Speed Curve

JULY 10, 2023

Demonstrating the impact of performance on your users – and on your business – is one of the best ways to get your company to care about the speed of your site. Setting up conversion tracking in SpeedCurve RUM is fairly simple and definitely worthwhile. This post covers: What is a conversion?

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Alex Podelko

DECEMBER 19, 2019

So you need to understand what is going on there – and Debbie is definitely an authority in that area. ITIL Version 4 Capacity and Performance Management in an Agile Container World by Chris Molloy, IBM. – System performance management is an important topic – and James is going to share a practical method for it. .

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Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2021

The most forward-thinking teams want to take a “shift-left” approach to their security practices, engaging security practices and testing as early as possible in the software development life cycle. Speed: Users won’t give organizations a pass on slow performance just because they’re trying to enhance security.

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Apica

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

With the continued growth of applications being used in and out of an organization, getting a firm grasp on the performance of these devices and its impact on your IT environment is important. With this growth and added complexity, how are your legacy performance testing solutions keeping up?

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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. This frustration is hardwired, as you can learn in this post about the psychology of site speed and human happiness.)

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). How well does a typeface work and perform against another similar typeface? How would we test to see if there is any difference between a good sans serif and a serif typeface with users? Thomas Bohm.

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Testsigma

MAY 14, 2021

Cloud-based testing has become quite integral these days. Most businesses have already done the shift towards cloud-based testing. The traditional testing that was done on the software installed on local servers is now slowly fading away. Cloud-based testing comprises cloud-based test automation as well.

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CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Let’s look at the performance implications of getting Critical CSS right. We actually have a synchronous JS file that takes longer than the CSS does 4 : performance. performance. In a reduced test case like this, it’s blindingly obvious that Critical CSS is a wasted effort. performance. mark ( ' head finished ' ).

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Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

Globally, consumers are preferring their mobile phones for performing activities (e.g. 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.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Looking at data from the HTTP Archive , which tracks performance metrics for the top million sites on the web, the percentage of sites that have good INP is 96.8% The elephant in the room: Why does mobile INP perform so poorly? However, the performance gap is widening when it comes to processing power on Android devices.

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Percona

JANUARY 17, 2023

The definition of Percona Advisors by ChatGPT is the following: Percona Advisors can help organizations implement robust security measures to protect their databases and sensitive data. So it is only for debugging and testing purposes. It is partially true. Add this token in the PMM Settings -> Percona Platform section.

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Database Open Source Monitoring Innovation 108

Speed Curve

JUNE 18, 2019

At some point you'll be given permission to "focus on performance" and after many more hours, the website will be fast again. What if there was a way that you could prevent performance from degrading in the first place? Some sort of performance gateway that only allows changes to production code if they meet performance requirements?

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Performance Testing Testing Performance Cache 49

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

That’s not truly testing. The above quote lets us understand the power of Manual Testing. However, we cannot always test our mobile applications manually, there are scenarios which specifically require automated mobile application testing. Variations while performing Mobile Application Testing.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

At Netflix, we have significant investments in ensuring new versions of our applications are well tested. However, Netflix is available for streaming on thousands of types of devices and it is powered by hundreds of micro-services which are deployed independently, making it extremely challenging to comprehensively test internally.

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Metrics Mobile Testing Strategy 197

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

With another year winding down, it’s time for us to take stock of how our site performance compares to the average page load times for 2020. As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is.

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Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

DZone

APRIL 18, 2019

Software testing is important, period. The iterative, fast-paced Agile enterprises and introduction of DevOps have definitely reduced a software’s time-to-market by churning out releases at a breakneck speed. While that is being tackled to some extent through test automation, the need for human intellect is not entirely removed.

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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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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

SLOs, together with service-level indicators (SLIs), deliver the performance promised in service-level agreements (SLAs) and other business level objectives (BLOs) while staying within error budgets. To get a better handle on this, let’s start with some definitions. But what are SLOs? What are SLAs, SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets?

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Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

When I first started learning about web page performance, I always use to focus solely on the time that it took a page to load. As I started to learn more about web page performance, I started to experiment with webpagetest.org and discovered the different metrics that it uses. The total is your Speed Index score!"

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Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

When I first started learning about web page performance, I always use to focus solely on the time that it took a page to load. As I started to learn more about web page performance, I started to experiment with webpagetest.org and discovered the different metrics that it uses. The total is your Speed Index score!"

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Speed Analytics Google Retail 40

Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

When I first started learning about web page performance, I always use to focus solely on the time that it took a page to load. As I started to learn more about web page performance, I started to experiment with webpagetest.org and discovered the different metrics that it uses. The total is your Speed Index score!"

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Speed Analytics Google Retail 40

KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Unoptimized content could also be one of the reasons why your WordPress website is not performing as per your expectations. We will also discuss how you can speed up your slow WordPress site. But if you have not optimized your WordPress properly, your WordPress will definitely be slower than your expectations.

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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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CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 16, 2019

This week I’ve been brooding about web performance and accessibility. Ethan continues to argue that these issues are so common in AMP that accessibility must not be a priority at all: Since the beginning, Google has insisted AMP is the best solution for the web’s performance problem. The status quo. And that’s what makes me mad.

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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. Lighthouse results.

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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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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. Bitrate is the playback speed of the video. However, all the other connections have a downlink speed that’s significantly lower than 20 MBPS. There is a solution though! Large preview ).

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Network Speed Website Mobile 143

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. While Federico definitely has good points there, there is some truth in these myths too. How did you get into performance engineering? I remember really liking the technical side of these tests.

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MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

But we’ll definitely help you decide which is the best choice for your situation. As we discussed in our article on how to test your page weight , compression is pretty much standard practice in web performance now, so you absolutely want to make sure you’re taking advantage of it. OK, not really. What is HTTP Compression?

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. We normally focus solely on the performance aspect, but today we want to dive into additional ways you can optimize images for the web.

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Tasktop

MAY 13, 2020

The Novel Economy is unique in that it’s true to its definition. We should look at behavior from day one — that will be a leading indicator of how consumerism will perform and provide the basis for how it will evolve. Where do you put hand sanitizer, testing kits, and so on? What is the “Novel Economy”?

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

How to measure performance The Website Speed Test is the ideal tool for measuring the performance of your website. It offers a full range of performance grades and suggestions where we outline the performance potential in detail. Further down, there are detailed performance grades for various topics.

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MachMetrics

JULY 27, 2018

If you run a private WebPageTest instance on Amazon EC2, one of the choices you’ll have to make is whether to use Linux or Windows test agents. I had always been an advocate for the Windows AMIs – as most of the world runs Windows instead of Linux, I wanted the performance to represent what the majority sees.

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Speed Curve

AUGUST 8, 2017

Because the average page is now 3MB in size, and this seems like a good time to pause, check our assumptions, and ask ourselves: Is there any reason to care about page size as a performance metric? Also, you can also see how easy it is to be misled by onload as a performance metric, because it correlates so strongly with page size.

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Six months in, I've had a chance to gather and look at a lot of data, talk with customers, and learn from our friends in the performance community. SpeedCurve's Industry Benchmarks dashboard – which tracks the performance of top sites in retail, media, travel, and other industries – is a good place to start.

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Rigor

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Programmer APIs Put to the Test. Put simply, Rigor is a web performance and monitoring platform used by businesses to manage the speed and reliability of their digital presence. Put simply, Rigor is a web performance and monitoring platform used by businesses to manage the speed and reliability of their digital presence.

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Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 11, 2021

And asserted conditions only evaluated if they’re enabled, so any side effects won’t happen when they’re not enabled; they might sometimes perform local side effects, such as to do logging or allocate memory, but the program should never rely on them happening or not happening. Assertions are primarily about finding bugs at test time.

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