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. Real usage data would be better, of course.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It may even be something you do regularly with Lighthouse in Chrome DevTools, where testing is freely available and produces a very attractive-looking report. The linked-up explainer provides more details, from how scores are weighted to why scores may fluctuate between test runs. Can’t be perfect every time!

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Speed Google Website Metrics 97

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Do continue reading to gain a deep dive into static and dynamic content, its differences, pros, and cons while focusing on the best ways to optimize performance on websites that use such content.‍What This is where Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) come into play. What is Static Content?Static What is Dynamic Content?

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Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2021

To understand the importance of API monitoring, consider a website that provides weather information. API testing complements monitoring. This is done through testing. Both testing and monitoring play vital roles in the development of quality applications. That site uses APIs provided by a weather forecasting service.

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Monitoring Latency Metrics Availability 175

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

With the rise of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks using a high quality DNS hosting provider is very important to the redundancy of your website. There is nothing worse for visitors than your website being inaccessible. Oddly enough we encountered this error to a third party website while writing this article.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Do continue reading to gain a deep dive into static and dynamic content, its differences, pros, and cons while focusing on the best ways to optimize performance on websites that use such content.‍What is Static Content?Static This is where Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) come into play.

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Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Website and web application technologies have grown tremendously over the years. Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. Website and Web Application Monitoring. HTTP monitoring allows you to test availability and performance from around the world. HTTP error.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. JavaScript-Heavy # Since at least 2015, building JavaScript-first websites has been a predictably terrible idea, yet most of the sites I trace on a daily basis remain mired in script. [1] What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript.

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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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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. By moving to AWS, Lamborghini was able to prepare the development and test environment in a couple of days.

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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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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. This makes the whole system latency sensitive. The baseline for comparison is Snort 3.0 , “the most powerful IPS in the world” according to the Snort website. IDS/IPS requirements.

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Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database uptime and availability Monitoring database uptime and availability is crucial as it directly impacts the availability of critical data and the performance of applications or websites that rely on the MySQL database. This KPI is also directly related to Query Performance and helps improve it.

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Speed Curve

JUNE 18, 2019

Raise your hand if you've ever poured countless hours into making a fast website, only to have it slowly degrade over time. At some point you'll be given permission to "focus on performance" and after many more hours, the website will be fast again. The secret to a faster website? Break the build!

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

This header can be set on the response of any network resource, such as XHR, fetch, images, HTML, stylesheets, etc. These subtypes are currently the only subtypes related to network requests and thus exposing the Server-Timing information. Setting Server-Timing. For Images, Stylesheets, JS files, the HTML Doc, etc.

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Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 6, 2022

Waterfall charts are diagrams which represent how website resources are being downloaded, parsed by the engine, in a timeline that gives us the opportunity to see the sequence and dependencies between resources. If your website isn’t fast enough, the user will not wait for it to finish loading. Waiting time.

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Performance Cache Website Speed 52

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Since that time, the SRE role has evolved as the industry has changed and shifted from the traditional monolithic structures to large, widely distributed networks and microservices. As defined by the Google SRE initiative, the four golden signals of monitoring include the following metrics: Latency. Monitoring.

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KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

Well, that is probably true, as long as they don’t slow down your website to the point where you are losing visitors. When it comes to optimizing your website, images are generally the most important asset you should spend time on figuring out how to reduce in size and deliver in a more efficient way. Mbps ( Opensignal ).

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Speed Website Mobile Latency 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The OSI Model is like a layer cake of how data moves through networks. This means it specifically looks at the content of the data (like the writing inside our letters from the analogy) rather than just the envelope.So, what is the difference between a Firewall at the application level and network level?Network-level

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

Large preview ) While browsers are generally pretty fast, these steps still take time to load, typically in seconds, and even longer on slower, high-latency network connections. We can test for LCP in a number of ways. The following screenshot is taken from a test I ran through WebPageTest, resulting in an LCP of 2.4

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Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 73

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

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 project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Case-in-point, most enterprise CMS vendors lack robust full-site content delivery network (CDN) integration. A few months back, I was pulled into a scenario where a business has been working with a leading CMS vendor to roll-out a network of multi-regional websites. can generate an HTML-only website without involving a CMS.

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Dotcom-Montior

MAY 6, 2020

Waterfall charts are diagrams which represent how website resources are being downloaded, parsed by the engine, in a timeline that gives us the opportunity to see the sequence and dependencies between resources. Test Location. Number of Tests. To understand the speed of your website, waterfall diagrams are used.

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Rigor

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Synthetic monitoring vendors provide a remote (often global) infrastructure that visits a website periodically and records the performance data for each run. Real user monitoring vendors provide an agent (Javascript) that is injected on each page of a website or application. Test at Every Stage of Development.

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Monitoring Benchmarking Website Traffic 40

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The OSI Model is like a layer cake of how data moves through networks. This means it specifically looks at the content of the data (like the writing inside our letters from the analogy) rather than just the envelope.So, what is the difference between a Firewall at the application level and network level?Network-level

Traffic 40

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 40

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. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Table Of Contents.

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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. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Table Of Contents.

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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. During performance tests, Lighthouse records many metrics focused on what a user sees and experiences. Estimated Input Latency. Estimated Input Latency. We use Calibre here on CSS-Tricks to keep an eye on things.

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Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Reading time 11 min As companies become more aware of the importance of web performance, internal teams begin to research tools they can use to use to track their metrics and improve the user experience of their websites and applications. Not everyone uses Chrome to access your website. But that is the assumption that Lighthouse makes.

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Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

Rigor

JANUARY 25, 2018

Measuring your mobile UX has some added complexities: namely network speed and latency. Use a monitoring solution with network throttling so you can control for network and latency. When we ran tests excluding all third parties, their load time was 9 seconds less than when third parties were included.

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Mobile Ecommerce Latency Speed 40

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The technology develops single-page applications , websites, and backend API services designed with real-time and push-based architectures. Unit testing: Node.js has a unit testing framework called Jasmine, which allows unit testing of code during development. Network: Node.js Easy UI test cases.

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Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In a different article, we talked about chaos engineering and how SRE teams proactively seek out and test for failures to prevent the worst from happening. Knowing when and where an error, downtime, or application latency occurs is a critical factor in limiting the impact to users and customers.

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Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

Tim Kadlec

JULY 28, 2015

Steps 1-3 are all network constrained. How quickly they happen, and the cost, depends mostly on the characteristics of the network: the bandwidth, latency, cost of data, etc. The browser-specific behavior (steps 4-8) remains the same as the typical browsers you’re used to testing on. What’s up next?

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Architecture Servers Network Latency 75

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Google founders figured out smart ways to rank websites by analyzing their connection patterns and using that information to improve the relevance of search results. A message-oriented implementation requires an efficient messaging backbone that facilitates the exchange of data in a reliable and secure way with the lowest latency possible.

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Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

Especially if going into or out of storage types that may throttle bandwidth/network traffic. Until then, you can find more details on the Percona Backup for MongoDB Documentation page on our website. Many people don’t realize how long it takes to back up very large data sets.

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