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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

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). RUM, however, has some limitations, including the following: RUM requires traffic to be useful.

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HTTP/3: Practical Deployment Options (Part 3)

Smashing Magazine

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. Server Sharding and Connection Coalescing. However, if you’re still on HTTP/1.1,

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HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2)

Smashing Magazine

Latency can be roughly defined as the time it takes to send a packet from point A (say, the client) to point B (the server). It is physically limited by the speed of light or, practically, how fast signals can travel in wires or in the open air. As such, even low latencies of less than 50 milliseconds can add up to considerable delays.