Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Geoff Graham 2023-08-10T08:00:00+00:00 2023-08-10T12:35:05+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear There is no shortage of ways to measure the speed of a webpage. The key word here is “monitoring” performance.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance. In this blog, we will explore various MySQL KPIs that are basic and essential to track using monitoring tools like PMM.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Rigor

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Reading time 4 min It’s important for both technical and business teams to understand the different web performance monitoring options that are available as well as their various use cases and the benefits of each. Understanding Web Performance Monitoring Methodologies. Synthetic Monitoring. Real User Monitoring (RUM).

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. ‍ Think of a CDN Load Balancer (or LB, if you like to keep things short and sweet) as the internet’s traffic police. ‍But how does it decide where to send this traffic?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

And when discussing the two types of data, we’re actually talking about what is called real-user monitoring , or RUM for short. For example, the data is pretty slow to update, refreshing every 28 days, meaning it is not the same as real-time monitoring. But it comes with caveats. Does Lighthouse Use RUM Data, Too?

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. Think of a CDN Load Balancer (or LB, if you like to keep things short and sweet) as the internet’s traffic police. But how does it decide where to send this traffic?

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Traffic Cache Network Servers 40

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In one of our previous articles , we discussed what an SRE is, what they do, and some of the common responsibilities that a typical SRE may have, like supporting operations, dealing with trouble tickets and incident response, and general system monitoring and observability. Monitoring. Saturation.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The Lamborghini website was being hosted on outdated infrastructure when the company decided to boost their online presence to coincide with the launch of their Aventador J sports car. The website went online in less than one month and was able to support a 250 percent increase in traffic around the launch of the Aventador J.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday. In 2013, Amazon experienced a brief outage that lasted approximately 30 minutes.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday. In 2013, Amazon experienced a brief outage that lasted approximately 30 minutes.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

To this vital function is workload automation which optimizes scheduling, execution, and monitoring processes for each individual task or process within cloud-based workflows. Additionally, the platform continuously monitors data through benchmarking functionalities providing valuable insights through its data analytics tools.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In technical terms, network-level firewalls regulate access by blocking or permitting traffic based on predefined rules. ‍At its core, WAF operates by adhering to a rulebook—a comprehensive list of conditions that dictate how to handle incoming web traffic. But instead of porridge, we're talking about WAF rules.Â

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

An IDS/IPS monitors network flows and matches incoming packets (or more strictly, Protocol Data Units, PDUs) against a set of rules. When used in prevention mode (IPS), this all has to happen inline over incoming traffic to block any traffic with suspicious signatures. This makes the whole system latency sensitive.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

Use cases such as gaming, ad tech, and IoT lend themselves particularly well to the key-value data model where the access patterns require low-latency Gets/Puts for known key values. The purpose of DynamoDB is to provide consistent single-digit millisecond latency for any scale of workloads. Take Expedia, for example.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Cross Region Read Replicas also enable you to serve read traffic for your global customer base from regions that are nearest to them. Cross Region Read Replicas also make it even easier for our global customers to scale database deployments to meet the performance demands of high-traffic, globally disperse applications.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In technical terms, network-level firewalls regulate access by blocking or permitting traffic based on predefined rules. At its core, WAF operates by adhering to a rulebook—a comprehensive list of conditions that dictate how to handle incoming web traffic. But instead of porridge, we're talking about WAF rules.

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Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 40

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

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. Just because everything works perfectly during production testing doesn’t mean that will be the case when your website is flooded with traffic.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. Monitor Resource Utilization Monitoring and analyzing resource utilization in your MySQL database is crucial for maintaining optimal performance and preventing potential bottlenecks.

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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. Estimated Input Latency. Estimated Input Latency. Monitoring Time to Interactive. Speed has become a crucial factor for SEO rankings, especially now that nearly 50% of web traffic comes from mobile devices.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study). Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study). That was until we went to production with our highest traffic customer. It can be hosted on a CDN like Vercel or Netlify, which results in lower latency.

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. On Android today and early iOS versions, WebViews allow embedders to observe and modify all network traffic (regardless of encryption). Apps can also monitor user input, resulting DOM, and system auto-filled credentials. How can that be?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Vitaly Friedman. 2021-01-11T15:30:13+00:00. 2021-01-11T16:06:07+00:00. LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. Quick Wins.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

Resource consumption & traffic analysis. What is the network traffic going to be between services we migrate and those that have to stay in the current data center? How much traffic is sent between two processes hosting a certain service? Step 3: Detailed Traffic Dependency Analysis. What’s in your stack?”.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Testing And Monitoring. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Setting Realistic Goals. Defining The Environment.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Testing And Monitoring. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Setting Realistic Goals. Defining The Environment.

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CSS - Tricks

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

The data above is from lab monitoring and doesn't fully represent real user experience. E-Commerce websites, a good example of sites that are typically built on a CMS , have really bad stats for page views: ~40% - 1second for TTFB. ~30% Latency matters. State of the real user web performance. 30% - more than 1.5

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