Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This way, you’ll not only have the information you need to read your performance reports come March 2024 but can proactively prepare your website for the change. You configure the test by applying some form of simulated throttling and start watching the results pour in. So, that’s why you’re not seeing INP or FID in your reports.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

With the rise of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks using a high quality DNS hosting provider is very important to the redundancy of your website. There is nothing worse for visitors than your website being inaccessible. Oddly enough we encountered this error to a third party website while writing this article.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

By running basic optimizations of our videos before adding them to our websites, we can prevent these issues from occurring for good — well, most of them. It’s not uncommon to find websites with extremely large videos — for example, used used as hero background videos. There is a solution though! Real-World Data. Large preview ).

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Here we describe the role of Experimentation and A/B testing within the larger Data Science and Engineering organization at Netflix, including how our platform investments support running tests at scale while enabling innovation. What more can we learn from this test, to inform the next one?”

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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! There are many ways of measuring your Core Web Vitals , but the definitive way — even if it’s not the best way, as we’ll see soon — is in Google Search Console (GSC).

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Speed Curve

JULY 10, 2023

Setting up conversion tracking in SpeedCurve RUM is fairly simple and definitely worthwhile. The performance of your website can make or break engagement with your users. In the example below, segmentation is done using custom dimensions to compare an A/B test where front-end optimizations were made in the variant.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

It improves the user experience, results in less bandwidth usage, and makes your website faster. How to measure performance The Website Speed Test is the ideal tool for measuring the performance of your website. Properly size images: Scaled images will definitely reduce the overall website size.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Businesses that achieve BCorp status can benefit (according to the website) from “committed and motivated employees, increased customer loyalty, higher levels of innovation, and market leadership”. Asim talked about Performance Mode in Microsoft Edge: switching on Performance Mode means users get a faster website, while also saving resources.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 17, 2019

Keptn is taking care of: Automated Deployments and Automated Tests. scaling up in case more resources are needed, redirect traffic for certain users, clear log directories, … In order to react fast, it is mandatory to automate as many of these tasks. In our performance clinic, we pushed a simple node.js Why we must build keptn?

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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. Read more: Google’s definition of the term Site Reliability Engineering. Build your own Site Reliability Engineering dashboards.

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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. This will, in turn, cause developers to skimp on testing for Safari, making it inevitable that browsers based on WebKit and other minority engines cannot compete. Or so the theory goes.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Rich Howard is the founder and CEO of Optimal , a company dedicated to improving the performance of websites and mobile apps. Performance testing. When working on a project for the Man Booker Prize in 2007 (now known as the Booker Prize), Howard saw first-hand how a heavy-load day could impact a website. Practical planning.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

The Core Web Vitals are a set of three metrics designed to measure the “core” experience of whether a website feels fast or slow to the users, and so gives a good experience. These tools run page loads on simulated networks and devices and then tell you what the metrics were for that test run. What Are The Core Web Vitals?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We can get a better view if we run the same test in another service, like SpeedCurve , which digs deeper into the metric. We can expand the metric to glean insights into what exactly is causing traffic on the main thread. We want fewer cars on the road to alleviate traffic on the main thread. What’s so important about that?

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Rigor

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Let’s start with a brief definition of two of the more prominent web performance methodologies: synthetic monitoring and real user monitoring (also known as RUM). Synthetic monitoring vendors provide a remote (often global) infrastructure that visits a website periodically and records the performance data for each run.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Django websites involve a lot of files. As if that wasn’t enough already, sometimes users come along and want to upload their own files to your website. Definitions. This strategy is very simple and closely resembles the development environment, but cannot handle large or inconsistent amounts of traffic effectively.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

This explains the challenges involved in deploying and testing HTTP/3 yourself. In our own early tests , I found seriously diminishing returns at about 40 files. Note that there is an Apache Traffic Server implementation, though.). This is more in-depth and technical. People who already know the basics can start here.

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. I've got a long blog post brewing on this, but jumping to the end, an operable definition is: A browser is an application that can register with an OS to handle http and https navigations by default. "What, then, is a 'browser'?"

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Quick Wins.

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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. Testing in Angular & React. Angular offers testing and debugging for a complete project with a single tool, while to do different types of testing, React needs a set of tools. Angular Testing.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Websites would magically become 50% faster with the flip of a switch! This explains the challenges involved in deploying and testing HTTP/3 yourself. For example, if the device is a firewall, it might be configured to block all traffic containing (unknown) extensions. This is more in depth and technical.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This explains the challenges involved in deploying and testing HTTP/3 yourself. While a perfect understanding of these concepts is not needed for the rest of this post, having a common high-level definition would be good. This means that it will not magically download your website resources much more quickly than TCP.

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

Especially if going into or out of storage types that may throttle bandwidth/network traffic. Until then, you can find more details on the Percona Backup for MongoDB Documentation page on our website. Hence the speed to back up the data with mongodump is definitely very slow when compared to the other two options discussed.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2018

A website today receives a large chunk of its traffic from evergreen browsers — most of which have good support for ES6+, new JavaScript standards, new web platform APIs and CSS attributes. js', }, module: { rules: [ { test: /.jsx?$/, jsx?$/, use: "babel-loader" }, { test: /.css$/, Maintenance And Testing.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

See the Route 53 detail page for the exact definitions and how SLA violations will be handled. A good starting point is the upcoming World IPv6 Day when many organizations will offer their content and services through IPv6 such that the readiness of the different devices, protocols and applications can be tested.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The risks embedded in these deep-wetware effects, and their cross-origin implications, mean that your website's success is partially a function of the health of the commons. The professionalism with which the new Core Web Vitals (CWV) have been developed, tested, and iterated on inspires real confidence.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Testing And Monitoring. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Table Of Contents.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Testing And Monitoring. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Table Of Contents.

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