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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

RUM works best only when people actively visit the application, website, or services. For example, the ability to test against a wireless provider in a remote area. Instead, when working with websites, applications, or services, you may need both. In some cases, you will lack benchmarking capabilities. Watch webinar now!

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HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2)

Smashing Magazine

This means that it will not magically download your website resources much more quickly than TCP. Some examples of the latter are heavily cached websites, as well as single-page apps that periodically fetch small updates via APIs and other protocols such as DNS-over-QUIC. What Does It All Mean? 0-RTT Connection Set-Up.

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HTTP/3: Practical Deployment Options (Part 3)

Smashing Magazine

You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. This is because, as I stated in the introduction to part 1 , much of the early HTTP/2 content was overly optimistic about how well it would work in practice, and some of it, quite frankly, had major mistakes and bad advice.

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