Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

For example, consider an e-commerce website that automatically sends personalized discount codes to customers who abandon their shopping carts. Answer-driven DevOps automation goes beyond creating tickets and extends to executing workflows designed to extract ownership information and then route the ticket to the responsible teams.

DevOps 225

DevOps Traffic Efficiency Servers 225

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

All Core Web Vitals data used to rank you is taken from actual Chrome-based traffic to your site. The Core Web Vitals Metrics Generally, I approve of the Core Web Vitals metrics themselves ( Largest Contentful Paint , First Input Delay , Cumulative Layout Shift , and the nascent Interaction to Next Paint ).

Engineering 246

Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

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.

Traffic 95

Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 95

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. SEO is key to our success.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Previous metrics measured variations of the first paint to screen (often this was a header or background color); incidentally content that isn’t really what the user actually wants to get out of the page. And the “contentful” part of the name shows this metric is intended to ignore (e.g. More after jump! Your (smashing) email.

Google 143

Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

To directly support great decision-making throughout the company, there are a number of data science teams at Netflix that partner directly with Product Managers, engineering teams, and other business units to design, execute, and learn from experiments. A/B tests are used throughout Netflix to deliver more joy to current and future members.

Innovation 243

Innovation Metrics Engineering Testing 243

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. Driving Business Metrics. State Of Mobile 2021.

Mobile 134

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 134

Dotcom-Montior

JULY 7, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Fight regressions and stay fast It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast. The best way to fight regressions is to create performance budgets on key metrics, and get alerted when they go out of bounds. Imagine that your website is a vault containing billions of dollars in jewels.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It’s about ensuring that your front-end is also working perfectly, that your site can deliver a delightful experience to your users or customers, and that it is functional – even when it’s experiencing up to seven or more times the typical traffic load. Traffic patterns outside of normal [RUM or Analytics].

Website 74

Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential part of a website’s design, and one all too often overlooked. Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things.

Engineering 131

Engineering Google Website Analytics 131

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A measly front-end designer like me can be blissfully ignorant of all this mumbo-jumbo. You can see that Lighthouse does indeed provide that metric. We can get a better view if we run the same test in another service, like SpeedCurve , which digs deeper into the metric. It replaces the First Input Delay (FI D ) metric.

Google 91

Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 91

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. 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.

Google 140

Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

SLIs are the actual performance metrics of your services. For example, if your SLO states that your uptime must be 99.9%, the actual SLI must meet or exceed that performance metric in order meet that specific SLO. An agreement within the SLA that states specific metric, like uptime, response time, security, issue resolution, etc.

Monitoring 91

Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

UI/UX : There is usually a designer and/or UX person that sets the look & feel and information architecture. Your dev environment is not your user’s environment Light Work , a picture by Émile Perron I use a Macbook Pro to develop websites. One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. Well, not so fast.

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

In fact, there’s great tooling right under the hood of most browsers in DevTools that can do many things that a tried-and-true service like WebPageTest offers, complete with recommendations for improving specific metrics. Certain tools are designed for certain metrics with certain assumptions that produce certain results.

Speed 81

Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

Official Blog - World Web Technology

JULY 7, 2023

Businesses can, for instance, provide customers personalized recommendations based on their past purchases or design focused email campaigns. These systems produce in-depth analytics and reports on various topics, including website traffic, customer behavior, and sales performance.

Ecommerce 52

Ecommerce Software Software Analytics 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

determining a business's value to its clients, the level of service it provides is often a key metric. one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. In 2013, Amazon experienced a brief outage that lasted approximately 30 minutes.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

determining a business's value to its clients, the level of service it provides is often a key metric. one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. In 2013, Amazon experienced a brief outage that lasted approximately 30 minutes.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Every technical challenge in this design space is paired with an even more daunting governance problem. These privacy requirements put challenging constraints on the design of a shared cache. But the completeness constraint is far from our only design challenge. Trust Falls #. Variations on a Theme #. Back of the Napkin #.

Cache 82

Cache Government Traffic Network 82

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Cross Region Read Replicas also enable you to serve read traffic for your global customer base from regions that are nearest to them. In addition, Amazon S3 redundantly stores data in multiple facilities and is designed for 99.999999999% durability and 99.99% availability of objects over a given year.

Cloud 145

Cloud AWS Traffic Latency 145

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The scale of the effect can be deeply situational or hard to suss out without solid metrics. 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. Don't pay a lot for an Android-shaped muffler.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Table Of Contents.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

JavaScript, CSS, images, iframes, and other resources impact how quickly website loads, renders and becomes usable to the user. Loading experience is crucial to the user’s first impression and overall usability, so Google defined Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric to measure how quickly the main content loads and is displayed to the user.

Media 70

Media Tuning Metrics Google 70

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. These issues often arise from suboptimal query design, missing or ineffective indexes, or dealing with large datasets. A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Deploying the refactored codebase shouldn’t result in worse website performance and worse user experience. After all, users won’t wait around forever for the website to load. Also, the management will be dissatisfied with the decreased traffic and revenue caused by the unoptimized codebase, despite the code quality improvements.

Media 109

Media Performance Cache Strategy 109

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Security : Hopefully there’s a team or individual with deep knowledge about security that help us reviewing system designs, implementations, and informs us about reports or and security patches. UI/UX : There is usually a designer and/or UX person that sets the look & feel and information architecture. Well, not so fast.

Performance 130

Performance Speed Google Media 130

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. The benefits to apps that adopt WebView-based IABs are numerous: WebViews are system components designed for use within other apps. This reduces friction and commensurately increases "engagement" metrics. [6]. How can that be?

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

Further, with the growth and scale of Amazon.com, boundless horizontal scale needed to be a key design point--scaling up simply wasn't an option. Though to a customer the Expedia website looks like a single application, behind the scenes Expedia.com is composed of many components, each with a specific function.

Database 167

Database AWS Games Latency 167

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

It helps assess how a site, web application, or API will respond to various traffic, without adding any additional infrastructure. Executing an internal test can tell you how well your application or site handles an increase in traffic, but it will never reflect real-world conditions.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

As I mentioned, we live in a world where massive volumes of data are being generated, every day, from connected devices, websites, mobile apps, and customer applications running on top of AWS infrastructure. Finally, their complex user experiences are designed for power users and not suitable for the fast-growing segment of business users.

Analytics 152

Analytics Availability Media Social Media 152

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Websites would magically become 50% faster with the flip of a switch! For example, if the device is a firewall, it might be configured to block all traffic containing (unknown) extensions. In the early days of the Internet, encrypting traffic was quite costly in terms of processing.

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Table Of Contents. Setting Realistic Goals. Defining The Environment. Build Optimizations.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Quick Wins.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

I hope to raise the profile of difficulties faced by real people, which are avoidable if we design and develop in a way that is sympathetic to their needs. It’s an interesting metric, and one that acknowledges that broadband speed is as important a factor as the data cap. For reference, the metric is $1.19 in the UK and $1.26

Cache 96

Cache Google Mobile Network 96