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Are Times still Good for Load Testing?

Alex Podelko

If we talk about commercial vendors targeting the corporate market, I guess only Neotys remains independent and active (I mean contributing into the performance testing ecosystem – innovation, publishing content, participating in events, etc). Microfocus acquired both LoadRunner from HP and Silk Performer (as a part of Borland).

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Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports

Smashing Magazine

The linked-up explainer provides more details, from how scores are weighted to why scores may fluctuate between test runs. Why do we need Lighthouse at all when Google also offers similar reports in PageSpeed Insights (PSI)? Large preview ) Did you notice that the Performance score in Lighthouse is different from that PSI screenshot?

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Master Apache JMeter. From Load Testing to DevOps

Alex Podelko

To evaluate such ecosystems, in absence of more sophisticated data, I used the number of documents Google finds and the number of jobs Monster finds mentioning each product. In particular, it would be invaluable to people who want to expand their JMeter knowledge into advanced topics or switch to JMeter from other load testing tools.

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Getting Started with LoadView On-Demand Performance Testing

Dotcom-Montior

Today we’ll be reviewing LoadView , an on-demand load-testing platform from Dotcom-Monitor that makes realistic load testing possible without an up-front investment in hardware or software infrastructure. To start, you enter your starting URL and select which browser you want to emulate in this test.

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Why speed test results are different than your load times

MachMetrics

You may even have a client who’s wondering why they’re getting inconsistent results on tests they’ve run on a site you built for them. It’s one of the most common (and frustrating) scenarios in web performance testing. Others will be coming to you from a slow, rural internet connection on a budget laptop.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I’d been using the Internet since about 1984, for email and newsgroups, sharing files like my white papers via ftp sites, but in the early 1990’s the world wide web came along, and Sun was a very early adopter. Rich became co-author of the second edition of the Sun Performance Tuning book, to describe how it worked.

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An analysis of Chromium's paint timing metrics

Speed Curve

The aim of almost any performance optimisation on the web is to improve the user experience. The folk at Google have been pushing this sentiment with a focus on user-centric performance metrics , which aim to answer four questions about users’ experiences: Is it happening? What are paint timing metrics? Doing the analysis.

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