Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The best way to fight regressions is to create performance budgets on key metrics, and get alerted when they go out of bounds. These charts let even the most non-technical stakeholder easily see the correlation between performance and user engagement and business metrics, such as bounce rate and conversion rate.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Along the journey, monitored entities can be selected to provide the context to fetch the right data from Dynatrace Grail™. In many cases, you want to retrieve the logs, metrics, or traces of a particular version, which is unknown upfront. A two-step approach to creating a guardian using a template.

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Government Best Practices DevOps Engineering 194

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

In comparison, the AIOps approach discussed within this article, is built upon a radically different deterministic AI engine – at Dynatrace known as Davis – that yields precise, actionable results in real-time. Data sources typically include common infrastructure monitoring tools and second-generation APM solutions as well as other solutions.

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Speed Curve

MAY 9, 2023

Today at Google I/O 2023, it was announced that Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is no longer an experimental metric. It's been hugely helpful to have a simple set of three metrics – focused on loading, interactivity, and responsiveness – that everyone can understand and focus on. How does INP compare to FID?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2021

You’ll learn how to create production SLOs, to continuously improve the performance of services, and I’ll guide you on how to become a champion of your sport by: Creating calculated metrics with the help of multidimensional analysis. Metric 2: number of requests in error. Let’s start by creating a dashboard to follow our metrics.

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Metrics Tuning Programming Systems 167

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

You can see at a glance: Key metrics like Core Web Vitals and your User Happiness score. Hint: If you're considering installing a big-screen performance monitor at your organization, this dashboard is a good candidate for that.). Fixing high-traffic but poor-performing areas of your site will help lift your overall metrics.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52

Tim Kadlec

APRIL 10, 2023

Among 50,000 websites the HTTP Archive was monitoring at the time, 87% of the time was spent on the frontend and 13% on the backend. As we increasingly focus our conversations of performance on how metrics that relate to the user experience, the divide between backend and frontend goes past murky and starts becoming problematic.

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Performance Servers Mobile Metrics 111

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

This gives us a relatively unique opportunity to analyse and aggregate performance metrics to gain some interesting insights. In this post, I'm going to analyse some browser-based paint timing metrics: First Paint & First Contentful Paint (defined in the Paint Timing spec and implemented in Chromium). What are paint timing metrics?

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Metrics Performance Testing Testing Internet 49

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

We love the idea of having a lean, shared set of metrics that we can all rally around – not to mention having a broader conversation about web performance that includes teams throughout an organization. We’ve had some time to evaluate and explore these metrics, and we're committed to transparently discussing their pros and cons.

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Metrics Entertainment Google Monitoring 109

Speed Curve

JULY 26, 2022

Fixing high-traffic but poorly performing areas of your site will improve your overall metrics – and create a faster, better experience for more of your users. You can then prioritize and focus on these areas to improve important metrics like Largest Contentful Paint. Change summary metrics on your charts. Suggestions?

Testing 52

Testing Performance Metrics Traffic 52

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2020

Since we began the series pointing out parallels to technical debt, let’s revisit that comparison. Examine large data sets, applying statistical correlation to uncover patterns in observable behaviors, including metrics, events, logs, and alerts. We make sub-optimal or under-informed choices under pressure. Machine learning systems.

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Cloud Artificial Intelligence Virtualization Efficiency 156

Dynatrace

MARCH 10, 2021

Conventional (not built for cloud) monitoring tools are not much help. They collect metrics and raise alerts, but they provide few answers as to what went wrong in the first place. Weeks, if not months, can pass until the system is honed to completely trust it with production monitoring of business-critical processes.

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AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence Innovation 144

Speed Curve

MAY 29, 2022

Being able to set a sample rate in your real user monitoring (RUM) tool allows you to monitor your pages while managing your spending. Not all metrics are created equal and I try to avoid picking favorites. This is true of many of the metrics we collect at SpeedCurve. Intraday performance monitoring.

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Traffic Metrics Monitoring Performance 52

Speed Curve

APRIL 27, 2022

But as you can see in these filmstrips of Wiggle, a UK cycling retailer, hiding the page can have a dramatic impact on a visitor's experience: Comparison of a site loading with (top) and without (bottom) the anti-flicker snippet enabled. To summarize: On one hand, anti-flicker snippets make metrics such as FCP (and possibly LCP) worse.

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Performance C++ Google Retail 145

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

If you want to understand how people actually experience your site, you need to monitor real users. The data we get from real user monitoring (RUM) is extremely useful when trying to get a grasp on performance. Whatever the change may be, the comparison to the previous period can be found in several areas of the dashboard.

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Traffic Monitoring Metrics Performance 52

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

A small percentage of production traffic is redirected to the two new clusters, allowing us to monitor the new version’s performance and compare it against the current version. By tracking metrics only at the level of service being updated, we might miss capturing deviations in broader end-to-end system functionality.

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Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2022

All metrics, traces, and real user data are also surfaced in the context of specific events. With Dynatrace, you can create custom metrics based on user-defined log events. Comparison of Kubernetes log ingestion via Fluentd and Dynatrace OneAgent. Log monitoring works out-of-the-box with no further configuration needed.

Metrics 180

Metrics Analytics Software Architecture Open Source 180

Dynatrace

JUNE 4, 2024

Consequently, this blog post highlights the new capability of the Site Reliability Guardian to define auto-adaptive thresholds that tackle the challenge of configuring static thresholds and protect your quality and security investments with relative comparisons to previous validations.

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Metrics Engineering Code Tuning 229

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 11, 2019

When it comes to real user monitoring (RUM), I’m convinced that the marginal cost of collection, computation, storage, etc. While certainly not an exhaustive list, here are some questions you might ask when looking at implementing a sampled approach to real user monitoring. Are sessions important to you? That’s fine, too!

Retail 59

Retail Traffic Media Metrics 59

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2022

All metrics, traces, and real user data are also surfaced in the context of specific events. With Dynatrace, you can create custom metrics based on user-defined log events. Comparison of Kubernetes log ingestion via Fluentd and Dynatrace OneAgent. Log monitoring works out-of-the-box with no further configuration needed.

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Metrics Analytics Software Architecture Open Source 130

Rigor

MAY 15, 2018

At Rigor we help our customers deliver performance wins, quantify those successes, and correlate the impact to the business metrics they care about the most. To establish a baseline for DJS, we first had to decide which key pages and mission-critical user flows to monitor. Step 3: Correlate Performance to Business Metrics.

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Performance Ecommerce Analytics Metrics 40

Dotcom-Montior

JANUARY 18, 2018

Retailers Still Fail to Prepare Websites for Holiday Shoppers Monitoring of Retailer’s Websites during Black Friday holiday shopping. This year I’ve spent some time for collecting meaningful metrics during Black Friday sales of our leading Retailers websites. I tried to keep it simple and focus on meaningful monitoring results.

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Retail Website Monitoring Servers 40

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Eye-tracking provides information on how people navigate on a page and how attracted they are to visual elements on the screen, like in this study conducted by Nielsen Norman Group which shows the pattern that people use to scan comparison tables. The AOI will determine what areas you will calculate metrics for.

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Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 115

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Geoff Graham 2023-08-10T08:00:00+00:00 2023-08-10T12:35:05+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear There is no shortage of ways to measure the speed of a webpage. The key word here is “monitoring” performance.

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Speed Monitoring Testing Network 82

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

One of the metrics Netflix monitors in canary tests is how long it takes for the video stream to start when a title is requested by a user. Monitoring this “play-delay” metric throughout releases ensures that the streaming performance of Netflix only ever improves as we release newer versions of the Netflix client.

Testing 239

Testing Software Software Metrics 239

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Data observability involves monitoring and managing the internal state of data systems to gain insight into the data pipeline, understand how data evolves, and identify any issues that could compromise data integrity or reliability. Scenario : For many B2B SaaS companies, the number of reported customers is an important metric.

DevOps 194

DevOps Analytics Airlines Metrics 194

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Typically, I’m looking for performance trends, doing some level of competitive comparison, or digging through data for a company that doesn’t yet have a proper real-user monitoring ( RUM ) solution in place. I spend 90% of my time querying either the HTTP Archive or the Chrome User Experience Report ( CrUX ) data.

Traffic 56

Traffic Metrics Efficiency Monitoring 56

Dynatrace

AUGUST 14, 2023

These sources can include the website or app itself, a data warehouse or a customer data platform (CDP), or social media monitoring tools. Metrics like the net promoter score (NPS) or customer satisfaction (CSAT) score encapsulate this kind of customer feedback into measurable analytics.

Analytics 229

Analytics Social Media Website IoT 229

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. It's common to see the consent scripts blocking by design.

Performance 126

Performance Best Practices Metrics Internet 126

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Consolidate log management tools into a unified observability platform As businesses increasingly shift toward software-centric models, the number of specialized IT monitoring tools to manage cloud environments has proliferated. The first best practice is to consolidate log management with application monitoring in a single platform.

Best Practices 244

Best Practices Analytics Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 244

Speed Curve

JULY 2, 2013

Over the last few years the web performance monitoring toolset has expanded dramatically with the introduction of many new services and products. There are two main types of web performance monitoring, uptime monitoring and real user monitoring. Uptime Monitoring. Real User Monitoring.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Performance Website Analytics 40

Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. To me, it’s a must-use in any project where real user monitoring (RUM) is being instrumented. To me, it’s a must-use in any project where real user monitoring (RUM) is being instrumented. Sean Roberts.

Servers 95

Servers Monitoring Cache Network 95

Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2023

Because it’s critical that operations teams ensure that all internal resources are available for their users, synthetic monitoring of those resources is important. So why not use the advantages of K8s to make synthetic deployment monitoring easier and more effective? Private locations are crucial in achieving this goal.

Scalability 208

Scalability Virtualization Monitoring Open Source 208

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 13, 2014

Pairing these aggressive numbers alongside the conservative targets derived from comparison gives you an acceptable range to target for your site (handy to get you started with a performance budget ). It’s a better metric for measuring how page loading is perceived by users than load time is. Measure the right thing.

Metrics 49

Metrics Speed Efficiency Performance 49

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

Most monitoring tools for migrations, development, and operations focus on collecting and aggregating the three pillars of observability— metrics, traces, and logs. Continuously monitor cost and optimize your capacity needs. But managing these three data types at a scale becomes unsustainable for even the most experienced teams.

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Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics 188

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 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. I found the comparison of InnoDB vs. MyISAM quite interesting, and I’ll use it in this post.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

ESG metrics are increasingly important to investors as they evaluate risk; in turn, these metrics are increasingly important to organizations because they measure and disclose their performance. The app translates utilization metrics, including CPU, memory, disk, and network I/O, into their CO2 equivalent (CO2e).

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Energy Airlines Analytics Transportation 185