Testlodge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

These are performance issues, and today, we’re going to talk about how these issues can be identified early on with performance testing. What Is Performance testing? In software, performance testing is the process of determining how a system responds under a particular workload or task.

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Testsigma

APRIL 23, 2021

So, there’s a solid reason why mobile app testing is a crucial step in any app development process. To ensure our users get a seamless experience across any device — we perform mobile app testing. . That’s where mobile app automation testing comes into the picture. Best Mobile App Automation Testing Tools.

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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?

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Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

Mobile-first design should be accompanied with mobile website testing for delivering a flawless web experience to your target audience. Different screen resolutions and viewport sizes add another layer of complexity to mobile website testing. Why should you focus on Mobile Website Testing? Mobile-first indexing.

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Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

If you’re not familiar with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and the concepts of Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) I recommend watching the YouTube Video from Google Engineers called SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, oh my! class SRE implements DevOps) !

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DevOps Metrics Innovation Azure 246

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

About two decades ago, testing was only limited to the desktop. With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. The native and mobile web browser testing is being performed more and more compared to desktop testing.

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Testsigma

APRIL 23, 2021

With the increased usage of smartphones in recent years, enterprises and the software industry now have to cater their applications to mobile devices for web testing in addition to desktops. Predominantly, there are two sets of tools that can cater to all your testing requirements when it comes to mobile web testing.

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Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2021

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. With the ever-increasing and evolving sector of Android users, Android device testing is of the essence. . Hence, we test on real devices.

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Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2021

So how do the testing community ensure that this love for iPhone and iOS apps grows manifolds with time? With quality testing and automation, we can ensure the iPhone provides the best experience to its loyal users. In this article, we will be looking at mobile testing for iOS. Unit Testing.

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Testsigma

APRIL 16, 2021

Android developers and testers perform mobile tests to deliver apps that drive a high user retention rate through a great user interface. While mobile automation tests are performed for Android, iOS, and Windows devices, in this post, we’ll dive into the UI frameworks for Android automation testing.

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Testsigma

AUGUST 13, 2021

In the vast ocean of mobile apps and websites/web apps, we’re going to talk about web apps and web testing in this post. . Web apps like Trello, Google Docs, Twitter, etc., Here comes the important question: are you wondering if your business requires automated web testing? But, First, What’s Web Testing?

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Percona

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Heck, typing “database migration plan” into Google and reading this blog could constitute planning. Testing and QA: Test the open source solution thoroughly to identify and address any issues before the full-scale migration. Testing : Create a testing environment that mirrors your production setup.

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Open Source Database Best Practices Strategy 91

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

But with the growing smartphone user base, two things are a given: one — There will be more people who will want to access your website via mobile, ensuring great quality and usability for your websites for mobile and testing them well will become very important. What Is Mobile Web Testing? Why Should We Perform Mobile Web Testing?

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CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 26, 2020

I still think the Google-devised Core Web Vitals are smart. When I first got into caring about performance, it was all: reduce requests! And while those are all very related to web performance, they are abstractly related. Actual web performance to users are things like how long did I have to wait to see the content on the page?

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Cache Metrics Google Performance Testing 96

Percona

MAY 9, 2023

Background story I recently worked with a company running a large four-shard MongoDB Enterprise Server database cluster on VMs on premises that decided to migrate to the Google Cloud Platform. This approach frees the deployment from cloud (and any other vendor) lock-in.

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Storage Cloud Servers Google 108

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

If you're tracking custom metrics, you probably want to create performance budgets for them. Since Google research suggests that you should aim to be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor, it might also be a good idea to monitor your competitors' sites so you can create budgets that will help you stay faster than the competition.

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 78

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Jake worked at the BBC for four years, writing low-level JavaScript that catered to their strict accessibility, performance and browser support requirements.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Speed Curve

AUGUST 8, 2018

In a previous life, I spent countless hours writing performance reports and conducting A/B performance tests to figure out which change would have the biggest impact on a website's performance. Why we created the Improve dashboard. How to use it. The Improve dashboard is available in the global left-hand navbar.

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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. Of all those options, it’s safe to assume that text is the best choice for LCP performance because it loads and renders fast.

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Media Tuning Metrics Google 69

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Similarly from cross-site navigation — think Google search results or the like and then clicking back. WebPageTest is one of the few web performance testing tools that actually tests a reload of the page using a primed HTTP Cache — most of the other tools just flag if your HTTP resources are not explicitly set to be cached.

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Cache Games Performance Website 91

Rigor

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

And if you do work for a startup or small organization with no budget for performance, there are plenty of free tools on the market you can use to run one-off performance tests until you’re able to invest. I recommend checking out WebPageTest , Google PageSpeed Insights , or Rigor’s Free Performance Report.

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Ecommerce Retail Performance Benchmarking 40

Rigor

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

This is one reason why Google will begin ranking websites based on their mobile page speed. Running performance tests on desktop versions of your website won’t give you insight into how your mobile site is performing. Even better, with Rigor you can test for performance issues before they are live in production.

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Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

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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Metrics Performance Testing Testing Internet 49

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

If you’re an IT or cloud administrator, make sure to check out Dynatrace’s capabilities on monitoring k8s clusters , AWS , VMWare , OpenStack , Azure , Google GCP , OpenShift , CloudFoundry. 2: Automate Quality aka “Performance as a Self-Service”. 3: Automate Delivery aka “Unbreakable Continuous Delivery”.

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Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

One free tool has become prominent in the space – Google Lighthouse – and one question often bubbles up: “I use Google Lighthouse for one-off snapshots of my site’s performance, so why do I need a performance monitoring solution?” Where Google Lighthouse Shines Bright.

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Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Not being entirely sure of what I was seeing during a customer visit, I set out to create some simple tests to measure the impact of triggers on database performance. AMD EPYC Performance Testing… or Don’t get on the wrong side of SystemD. Tuning PostgreSQL Database Parameters to Optimize Performance.

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Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. Can’t be perfect every time!

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Speed Google Website Metrics 97

Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2022

Credits on content go to him and the work he has been doing around performance & resiliency testing automation. Our Application Performance Management (APM) and load test team at T-Systems MMS helps our customers reduce the risk of failed releases. Automation : Single load test executions can be repeated and tracked.

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Testing Open Source Metrics Infrastructure 217

Alex Podelko

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

From load testing to DevOps. It appears that Apache JMeter became the most popular load testing tool. In 2014, I was preparing a presentation about load testing tools and criteria for their selection. Load testing is an important part of the performance engineering process.

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CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Google has a pretty tight grip on the tech industry: it makes by far the most popular browser with the best DevTools, and the most popular search engine, which means that web developers spend most of their time in Chrome, most of their visitors are in Chrome, and a lot of their search traffic will be coming from Google.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 19, 2017

Let’s face it – the ideal load test emulates real world traffic, yet most load testing software doesn’t come close. Held back by budget and infrastructure restrictions, some organizations have been forced to settle for load tests that paint an incomplete picture. Setting Up the Test. Creating a Script.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

We ran what our datacenter designer Rob Snevely (who wrote a Blueprint book that contains a chapter by Elizabeth Purcell) named the Can of Worms Project, where we would install and run performance tests on large server configurations that were more customer-like and complex than the usual test or benchmarking environments that engineering teams ran.

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Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2020

I recently joined two industry veterans and Dynatrace partners, Syed Husain of Orasi and Paul Bruce of Neotys as panelists to discuss how performance engineering and test strategies have evolved as it pertains to customer experience. Dynatrace news. This blog summarizes our great conversation for the posed questions.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Testing on Google Chrome is necessary for any app-designer. Internet usage has constantly exploded in the past decade and continues to grow every single day. Currently, global Internet traffic counts to a whopping 4.3 billion users.

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CSS - Tricks

JUNE 25, 2020

Performance metrics are a big one. When you’re doing performance testing, much of it is what you would call synthetic testing. All things that are related to performance, but aren’t measuring actual user’s experience. Now apply that to performance tooling. I get why Google has to guess.

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Analytics Google Metrics Performance Testing 93

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? Poorly executed stylesheets can create a host of performance problems, ranging from stylesheets taking too long to download and parse, to improperly placed stylesheets that block the rest of the page from rendering. This falls short of Google's threshold of 2.5

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Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Many people often confuse site speed with page speed grades of performance testing tools, which are actually calculated based on multiple factors of a page including its loading speed. The screenshot below explains that page load time and lighthouse performance scores are not the same, yet they are really close to each other.

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