Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. Monitoring The Main Thread If you’re like me, I immediately reach for DevTools and open the Lighthouse tab when I need to look into a site’s performance.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 93

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. INP will officially replace FID when it becomes an official Core Web Vital metric.

Traffic 97

Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 97

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

Performance 75

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 75

Tim Kadlec

APRIL 10, 2023

10% 90% Google 25% 75% MySpace 9% 91% MSN 5% 95% ebay 5% 95% Amazon 38% 62% YouTube 9% 91% CNN 15% 85% When Steve Souders repeated it in 2012 , he found much the same. 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. First up, the mobile results.

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Performance Servers Mobile Metrics 111

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.

Google 141

Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 141

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Methods include the observability capabilities of the platforms their applications run on; monitoring tools, OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, OpenMonitor, OpenCensus, Jaeger, Zipkin, Log, CloudWatch, and more. Just one command instruments your entire application environment for monitoring. Automatic topology analysis.

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Analytics Technology Technology Cloud 151

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 25, 2020

For example, we might slap Google Analytics on a site, doing nothing but installing the generic snippet. This is going to tell us stuff like what pages are the most popular, how long people spend on the site, and what countries deliver the most traffic. One aspect to this is RUM, that is, “Real User Monitoring.”

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Analytics Google Metrics Performance Testing 93

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

you should definitely check it out if you don’t already know it!). Before we dive in, I’d just like to note that the authors responsibly disclosed their findings to Google, who have announced that they will be fixing many of the identified issues in AndroidQ. most apps). Finding out how those apps leak data.

Systems 74

Systems Traffic Network Google 74

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. Google's Search App and Facebook's various apps for Android undermine these choices in slightly different ways. [3] Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2019

At Neotys PAC 2019 in Chamonix, France, I presented approaches on how to solve this problem by looking at examples from companies such as Intuit, Dynatrace, Google, Netflix, T-Systems and others. A single indicator is defined as a query against a data source such as a monitoring, testing, security or code quality tool.

Architecture 125

Architecture Open Source Azure Metrics 125

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

Keptn uses SLO definitions to automatically configure Dynatrace or Prometheus alerting rules. While Google’s SRE Handbook mostly focuses on the production use case for SLIs/SLOs, Keptn is “Shifting-Left” this approach and using SLIs/SLOs to enforce Quality Gates as part of your progressive delivery process.

Engineering 185

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 185

Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

It’s a given that you’re monitoring your site so it’s up and running and that you’re swiftly addressing issues when they arise. Additionally, teams are measuring and tracking key business metrics – conversion rates, cart abandonment rates, customer lifetime value, revenue by traffic source, and so on.

Ecommerce 87

Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

The Symphonia

MAY 22, 2018

Fast forward to two years later and the article has had more than half a million visits, regularly appears in the top five Google search results for “Serverless”, and helped launched Symphonia ?—?my But I’ve already done that elsewhere, with John, so I left it with adding a link to our definition. but I didn’t realize quite how wide.

Serverless 40

Serverless Architecture Lambda Azure 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 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. Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Centralized data will be moved to third party services such as Google Sheets and Airtable for the stakeholders. It is generating heartbeat signals at a constant frequency with the objective of using them as a baseline to verify the health of the pipeline regardless of traffic patterns or occasional silences.

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Big Data Government Analytics Processing 253

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Testing And Monitoring. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Good for raising alarms and monitoring changes over time, not so good for understanding user experience. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Setting Realistic Goals. Quick Wins.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

We started seeing signs of scale issues, like: Slowness during peak traffic moments like 12 AM UTC, leading to increased operational burden. The scheduler on-call has to closely monitor the system during non-business hours. At Netflix, the peak traffic load can be a few orders of magnitude higher than the average load.

Java 202

Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 202

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Testing And Monitoring. Good for raising alarms and monitoring changes over time, not so good for understanding user experience. Good for describing the user experience and monitoring, not so good for knowing what happens between the milestones. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Setting Realistic Goals. Assets Optimizations.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Tools and CI systems help them monitor progress & prevent regressions. Our metrics at Google show a conflicted picture (which I’m working to get to clarity on). They use “do what it takes” language to describe the efforts to get and stay fast. Performance budgets are set early in the life of the project.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68