Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2020

Over the last two month s, w e’ve monito red key sites and applications across industries that have been receiving surges in traffic , including government, health insurance, retail, banking, and media. Breaking d own performance across U.S. experienced significant performance degradations. Retail performance .

Website 211

Website Monitoring Retail Media 211

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.

Ecommerce 40

Ecommerce Retail Performance Benchmarking 40

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

Log analytics is useful for application performance monitoring in cloud, virtualized, and physical environments, including Kubernetes workloads, application security, and business analytics. Peak performance analysis. This is also known as root-cause analysis. Fault isolation. Indexing overhead. Poor root-cause analysis.

Analytics 211

Analytics Storage Retail Monitoring 211

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

That performance golden rule still holds true today. However, that pesky 20% on the back end can have a big impact on downstream metrics like First Contentful Paint (FCP), Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), and any other 'loading' metric you can think of. 80% of end-user response time is spent on the front end.

Servers 57

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

Dynatrace

APRIL 11, 2023

Today’s organizations face increasing pressure to keep their cloud-based applications performing and secure. As data from different corners of the enterprise proliferates, teams need a better way to bring data together to identify performance and security issues, minimize security risk, and drive greater business value.

Cloud 183

Cloud DevOps Open Source Retail 183

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

Log analytics is useful for application performance monitoring in cloud, virtualized, and physical environments, including Kubernetes workloads, application security, and business analytics. Peak performance analysis. This is also known as root-cause analysis. Fault isolation. Indexing overhead. Poor root-cause analysis.

Analytics 178

Analytics Storage Retail Monitoring 178

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the speed at which organizations digitally transform — especially in industries such as eCommerce and healthcare — as expectations for a great customer experience dramatically increased. This process reinvents existing processes, operations, customer services, and organizational culture.

Strategy 191

Strategy Artificial Intelligence Innovation Healthcare 191

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

we also: Launched a series of new and improved dashboards to help you identify and fix your performance issues more quickly and efficiently (More on those below.). Your Home dashboard brings together your Synthetic and RUM data to provide an easy-to-digest – and easy-to-share – snapshot of how your site is performing.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52

MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Target is one of the most well-known retailers around, and they’ve recently increased their focus on the e-commerce portion of their business – Target.com. In fact, they just cracked into the top 10 list of US e-commerce retailers. ” This is because Target.com does an excellent job of improving user-perceived speed.

Retail 82

Retail Speed Website Google 82

Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

When I first started learning about web page performance, I always use to focus solely on the time that it took a page to load. Whilst web page load time is an important metric to measure, it doesn't tell the whole picture. The Eggplant website does a great job of explaining clearly how Speed Index is calculated. "Each

Speed 40

Speed Analytics Google Retail 40

Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

When I first started learning about web page performance, I always use to focus solely on the time that it took a page to load. Whilst web page load time is an important metric to measure, it doesn't tell the whole picture. The Eggplant website does a great job of explaining clearly how Speed Index is calculated. "Each

Speed 40

Speed Analytics Google Retail 40

Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

When I first started learning about web page performance, I always use to focus solely on the time that it took a page to load. Whilst web page load time is an important metric to measure, it doesn't tell the whole picture. The NCC group website does a great job of explaining clearly how Speed Index is calculated. "Each

Speed 40

Speed Analytics Google Retail 40

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rachel Andrew.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The newcomer to the scene was Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), and, not surprisingly, it's the metric that's gotten the most questions. Does it correlate to user behaviour or business metrics in any measurable way? While I understand why score-based metrics add value, I'm a visual person. How is it calculated? is considered poor.

Retail 81

Retail Benchmarking Google Metrics 81

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? Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive dashboard that lets you explore and compare web performance data for leading websites across several industries – from retail to media.

Benchmarking 135

Benchmarking Speed Performance Media 135

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 11, 2019

That said, I’ve been looking at performance data for many years and have found myself on both sides of the debate about whether or not the practice of sampling performance data is inherently a good or bad idea. While I pride myself on the 'A' I received in my college statistics class, admittedly it was on a pretty steep curve.

Retail 59

Retail Traffic Media Metrics 59

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Some of the names include Amazon’s Luna, TikTok, Tinder, among many online retailers. Moreover, Garten-und-Freizeit, a German e-commerce store that sells furniture, saw an amazing improvement in their metrics after getting a PWA. This primarily regards its UXUI and speed, so a progressive web app can be a solution to consider.

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

Speed Curve

MAY 31, 2020

One of the huge benefits of tracking web performance over time is the ability to see trends and compare metrics. Understand which metrics got better or worse. Spot any new or unique requests – such as JavaScript and images – and see their impact on performance. Exciting stuff, right? But wait, there's more!

Metrics 62

Metrics Retail Benchmarking Testing 62

Rigor

MARCH 20, 2018

I recently was asked the following question by an online retailer: “Why should I invest in monitoring the user experience when I already have monitoring for our database, infrastructure, app server, and network?”. Or are you an eCommerce retailer?” They quickly understood my point. Need for Alignment Between IT and Business KPIs.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Retail Ecommerce Infrastructure 40

Speed Curve

MARCH 24, 2024

Tim's approach was to filter out the noise introduced by really fast response times that can be caused by leveraging the browser cache, prerendering, and other performance optimization techniques. For example, in SpeedCurve, prerendered pages will have a value of '0' for most metrics.

Performance 70

Performance Cache Metrics Retail 70

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"I made my pages faster, but my business and user engagement metrics didn't change. How can I demonstrate the business value of performance to people in my organization?" If you've ever asked yourself any of these questions, then you could find the answers in identifying and understanding the performance poverty line for your site.

Performance 119

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 119

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 98

Performance Metrics Media Google 98

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Timing entries can be retrieved using a Performance Observer, and the data can be forwarded to a RUM or analytics product: const observer = new PerformanceObserver((list) => { let entries = list.getEntries().forEach((entry) You can also create performance budgets and get alerts when they exceed their thresholds.

Metrics 141

Metrics Retail Mobile Analytics 141

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"I made my pages faster, but my business and user engagement metrics didn't change. How can I demonstrate the business value of performance to people in my organization?" If you've ever asked yourself any of these questions, then you could find the answers in identifying and understanding the performance plateau for your site.

Performance 52

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 52

Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

Real user monitoring (RUM) is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about a user’s interaction with an application. Real user monitoring collects data on a variety of metrics. For example, data collected on load actions can include navigation start, request start, and speed index metrics.

Monitoring 176

Monitoring Latency Mobile Best Practices 176

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. The nightmare scenario for online retailers during peak periods, such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday, is a system crash.

Infrastructure 179

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 179

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

If you've been working in the performance space for a while and you hear me start to talk about page growth, I'd forgive you if you started running away. ;). How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? I've been writing about page size and complexity for years. How does page bloat hurt your business?

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Andy joined us in June , and since then he's already helped countless customers in his role as in-house performance consultant. We've been tracking these as individual metrics – Largest Contentful Paint, First Input Delay, and Cumulative Layout Shift – since before Google branded them as a set. RUM Live dashboard.

Retail 52

Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 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. HTML – Typically the smallest resource on the page, HTML's performance risk is usually negligible. More on that later.) The more scripts on your page, the greater the risk.

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

Let's take an example of retail as a domain of interest. One way to create a Spotify model inspired engineering organisation is to organise long-lived squads by retail business process hubs - i.e. specialisation around business process. It is one of the ways you can organise your engineering teams in a retail environment.

Engineering 61

Engineering Retail Airlines Healthcare 61

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 6, 2023

We wanted to wait until the dust settled around Black Friday/Cyber Monday for all of our friends in retail, which led to a pretty monumental release.) The goal is to make it more clear that this is where to see the status of all your performance budgets at a glance. we just shipped a ton of stuff! (We More on that soon! What's next?

Cache 57

Cache Retail Testing Code 57

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

That’s a bit alarming, because the Flow Metrics of several Fortune 100 companies now practicing value stream management (VSM ) in their software portfolios have revealed an acute resource scarcity in QA. Speed without quality creates re-work that actually negatively impacts time-to-market. “In Real-time Flow Metrics with Tasktop Viz.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Retail Metrics Innovation 52

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Individual pages can be spot checked via the CrUX API or tools such as Page Speed Insights But as Cliff's already covered in How to find (and fix!) My favourite place to start is with the Web Vitals heatmap on SpeedCurve's RUM > Performance dashboard. Switching to the DevTools Performance panel 3.

Analytics 92

Analytics Processing Google Mobile 92

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

That’s a bit alarming, because the Flow Metrics of several Fortune 100 companies now practicing value stream management (VSM ) in their software portfolios have revealed an acute resource scarcity in QA. Speed without quality creates re-work that actually negatively impacts time-to-market. “In Real-time Flow Metrics with Tasktop Viz.

Healthcare 40

Healthcare Retail Metrics Innovation 40

KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

Running speed tests with tools like Google PageSpeed Insights , WebPageTest , or KeyCDN’s Website Speed Test are always a good way to help gauge your website’s performance. While these metrics can be very helpful it is also important to keep this data in perspective. Why Care About Page Speed?

Google 103

Google Cache Speed Analytics 103

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2019

One recent public example is Zalando, a German retailer. For years, Dynatrace has helped companies across the world with our Real User Monitoring and Synthetic Monitoring solutions for managing application performance. Apdex is an industry standard that has existed since the early days of Web Performance Optimization (WPO).

Retail 26

Retail Mobile Internet Internet 26