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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Speed Curve

MARCH 11, 2024

After years of development and testing, Google has added Interaction to Next Paint (INP) to its trifecta of Core Web Vitals – the performance metrics that are a key ingredient in its search ranking algorithm. INP replaces First Input Delay (FID) as the Vitals responsiveness metric.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

By implementing service-level objectives, teams can avoid collecting and checking a huge amount of metrics for each service. When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. The performance SLO needs a custom SLI metric, which you can configure as follows.

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Software Software Benchmarking Latency 263

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. This is not a post explaining why web performance is important.

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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! Developers are left to their own devices to troubleshoot performance on iOS devices.

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Google Metrics Traffic Mobile 67

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Sometimes it’s easy enough to find the answer to that question and the site just needs to invest in performance. Sometimes though, it’s a little trickier and, despite thinking your site was great on the performance for some reason it still fails. And the “contentful” part of the name shows this metric is intended to ignore (e.g.

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Guidelines for improvement are suggested based on how specific metrics score. What is Google Lighthouse?

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Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

This multinational information technology service and consulting company was asked to help a global automotive manufacturer with the management goal of measuring service flow performance. The metrics behind the four signals vary by row. Figure 1 was their first attempt to satisfy all stakeholders. Initial SLO management dashboard.

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Automotive Latency Architecture Azure 270

Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

Organizations that want a high-performance language with a great ecosystem for their applications often use Golang , an open-source programming language. With Dynatrace OneAgent you also benefit from support for traffic routing and traffic control. – Sergey Kanzhelev (Google). Dynatrace news.

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Traffic Open Source Servers Cloud 166

Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

When your website isn’t performing optimally, you risk not only your revenue but also your reputation as a trusted resource. Additionally, teams are measuring and tracking key business metrics – conversion rates, cart abandonment rates, customer lifetime value, revenue by traffic source, and so on.

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Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

Speed Curve

JULY 26, 2022

RUM: Performance heat maps. Fixing high-traffic but poorly performing areas of your site will improve your overall metrics – and create a faster, better experience for more of your users. You can then prioritize and focus on these areas to improve important metrics like Largest Contentful Paint. Suggestions?

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Testing Performance Metrics Traffic 52

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 12, 2021

Client-side A/B testing has been a performance loving developer’s worst friend for years. They can wreak havoc on a site’s performance. In some cases, like Google Optimize, it’s even free. First, let’s look at the impact this Optimizely script has on performance when it’s in place.

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Testing Google Traffic Servers 137

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Systems are constantly changing, with pods existing only briefly to perform tasks before they’re terminated. In such circumstances, it’s challenging to investigate the reasons for unexpected behavior or traffic between pods. Online Boutique has been launched into a Kubernetes cluster that runs in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

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Design Google Architecture Traffic 101

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

However, with these benefits come complexities in terms of cloud management, Kubernetes observability, and automation, making it imperative for enterprises to address these intricacies to enhance reliability, performance, and resource usage.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. These days we have more and better tools to audit our performance.

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

Tim Kadlec

JUNE 24, 2014

At Google I/O 2014 , Lara Swanson and Paul Lewis discussed performance culture. Performance cops (developers or designers who enforce performance) is not sustainable. We need to build a performance culture. There is no “I” in performance. Performance culture is a team sport.

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Google Performance Latency Internet 49

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. 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. What is Performance Testing?

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Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Google was the first company to create, embrace, and put support behind the role of site reliability engineering. SLIs are the actual performance metrics of your services. For example, if your SLO states that your uptime must be 99.9%, the actual SLI must meet or exceed that performance metric in order meet that specific SLO.

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Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

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. In particular, the increase in the amount of downloaded JavaScript can have a direct impact on website performance. Dan Shappir. 2022-05-12T09:30:00+00:00.

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Google Performance Website Mobile 127

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

That performance golden rule still holds true today. 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.

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Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

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. You can even go one step further and integrate your performance budgets with your CI/CD process, so that you not only get alerts but even break the build if a new deploy would violate any of your budgets.

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Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

We’ve been pretty vocal about Core Web Vitals since Google announced this initiative last spring. We love the idea of having a lean, shared set of metrics that we can all rally around – not to mention having a broader conversation about web performance that includes teams throughout an organization. Let's dig in!

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Metrics Entertainment Google Monitoring 109

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 130

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? Find Your Performance Baseline.

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Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

Tim Kadlec

JUNE 21, 2022

HTTP/3 work started in 2012 with Google working on QUIC, adopted by IETF in 2017, RFC’s published in June 2022. Scalemates.com flipped the switch to enable HTTP/3 and almost immediately HTTP/3 traffic rose to ~13% of all requests on the landing page, ~49% for all pages in total. Testing the Performance of HTTP/3.

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Network Mobile Google Cache 64

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 105

Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

This article explores SLOs for service performance. According to the Google Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) handbook, monitoring the four golden signals is crucial in delivering high-performing software solutions. SLOs, as a measure of service quality, can track the related availability, reliability, and performance.

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Performance Latency Traffic Metrics 174

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 workloads that require high performance, organizations would be better suited by purchasing their own servers.

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Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency 57

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. These default priorities work reasonably well for most cases, usually resulting in a good performance.

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Media Tuning Metrics Google 69

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative was launched in May of 2020 and, since then, its role in Search has morphed and evolved as roll-outs have been made and feedback has been received. However, to this day, messaging from Google can seem somewhat unclear and, in places, even contradictory. Don’t have time to read 5,500+ words?

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Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

But we can’t really say just yet whether it had any impact on the business metrics — well, we’ll need to wait for a big book release to see that. Working around improving performance was an ongoing journey on SmashingMag for a while. We were busy not only with performance and UX optimizations though. Vitaly Friedman.

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Mobile Design Cache Code 140

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Thanks to PurePath, architects can validate how transactions flow from service-to-service and how traffic gets routed through service mashes (AWS App Mesh, Istio, Linkerd) or proxies. Having Dynatrace also looking at key EFS metrics gives them additional root cause information in case something goes wrong. 3 Log Analytics.

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AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 127

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Just as people use Xerox as shorthand for paper copies and say “Google” instead of internet search, Docker has become synonymous with containers. What is Docker? Container deployment.

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Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 301

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. Certain service-level objective examples can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. Fitness apps : During the pandemic, fitness apps boomed.

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Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. 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?

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Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 177

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"I made my pages faster, but my business and user engagement metrics didn't change. How can I demonstrate the business value of performance to people in my organization?" If you've ever asked yourself any of these questions, then you could find the answers in identifying and understanding the performance poverty line for your site.

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Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 119