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Performance Testing - Tools, Steps, and Best Practices

KeyCDN

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.

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Why Your Performance Testing Strategy Needs to Shift Left

Dotcom-Montior

LoadView, our on-demand, cloud-based load and stress testing platform , takes an outside-in approach to performance testing. It helps assess how a site, web application, or API will respond to various traffic, without adding any additional infrastructure.

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Mobile browser testing – what is it and when is it done?

Testsigma

Each smartphone comes with various screen sizes and resolutions, operates on different network speeds, and has different hardware capabilities. Keeping all these differences, it becomes very important that a website is tested thoroughly before it is launched on different platforms. Best Practices For Mobile Website Testing.

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How Google PageSpeed Works: Improve Your Score and Search Engine Ranking

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How Lighthouse calculates the Performance Score. During performance tests, Lighthouse records many metrics focused on what a user sees and experiences. There are six metrics used to create the overall performance score. It’s time to come to terms that your customers aren’t using the same powerful hardware as you.

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Getting Started with LoadView On-Demand Performance Testing

Dotcom-Montior

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. And certainly no need to pay for it.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. Lighthouse , a performance auditing tool integrated into DevTools. Set up "clean" and "customer" profiles for testing. Large preview ). The 'Priority' column in DevTools.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. Lighthouse , a performance auditing tool integrated into DevTools. Set up "clean" and "customer" profiles for testing. Test with network throttling, and emulate a high-DPI device.