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Black Friday traffic exposes gaps in observability strategies

Dynatrace

Moreover, website performance problems during peak times have a clear economic impact. The company did a postmortem on its monitoring strategy and realized it came up short. Establishing real-time monitoring, logging, and tracing enables IT pros to identify performance problems prior to events such as Black Friday.

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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

When dealing with application delays, it is possible that people can develop coping strategies that allow them to maintain productivity in the short term. It's important to remind ourselves that application performance is just one part of the greater world. Web stress" is measurable When websites perform poorly, we react badly.

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Beyond Speed: Why You Should Be Tracking Interactive Metrics

Rigor

The Evolving View of Performance. Originally, web performance was quantified with metrics around when certain content was loaded, with events such as DOM Complete or Onload. The next evolution of performance brought in paint metrics. Event handlers are registered for most visible page elements.

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SRE Incident Management: Overview, Techniques, and Tools

Dotcom-Montior

In the context of IT (Information Technology), an incident is simply an event or issue that disrupts normal operation or quality of service. Now that we have talked about what an incident is, incident management is the process by which teams resolve these events and bring systems and services back to normal operation. Microsoft Teams.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Jake is a frequent speaker at many popular conferences and events, such as 100 Days of Google Dev , JAMstakConf , JSConf , SmashingConf , and dozens of others. Check out his how-to videos on his YouTube channel as well as his performance related dispatches on Twitter @ paulcalvano. Sergey Chernyshev. Sergey Chernyshev. Addy Osmani.

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Beyond Speed: Why You Should Be Tracking Interactive Metrics

Rigor

The Evolving View of Performance. Originally, web performance was quantified with metrics around when certain content was loaded, with events such as DOM Complete or Onload. The next evolution of performance brought in paint metrics. Event handlers are registered for most visible page elements.

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

In addition to content websites, Wix also supports e-commerce, blogs, forums, bookings and events, and membership and authentication. As websites become heavier and more complex , the task of maintaining performance becomes ever more challenging. To support all this, we have over 5,000 employees spread around the globe.

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