Best Practices, Performance, Speed and Testing Tools

Performance Testing - Tools, Steps, and Best Practices

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. 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.

Testing Tools

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing

Google Lighthouse Audits – How to use Chrome’s built-in speed testing tool

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. Lighthouse is a completely open-source tool that allows users to test any website in a multitude of ways. Let’s take a look at how to get the most out of this powerful tool.

Google

Google Speed Testing Tools Testing

Why Page Speed Scores can be Dangerous

MachMetrics

APRIL 24, 2019

All of the popular speed testing tools typically provide a page speed score along with their objective results. Google PageSpeed Insights has a their “Speed Score.” ” Pingdom has a “Performance Grade.” These best practices can make your site faster, but they don’t always.

Speed

Speed Best Practices Google Website

An Opinionated Guide to Performance Budgets

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. If you're just getting started with performance budgets – or if you've been using them for a while and want to validate your work – this post is for you.

Performance

Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google

Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache

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.

Cache

Cache Games Performance Website

Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF)

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.

Engineering

Engineering Google Website Analytics

Your Guide to Automated Testing [Article and Tutorials]

DZone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

It's time to automate you testing process! What Is Automated Testing? Getting Started With Automated Testing by Jason Simon — A breakdown of all the information about Automated Testing into more digestible pieces to make it easier for you to replicate.

Testing

Testing Mobile Speed Processing

Solving CLS Issues In A Next.js-Powered E-Commerce Website (Case Study)

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. We use Lighthouse and WebPagetest as our synthetic testing tools for performance to measure CLS.

Website

Website Google Metrics Testing Tools

What is continuous delivery and what are best practices for implementing it?

Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2021

Because development, testing, release, and deployment are all combined into a tightly coordinated process that focuses on frequent small releases, work is easier to plan and automate. CD depends on automated testing, and test pass rate helps you fine tune testing methods and improve the effectiveness of your developer feedback loop.

Best Practices

Best Practices DevOps Open Source Cloud

Mobile web testing – 3 approaches that will make your life easy

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

So, in this post, we’ll talk about mobile web testing, why it’s important, and its best approaches. What Is Mobile Web Testing? Mobile web testing is a form of test that’s performed to check if websites or web apps perform uniformly across various browsers and screen resolutions.

Mobile

Mobile Testing Website Speed

Modern Methods For Improving Drupal’s Largest Contentful Paint Core Web Vital

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

That’s practically an eternity when talking about page speed performance. 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. Wrapping Up In this article, we identified, measured, and fixed a very common performance issue, not only in Drupal but in everyday front-end work.

Media

Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices

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

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. The native and mobile web browser testing is being performed more and more compared to desktop testing. The reason behind being the speed and convenience of using mobile phones.

Mobile

Mobile Testing Website Internet

What is synthetic testing?

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Synthetic testing is an IT process that uses software to discover and diagnose performance issues with user journeys by simulating real-user activity. For example, teams can program synthetic test tools to send large volumes of simultaneous resource requests to a new application and evaluate how well it responds.

Testing

Testing Best Practices Testing Tools Monitoring

Tutorial: Guide to automated SRE-driven performance engineering

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

In this blog, I will be going through a step-by-step guide on how to automate SRE-driven performance engineering. Step-by-step guide: SRE-driven performance analysis with Dynatrace. The app description and supporting files such as load testing scripts are on the Keptn Example GitHub. Step #4: Tag your Load Testing steps.

Engineering

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices

Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2)

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

Of course, any unintended side-effects and bugs can still happen and these should be caught with the visual regression testing tools which we’ll cover in one of the following sections of the article. We’ll develop the card component in isolation and use the agreed standards and best practices. Large preview ).

Strategy

Strategy Testing Best Practices Code

Release readiness through AI-based white box resiliency testing with JMeter and Dynatrace

Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2022

Credits on content go to him and the work he has been doing around performance & resiliency testing automation. Our Application Performance Management (APM) and load test team at T-Systems MMS helps our customers reduce the risk of failed releases. from other test tools or real users).

Testing

Testing Open Source Metrics Infrastructure

What Does My Website Look Like From China? Test and Monitor Performance from China

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. To investigate this topic, let’s first check how important your website performance is to your online business. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

Website

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance

What Does My Website Look Like From China? Test and Monitor Performance from China

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2020

If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. To investigate this topic, let’s first check how important your website performance is to your online business. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

Website

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance

What Does My Website Look Like From China? Test and Monitor Performance from China

Dotcom-Montior

JULY 7, 2020

If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. To investigate this topic, let’s first check how important your website performance is to your online business. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

Website

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance

Google PageSpeed Insights - Scoring 100/100 with WordPress

KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

Running speed tests with tools like Google PageSpeed Insights , WebPageTest , or KeyCDN’s Website Speed Test are always a good way to help gauge your website’s performance. Why Care About Page Speed? There are a multitude of reasons why you should care about page speed.

Google

Google Cache Speed Analytics

HTTP/3: Practical Deployment Options (Part 3)

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

If after the previous two parts — HTTP/3 history and core concepts and HTTP/3 performance features — you’re convinced that starting to use the new protocols is a good idea (and you should be!), HTTP/3 performance features. then this final piece includes all you need to know to get started!

Network

Network Servers Cache Traffic

6 Proven Ways to Improve Your eCommerce Conversion Rate

KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

The lower conversion rate on mobile could be due to a variety of reasons including the website not being responsive for mobile devices, the speed isn’t up to par, etc. Having high-quality images on your site can however slow down the performance of your site overall as the image size grows.

Ecommerce

Ecommerce Speed Website Mobile

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

Performance

Performance Cache Media Metrics

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

Performance

Performance Cache Network Metrics

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

Performance

Performance Cache Network Metrics

Technology Performance Pulse

Performance Testing - Tools, Steps, and Best Practices

Google Lighthouse Audits – How to use Chrome’s built-in speed testing tool

Trending Sources

Why Page Speed Scores can be Dangerous

An Opinionated Guide to Performance Budgets

Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache

Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF)

Your Guide to Automated Testing [Article and Tutorials]

Solving CLS Issues In A Next.js-Powered E-Commerce Website (Case Study)

What is continuous delivery and what are best practices for implementing it?

Mobile web testing – 3 approaches that will make your life easy

Modern Methods For Improving Drupal’s Largest Contentful Paint Core Web Vital

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

What is synthetic testing?

Tutorial: Guide to automated SRE-driven performance engineering

Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2)

Release readiness through AI-based white box resiliency testing with JMeter and Dynatrace

What Does My Website Look Like From China? Test and Monitor Performance from China

What Does My Website Look Like From China? Test and Monitor Performance from China

What Does My Website Look Like From China? Test and Monitor Performance from China

Google PageSpeed Insights - Scoring 100/100 with WordPress

HTTP/3: Practical Deployment Options (Part 3)

6 Proven Ways to Improve Your eCommerce Conversion Rate

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

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