Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Modifying Headers In HTTP(s) Requests In UI Automation Testing. Modifying Headers In HTTP(s) Requests In UI Automation Testing. The ability to modify the headers of traffic that pass through your browser is a great tool to have. Selenium is widely used as a test automation framework for end-to-end testing of web applications.

Testing 102

Testing Network Website Google 102

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?

Google 71

Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Snappy is a compression library developed by Google. So, it becomes very important to test for the optimal required use case before implementing it in production. Here, we are going to test snappy and zstd compression with the following configurations. provides higher compression rates.

Storage 105

Storage Network Open Source Latency 105

Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

2014 saw the trend of mobile app testing as they were becoming a multi-billion dollar business all over the world. 2015 saw the trend of scriptless testing and IoT focussed methodologies. So the trend of mobile web testing came into the picture. AI and Machine learning-based testing.

Artificial Intelligence 89

Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

That’s not all, the global mobile traffic is expected to increase sevenfold between 2017 and 2022. Mobile-first design should be accompanied with mobile website testing for delivering a flawless web experience to your target audience. Why should you focus on Mobile Website Testing? Mobile-first indexing. Speed and Accuracy.

Website 98

Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

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. What is Performance Testing? In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Testsigma

JUNE 5, 2021

As the number of websites has increased with time, so has the source of traffic leading to that website. In 2015, 35% of the internet traffic came from mobile devices, 6 years later, the number is 54.8%. Mobiles have become a priority and subsequently, the testing of websites that are rendered on it.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Testing Tools 52

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

This project implements multiple techniques and tactics to censor China’s internet and controls the internet gateways to analyze, filter, and manipulate the internet traffic between inside and outside of China. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China.

Website 82

Website Internet Internet Performance 82

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

MongoDB is the #3 open source database and the #1 NoSQL database in the world. They offer SSD-based cloud hosting with straightforward pricing as well starting at just $5/month , which makes it ideal (and affordable) for developers to build, test and deploy their new applications seamlessly in the cloud.

Azure 187

Azure AWS Latency Database 187

Testsigma

MAY 21, 2021

You might already know that Google is going to stop the development of Protractor soon. Protractor is an end-to-end test framework made for angular and angularJS applications. It uses angular-specific locator strategies to make it easier to automate the end-to-end test cases on these applications. What is Protractor?

Open Source 52

Open Source Mobile Google Infrastructure 52

Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2021

It is open source and its development can be ported across devices with relative ease. And, precisely due to this diversity, the need for testing on many devices is paramount. As of September 2020, Statista reports that around 30,40,000 apps are available on Google Playstore. Why Is Android Device Testing Important?

Testing 52

Testing Mobile Testing Tools Strategy 52

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Defenders of Apple's monopoly offer hard-to-test claims, but many boil down to the idea that Apple's product is inferior by necessity. Nobody frames it precisely this way; instead they'll say, if WebKit weren't mandated, Chromium would take over , or Google would dominate the web if not for the WebKit restriction.

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2019

Most of the time is taken by quality or release engineers looking at test results, comparing them with previous builds or walking through a checklist of items that accumulated over the years in order to harden their release acceptance process. Pitometer is a Node.js The result is graded against thresholds, baselines or previous results.

Architecture 125

Architecture Open Source Azure Metrics 125

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

This project implements multiple techniques and tactics to censor China’s internet and controls the internet gateways to analyze, filter, and manipulate the internet traffic between inside and outside of China. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China.

Website 97

Website Internet Internet Performance 97

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. And don’t forget about covering your back with tests. Testing : Well, we should write some tests, right?

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome who was working all around web performance for decades. For sites with large traffic and a global reach, basic optimizations at build time are usually not enough. Let’s figure it all out. About the Author.

Media 108

Media Cache Google Best Practices 108

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2021

This project implements multiple techniques and tactics to censor China’s internet and controls the internet gateways to analyze, filter, and manipulate the internet traffic between inside and outside of China. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 27, 2021

This project implements multiple techniques and tactics to censor China’s internet and controls the internet gateways to analyze, filter, and manipulate the internet traffic between inside and outside of China. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

You may have seen over the past few months we have been extensively promoting Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) as part of our Open Source project Keptn. The app description and supporting files such as load testing scripts are on the Keptn Example GitHub. This is what this blog is all about.

Engineering 185

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 185

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You’ve tested and retested the site for errors. As a discovery tool, request maps are great for identifying the source of third-party, fourth-party, fifth-party, etc., They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic. Testing The Impact Of Specific Requests.

Website 133

Website Design Network Best Practices 133

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome and focusing around performance for decades. For sites with large traffic and a global reach, basic optimizations at build time are usually not enough. Let’s figure it all out. Image Content Delivery Networks. +.

Media 94

Media Cache Google Best Practices 94

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. Google's Search App and Facebook's various apps for Android undermine these choices in slightly different ways. [3] Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

Testing in Angular & React. Source: reactjs.org. React is an open-source JavaScript library for web development. Moreover, it endures one of the top JavaScript frameworks because of constantly updated technology and backing from Google and its coding power. Testing in Angular and React. Angular Testing.

Development 52

Development Google Open Source Servers 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Testing And Monitoring Auditing workflow, proxy browsers, 404 page, GDPR cookie consent prompts, performance diagnostics CSS, accessibility. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Kubernetes (k8s) provides basic monitoring through the Kubernetes API and you can find instructions like Top 9 Open Source Tools for Monitoring Kubernetes as a “do it yourself guide”. Dynatrace news. For EKS – Amazon’s Kubernetes Service – you can get a preview of CloudWatch Container Insights. Full-stack observability.

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AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 127

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

The final prompt for a more aggressive optimization was the “Core Web Vitals” dashboard in the Google Search Console. We first thought that it could be related to the cookie banner adjustments we made recently, but it turned out it was a Google Search Update that seemed to be more aggressively penalizing us for a high CLS. So, did it?

Mobile 141

Mobile Design Cache Code 141

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 ). At the same time, they open a door to lots of concepts that might be overwhelming: PRPL, RAIL, Paint Timing API, TTI, HTTP/2, Speed Index, Priority Hints and more …. A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0,

Performance 130

Performance Speed Google Media 130

Rigor

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

When evaluating open source tools or enterprise-grade synthetic monitoring tools, you want to look for capabilities that maximize its strengths. Can you manually edit recorded tests or do you need to completely re-record? Some common examples include: Testing your site with and without a CDN, or with different CDNs.

Monitoring 59

Monitoring Benchmarking Mobile Traffic 59

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The Google DevTools console can give you real-time feedback to help you trace the source of errors, and you can set handlers to automate exception data collection. Source: Google Keep in mind that not all code errors are noticeable to users. Manual Testing 5.

Strategy 67

Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

You should expect one-time implementation cost (depending CMS and business requirements it can cost 200,000 USD to 3M USD) and yearly hosting infrastructure cost (proportional to load and traffic but typically 30,000 USD - 300,000 USD per year). In addition, open source CMS solutions also struggle with blotted plugin ecosystem.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Testing And Monitoring. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Table Of Contents. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Setting Realistic Goals. Defining The Environment.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

The Symphonia

MAY 22, 2018

Fast forward to two years later and the article has had more than half a million visits, regularly appears in the top five Google search results for “Serverless”, and helped launched Symphonia ?—?my Also there’s been a lot of open source updates, including from Amazon and Microsoft. but I didn’t realize quite how wide.

Serverless 40

Serverless Architecture Lambda Azure 40

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

vl : I have a hilarious story about this from Google: I wanted second 30" monitor, so I filed a ticket. It's the fastest device I've ever tested. . $2 billion : Pokémon GO revenue since launch; 10 : say happy birthday to StackOverflow; $148 million : Uber data breach fine; 75% : streaming music industry revenue in the US; 5.2

Internet 35

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 35

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Testing And Monitoring. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. And if you are using CI to test the budgets, you need to make sure your tested environment matches CrUX if you used CrUX for setting the target ( thanks Patrick Meenan! ). Now you have something measurable to test against.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Between Google (Vertex AI and Colab) and Amazon (SageMaker), you can now get all of the GPU power your credit card can handle. Google goes a step further in offering compute instances with its specialized TPU hardware. You can see a simulation as a temporary, synthetic environment in which to test an idea.

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Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 102

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

This explains the challenges involved in deploying and testing HTTP/3 yourself. In our own early tests , I found seriously diminishing returns at about 40 files. mvfst (Facebook), MsQuic , (Microsoft), (Google), ngtcp2 , LSQUIC (Litespeed), picoquic , quicly (Fastly). This is more in-depth and technical. Implementation.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 107

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This explains the challenges involved in deploying and testing HTTP/3 yourself. However, TCP is typically implemented in the operating system’s (OS’) kernel, a secure and more restricted environment, which for most OSes isn’t even open source. This is more in depth and technical. A Primer on Speed. What does it all mean?

Performance 107

Performance Network Latency Servers 107