MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

Luckily we’ve recommended some of the best web performance books to read while stuck at home. High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge For Front-End Engineers. If you’re looking to read optimization ideas from one of the greatest minds in speed performance, look no further. Need a good distraction?

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption. How would you _time_ time?

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MachMetrics

MARCH 21, 2020

Chrome’s DevTools suite contains some of the most powerful tools available to help you analyze and improve the speed of your website (or web app). However, we often get asked about another area of the DevTools – the ‘Performance’ tab. Accessing the DevTools Performance Tab. Recording Runtime Performance.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2022

At our virtual conference, Dynatrace Perform 2022 , the theme is “Empowering the game changers.”. Empowering the game changers at Dynatrace Perform 2022. While conventional monitoring scans the environment using correlation and statistics, it provides little contextual information for remediating performance or security issues.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2020

— Excerpt from How Garbage Collection works in the Dynatrace Performance eBook) . However, garbage collection is one of the main sources of performance and scalability issues in any modern Java application. Any significant reduction in allocations will inevitably speed up your code. Speed up application code itself.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Dynatrace CEO Rick McConnell at Perform 2022 in Las Vegas. Organizations are accelerating movement to the cloud, resulting in complex combinations of hybrid, multicloud [architecture],” said Rick McConnell, Dynatrace chief executive officer at the annual Perform conference in Las Vegas this week. Dynatrace news. For our complete?

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MachMetrics

JUNE 1, 2020

In fact, failing to run a mobile page speed test is the number 1 speed testing mistake we see our users make! If you’re unsure of how your website performs on a mobile device (or even got a poor result on a speed audit), stick with us. All of these things can be achieved with a faster mobile speed.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Echoing John Van Siclen’s sentiments from his Perform 2020 keynote, Steve cited Dynatrace customers as the inspiration and driving force for these innovations. “A Highlighting the company’s announcements from Perform 2020, Steve and a team of other Dynatrace product leaders introduced the audience to several of our latest innovations.

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Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Although there have been many blogs about adjusting MySQL variables for better performance since then, I think this topic deserves a blog update since the last update was a decade ago, and MySQL 5.7

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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.” Below is an example from Pingdom’s page speed optimization score. seconds to.27

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CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google do strongly encourage you to focus on site speed for better performance in Search, but, if you don’t pass all relevant Core Web Vitals (and the applicable factors from the Page Experience report) they will not push you down the rankings. While Core Web Vitals can help with SEO, there’s so much more to site-speed than that.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

The usual caveats also apply: Performance is a deep and nuanced domain, and much can go wrong beyond content size and composition. How sites manage resources after-load can have a big impact on perceived performance. Until and unless teams have better data about their performance, the global baseline budget should be enforced.

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MachMetrics

APRIL 15, 2020

Using a page speed optimization audit tool like GTmetrix or WebPageTest is a great first step towards assessing how your website loads for visitors. However, you may be making one of the common page speed testing mistakes that often cost website owners engagement, and ultimately, revenue. Mistake #1: Only Testing Desktop.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

As organizations develop more applications and microservices, they are discovering they also need to run more performance tests in the same amount of time or less to meet service-level objectives (SLOs) that fulfill service-level agreements (SLAs). Current challenges with performance testing.

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Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2018. With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies.

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Percona

JANUARY 4, 2023

Last time I blogged about the New WAL Archive Module/Library feature available in PostgreSQL 15 , which is quite transformative in how WALs are archived today in PostgreSQL. In this blog, I would like to highlight some of them which solve great operational challenges for many of the PostgreSQL users. Thanks to Community!

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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

But what about our web font’s performance? Unfortunately, there is typically much less thought put into the performance cost of using the amazing third-party font you downloaded. Considering web font performance is something that should become a habit of yours. Use it wherever possible for the best performance.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2020

Synthetic monitors are also the perfect tool to monitor performance baselines. This clean-room, lab-like environment allows you to react to slight changes in performance. It also gives you the first indication of whether a new deployment of your application or API leads to a performance improvement or, perhaps, a regression.

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Speed Curve

APRIL 14, 2024

I've been spending a lot of time looking at the performance of European sites lately, and have found that the consent management platforms (CMPs) are consistently creating a bit of a false reality for folks when trying to understand performance using synthetic monitoring. What challenges do CMPs create for performance?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2020

”, “Are my OneAgents and ActiveGates performing well?”, Speed of management: with a single command you can manage hundreds or thousands of Dynatrace OneAgents almost instantaneously, wherever they are and whatever they are configured to do. ”, and “Do I have the latest versions installed?”

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. This is not a post explaining why web performance is important.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 19, 2020

Moving this site to Eleventy and Netlify has been a great way to improve the performance of the deployed end-product, which was reason enough to make the switch. There's work in progress to make incremental builds possible for 11ty, but until then, the speed of a full build is the speed at which changes are visible.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2024

This blog explores how vertically integrated risk management solutions that use AI and automation enable unparalleled visibility, control, and efficiency for risk management in banking. Deploy risk-based estimates and models with confidence, accuracy, transparency, and speed.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

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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. While PageSpeed Insights focuses solely on speed/performance, Lighthouse offers even more. It offers audits for best practices, accessibility, progressive web apps, SEO and of course, performance.

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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. This is what this blog is all about. Its a detailed tutorial blog that explains how you can make the first steps towards SLI/SLO-based Quality Gates. For this blog I will be using the same Node.js

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MachMetrics

JULY 15, 2020

However, if utilized carelessly, CSS can greatly affect our page speed. That’s good to know, but I know you’re looking for a css speed test, or techniques for optimizing your css for speed. Perform an Audit of Your Site. This is another reason why page speed scores can be misleading. Reduce Your CSS.

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CSS - Tricks

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Geez, leave it to Patrick Brosset to talk CSS performance in the most approachable and practical way possible. Not that CSS is always what’s gunking up the speed , or even the lowest hanging fruit when it comes to improving performance. Head to the Performance Tab. This tripped me up in the process.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

However, getting reliable answers from observability data so teams can automate more processes to ensure speed, quality, and reliability can be challenging. This drive for speed has a cost: 22% of leaders admit they’re under so much pressure to innovate faster that they must sacrifice code quality. – blog.

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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

It’s one of the most frequently asked questions I see asked, “I’ve tested my site speed, so now what do these metrics mean?” Here we’ll explain what each of the common web performance metrics mean, and how can you use that data to optimize your site and make it faster. Standard Website Speed Metrics.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform delivers precise answers about the performance of your applications, the underlying infrastructure, and the experience of your end-users. For a more detailed description, please see our earlier blog post about the new Dynatrace timeframe selector. Dynatrace news. Your feedback.

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MachMetrics

JANUARY 23, 2020

You run a speed test on a website, and the results don’t match what you personally experience. Perhaps you feel like your site loads fairly quickly, but the speed test results are sub-optimal. It’s one of the most common (and frustrating) scenarios in web performance testing. Don’t stress over a score.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The challenge with ASP.NET Web Service Observability, Diagnostics and Performance Optimization is that most monitoring & diagnostic tools only provide global Service Level Indicators metrics (SLIs) such as response time, failure rate, and throughput, but not metrics for each individual service endpoint. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

New technologies like Xamarin or React Native are accelerating the speed at which organizations release new features and unlock market reach. How do I connect the dots between mobile analytics and performance monitoring? Optimize mobile app performance and maximize business impact. Dynatrace news.

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MachMetrics

MAY 2, 2020

Our most recent article identified (and remedied) the 4 most common page speed testing mistakes we see website owners making, and it inspired us to do even more to help those who make mistake #2: Only testing from 1 location. This type of research allows you to tailor your performance to the population that you expect to visit your site.

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