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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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. Performing steps like switching from a single-CDN setup to a multi-CDN or separating strategies for content types can make the benefits twofold! Those days are long gone.

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Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. Performing steps like switching from a single-CDN setup to a multi-CDN or separating strategies for content types can make the benefits twofold! Those days are long gone.

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Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

It's being reposted here for completeness, but if you care about web performance, make sure to check out the whole series and get subscribed to the RSS feed to avoid missing any of next year's posts. The predominant answer: a unified theory of web performance. What, in particular, is "web performance"? How do we do it?

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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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Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In that time, we've seen people's interest in front-end web performance dramatically increase, especially in the world of SEO. When it comes to new performance metrics, it's easy to jump on bandwagons. While we definitely get excited about emerging metrics, we also approach each new metric with an analytical eye.

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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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Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 192

Professor Beekums

AUGUST 19, 2017

One thing that tripped me up early on in my career was the difference between performance and scalability. Let’s get definitions out of the way. Scalability is being able to handle large amounts of users/data/traffic. Performance is about speed. At first I thought they were exactly the same.

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Scalability Performance Traffic Speed 63

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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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

To speed up release frequency, they’re investing in delivery-pipeline automation. 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. Build your own Site Reliability Engineering dashboards.

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Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 151

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. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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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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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

This query is performed by a Domain Name Server (DNS server) or servers nearby that have been assigned responsibility for that hostname. So DNS services definitely go down! Speed Speed also plays a role with DNS. You can test the DNS lookup time and TTFB with a website speed test tool. They do quite well actually.

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Cache Website Internet Internet 134

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? The short answer is that they aren’t.

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Performance Testing Testing Performance Games 40

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.

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Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 94

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

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. Many developers have been asking themselves that question lately. Interesting….

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Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

That performance golden rule still holds true today. Cue server-timing headers Historically, when looking at page speed, we've had the tendency to ignore TTFB when trying to optimize the user experience. Charlie Vazac introduced server timing in a Performance Calendar post circa 2018. Definitely worth a read!

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Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In contrast, a server application runs on servers which are typically identical and a routing abstraction can serve sampled traffic to new versions. In order to mimic the client canary solution, we built a synthetic allocation service to perform sampling post-installation of the app updates.

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Metrics Mobile Testing Strategy 197

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

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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Processing Cache Website Servers 127

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Past swings away from OS default browsers have hinged on the superior features , better performance , improved security , and adequate site compatibility that come from switching. Without the ability to differentiate on features, security, performance, and privacy, what's to sell? What are those mechanisms? A slightly different UI ?

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Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

LCP is supposed to measure loading performance and is a good proxy for all the old metrics we in the performance community used to use (i.e. Time to First Byte (TTFB), DOM Content Loaded, Start Render, Speed Index) — but from the experience of the user. Previous Web Performance Metrics. SpeedIndex (SI).

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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN): This enables users of Oracle databases to perform full, incremental, and differential backups. Percona XtraBackup performs online non-blocking, tightly compressed, highly secure backups on transactional systems. In DR, load balancers route traffic to the secondary data center when a failover occurs.

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Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 91

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

PBM is a fully-supported community backup tool capable of performing cluster-side consistent backups in MongoDB for replica sets and sharded clusters. The speed of backup also depends on allocated IOPS and type of storage since lots of read/writes would be happening during this process. Records backup progress logging.

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Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

That’s not all, the global mobile traffic is expected to increase sevenfold between 2017 and 2022. Globally, consumers are preferring their mobile phones for performing activities (e.g. Mobile website testing helps in serving your customers with a flawless performance on popular screen resolutions. Speed and Accuracy.

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Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

TL;DR: performance budgets are an essential but under-appreciated part of product success and team health. Nobody is trying to do a poor job, and yet the results of a “completed” PWA project often require weeks or months of painstaking rework to deliver minimally acceptable performance. Partner meetings are illuminating.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

MachMetrics

JULY 27, 2018

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. Here’s 10 pretty typical sites (including Amazon and Bing, not just mom-and-pop sites): Nope, there’s definitely a problem across the board.

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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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Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Together, we’ll develop an intuition for the strategies available to Django developers for serving these files to users worldwide in a secure, performant, and cost-effective manner. Definitions. Performance And Availability. There are numerous factors that affect the performance and reliability of your website.

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Media Cache Storage AWS 69

Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

However, we cannot outline the best, but we can definitely analyze which is the best framework to choose in which situations. Performance. In addition, React JavaScript framework uses server-side rendering to give a flexible, performance-oriented solution. improved user experience and very fast performance. Where to Use?

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Development Google Open Source Servers 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). In this second part, we will zoom in on the performance improvements that QUIC and HTTP/3 bring to the table for web-page loading. HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). A Primer on Speed. Robin Marx.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I gave a talk about container performance recently at DockerCon, and included a quick summary of how they work: YouTube , SlideShare : If you search of slideshare and youtube, you'll find many other good talks on containers as well. People rarely create them manually.

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

If after the previous two parts — HTTP/3 history and core concepts and HTTP/3 performance features — you’re convinced that starting to use the new protocols is a good idea (and you should be!), HTTP/3 performance features. Note that there is an Apache Traffic Server implementation, though.).

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