Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

As organizations develop more applications and microservices, they are discovering they also need to run more performance tests in the same amount of time or less to meet service-level objectives (SLOs) that fulfill service-level agreements (SLAs). Current challenges with performance testing. Dynatrace news.

Engineering 200

Engineering Testing Performance Performance Testing 200

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This site is already monitoring the demo Home page. Scanning the metrics table, I see that Last Painted Hero is 7.3s, aligning with what I see in the filmstrip. On the mobile agent I tested with, the size of the text element above the image is larger than my image. This is done in your site configuration in SpeedCurve.

Performance Testing 62

Performance Testing Testing Performance Mobile 62

Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2021

We have seen users who joined our preview program “speed up their release validation by 90%”. Many of our users are performance engineers using Cloud Automation Quality Gates to automate the analysis of their performance and load tests – saving hours of analysis time for each test they run.

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MachMetrics

JANUARY 23, 2020

You run a speed test on a website, and the results don’t match what you personally experience. Perhaps you feel like your site loads fairly quickly, but the speed test results are sub-optimal. It’s one of the most common (and frustrating) scenarios in web performance testing.

Speed 62

Speed Testing Website Cache 62

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?

Testing Tools 55

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2022

But, manual steps — such as reviewing test results and addressing production issues resulting from performance, resiliency, security, or functional issues — often hinder these efforts. Observability is the ability to measure a system’s current state based on the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces.

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DevOps Metrics Engineering Speed 218

Apica

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

With this shift in applications everywhere enterprises need to do their due diligence in performance testing complex modern applications at scale, often and at a lower cost to stay competitive. With this growth and added complexity, how are your legacy performance testing solutions keeping up?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2022

Black box load testing, where load gets generated against a system you don’t get any insights from while putting it under load, is unimaginable nowadays. Any testing that’s done without getting insights with an observability platform or monitoring solution ends up consuming too much time to analyze problems.

Testing 217

Testing Open Source Metrics Infrastructure 217

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The challenge with ASP.NET Web Service Observability, Diagnostics and Performance Optimization is that most monitoring & diagnostic tools only provide global Service Level Indicators metrics (SLIs) such as response time, failure rate, and throughput, but not metrics for each individual service endpoint.

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Performance Best Practices Architecture Monitoring 152

Apica

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Understanding the market and this massive growth in applications, having a modern performance testing platform will ensure you can test streaming, API-based, and XML-based applications including set-top boxes and game stations among other application types in DevOps friendly way. The short answer is that they aren’t.

Performance Testing 40

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The Dynatrace API is used to automate your monitoring tasks, export different types of data into your third-party reporting and analysis tools, and to integrate into workflow tools such as Jenkins. Environment interfaces include queries for topology, metrics, problems, and user sessions to name a few. Performance test is run.

Software 143

Software Software DevOps Open Source 143

Speed Curve

MARCH 3, 2024

Hearing about a company that devoted significant effort into optimizing their site, only to find their performance right back where it started a few months later, is all too familiar. The reality is that, as critical as site speed is, it’s also very easy to overlook. Guardrails and breadcrumbs need to work together.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Additionally, end users can access your site or applications from anywhere in the world using different browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, all with varying connection speeds. LoadView, our on-demand, cloud-based load and stress testing platform , takes an outside-in approach to performance testing.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? Google's Core Web Vitals are a set of metrics that are intended to focus on measuring performance from a user-experience perspective. 62 requests before the Largest Layout Shift (a CLS-related metric that SpeedCurve captures).

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

After a new build gets deployed and automated tests executed, SLIs are evaluated against their SLOs and, depending on that result, a build is considered good (promoted) or bad (rolled back). “ Firstly, start by installing the Dynatrace OneAgent on the hosts where you’ll be running your application test. SimpleNodeJsService.

Engineering 192

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 192

Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2021

Here are a few common metrics teams should track for every CD pipeline to help you evaluate its efficacy. CD depends on automated testing, and test pass rate helps you fine tune testing methods and improve the effectiveness of your developer feedback loop. Establish observability and continuous monitoring.

Best Practices 130

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Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

This gives us a relatively unique opportunity to analyse and aggregate performance metrics to gain some interesting insights. In this post, I'm going to analyse some browser-based paint timing metrics: First Paint & First Contentful Paint (defined in the Paint Timing spec and implemented in Chromium). Doing the analysis.

Metrics 49

Metrics Performance Testing Testing Internet 49

Dotcom-Montior

JANUARY 18, 2018

Why Companies Need Web Performance Monitoring Building a Successful Website Gaining success in the online world is not that simple. But beyond that, even more, important is speed and user experience. They anticipate websites and online applications to load at lightning speed.

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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. In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score. It’s no secret that speed has become a crucial factor in increasing revenue and lowering abandonment rates. Recommended! PageSpeed 5.0

Google 71

Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In this post, we'll: Highlight the differences between on-demand and scheduled testing Cover the various types of on-demand testing, including some of the more common use cases we've heard from SpeedCurve users Step you through running an on-demand test Let's goooooooo! What are the two types of tests within SpeedCurve?

Testing 74

Testing Benchmarking Performance Testing Metrics 74

Apica

DECEMBER 12, 2022

If you were on a desert island and forced to bring only one service level objective of a successful application, you would absolutely want to keep tracking user journeys, leaving the rest of the metrics behind. If that is true, what is stopping organizations from truly testing user journeys? Variability and complexity.

Testing 52

Testing DevOps Monitoring Media 52

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

For more than ten years, I've been writing about page bloat, its impact on site speed, and ultimately how it affects your users and your business. JavaScript – A page can have a relatively low JS weight but still suffer from JS-inflicted performance problems. The more scripts on your page, the greater the performance risk.

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

Build a performance culture that embraces collaboration between design and dev. Keep reading to learn how you can apply these best practices to your own site and give your pages a speed boost. At SpeedCurve we call these metrics "IX Time" and they're available on your LUX Performance dashboard.)

Performance 78

Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 78

Speed Curve

MARCH 12, 2023

Sites - We've rebuilt our Sites dashboard to give you a holistic look across all of the URLs you are monitoring. Pages - This detailed view gives you trended information for all the metrics you know and love. Easily identify areas of opportunity and how things are performing over time for specific pages you are monitoring.

Testing 52

Testing Metrics Monitoring Website 52

MachMetrics

MAY 31, 2019

These days everyone knows the importance of front-end site testing and has some basic tools in place to help them – but how do you know if your testing efforts are ideal? From speed testing to usability testing, use these ten strategies to ensure your website is always running on all cylinders.

Website 49

Website Testing Speed Website Performance 49

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 6, 2023

At a glance you can see: The status of the deploy The status of your performance budgets (if you have created budgets) An aggregate metric for all of the URLs tested in the deploy (set to Largest Contentful Paint by default) Clicking on any deployment in the list brings up your Deployment Details dashboard.

Cache 57

Cache Retail Testing Code 57

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Testing And Monitoring. Quick Wins.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Testing And Monitoring. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Table Of Contents. Setting Realistic Goals.

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Rigor

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

As web perfectionists, we have heard every excuse in the book for why teams cannot make web performance a priority. Whether it be time, money, or technical know how, every day we talk to eCommerce and Retail teams who explain why they aren’t monitoring their site’s performance. Sure, that can be the case. Conclusion.

Ecommerce 40

Ecommerce Retail Performance Benchmarking 40

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. Google Lighthouse is a great place to start for performance analysis.

Google 51

Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

What Is Web Performance? Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. The Relation Between Images And Web Performance. Fixes To Common Problems.

Media 105

Media Cache Website Mobile 105

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies. How to Restore MySQL Logical Backup at Maximum Speed. About ZFS Performance.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

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. When investigating the impact on your site look at all available metrics for any improvement.

Cache 91

Cache Games Performance Website 91

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

JavaScript’s effect on performance consists of download, parsing and the execution costs. How quickly the file is downloaded depends on the connection speed and the size of the file itself. We can then run code-splitting for bundles that get caught by the performance budget monitor. which lacks multiplexing.

Code 89

Code Performance Network Website 89

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. If you develop something then you own the lifecycle of that product, which means you would work with QA, DevOps to ensure it’s tested/deployed.

Architecture 52

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