Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

And to ensure the quality of a product, we always need to test — on a number of devices, and in a number of conditions. While many of us, designers and developers, are likely to have a relatively new mobile phone in our pockets, a vast majority of our customers isn’t quite like us. What’s a representative device to test on in 2021?

Mobile 133

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

Rigor

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Reading time 8 min There are many different classes of web performance tools, from synthetic monitoring to application performance monitoring ( APM) , to real user monitoring ( RUM ), and more. When evaluating open source tools or enterprise-grade synthetic monitoring tools, you want to look for capabilities that maximize its strengths.

Monitoring 59

Monitoring Benchmarking Mobile Traffic 59

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2021

In this article, I’ll describe the process behind the creation of Autowuzzler , which tools and frameworks I chose, and share a few implementation details and lessons I learned. The first prototype was built using the open-source game engine Phaser.js , mostly for the included physics engine and because I already had some experience with it.

Games 94

Games Servers Database Virtualization 94

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

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. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 10, 2019

WebPageTest is an online tool and an Open Source project to help developers audit the performance of their websites. If you are building an SPA and want to measure its performance, you could rely on end-to-end testing tools like Selenium , Cypress or Puppeteer. I call these my testing recipes.

Performance Testing 51

Performance Testing Testing Performance Open Source 51

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. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 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. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103