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Streamlining Success: The Crucial Role of Web Services Testing

DZone

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Web services are necessary for seamless data exchange and effective communication between various software components, whether it be an e-commerce platform, a banking application, or a social media network. Thorough testing is essential to guaranteeing the dependability, security, and performance of these web services.

Social Media

Social Media Testing Media Strategy

2023 Black Friday and Cyber Monday retail and e-commerce IT performance observations

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Over the years, I have watched and written about online retail and e-commerce IT performance. Social media was relatively quiet, and as always, the Dynatrace Insights team was benchmarking key retailer home pages from mobile and desktop perspectives. This year we saw few, if any, major issues with online retailers.

Retail

Retail Social Media Performance Benchmarking

Reducing The Web’s Carbon Footprint: Optimizing Social Media Embeds

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Reducing The Web’s Carbon Footprint: Optimizing Social Media Embeds. Reducing The Web’s Carbon Footprint: Optimizing Social Media Embeds. This is clearly not just bad for the environment — it’s bad for performance and hurts our users too. The Impact Of Social Media Embeds. Michelle Barker. 2022-02-03T12:00:00+00:00.

Social Media

Social Media Media Website Airlines

Critical CSS? Not So Fast!

CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Let’s look at the performance implications of getting Critical CSS right. We actually have a synchronous JS file that takes longer than the CSS does 4 : performance. performance. In a reduced test case like this, it’s blindingly obvious that Critical CSS is a wasted effort. media=print ) to a synchronous media type (e.g.

Media

Media Cache Network Website

CSS and Network Performance

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Let me address that by combining my two favourite topics: CSS and performance. Split Your Media Types. So if achieving Critical CSS is proving quite tricky—and it probably is—another option we have is to split our main CSS file out into its individual Media Queries. It’s really, really bad for Start Render performance.

Network

Network Performance Media Cache

For your eyes only: improving Netflix video quality with neural networks

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

While conventional video codecs remain prevalent, NN-based video encoding tools are flourishing and closing the performance gap in terms of compression efficiency. In our preference-based visual tests, we found that the deep downscaler was preferred by ~77% of test subjects, across a wide range of encoding recipes and upscaling algorithms.

Network

Network Media Innovation Efficiency

Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. This is not a post explaining why web performance is important.

Performance

Performance Speed Google Media

ct.css — Performance Hints via Injected Stylesheet Alone

CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This is some bonafide CSS trickery from Harry that gives you some generic performance advice based on what it sees in your <head> element. Perhaps some sophisticated performance tooling software could tell you that. head [rel="stylesheet"]:not([media="print"]):not(.ct) It’s a nice little trick. A CSS selector!

Performance

Performance Media Software Software

8 things to consider about performance testing tools

TechBeacon Testing

AUGUST 6, 2021

In both cases, the site was unable to withstand the load, service was interrupted, and viewers quickly expressed their frustration on social media. During the final episode of Mare of Easttown , the HBO streaming service crashed—just as happened during HBO's Game of Thrones season 7 premiere.

Social Media

Social Media Testing Tools Performance Testing Media

A Complete Guide to Performance Budgets

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. Background: How performance budgets work 1. What is a performance budget? What should a performance budget look like? Let's get started!

Performance

Performance Metrics Media Google

Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4)

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). But unfortunately, when dealing with static assets and media files, there are a lot of caveats to deal with. Media Files. Media Files. Philip Kiely. 2020-06-25T12:30:00+00:00.

Media

Media Cache Storage AWS

7 Effective Tips For Every Remote Testing Team

DZone

JUNE 8, 2020

There are the above-mentioned family ones, social media, and what’s amounting to an endless stream of news. Oh, did we mention your conference call is scheduled to start in five minutes? So many distractions abound as most of us work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Social Media

Social Media Media Testing Performance Testing

Panel Recap: How is your performance and reliability strategy aligned with your customer experience?

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. What do you see as the biggest challenge for performance and reliability? Dynatrace news.

Strategy

Strategy Performance Logistics Monitoring

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

The first phase involves validating functional correctness, scalability, and performance concerns and ensuring the new systems’ resilience before the migration. These include Quality-of-Experience(QoE) measurements at the customer device level, Service-Level-Agreements (SLAs), and business-level Key-Performance-Indicators(KPIs).

Traffic

Traffic Latency Tuning Systems

Introducing Page Speed Benchmarks – a new resource for the performance community

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Here are some common questions I’m asked when I talk with people about performance: Which metrics should I care about? What types of devices and connections should I test on? With Page Speed Benchmarks, you can do things like: See what the different metrics actually mean in terms of user-perceived performance.

Benchmarking

Benchmarking Speed Performance Media

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 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. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

Performance

Performance Cache Media Metrics

How Netflix brings safer and faster streaming experience to the living room on crowded networks…

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 20, 2020

We use AES Galois/Counter Mode, as it also provides good performance and high throughput. Therefore, it requires more messages to perform a handshake and two network round trips. A/B Testing Result We were pretty confident that TLS 1.3 To see the actual performance of TLS 1.3 improvement in media rebuffers.

Network

Network Media Transportation Traffic

Bringing AV1 Streaming to Netflix Members’ TVs

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

by Liwei Guo , Ashwin Kumar Gopi Valliammal , Raymond Tam , Chris Pham , Agata Opalach , Weibo Ni AV1 is the first high-efficiency video codec format with a royalty-free license from Alliance of Open Media (AOMedia), made possible by wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and resources.

Media

Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering

Compatibility Testing – An introduction

Testlodge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Software testers explore the effectiveness of processes that should lead to quality software products to make sure they perform the purpose for which they have been designed. Various testing activities take place throughout the software development lifecycle, including compatibility testing, which is a non-functional testing technique.

Testing

Testing Hardware Operating System Mobile

Links on Performance V

CSS - Tricks

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Does shadow DOM improve style performance? Getting Your head Straight: A New CSS Performance Diagnostics Snippet — We covered Harry’s super clever snippet a while back, but Vitaly had beaten us to it and it’s worth re-sharing because it’s awfully cool. so if you just style with those, that’s the way to go.

Performance

Performance Cache Media Games

The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. And to ensure the quality of a product, we always need to test — on a number of devices, and in a number of conditions. What’s a representative device to test on in 2021? Kelvin Omereshone. State Of Mobile 2021.

Mobile

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking

An Opinionated Guide to Performance Budgets

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Performance budgets are one of those ideas that everyone gets behind conceptually, but then are challenged to put into practice – and for very good reason. If you're just getting started with performance budgets – or if you've been using them for a while and want to validate your work – this post is for you.

Performance

Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google

Black Box Testing – Techniques, Tools, and Tips

Testlodge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Black box testing functions on not knowing a software’s internal structure. Black Box Testing Basics The main focus of black box testing is inputs and outputs. Black Box Testing Basics The main focus of black box testing is inputs and outputs. A tester must first understand the requirements when testing a function.

Testing

Testing Social Media Open Source Media

Mobile testing: Most critical scenarios you shouldn’t miss to test

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2022

Therefore, as a developer and a tester, it becomes a highly responsible job to test these mobile applications and deliver the best quality. However, we understand that if you are in this profession, you probably know all the basic test cases, scenarios and the holes where bugs can be found. Security related scenarios in mobile testing.

Mobile

Mobile Social Media Testing Media

21 top performance engineering leaders to follow on Twitter

TechBeacon Testing

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Political messages have invaded our social media. It's a strange time. We work from home. Layoffs over here, bailouts over there. Yet many of us still spend most of our days in front of a screen, writing software and helping improve it.

Social Media

Social Media Engineering Media Performance

Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. These days we have more and better tools to audit our performance.

Performance

Performance Speed Google Media

Increase the Performance of your Site with Lazy-Loading and Code-Splitting

Jos

APRIL 6, 2018

It turns out this component structure provides a great foundation to improve the performance of our sites. Lazy-loading and bundle splitting can have a huge impact on page performance: less code requested, parsed, and executed. You might have come across them in react-media or unstated. matches = >. matches ? (. <

Code

Code Performance Media Google

ct.css — Performance Hints via Injected Stylesheet Alone

CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This is some bonafide CSS trickery from Harry that gives you some generic performance advice based on what it sees in your <head> element. Perhaps some sophisticated performance tooling software could tell you that. head [rel="stylesheet"]:not([media="print"]):not(.ct) It’s a nice little trick. A CSS selector!

Performance

Performance Media Software Software

Mobile Usability testing: What is it and how is it done?

Testsigma

JANUARY 21, 2021

This creates a need to perform thorough testing of mobile applications and their usability. In this article, we will discuss how we can perform mobile usability testing that would enable us to create applications that live up to the user’s standards. What is mobile usability testing? Conducting the test.

Mobile

Mobile Testing Social Media Media

Increase the Performance of your Site with Lazy-Loading and Code-Splitting

Jos

APRIL 5, 2018

It turns out this component structure provides a great foundation to improve the performance of our sites. Lazy-loading and bundle splitting can have a huge impact on page performance: less code requested, parsed, and executed. You might have come across them in react-media or unstated. { matches = >. matches ? (. <

Code

Code Performance Google Media

The Fastest Google Fonts

CSS Wizardry

MAY 19, 2020

With more standardised FOUT/FOIT behaviour from browser vendors, to the newer font-display specification, performance—and therefore the user—seems to have been finally been put front-and-centre. On this site, in which performance is the only name of the game, I forgo web fonts entirely, opting instead to make use of the visitor’s system font.

Google

Google Media Latency Metrics

Mobile app automation testing Tools: An exhaustive list

Testsigma

APRIL 23, 2021

Whether it’s social media, shopping, productivity or fitness, there’s a visible surge in the number of mobile apps and their users. 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. .

Testing Tools

Testing Tools Mobile Testing Open Source

SmartTV crash analysis with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

and, just like other software or hardware products, DNA runs internal testing groups where employees can beta test new devices and give feedback so that any annoying usability issues are addressed before hitting the mass market. Hubi is one of those SmartTV boxes from DNA , one of Finland’s telecom providers.

Mobile

Mobile Media Hardware Network

Most Popular Tools For Cloud Automation Testing

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In IT, however, the cloud means a lot more than just streaming media on the system. If I consider current times, it has become a core concept in development, management, analytics, and also – automation testing. Cloud-based automation testing is a simple concept. If not, it is recommended to go through this post first.

Cloud

Cloud Testing AWS Testing Tools

Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Browser Networking. This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. High Performance Websites.

Performance

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance

How do you decide your approach for mobile website testing?

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

The daily media consumption on mobile devices has grown by 504 percent since 2011[2]. Globally, consumers are preferring their mobile phones for performing activities (e.g. Mobile-first design should be accompanied with mobile website testing for delivering a flawless web experience to your target audience. Speed and Accuracy.

Website

Website Mobile Testing Strategy

Understanding How MySQL Collation and Charset Settings Impact Performance

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Web applications rely on databases to run the internet, powering everything from e-commerce platforms to social media networks to streaming services. MySQL is one of the most popular database management systems, playing a pivotal role in the functionality and performance of web applications.

Performance

Performance Storage Social Media Database

Why Are User Journeys So Difficult to Test?

Apica

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In our previous post, we established user journeys as the essential goal of software testing efforts. If that is true, what is stopping organizations from truly testing user journeys? Variability and complexity. But let’s not just concede failure to complexity again. Let’s move past it. Getting a grip on user intentions.

Testing

Testing DevOps Monitoring Media

Building a Media Understanding Platform for ML Innovations

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

By Guru Tahasildar , Amir Ziai , Jonathan Solórzano-Hamilton , Kelli Griggs , Vi Iyengar Introduction Netflix leverages machine learning to create the best media for our members. In addition, we were able to perform a handful of A/B tests to validate or negate our hypotheses for tuning the search experience.

Media

Media Innovation Energy Architecture

Media Queries within SVG

Tim Kadlec

APRIL 10, 2013

One aspect in particular that is getting quite a bit of attention is the ability to embed media queries within SVG files. With embedded media queries you could apply an id or class to the portion of SVG that generates the slogan and then embed a media query within the SVG file that hides the slogan when the logo is below a certain size.

Media

Media Testing Code Performance

Have You Tested Your App Performance & Capacity Recently?

Apica

MAY 10, 2019

The spread of where consumers want to consume content, at home, at the office, at the gym, on a plane, at any time where there is connectivity, puts significant pressure on the network and performance monitoring teams for streaming brands. Consumers will leave you for slow or intermittent performance because there are other content options.

Testing

Testing Performance Social Media Wireless

Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! The Performance Argument. As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. Steve & Tim's Close-up Magic.

Media

Media Games Education Engineering

Engineering a Studio Quality Experience With High-Quality Audio at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

Creative choices increasingly tested the limits of our encoding quality. Based on internal listening tests, listening test results provided by Dolby, and scientific studies, we determined that for Dolby Digital Plus at and above 640 kbps, the audio coding quality is perceptually transparent. We began streaming 5.1

Engineering

Engineering Network Media Entertainment

Geolocation Testing: How can I test my website in different locations?

Testsigma

JUNE 17, 2021

This is not a magical spin a website goes through but a carefully crafted and then tested code which is more important than we think! Geolocation website testing, or testing our website through various locations, tests it as if we are opening them in different regions of the world. Geolocation Testing and its importance.

Website

Website Testing Google Ecommerce

Streamlining Success: The Crucial Role of Web Services Testing

2023 Black Friday and Cyber Monday retail and e-commerce IT performance observations

Trending Sources

Reducing The Web’s Carbon Footprint: Optimizing Social Media Embeds

Critical CSS? Not So Fast!

CSS and Network Performance

For your eyes only: improving Netflix video quality with neural networks

Fostering a Web Performance Culture

ct.css — Performance Hints via Injected Stylesheet Alone

8 things to consider about performance testing tools

A Complete Guide to Performance Budgets

Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4)

7 Effective Tips For Every Remote Testing Team

Panel Recap: How is your performance and reliability strategy aligned with your customer experience?

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

Introducing Page Speed Benchmarks – a new resource for the performance community

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

How Netflix brings safer and faster streaming experience to the living room on crowded networks…

Bringing AV1 Streaming to Netflix Members’ TVs

Compatibility Testing – An introduction

Links on Performance V

The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters

An Opinionated Guide to Performance Budgets

Black Box Testing – Techniques, Tools, and Tips

Mobile testing: Most critical scenarios you shouldn’t miss to test

21 top performance engineering leaders to follow on Twitter

Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Increase the Performance of your Site with Lazy-Loading and Code-Splitting

ct.css — Performance Hints via Injected Stylesheet Alone

Mobile Usability testing: What is it and how is it done?

Increase the Performance of your Site with Lazy-Loading and Code-Splitting

The Fastest Google Fonts

Mobile app automation testing Tools: An exhaustive list

SmartTV crash analysis with Dynatrace

Most Popular Tools For Cloud Automation Testing

Web Performance Bookshelf

How do you decide your approach for mobile website testing?

Understanding How MySQL Collation and Charset Settings Impact Performance

Why Are User Journeys So Difficult to Test?

Building a Media Understanding Platform for ML Innovations

Media Queries within SVG

Have You Tested Your App Performance & Capacity Recently?

Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Engineering a Studio Quality Experience With High-Quality Audio at Netflix

Geolocation Testing: How can I test my website in different locations?

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