Speed Curve

MARCH 11, 2024

After years of development and testing, Google has added Interaction to Next Paint (INP) to its trifecta of Core Web Vitals – the performance metrics that are a key ingredient in its search ranking algorithm. INP replaces First Input Delay (FID) as the Vitals responsiveness metric.

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Tim Kadlec

APRIL 10, 2023

There was a comment on Twitter today from Rafael Gonzaga expressing disappointment in what he sees as a tendency to focus on the frontend solely in performance discussions, while neglecting the server-side aspect. Revisiting the golden rule Way back in 2006, Tenni Theurer first wrote about the 80 / 20 rule as it applied web performance.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Performance budgets are one of those ideas that everyone gets behind conceptually, but then are challenged to put into practice – and for very good reason. Web pages are unbelievably complex, and there are hundreds of different metrics available to track. What is a performance budget? Which metrics should you focus on?

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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. Background: How performance budgets work 1. What is a performance budget? What should a performance budget look like? Let's get started!

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Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Earlier this year, Google announced that Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is no longer an experimental metric. Now that INP has arrived to dethrone FID as the responsiveness metric in Core Web Vitals, we've turned our eye to scrutinizing its effectiveness. When it comes to new performance metrics, it's easy to jump on bandwagons.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

How To Benchmark And Improve Web Vitals With Real User Metrics. How To Benchmark And Improve Web Vitals With Real User Metrics. How would you measure performance? Other times it’s about how fast a task is performed. Rest assured, all these definitions (and others) would be correct, provided the right context.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

Modern enterprises today use a myriad of enterprise Software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and productivity suites to run business operations, such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Slack, Zendesk, Zoom, GitHub, and many more. This section shows how to analyze AWS AppFabric logs with Notebooks and DQL.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Earlier this year, when Google announced that Interaction to Next Paint (INP) will replace First Input Delay (FID) as the responsiveness metric in Core Web Vitals in *gulp* March of 2024, we had a lot to say about it. TLDR: FID doesn't correlate with real user behavior, so we don't endorse it as a meaningful metric.)

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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. Keptn uses SLO definitions to automatically configure Dynatrace or Prometheus alerting rules. Step-by-step guide: SRE-driven performance analysis with Dynatrace. This is what this blog is all about.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. Large preview ) We’ve known for a long time that fast page performance influences search engine rankings.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The flip side of speeding up delivery, however, is that each software release comes with the risk of impacting your goals of availability, performance, or any business KPIs. Which metrics are relevant for your business, anyway? Modern observability tools provide many metrics, but which ones are really important for your business?

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Ten years is a lot of time to reflect, and over this past year our team has been thinking a lot about not just the "what" and "how" of web performance, but also the "why". In that time, we've seen people's interest in performance dramatically increase, especially in the world of SEO. Among other things, we turned ten !

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

There are many definitions of environmental sustainability, most of which converge on a common theme: collectively and individually, we have a responsibility to act to protect global ecosystems and support health and wellbeing, now and in the future. Sustainability seeks a balance between human activity and the natural world.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

If you’re not familiar with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and the concepts of Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) I recommend watching the YouTube Video from Google Engineers called SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, oh my! class SRE implements DevOps) !

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl.

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. What is Google Lighthouse? Google Lighthouse is one of the best-automated tools available on a web developer's utility belt.

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Rigor

JANUARY 8, 2020

Without a set plan in place, any new script can damage performance, affecting user experience, and, therefore, business KPIs. We noticed a few common misperceptions about web performance budgets that can impact their adoption and setting that we would like to address. Five Common Myths About Web Performance Budgets.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

If you've been working in the performance space for a while and you hear me start to talk about page growth, I'd forgive you if you started running away. ;). How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? I've been writing about page size and complexity for years.

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Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

When your website isn’t performing optimally, you risk not only your revenue but also your reputation as a trusted resource. Additionally, teams are measuring and tracking key business metrics – conversion rates, cart abandonment rates, customer lifetime value, revenue by traffic source, and so on.

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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. In that time, we've seen people's interest in performance dramatically increase, especially in the world of SEO. During this time, SpeedCurve has stayed objective when looking at the CWV metrics.

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Jos

JUNE 17, 2017

In a recent post about Chrome 60 Beta , Google announced the support of the Paint Timing API to get metrics on when your page starts rendering and when the user gets content that can be consumed (more info on the definition of the events below). Yet those metrics don’t tell us the whole picture about the rendering experience.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2021

With Dynatrace, you only need to install a single OneAgent per host to collect all relevant metrics from 100% of your application-delivery chain. When disabled, OneAgents don’t perform any monitoring tasks, and consequently, don’t consume any licensing. The OneAgent advantage. But are these OneAgents completely stopped?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

In the podcast, Grabner recalled his interview with Kelsey Hightower at the Perform 2023 conference. He recalls Dynatrace’s nascent days in the application performance monitoring space when observability was becoming a hot topic. The three pillars of observability at the time were metrics, logs, and traces,” Wilson said.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. But not everything about performance happens directly at the code level, right?

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. Recently, I spent some time checking on the Performance (not a very detailed study) of the various programming languages.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2020

To summarize the textbook definition, which originates from engineering and control theory, observability is essentially the ability to understand what is happening inside of a system from the knowledge of its external outputs. How do you make a system ‘observable’? Why the three pillars of observability aren’t enough.

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 18, 2019

Nines are not enough: meaningful metrics for clouds Mogul & Wilkes, HotOS’19. The authors of today’s paper should know a thing or two about that: Jeffrey Mogul and John Wilkes at Google 1 ! Is a performance brownout an outage? On what granularity (seconds, minutes, calendar months, rolling 30 days,…)?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2021

However, such observation periods come with a disadvantage: incidents can pile up and there is a delay between those incidents and the corresponding health metrics ultimately dropping low enough to trigger a warning. Most monitoring tools offer only a single SLO metric. Get up and running in under a minute with SLO templates.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Such a paradigm aspires to assist front-line operations personnel and stakeholders in “running the business”²; performing their tasks through means such as ad hoc analysis, decision-support, and tracking (of tasks, assets, schedules, etc). Genesis Data Source and Input definition example Genesis is a stateless CLI written in Node.js

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Speed Curve

JULY 31, 2023

Google's Core Web Vitals are an attempt to help folks new to web performance focus on three key metrics. Old-school CLS In May 2020, Google introduced CLS as part of Core Web Vitals. I've always found it odd that Google left the representation of CLS as a decimal score. As we all know, naming things is hard.

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Jos

JUNE 17, 2017

In a recent post about Chrome 60 Beta , Google announced the support of the Paint Timing API to get metrics on when your page starts rendering and when the user gets content that can be consumed (more info on the definition of the events below). Yet those metrics don’t tell us the whole picture about the rendering experience.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

If you’re reading this before March 2024 and fire up your favorite performance monitoring tool, you’re going to to get a Core Web Vitals report like this one pulled from PageSpeed Insights: ( Large preview ) You’re likely used to seeing most of these metrics. That’s what this article is all about.

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CSS - Tricks

JUNE 25, 2020

And it’s not just “I can’t use CSS grid because IE 11 has 1.42% of global usage still” stuff, it’s about measuring metrics that matter to your site, no matter what they are. Performance metrics are a big one. Synthetic information like this enters my mind when spending tons of time on performance.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. For this article, we will focus on the first three and the performance adjustments for these.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Sometimes it’s easy enough to find the answer to that question and the site just needs to invest in performance. Sometimes though, it’s a little trickier and, despite thinking your site was great on the performance for some reason it still fails. And the “contentful” part of the name shows this metric is intended to ignore (e.g.

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