Practices Latency 192

Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

When your website isn’t performing optimally, you risk not only your revenue but also your reputation as a trusted resource. Additionally, teams are measuring and tracking key business metrics – conversion rates, cart abandonment rates, customer lifetime value, revenue by traffic source, and so on.

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Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The primary goal of ITOps is to provide a high-performing, consistent IT environment. Organizations measure these factors in general terms by assessing the usability, functionality, reliability, and performance of products and services. Performance. What does IT operations do? ITOps vs. AIOps.

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Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 198

Speed Curve

APRIL 9, 2023

There is a lot of excitement in the world of web performance these days, and April has been no exception! Here's how the update to Lighthouse 10 may affect your metrics. Metrics and scoring weights include the deprecation of Time to Interactive (TTI) and the increase in weight for Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS).

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Cache Best Practices Metrics Google 74

Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

In the free ebook “ A Beginner’s Guide to DevOps ,” DevOps is defined as a set of software development and delivery best practices to close the gap between software development and IT operations. In the podcast, Grabner recalled his interview with Kelsey Hightower at the Perform 2023 conference.

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DevOps Engineering Innovation Best Practices 160

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Browser Networking. This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. High Performance Websites.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

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. Create performance budgets and fight regression. What's blocking the user experience?

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 78

Rigor

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Reading time 9 min When it comes to managing web performance, it’s vital to be proactive rather than reactive. To accomplish this goal, an organization needs to build internal processes and procedures that can operationalize a performance-first culture. The first step is to establish and implement web performance budgets.

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Performance Metrics Website Speed 45

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 30, 2023

By following key log analytics and log management best practices, teams can get more business value from their data. Challenges driving the need for log analytics and log management best practices As organizations undergo digital transformation and adopt more cloud computing techniques, data volume is proliferating.

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Best Practices Analytics Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 239

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

To address these issues, organizations that want to digitally transform are adopting cloud observability technology as a best practice. Not just logs, metrics and traces. The need for speed has never been more urgent in today’s hyper-digital age. 9 key DevOps metrics for success. What is observability?

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AWS Lambda Artificial Intelligence Serverless 225

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the speed at which organizations digitally transform — especially in industries such as eCommerce and healthcare — as expectations for a great customer experience dramatically increased. Through it all, best practices such as AIOps and DevSecOps have enabled IT teams to efficiently and securely transform.

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Strategy Artificial Intelligence Innovation Healthcare 191

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

we also: Launched a series of new and improved dashboards to help you identify and fix your performance issues more quickly and efficiently (More on those below.). Your Home dashboard brings together your Synthetic and RUM data to provide an easy-to-digest – and easy-to-share – snapshot of how your site is performing.

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Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52

Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

Automatically collect and evaluate business, service, and architectural indicator metrics to promote or roll back deployments. Providing standardized self-service pipeline templates, best practices, and scalable automation for monitoring, testing, and SLO validation. SLO validation – ?Automatically Topics in this blog series.

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Software Software Open Source Azure 246

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. Barry Pollard.

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Cache Games Performance Website 91

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences. Real user monitoring (RUM) is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about users’ interactions with an application. What is real user monitoring?

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Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 172

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors.

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Engineering Google Website Analytics 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Without such rules, configuring your environments can result in chaos, with losses in flexibility, speed, and stability. On the left are the set of specific metrics to be collected, known as Service level indicators (SLIs). In this example, the step performs the SLO evaluation. Perform SLO evaluation.

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 18, 2018

You will bring best practices for automating the provisioning and patching of servers, replicating and versioning configuration changes, monitoring and alerting, deploying application and data store updates, and high availability / disaster recovery. View and analyze all your logs and system metrics from multiple sources in one place.

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Healthcare Best Practices DevOps Cache 122

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

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 160

MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

And this is shocking since we all know that page load speed is directly correlated to site revenue (you’re aware that faster websites lead to increased conversion and sales, right?). Let’s add in some metrics ( click here if you need a refresher on these ): Time to First Byte (TTFB): 0.47s First Contentful Paint: 0.7s

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Retail Speed Website Google 82

Tasktop

JUNE 6, 2022

How are Flow Metrics related to OKRs? . The combination of Flow Metrics and OKRs provide visibility, a common language, and a tactical tool to measure incremental progress. In isolation, neither Flow Metrics nor OKRs can shift the behavior of an organization, but together they offer a complete toolkit for organizational change.

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Metrics Strategy Best Practices Analytics 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

So noticeable, in fact, that Core Web Vitals has a metric all about it called Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). This metric measures the time it takes, in seconds, to render the largest image or text block that is visible on the initial load. That’s practically an eternity when talking about page speed performance.

Media 73

Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 73

Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2021

Once automated, steps like testing and provisioning can be integrated into development and performed as soon as needed instead of waiting for humans to be available to do it. Here are a few common metrics teams should track for every CD pipeline to help you evaluate its efficacy. Best practices for adopting continuous delivery.

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Best Practices DevOps Open Source Cloud 130

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Your customers demand optimal performance, whether they’re the only user or one of a thousand. 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. LoadView – Best Practices and Process.

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Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

Tasktop

MAY 13, 2020

No real best practices or case studies to guide us because the new market conditions are yet to be fully identified or understood. We should look at behavior from day one — that will be a leading indicator of how consumerism will perform and provide the basis for how it will evolve. What is the “Novel Economy”?

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Internet Internet Innovation DevOps 86

Speed Curve

JUNE 15, 2020

The general consensus within the web performance community is that any JS scripting task that takes more than 50ms to execute can affect a user's experience. New JavaScript CPU metrics. Track CPU metrics in your first and third parties. We felt it was an important metric, but we were disappointed with the lack of usage.

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Metrics Best Practices Monitoring Google 74

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

By leveraging the power of the Dynatrace ® platform and the new Kubernetes experience, platform engineers are empowered to implement the following best practices, thereby enabling their dev teams to deliver best-in-class applications and services to their customers. Manage platform health and performance.

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Engineering DevOps Best Practices Infrastructure 270