Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

For example, data collected on load actions can include navigation start, request start, and speed index metrics. Whereas RUM can capture all the nuances of your real users, providing a true picture into their experience, synthetic monitoring is great for proactive simulation and testing of the expected user experience.

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Speed Curve

APRIL 9, 2023

Weighting adjustments are highlighted in bold below: First Contentful Paint (FCP): 15 Speed Index: 10 Largest Contentful Paint (LCP): 25 Time To Interactive (TTI): 15 Total Blocking Time (TBT): 30 Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS): 15 -> 25 What impact will this have on my score? However, your RUM data should reflect these improvements.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Expanded our test agent locations to bring you even more places to test from worldwide. Jumped into in-person events, and were so happy to catch up with some of you at SmashingConf and performance.now() (You can watch videos of my talk about performance budgets and Andy Davies' talk about third parties.). Lots of new videos!

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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. Testing And Monitoring. Google Mobile-Friendly Test. Table Of Contents. Quick Wins.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2020

As we’ve noticed, website performance, especially its speed and availability, are essential to the success of your business. High speed, on the other hand, improves your customers’ user experience, and results in an increased conversion rate and income. For this article, we ran a speed test for the TED website as the target website.

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Dotcom-Montior

JULY 7, 2020

As we’ve noticed, website performance, especially its speed and availability, are essential to the success of your business. High speed, on the other hand, improves your customers’ user experience, and results in an increased conversion rate and income. For this article, we ran a speed test for the TED website as the target website.

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Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The Jenkins to Keptn integration was explained and demoed in one of our Performance Clinic videos; “. Here are just a few use cases made possible from these APIs within a pipeline: Add context for what and who is performing deployments, configuration changes, or testing activity for your environment through information from Dynatrace events.

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Tim Kadlec

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

People stopped complaining about wait times, and a new perceived performance “best practice” was born. But the thing about best practices is that they’re only best practices when used in the right context. Used the wrong way, even best practices can be detrimental.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

You can then configure your monitoring tools to send you alerts – or even break the build, if you're testing in your staging environment – when your budgets are violated. The tricky part comes when you try to put them into practice. The easiest way to do this is to look at rendering filmstrips in your synthetic test data.

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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. Video – For the first time in the many years that I've been covering the topic of page growth, I'm going to focus on the volume of video that pages contain. More on that later.)

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Testsigma

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

This article presents a list of some of the best available online Automation Testing courses and certifications you can consider. Hope this answers a few queries we receive for suggestions on Online Automation Testing Courses and Certifications. This is one of the fastest ways to get started with learning automation testing.

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 7, 2020

Harry also shared how to use real user monitoring as part of an A/B test to measure the impact of a single third-party script on bounce rate: To run your own A/B tests and create your own correlation charts in LUX, our RUM tool, here are some resources you'll find helpful: Add customer data, such as cart size, conversion rate, and A/B test data.

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Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 9, 2022

Having worked with something like 70 large and small companies over the past decade, the business processes and best practices have been tested and work well. So right from the beginning, I’m happy to spend some time getting back up to speed and developing some of my ideas around new hardware capabilities.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Testing And Monitoring Auditing workflow, proxy browsers, 404 page, GDPR cookie consent prompts, performance diagnostics CSS, accessibility. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

We apply this litmus test to everything we do, and I believe it's the secret of our success. Watch a video walkthrough of the Vitals dashboard.). Watch a demo video showing how to create custom charts and performance budgets for Web Vitals.). This video shows you how to use SpeedCurve to investigate CLS issues.).

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Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. It's only tracked on certain elements, e.g., IMG and VIDEO. It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

We use Lighthouse and WebPagetest as our synthetic testing tools for performance to measure CLS. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. This component incorporates several image-related best practices.

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Website Google Metrics Testing Tools 107

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. JavaScript, fonts, and video carry the bulk of the rest of the weight. Take Amazon, for example.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Background For this performance audit, I looked at this synthetic test for the LEGO.com home page. (We You can drill down into the test details for each site and learn how the fastest sites stay fast.) LCP measures when the largest visual element in the viewport – typically a hero image or video – finishes rendering.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

I intentionally left out the numbers for video, because they seemed inconsistent. You can see this by looking at the synthetic test result for Sears.com (again, available via our Industry Benchmarks ). Here are some tips and best practices to help on that journey. The CLS score for this page is 1.0468. Fight regression.

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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. Improve Site Speed In 2019, having fast site speed is imperative. There are many ways to speed up a slow website.

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Ecommerce Speed Website Mobile 41

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

How would we test to see if there is any difference between a good sans serif and a serif typeface with users? What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Next to videos, images are the heaviest, most requested assets on the web. Downloading files such as images or videos over the network can be slow and costly. His team focuses on speed , helping keep the web fast. DRM-free, of course. ePUB, Kindle, PDF. Included with Smashing Membership. Get the eBook. About The Book.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 108

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 1, 2019

Development As part of developing this type of UI experience on any platform, we knew we would need to think about creating smooth, performant animations with a balance between quality and download size for the images and video previews, all without degrading the performance of the app.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Testing And Monitoring. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Now you have something measurable to test against.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Testing And Monitoring. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Quick Wins.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Next to videos, images are the heaviest, most requested assets on the web. Downloading files such as images or videos over the network can be slow and costly. His team focuses on speed , helping keep the web fast. DRM-free, of course. ePUB, Kindle, PDF. Included with Smashing Membership. Get the eBook. About The Book.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 94

Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

Lazy loading is a way to improve the performance of a website or web application by maximizing the rendering speed of the above-the-fold images and iframes (and sometimes videos) by deferring the loading of below-the-fold content. Test native lazy loading demo. Important Best Practices. Hybrid Lazy Loading Demo.

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Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When you run Lighthouse, you can choose to receive up to five different scores, including SEO, Best Practices, Progressive Web App (PWA), Accessibility, and Performance , that can provide valuable insight for your dev team to act on. When it comes to network speed, Lighthouse gives you three options – and no others.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2). Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2). In this article, we’ll take a deep dive into the refactoring process itself, and cover incremental refactoring strategy, visual regression testing, and maintaining the refactored codebase.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In this article, we’re going to cover code-splitting best practices and showcase some examples using React, so we load the minimum JavaScript necessary to render a page and dynamically load sizeable non-critical bundles. How quickly the file is downloaded depends on the connection speed and the size of the file itself.

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 31, 2018

In this post, I'm going to share some proven tips and best practices to help you create a healthy, happy, celebratory performance culture. One of the great things about synthetic monitoring via tools like WebPageTest (which SpeedCurve synthetic is built on top of) is that you can test any page on the web, not just your own.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

To limit Cumulative Layout Shift being caused by images without dimensions, include width and height size attributes on your images and video elements. Lighthouse will highlight images without a width and height: It's a good idea to always include width and height size attributes on your images and video elements. Large preview ).

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Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. To simplify this behavior, a best practice is to ensure your styles include resetting all elements to use border-box. More after jump! Debugging Overflow.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

responsive design and testing. You can take a closer look at the thorough guide and video about the plugin to get started. For accessible color palettes, Geenes.app is a reliable and sophisticated tool that allows you to create, maintain, sync and test color palettes and their variations. HTML email templates. illustrations.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Practical HTTP/3 deployment options ( coming up soon! ). This explains the challenges involved in deploying and testing HTTP/3 yourself. A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”. Did You Know?

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Web pages, such as the one you’re reading now, have text, images, videos and other assets to bring information to you. Along with images, the next heaviest assets are videos. Once again, with the microservices mindset, streaming of videos should be left to service providers such as YouTube, Vimeo and other online streaming services.

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