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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

Because pre-production environments are used for testing before an application is released to end users, teams have no access to real-user data. RUM works best only when people actively visit the application, website, or services. Geofencing and geographic reachability testing for areas that are more challenging to access.

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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. 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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What is synthetic testing?

Dynatrace

Availability testing Availability testing helps organizations confirm that a site or application is responding to user requests. Web-performance testing Web-performance testing evaluates metrics including page loading speed, the performance of specific page elements, and the occurrence rate of site errors.

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Three Front-End Auditing Tools I Discovered Recently

Smashing Magazine

These are only a few questions to consider when having the goal of building a fast website. But how do you find all these things causing performance issues? Let me share three tools that will help you spot performance issues and ship high-quality and fast websites. It’s a perfect companion to build a high-quality website.

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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. System setup is covered on the PostgreSQL Best Practice post so it will not be repeated here as the steps are the same.

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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. UserView replicates a user’s browser interactions with a website or an application.

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Top 20 Websites For Online Automation Testing Courses and Certifications

Testsigma

The best courses relevant to Automation Testing on Edureka are: Selenium Certification Training Performance Testing using Jmeter Ruby with Cucumber Certification Testing. This platform provides step by step tutorials for learning Automation skills for testing. It depends on what stage of learning you are at.

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