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Retailers Still Fail to Prepare Their Websites for Holiday Shoppers

Dotcom-Montior

Retailers Still Fail to Prepare Websites for Holiday Shoppers Monitoring of Retailer’s Websites during Black Friday holiday shopping. This year I’ve spent some time for collecting meaningful metrics during Black Friday sales of our leading Retailers websites. Measured start page load time of leading Retailers websites.

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Getting Started with LoadView On-Demand Performance Testing

Dotcom-Montior

Let’s face it – the ideal load test emulates real world traffic, yet most load testing software doesn’t come close. A series of GET requests from an in-house server can’t possibly replicate what actually happens when a website sees a sudden increase in users from all over the world. Creating a Script.

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A guide to Autonomous Performance Optimization

Dynatrace

A full list of currently-released Akamas Optimization Packs can be found on our website. performance test) when the application reaches a stable throughput without violating response time constraints. The post A guide to Autonomous Performance Optimization appeared first on Dynatrace blog.

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Mobile browser testing – what is it and when is it done?

Testsigma

The native and mobile web browser testing is being performed more and more compared to desktop testing. Applications that do not require to be downloaded and can be accessed via hitting the URL on a mobile browser are known as mobile web applications. What is browser testing? What are Mobile Web Applications?

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Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache

Smashing Magazine

Browsers have lots of caches , the most well-known of which is the HTTP Cache that stores copies of downloaded resources on a local drive for later reuse. Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. Here’s an experiment for you. Now close the tab.

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How To Boost Resource Loading With The New Priority Hint `fetchpriority`

Smashing Magazine

JavaScript, CSS, images, iframes, and other resources impact how quickly website loads, renders and becomes usable to the user. Let’s focus on how these resources are requested and downloaded. The HTML document is the first resource to be requested and downloaded, but how do browsers determine what to download next and in which order?

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Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting

Smashing Magazine

Projects built using JavaScript-based frameworks often ship large bundles of JavaScript that take time to download, parse and execute, blocking page render and user input in the process. Performance Costs. JavaScript’s effect on performance consists of download, parsing and the execution costs. Adrian Bece.

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