Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Modifying Headers In HTTP(s) Requests In UI Automation Testing. Modifying Headers In HTTP(s) Requests In UI Automation Testing. I tried with loads of websites to see how they behave in iframe. I observed that most of the websites don’t work in iframe due to x-frame-options and content-security-policy headers. Once a week.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Powered E-Commerce Website (Case Study). Powered E-Commerce Website (Case Study). Performance is one of the core aspects to ensure our users are having a delightful user experience irrespective of their devices or network connection. We use Lighthouse and WebPagetest as our synthetic testing tools for performance to measure CLS.

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Website Google Metrics Testing Tools 106

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2021

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. By doing this, China is also able to force people to use Chinese alternatives for websites. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

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Website Internet Internet Performance 52

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Testing for mishaps you can predict is essential. Chaos engineering is a method of testing distributed software that deliberately introduces failure and faulty scenarios to verify its resilience in the face of random disruptions. Practitioners subject software to a controlled, simulated crisis to test for unstable behavior.

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Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 27, 2021

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. By doing this, China is also able to force people to use Chinese alternatives for websites. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

Website 52

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CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Note that the CSS file is marked as blocking (see the orange cross), and thus carries Highest priority and hits the network first. priority request, and hits the network after the JavaScript. In a reduced test case like this, it’s blindingly obvious that Critical CSS is a wasted effort. Test everything. performance.

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Testlodge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

A central goal of software testing is to find issues, especially critical ones, before they cause a problem in production. For example, it’s usual for software to have been designed with a specific use in mind, but the user doesn’t always understand the same way as the developers and testers. What is Destructive Testing?

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

These are only a few questions to consider when having the goal of building a fast website. Let me share three tools that will help you spot performance issues and ship high-quality and fast websites. Waterfaller: A Tool Focusing On Network Waterfalls. The number of included performance tests and checks is outstanding!

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

But with the growing smartphone user base, two things are a given: one — There will be more people who will want to access your website via mobile, ensuring great quality and usability for your websites for mobile and testing them well will become very important. What Is Mobile Web Testing?

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Testsigma

MAY 5, 2021

For instance, if we design features that run on Safari on Mac OS, those features may not function across other browsers. To ensure the features run uniformly across various browsers and OS versions that our users have, we should perform multi-browser testing. Let us understand the importance of multi-browser testing before we proceed.

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CSS Wizardry

MAY 31, 2019

One of the quickest wins—and one of the first things I recommend my clients do—to make websites faster can at first seem counter-intuitive: you should self-host all of your static assets, forgoing others’ CDNs/infrastructure. Penalty: Network Negotiation. On a high latency connection, network overhead totals a whopping 5.037s.

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

Time is a crucial usability factor If you don't consider time a crucial usability factor, you're missing a fundamental aspect of the user experience I'm embarrassed to admit that, in my previous career as a usability tester, I spent years testing websites in lab conditions. This translates to two full days every year.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

About two decades ago, testing was only limited to the desktop. With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. The native and mobile web browser testing is being performed more and more compared to desktop testing.

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Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Testsigma

JANUARY 18, 2021

Web Developers frequently come across issues where the developed website or web application does not work as expected on certain combinations of browsers and operating systems. Does this mean that enough effort was not spent in the automation testing process? Introduction to Cross Browser Testing.

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Testing Operating System Website Internet 55

Testsigma

JUNE 3, 2021

These are the errors that also need attention during the testing phase. We can divide the errors during software development into two sections for easy understanding: Software errors Testing errors. A few of the errors which can be faced due to a poorly designed UI are: i. Testing errors. Software errors.

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Testlodge

JUNE 17, 2020

What is End to End Testing? End to end testing is an important technique used to validate the flow of an application from start to finish. The main objective of this testing is to simulate user behavior and thoroughly test components to identify any integration issues. Why End to End Testing is Needed.

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Testing Government Database Systems 73

Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2021

And, precisely due to this diversity, the need for testing on many devices is paramount. With the ever-increasing and evolving sector of Android users, Android device testing is of the essence. . Why Is Android Device Testing Important? That’s the point that calls for comprehensive testing when it comes to Android development.

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Testing Mobile Testing Tools Strategy 52

Testlodge

JANUARY 26, 2022

Non-functional testing focuses on user expectations, whereas functional testing is to do with user requirements. Non-functional testing examines how a system operates rather than looking at specific functions or behaviors. Why is Non-Functional Testing necessary? Both functional and non-functional tests are essential.

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Testing Open Source Testing Tools Programming 74

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

A good browser, good apps, a good camera, and fast networking in your smartphone are just expected today. Technological development and robust testing have helped us reach where we are. When it is about multiple devices and browsers – the role of cross-browser testing can not be under-estimated. – Thorsten Heins.

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Testing Website Mobile Testing Tools 52

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Browser Networking. High Performance Websites. Even Faster Websites. Fail, and you can kiss your customers and profits goodbye.”

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

You will work hard on implementing features, collaborating with other teams (eg adding scripts for analytics, ads, retargeting, A/B test), setting up CI/CD, ensuring security, and making sure the project is usable and pleasant to the eye. And don’t forget about covering your back with tests.

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High Scalability

JULY 18, 2022

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. G-Core Labs CDN is a next-generation content delivery network that helps you accelerate the dynamic and static content of your websites or applications. InterviewCamp.io Try out their platform. Apply here. Need excellent people?

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High Scalability

JUNE 10, 2022

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. G-Core Labs CDN is a next-generation content delivery network that helps you accelerate the dynamic and static content of your websites or applications. InterviewCamp.io Try out their platform. Apply here. Need excellent people?

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Education DevOps Infrastructure Scalability 100

Dynatrace

MARCH 10, 2021

The designation reflects AWS’ recognition that Dynatrace has demonstrated deep experience and proven customer success building AI-powered solutions on AWS. Visit the AWS website to learn more about the AWS Competency Program. See Dynatrace for yourself – take test drive with our free trial. Dynatrace news.

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Testlodge

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Load testing is a form of non-functional testing that is carried out to understand the behaviour of an application under a specific user load. Why Load Testing? It was revealed that their application wasn’t good enough to accept the larger than usual number of users who tried to access their website during the deal time.

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Testing Testing Tools Servers Network 51

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. The Smashing team has done a lot to make a fast website, so even a fresh load (though this experiment may not be a completely fresh load if you came to this article from the home page). Here’s an experiment for you.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The Chrome DevTools can greatly improve your workflow by helping you develop, test, and debug your websites right within your browser. You can do everything from testing the viewport on a mobile device to editing a website on the fly, and even measuring the performance of an entire website or individual assets.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Since implementing these changes, we have seen a dramatic improvement in the performance of websites built and hosted on our platform. Dan Shappir. 2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-22T11:06:56+00:00.

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Website Performance Google Media 126

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 20, 2020

If you are a current user of our product, or if you are a designer, developer, or content creator with your own clients, we invite you to apply to our affiliate program and earn 50% of the monthly fee for each user you refer. So how do you begin to generate this passive income and help others improve the speed of their websites?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

Large preview ) While browsers are generally pretty fast, these steps still take time to load, typically in seconds, and even longer on slower, high-latency network connections. We can test for LCP in a number of ways. The following screenshot is taken from a test I ran through WebPageTest, resulting in an LCP of 2.4

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Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 73

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

You’ve likely uttered the phrases “test early and often” and “shift left,” but do you always remind yourself of the importance of that phrase from the end user’s perspective? Today’s applications are built on multiple technologies, relying on vast networks of third-party providers and CDN’s. Or has it become white noise?

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Rigor

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

According to Tim Kadlec : A performance budget is a clearly defined limit on one or more performance metrics that the team agrees not to exceed and that is used to guide design and development. They create a good starting point to talk about a full website or individual page or section from a performance and design perspective.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

You will work hard on implementing features, collaborating with other teams (eg adding scripts for analytics, ads, retargeting, A/B test), setting up CI/CD, ensuring security, and making sure the project is usable and pleasant to the eye. And don’t forget about covering your back with tests. I use a Macbook Pro to develop websites.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

If you want to vastly improve the startup and load performance of your website, you cannot miss the impactful observations and insights that Jake posts on jakearchibald.com/ and shares on Twitter @ jaffathecake. He writes about Progressive Web Apps on Medium as well as on his own website. Rick Byers. Rick Byers. Tammy Everts.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Since that time, the SRE role has evolved as the industry has changed and shifted from the traditional monolithic structures to large, widely distributed networks and microservices. SREs want one that simply does the job that it was designed to do. Monitoring. Monitoring is one of the most important SRE principles within the role.

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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! Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Email Newsletter with useful tips on front-end, design & UX. More after jump! Your (smashing) email. Once a week. Useful tips on front-end & UX.

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Rigor

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

This change to how Google ranks websites for searches will now take mobile page speed into account in its ranking algorithm. It makes sense, because, as we’ve said in the past, good website performance has implications on user experience. Google recently announced the launch of their Speed Update. Consider Content.

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