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Site-Speed Topography

CSS Wizardry

Any time you run a test with WebPageTest, you’ll get this table of different milestones and metrics. Higher variance means a less stable metric across pages. I can see from the screenshot above that TTFB is my most stable metrics—no one page appears to have particularly expensive database queries or API calls on the back-end.

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Service level objectives: 5 SLOs to get started

Dynatrace

Certain SLOs can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. Fitness app : The fitness app should offer a response time of less than 500 milliseconds for exercise tracking and data recording. This SLO enables a smooth and uninterrupted exercise-tracking experience.

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Service level objective examples: 5 SLO examples for faster, more reliable apps

Dynatrace

Certain service-level objective examples can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. Fitness app : The fitness app should offer a response time of less than 500 milliseconds for exercise tracking and data recording. This SLO enables a smooth and uninterrupted exercise-tracking experience.

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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

RUM gathers information on a variety of performance metrics. Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed). Real user monitoring limitations.

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Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app

The Netflix TechBlog

To prepare ourselves for a big change in the tech stack of our endpoint, we decided to track metrics around the time taken to respond to queries. After some consultation with our backend teams, we determined the most effective way to group these metrics were by UI screen. This meant that data that was static (e.g.

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AWS and Dynatrace automation hit the jackpot at Perform Las Vegas

Dynatrace

Across the two days, there were sixteen new sessions – delivered for the first time – based on content derived from lab exercises developed and delivered by working with Dynatrace experts and our Partner communicate to showcase Dynatrace’s newest features. Dynatrace AWS monitoring with CloudWatch metrics and metadata.

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Evaluating rendering metrics

Speed Curve

Network metrics have been around for decades, but rendering metrics are newer. These are a few of the rendering metrics that currently exist. A brief history of performance metrics. Metrics quantify behavior. Metrics quantify behavior. Gaps in today's performance metrics. Speed Index.

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