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Speeding Up Async Snippets

CSS Wizardry

The reason they give us this cumbersome snippet, and not a much more succinct , is purely historical: async snippets are a legacy performance hack. Generally speaking, blocking files are worse for performance, especially when hosted on someone else’s origin. Well, unfortunately, this performance polyfill is bad for performance.

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What are quality gates? How to use quality gates to deliver better software at speed and scale

Dynatrace

Benefits of quality gates Quality gates provide several advantages to organizations, including the following: Optimized software performance : Quality gates assess code at different SDLC stages and ensure that only high-quality code progresses. In this example, we will focus on ensuring releases do not have any known vulnerabilities.

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Speed up your security investigations with DPL Architect

Dynatrace

The best thing: the whole process is performed on read when the query is executed, which means you have full flexibility and don’t need to define a structure when ingesting data. >> Or, the log format where the answers should be looked for is more complex (for example, AWS CloudTrail logs ). The string 40.30.20.1 ip=40.30.20.1

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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

In the fourteen years that I've been working in the web performance industry, I've done a LOT of research, writing, and speaking about the psychology of page speed – in other words, why we crave fast, seamless online experiences. In fairness, that was in the early 2000s, and site speed was barely on anyone's radar.

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Best practices and key metrics for improving mobile app performance

Dynatrace

Mobile applications (apps) are an increasingly important channel for reaching customers, but the distributed nature of mobile app platforms and delivery networks can cause performance problems that leave users frustrated, or worse, turning to competitors. What is mobile app performance? Issue remediation.

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Speed Up Your Laravel Website With Performance Optimization Tips

DZone

Website performance is critical to any web application, as it directly affects the user experience, page load times, and scalability. For example, slow page load times can lead to increased bounce rates, lower conversion rates, and poor user engagement. Developers widely use it to build high-performance web applications.

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2023 Black Friday and Cyber Monday retail and e-commerce IT performance observations

Dynatrace

Over the years, I have watched and written about online retail and e-commerce IT performance. Below is a Dynatrace honeycomb chart depicting the performance of the synthetics tests tracked by the Dynatrace Business Insights team. This had the effect of dramatically speeding up its performance and reducing support costs.

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