Speed Curve

APRIL 30, 2024

However, as a general time-based metric, INP didn't leave a lot of hints as to the source of the problem. This is still a viable option for all non-Chromium browsers – which, to be clear, is probably more than half of your traffic! As an example, the Interaction Metrics (IX) captured by SpeedCurve are available for Safari.

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Google Metrics Traffic Mobile 66

Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

For today’s highly dynamic and exceedingly complex production environments, performance problems that are evident at the service level (for example, slow response times or failed requests) are often the result of underlying (cloud) infrastructure issues. Unlock extended end-to-end traceability for OpenTelemetry-instrumented Go applications.

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Traffic Open Source Servers Cloud 165

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

LCP, or Largest Contentful Paint , is one of the three Core Web Vitals that you must “pass” to get the full search ranking boost from Google as part of their Page Experience Update. And the “contentful” part of the name shows this metric is intended to ignore (e.g. Often this is the hero image or the title text.

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Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

Jos

MARCH 13, 2020

Web Performance is important for user experience and business metrics. Look, there are many case studies proving a correlation between loading time and business metrics!” ?-?I Using Test My Site from Think with Google : Gives you an estimation of potential revenue increase for your site when saving loading time.

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Performance Google Mobile Analytics 130

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Last year, Google made two significant changes to their search indexing and ranking algorithms : In March, indexing became based on the mobile version of a page , rather than desktop. What is Google Lighthouse?

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Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Chances are, you're here because of Google's update to its search algorithm , which affects both desktop and mobile, and which includes Core Web Vitals as a ranking factor. The metrics that comprise Web Vitals are still evolving. These metrics will (I think) always be in a state of evolution. When Google talks, people listen.

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Performance Google Metrics Mobile 96

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 9, 2020

In such circumstances, it’s challenging to investigate the reasons for unexpected behavior or traffic between pods. For this example, we’ll use a simple application called “Online Boutique,” which is based on the Google microservices demo application. Network metrics for all containerized environments.

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Design Google Architecture Traffic 101

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 12, 2021

If they are loaded asynchronously, they’re usually with some sort of anti-flicker functionality (hiding the page until the experiments run by setting the opacity to 0, for example). In some cases, like Google Optimize, it’s even free. When I did that, the result was a significant improvement in the paint metrics.

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Testing Google Traffic Servers 137

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Certain service-level objective examples can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. Teams can build on these SLO examples to improve application performance and reliability. In this post, I’ll lay out five SLO examples that every DevOps and SRE team should consider.

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Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

Tim Kadlec

APRIL 10, 2023

10% 90% Google 25% 75% MySpace 9% 91% MSN 5% 95% ebay 5% 95% Amazon 38% 62% YouTube 9% 91% CNN 15% 85% When Steve Souders repeated it in 2012 , he found much the same. I broke the percentages down by page rank (based on traffic to the site). Another great example is the new Early Hints header. First up, the mobile results.

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Performance Servers Mobile Metrics 111

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

However, that pesky 20% on the back end can have a big impact on downstream metrics like First Contentful Paint (FCP), Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), and any other 'loading' metric you can think of. Google recommends that TTFB be 800ms at the 75th percentile. That performance golden rule still holds true today.

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Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Google was the first company to create, embrace, and put support behind the role of site reliability engineering. For example, ensuring maximum reliability may come at the cost of being able to more rapidly deploy future services. SLIs are the actual performance metrics of your services.

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Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The best way to fight regressions is to create performance budgets on key metrics, and get alerted when they go out of bounds. These charts let even the most non-technical stakeholder easily see the correlation between performance and user engagement and business metrics, such as bounce rate and conversion rate.

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Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites. One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0, Well, not so fast.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. Prioritizing Metrics Online metrics are almost limitless. Google Keyword Planner.

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Engineering Google Website Analytics 131

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals Matt Zeunert 2024-04-16T10:00:00+00:00 2024-04-16T12:05:36+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative has increased the attention website owners need to pay to user experience.

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Google Monitoring Website Speed 106

Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks. How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks. For example, it could be because certain frameworks are more commonly used for building heavier websites. Dan Shappir. 2022-05-12T09:30:00+00:00. Large preview ).

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Google Performance Website Mobile 128

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

As an ad publisher, your revenue depends on two main factors: traffic to your site and ad optimization. A lot of the focus goes into the practice and processes of driving traffic to your site from an SEO perspective, but what if when visitors get to your site, they have a less than ideal experience?

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Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. Quantitative performance testing looks at metrics like response time while qualitative testing is concerned with scalability, stability, and interoperability.

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Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

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. For example, let’s say that we are loading two render-blocking stylesheets. Examples And Use Cases.

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Media Tuning Metrics Google 70

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

those resources now belong to cloud providers, such as AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and others. The primary challenge being not able to access the underlying infrastructure metrics. For example, in the case of a web application, it could be the time it takes after a user hits the submission button on form.

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Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency 57

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ). One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. This is difficult to prove because developers will say that “the experience” is what they are seeing on their computers using, for example, Google Chrome.

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

According to the Google Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) handbook, monitoring the four golden signals is crucial in delivering high-performing software solutions. These signals ( latency, traffic, errors, and saturation ) provide a solid means of proactively monitoring operative systems via SLOs and tracking business success.

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Performance Latency Traffic Metrics 173

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 16, 2023

For example, a 16-core box connecting to an 800-server origin would have 12,800 connections. That’s a significant amount and certainly more than is necessary relative to the traffic on most clusters. More acutely, if a traffic spike occurs and Zuul instances scale up, it exponentially increases connections open to origins.

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Traffic Servers Google Metrics 170

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A standard Docker container can run anywhere, on a personal computer (for example, PC, Mac, Linux), in the cloud, on local servers, and even on edge devices. This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. What is Docker? Networking. Observability.

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Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 300

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Certain SLOs can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. But how do you get started, and what are some service level objective examples? In this post, I’ll lay out five foundational service level objective examples that every DevOps and SRE team should consider. Thus, an ApDex score of 0.85

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Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 175

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2021

In February 2021, Dynatrace announced full support for Google’s Core Web Vitals metrics , which will help site owners as they start optimizing Core Web Vitals performance for SEO. A page with low traffic and failing CWV compliance does not hold the same weight as a failing page with high traffic. Dynatrace news.

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Traffic Metrics Mobile Analytics 263

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

But do you know how Lighthouse calculates performance metrics like First Contentful Paint (FCP), Total Blocking Time (TBT), and Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)? Still, there’s nothing in there to tell us about the data Lighthouse is using to evaluate metrics. But it comes with caveats.

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Speed Google Website Metrics 97

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Analytics is a good example. Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. That’s one example and a common one at that. You can see that Lighthouse does indeed provide that metric.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 91

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Confidence for a safe release is provided by more validation of how the changes impact quality, for example, before deploying to production or with impact analysis during blue/green deployments. Which metrics are relevant for your business, anyway? Just measuring the uptime of a service tells you nothing about health or quality.

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Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 151

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

Organizations can now accelerate innovation and reduce the risk of failed software releases by incorporating on-demand synthetic monitoring as a metrics provider for automatic, continuous release-validation processes. This metric indicates how quickly software can be released to production. Dynatrace news.

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Monitoring Software Software DevOps 199

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. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Below is an example of such a simple dashboard. Mobile app rating is a good example of Objective Driven Development. In the workshop, I also answered the question: How can we measure those metrics (=SLIs) that are behind our objectives? Whether its our Metrics Ingest API or building a Dynatrace Extension. App Rating.

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DevOps Social Media Mobile Metrics 203

Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2021

This becomes even more challenging when the application receives heavy traffic, because a single microservice might become overwhelmed if it receives too many requests too quickly. How service meshes work: The Istio example. The Envoy proxies also collect and report telemetry on all traffic among the services in the mesh.

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Traffic DevOps Infrastructure Network 240

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

For example, let’s say a large bank wants to make it easier for customers to enroll in direct deposit, you would be fairly safe to assume that allowing customers to complete the enrollment process online from start to finish would be an easy win to solve this problem. More after jump! For developers who know enough JavaScript to be dangerous.

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Design Testing Education Processing 98

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"I made my pages faster, but my business and user engagement metrics didn't change. The performance poverty line is the plateau at which changes to your website’s rendering metrics (such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint) cease to matter because you’ve bottomed out in terms of business and user engagement metrics.

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Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 118