Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Note : If you’re looking for a complete overview of best practices and tools, have a look at the Frontend performance checklist. Contrary to Lighthouse or WebPage Test, Waterfaller focuses on one thing alone — issues in the network waterfall. The number of included performance tests and checks is outstanding!

Cache 106

Cache Website Best Practices Network 106

SQL Performance

APRIL 13, 2020

Step 6: Testing. At its simplest, testing an index means taking the problematic query and capturing the plan and performance data (duration, IO, CPU, etc.), To begin with, I often have at least two variations of an index that I want to test, sometimes more. Finally, I compare the numbers. Step 7: Implementation.

Tuning 137

Tuning Cache Metrics Testing 137

Apica

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Along with that primary workflow of on-screen requests and responses, the journey also includes metrics that are directly experienced by users, such as response times, the frequency of interruptions, visual consistency, and accurate results. All of these aspects of a digital user journey should be tested by a person.

Retail 52

Retail Website Infrastructure Software Architecture 52

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. A Look at MyRocks Performance. And making lists. It’s a last line of defense.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Having Dynatrace also looking at key EFS metrics gives them additional root cause information in case something goes wrong. 2: Automate Quality aka “Performance as a Self-Service”. Integrate Monitoring with your Continuous Performance Testing practices by allowing everyone to request specific performance feedback as a self-service. #3:

AWS 127

AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 127

Dotcom-Montior

JANUARY 18, 2018

This year I’ve spent some time for collecting meaningful metrics during Black Friday sales of our leading Retailers websites. Detailed response returned from the web server during this issue. Error log returned from the Web Server. Consider Load & Performance Testing in your development process.

Retail 40

Retail Website Monitoring Servers 40

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. Can’t be perfect every time!

Speed 99

Speed Google Website Metrics 99

Dotcom-Montior

JANUARY 18, 2018

Top 5 Reasons Why Performance Monitoring is Useful There is no doubt that monitoring of web page load times is a must have for successful businesses. You can’t drive with closed eyes, and the same is true for performance monitoring. If you don’t keep many eyes on different metrics 24 / 7, odds are high that a disaster is imminent. #1

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Performance Website Ecommerce 40

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences. Real user monitoring (RUM) is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about users’ interactions with an application. What is synthetic monitoring?

Best Practices 170

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 170

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). “ Step-by-step guide: SRE-driven performance analysis with Dynatrace. This is what this blog is all about.

Engineering 188

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 188

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

He has also hosted the NY Web Performance Meetup, which boasts over 5,000 members, since 2009. Developers representing hundreds of companies work together at these meetups to become masters in performance metrics and the latest trends in measuring site speed.) The future of HTTP/2 server push. Maximiliano Firtman.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

From game development to machine learning projects to neural networks to automation testing- everything is on the cloud. If there are people who can lend you extraordinary infrastructures, tools, and high-performance servers, you should take advantage of them for the project. Geo-location testing – A huge plus point.

Cloud 52

Cloud Testing Infrastructure Testing Tools 52

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

They offer SSD-based cloud hosting with straightforward pricing as well starting at just $5/month , which makes it ideal (and affordable) for developers to build, test and deploy their new applications seamlessly in the cloud. What’s most impressive is that you’re not compromising performance for cost.

Azure 187

Azure AWS Latency Database 187

Testlodge

JULY 4, 2018

Stress testing gives a measure of the reliability of a software system. Stress testing reveals how long a system can remain stable without crashing under a heavy, stressful load. In other words, we can say that stress testing discovers the breakpoint where a system starts to become unreliable. Why Stress Testing?

Testing 45

Testing Testing Tools Servers Monitoring 45

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.

Performance 151

Performance Best Practices Architecture Monitoring 151

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Many people often confuse site speed with page speed grades of performance testing tools, which are actually calculated based on multiple factors of a page including its loading speed. The screenshot below explains that page load time and lighthouse performance scores are not the same, yet they are really close to each other.

Cache 78

Cache Speed Google Website 78

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

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). Finally, we’ll see which tools you can use to evaluate the performance impact of the new protocols (that’s the almost impossible part, at least for now). Server Sharding and Connection Coalescing.

Network 106

Network Servers Cache Traffic 106

Dean Hume

JULY 5, 2016

Without a doubt, WebPageTest is one of my favourite web performance testing tools. It's completely free to use and is such a powerful way to test your web pages from different locations all over the world. Tracking scripts, A/B testing and adverts are just a few of the many reasons why you would want to use a 3rd party library.

Website 40

Website Metrics Speed Testing 40

Dean Hume

JULY 5, 2016

Without a doubt, WebPageTest is one of my favourite web performance testing tools. It's completely free to use and is such a powerful way to test your web pages from different locations all over the world. Tracking scripts, A/B testing and adverts are just a few of the many reasons why you would want to use a 3rd party library.

Website 40

Website Metrics Speed Testing 40

Dean Hume

JULY 5, 2016

Without a doubt, WebPageTest is one of my favourite web performance testing tools. It's completely free to use and is such a powerful way to test your web pages from different locations all over the world. Tracking scripts, A/B testing and adverts are just a few of the many reasons why you would want to use a 3rd party library.

Website 40

Website Metrics Speed Testing 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. Solutions like Rigor can test for over 300 performance best practices.

Google 51

Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Much of my testing was on Linux 4.14.11 Some older kernels have the KAISER patches for Meltdown, and so far the performance overheads look similar. Also microbenchmarks, which often stress-test the system, will suffer the largest losses. I've since tested the 4.4.115 kernel and confirmed that pcid is used there.

Performance 75

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 75

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

JavaScript’s effect on performance consists of download, parsing and the execution costs. Like any file referenced and used on a website, it first needs to be downloaded from a server. We also need to build and test the component to avoid introducing potential issues. Large preview ).

Code 90

Code Performance Network Website 90

CSS - Tricks

MAY 3, 2021

Everything is there that always was, but more (like… Chrome User Experience Data pulled right into your Chrome test results so you can see how closely your test matches what Chrome is seeing, and Core Web visualizations right in the waterfall). So yes, WebPageTest is still here. It’s still free. Linux; Android 6.0.1;

Transportation 86

Transportation Cache Google Mobile 86

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. The Relation Between Images And Web Performance. This data makes it clear that there will be no good performance without well-optimized images. Key user-centric metrics often depend on the size, number, layout, and loading priority of images on the page.

Media 107

Media Cache Website Mobile 107

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Much of my testing was on Linux 4.14.11 Some older kernels have the KAISER patches for Meltdown, and so far the performance overheads look similar. Also microbenchmarks, which often stress-test the system, will suffer the largest losses. I've since tested the 4.4.115 kernel and confirmed that pcid is used there.

Performance 40

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

It can be measured based on real data from users visiting your sites ( field metric ) or in a lab environment ( lab metric ). In fact, several user-centric metrics are used to quantify web vitals. While most of the tools covered below only rely on field metrics, others use a mix of both field and lab metrics.

Performance 130

Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 130

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

CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 10, 2019

How can you test the performance of your users’ flow, when most of it happens client-side and does not have a specific URL to point to? Throughout this article, we are going to find out how to solve these problems (and many more), and you’ll be ready to test the performance of your Single Page Application with WebPageTest!

Performance Testing 51

Performance Testing Testing Performance Open Source 51

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Testing And Monitoring. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Testing And Monitoring. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Application Servers. Apache FTP server. Native desktop and server hosted clients that allow both interactive as well as hybrid sync access to the entire namespace. Tens of petabytes of data stored in our servers and other object stores such as GCS, S3 and Azure Blobstore. Egnyte Connect Tech Stack. Cloud Platform.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52