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.

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Metrics Performance Testing Testing Internet 49

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. Otherwise we wouldn’t see so many commercial tools built on the top of open source including BlazeMeter (it is ironic that the article is posted on the BlazeMeter site), Flood, and OctoPerf.

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Open Source Performance Testing Testing Performance 223

Testsigma

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The categories have been created according to when these tools are used. Test case management tools. A tester’s life moves around test cases and bugs. For management of test cases of different features the test case management tools are used. Test case generation tools.

Java 65

Java Testing Tools Performance Testing Testing 65

Testsigma

APRIL 17, 2020

The testers in a software development team will be understood better if they are able to convey the software testing information and insights properly. Below are 5 ways that testers can communicate software testing insights better: 1. Test execution reports for example.

Software 55

Software Software Testing DevOps 55

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Synthetic testing simulates real-user behaviors within an application or service to pinpoint potential problems. Here’s a look at why this testing matters, how it works, and what companies need to get the most from this approach. What is synthetic testing? RUM, meanwhile, requires actual users.

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Testing Best Practices Testing Tools Monitoring 208

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. Back/Forward Cache Testing Tool. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Cache Games Performance Website 91

Tim Kadlec

MARCH 10, 2015

As our understanding of performance on the web improves, we are starting to shift from the traditional metrics we’ve focused on. Things like load time and page weight are rightfully being given less focus as we move to more mature metrics like SpeedIndex that provide a better understanding of perceived performance.

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Metrics Mobile Testing Tools Testing 58

Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2022

Credits on content go to him and the work he has been doing around performance & resiliency testing automation. Our Application Performance Management (APM) and load test team at T-Systems MMS helps our customers reduce the risk of failed releases. Automation : Single load test executions can be repeated and tracked.

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Testing Open Source Metrics Infrastructure 218

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

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Monitoring Performance Website Ecommerce 40

Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2021

CD is the next step in the process that automates the delivery of applications to selected infrastructure environments, such as a development environment for a related feature, or testing environments to verify feature functionality and proper integration with other parts of the software. Testing quality improves. Test pass rate.

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Best Practices DevOps Open Source Cloud 130

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.

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Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 192

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Dynatrace has recently enhanced its Metrics APIs, allowing everyone to send any type of metric with any set of data dimension to Davis, Dynatrace’s AI engine. All your JMeter results in Dynatrace for better performance engineering. For some of these tests, he’s using the open source tool Apache JMeter.

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Innovation Metrics Hardware Games 154

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.

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Cloud Testing Infrastructure Testing Tools 52

Dynatrace

JULY 9, 2020

Gone are the days for Christian manually looking at dashboards and metrics after a new build got deployed into a testing or acceptance environment: Integrating Keptn into your existing DevOps tools such as GitLab is just a matter of an API call. A popular use case of Keptn is the SLI/SLO-based Quality Gate capability.

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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?

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Testing Testing Tools Servers Monitoring 45

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.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

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. For example, if you wanted to test ccn.com you would copy the following domains and paste it into the SPOF tab.

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. For example, if you wanted to test ccn.com you would copy the following domains and paste it into the SPOF tab.

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. For example, if you wanted to test ccn.com you would copy the following domains and paste it into the SPOF tab.

Website 40

Website Metrics Speed Testing 40

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;

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Transportation Cache Google Mobile 86

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

This explains the challenges involved in deploying and testing HTTP/3 yourself. In our own early tests , I found seriously diminishing returns at about 40 files. As if that wasn’t enough, another issue will make local testing more difficult: Chrome makes it very difficult for you to use self-signed TLS certificates for QUIC.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 105

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. The trend is your friend.

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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!

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Performance Testing Testing Performance Open Source 51

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft strongly recommends maintaining the default recovery interval to ensure optimal recovery metrics and to function cleanly within the current cluster resource constraints. SQLIOStress.exe The SQLIOStress test program (version 4.00.020 and later) contains special patterns to detect stale-read/lost-write problems quickly.

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Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Let’s take a look at two key indicators from our 2018 Dynatrace ACM Survey: MTTI (Mean Time to Innovate): How long does it take to push a new feature that is fully tested, ready to go to production, until end-users receive it? We’ll go over how to integrate Dynatrace with your load & performance testing tools (e.g.

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DevOps Software Software Best Practices 38

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. Table Of Contents.

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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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