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. And kept doing that over time. One type is called lab data.

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Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

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! We’ll show you how to run a mobile page speed test with MachMetrics.com, and how to make improvements based on your results. In addition, Google has made it clear that page speed is being used as a ranking factor.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2019

As microservices and automation continue to drive API usage, most organizations have either already introduced, or plan to introduce, an API testing process. With Dynatrace Synthetic you can easily create API tests with synthetic monitors. Now we’re making it easier for you to test APIs that are secured by OAuth 2.0!

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Monitoring Tuning Google Cloud 157

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

While DevOps is often referred to as “agile operations,” the widely quoted definition from Jez Humble, co-author of The DevOps Handbook, calls it “a cross-disciplinary community of practice dedicated to the study of building, evolving, and operating rapidly-changing resilient systems at scale.” Change failure rate.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Scale and automate SRE into your delivery processes with Dynatrace. Note : We will soon improve the drill-downs to Davis problems directly from existing SLO definitions so that SRE teams can benefit more from the Dynatrace Davis AI engine. Build your own Site Reliability Engineering dashboards.

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Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 151

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. I’m hopeful this can serve as a good introduction for any developer interested in learning about how to work with Google Lighthouse programmatically.

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Google Latency Website Metrics 82

O'Reilly

MARCH 26, 2024

But perhaps it should infringe something: even when the collection of data is legal (which, statistically, it won’t entirely be for any web-scale corpus), it doesn’t mean it’s legitimate, and it definitely doesn’t mean there was informed consent. Google has an alternative solution that supports journalism. joined Flickr.

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Alex Podelko

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

From load testing to DevOps. It appears that Apache JMeter became the most popular load testing tool. In 2014, I was preparing a presentation about load testing tools and criteria for their selection. Load testing is an important part of the performance engineering process.

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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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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). Here I’m going to describe this new API a bit and show you how to use it. round ( entry.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? A Google machine-learning study I participated in a few years ago found that the total number of page elements was the single greatest predictor of conversions. You can dive deeper into image optimization and SEO tips in this article in Google Search Central.).

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Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s the newest metric of the bunch and is set to formally be a ranking factor in Google search results beginning in March 2024. You configure the test by applying some form of simulated throttling and start watching the results pour in. It only looks at the delay of the event process. Let’s walk through the process.

Traffic 95

Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 95

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. So, what do I do?

IoT 160

IoT Infrastructure Monitoring Innovation 160

Testsigma

JUNE 10, 2021

In this article, we will only discuss testing the OTP based authentication for obvious reasons. We cannot test third-party mobile apps like Twilio Authy or Google Authenticator. And then we will move on to learning how to test 2 Factor Authentication. How to test 2 Factor Authentication based systems.

FinTech 140

FinTech Mobile Speed Testing 140

Testsigma

APRIL 23, 2021

With the increased usage of smartphones in recent years, enterprises and the software industry now have to cater their applications to mobile devices for web testing in addition to desktops. Predominantly, there are two sets of tools that can cater to all your testing requirements when it comes to mobile web testing.

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Mobile Testing Testing Tools Programming 52

Testsigma

DECEMBER 12, 2020

This results in cross-browser compatibility issues and testing them out is cross-browser testing. But just like any other testing paradigm, cross-browser testing is full of challenges and we will explore them in this post along with some arrangements that can help smoothen the ride a bit! What is Cross-Browser Testing?

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Testing Operating System Website Latency 53

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). Here I’m going to describe this new API a bit and show you how to use it. round ( entry.

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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. We can get a better view if we run the same test in another service, like SpeedCurve , which digs deeper into the metric. Analytics is a good example.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 91

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 191

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 191

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

You can then configure your monitoring tools to send you alerts – or even break the build, if you're testing in your staging environment – when your budgets are violated. The easiest way to do this is to look at rendering filmstrips in your synthetic test data. The tricky part comes when you try to put them into practice.

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Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 133

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

You can then configure your monitoring tools to send you alerts – or even break the build, if you're testing in your staging environment – when your budgets are violated. seconds or less, which is Google's recommendation for page experience and SEO. What should a performance budget look like? It's important to have your 2.5

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Performance Metrics Media Google 98

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Most of you have probably seen the following Google PageSpeed Insights optimization suggestion at one point or another when running a speed test: By compressing and adjusting the size of … you can save 14.2 This is useful if you want to store optimized images instead of using a real-time image processing service.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google. Source: Test My Site ) ( Large preview ). All you need to do is enter your domain name into the field and let the test run.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

This makes memory a critical factor in the total cost of ownership (TCO) of large compute clusters, or as Google like to call them “Warehouse-scale computers (WSCs).” ” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016. Enter zswap!

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Software Software Google Hardware 78

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Rest assured, all these definitions (and others) would be correct, provided the right context. The time from when the user interacts with the page to the time the browser is able to process the request. Core Web Vitals are the subset of Web Vitals that Google has identified as having the greatest impact on the end-user experience.

Benchmarking 117

Benchmarking Metrics Best Practices Monitoring 117

Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

Look at how it’s produced, and the health of its community or vendor, and put it to the test in a proof-of-concept (POC) or otherwise evaluate it to verify it suits your needs. But when we say “sustainable” here, we’re talking about whether the development process that produces the software is sustainable.

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Open Source Software Software Social Media 85

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. However, the performance gap is widening when it comes to processing power on Android devices. for mobile.

Mobile 54

Mobile Performance Metrics Google 54

CSS Wizardry

MAY 21, 2018

The workflow around this tool is pretty straightforward: drop a URL into the Target URL field; select a test location (if geographic locale might affect which third parties are called then this feature may be particularly useful to you). submit a test; and wait. awk is a relatively standard text-processing language. -F','

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Percona

MAY 9, 2023

Background story I recently worked with a company running a large four-shard MongoDB Enterprise Server database cluster on VMs on premises that decided to migrate to the Google Cloud Platform. Copy the default replica set definition (entire section) in spec.replsets[]. 10 Create as many shard replica sets as in the source cluster.

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Storage Cloud Servers Google 106

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

While this strategy is effective, it’s not simple: highly dynamic sites can be difficult to extract styles from, the process needs to be automated, we have to make assumptions about what above the fold even is, it’s hard to capture edge cases, and tooling still in its relative infancy. Test, test, test. Test and measure.

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Network Performance Media Cache 278

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

Put another way, the performance gap between what devices the wealthy carry and what budget shoppers carry grew more this year (252 points) than the year-over-year gains from process and architecture at the volume price point (174 points). That's where the good news ends. You'll have to read on for what it is!

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

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. Both pass all eighteen feature tests in Thomas Steiner's excellent ??? " you might ask?

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

So, Smashing Magazine knows about web performance, and if they were struggling, then this could be an interesting test case to look at! LCP, or Largest Contentful Paint , is one of the three Core Web Vitals that you must “pass” to get the full search ranking boost from Google as part of their Page Experience Update.

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Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2019

Most of the time is taken by quality or release engineers looking at test results, comparing them with previous builds or walking through a checklist of items that accumulated over the years in order to harden their release acceptance process. Pitometer is a Node.js When executing the validation, Pitometer.

Architecture 125

Architecture Open Source Azure Metrics 125

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

The secret sharer: evaluating and testing unintended memorization in neural networks Carlini et al., Take a system trained to make predictions on a language (word or character) model – an example you’re probably familiar with is Google Smart Compose. USENIX Security Symposium 2019. Wrapping up.

Network 55

Network Testing Strategy Google 55

ACM Sigarch

JULY 17, 2023

One such challenge has been the emergence of marginal defect-driven faults that are difficult to address solely using best practices in manufacturing test and screening. We then discuss defects observed, the role of test and design to address this problem, and identify research opportunities.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Best Practices Architecture 52

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Defenders of Apple's monopoly offer hard-to-test claims, but many boil down to the idea that Apple's product is inferior by necessity. Nobody frames it precisely this way; instead they'll say, if WebKit weren't mandated, Chromium would take over , or Google would dominate the web if not for the WebKit restriction.

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110