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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Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

I am sure people at that time had not heard about cross-browser testing. All these changes made one concrete effect on the testing world. They made cross-browser testing essential. What is cross-browser testing? Cross-browser testing is a mantra to be followed by everyone developing a website.

Testing 52

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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! 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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Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

2014 saw the trend of mobile app testing as they were becoming a multi-billion dollar business all over the world. 2015 saw the trend of scriptless testing and IoT focussed methodologies. So the trend of mobile web testing came into the picture. AI and Machine learning-based testing.

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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. 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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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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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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Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

Mobile-first design should be accompanied with mobile website testing for delivering a flawless web experience to your target audience. Different screen resolutions and viewport sizes add another layer of complexity to mobile website testing. Why should you focus on Mobile Website Testing? Mobile-first indexing.

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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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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

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

DECEMBER 9, 2020

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. Google has a long history of shaping SRE processes for their global-scale services that are dedicated to making their services more scalable, reliable, and efficient.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Saving several hours preparing and doing a design review will cost hundreds (if not thousands of hours) of fixing issues down the road.nn> unit testsnnI don’t believe that I have to say that in 2021, but I have never seen a quality product without unit tests. We live in a time when everybody is irked by manual testing.

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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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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

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?

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CSS - Tricks

JUNE 25, 2020

When you’re doing performance testing, much of it is what you would call synthetic testing. For example, we might slap Google Analytics on a site, doing nothing but installing the generic snippet. Rather than generic synthetic tests, why not measure things that are actually important to your specific site ?

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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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Google Metrics Testing Performance 52

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

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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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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Google Analytics Metrics Speed 100

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

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?

Testing 53

Testing Operating System Website Latency 53

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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Jos

APRIL 5, 2018

Componentizing generally makes testing and maintenance easier. Or loading a 3rd party component like a Google Map, with all its additional assets needed to render the thing? A code coverage report, like the one Google Chrome provides won’t help us much. Code coverage tab on Google Chrome ( source ). Map ( this.

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Jos

APRIL 6, 2018

Componentizing generally makes testing and maintenance easier. Or loading a 3rd party component like a Google Map, with all its additional assets needed to render the thing? A code coverage report, like the one Google Chrome provides won’t help us much. Thus, that content won’t be seen nor indexed by Google. Map ( this.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Google’s best practice is to have a speed index under 3 seconds. Google’s best practice is to be below 0.5 However, Google’s best practice is to keep the number of requests below 50, so there is still work to be done. Google’s best practice is to achieve a time under 1.3 seconds on desktop and 11.4

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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.

Website 110

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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 WebP WebP is an image format developed by Google to ensure superior compression of photos.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

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. DebugBear actually tests with a slower network, resulting in more accurate data.

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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

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Many people often confuse site speed with page speed grades of performance testing tools, which are actually calculated based on multiple factors of a page including its loading speed. Importance of page loading speed – Google checks your website load time and they like it as fast with a better user experience.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Back in May, we shared that SpeedCurve supports Google's Core Web Vitals in both our synthetic monitoring and LUX real user monitoring tools. According to Google, pages should maintain a CLS score of less than 0.1 Drilling down into a detailed test page for The Washington Post , the CLS score is 0.8417 – much worse than the 0.1

Retail 81

Retail Benchmarking Google Metrics 81

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. Large preview ).

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Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

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

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. Target Site" { print $1 }' cnn.csv. See full size/quality (267KB).

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