Speed Curve

JULY 10, 2023

Demonstrating the impact of performance on your users – and on your business – is one of the best ways to get your company to care about the speed of your site. How to track conversions in SpeedCurve Using conversion data with performance data for maximum benefit Conversion tracking and user privacy What is a conversion?

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Performance Metrics Traffic Speed 52

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

The metrics that comprise Web Vitals are still evolving. These metrics will (I think) always be in a state of evolution. We need to do our best to stay up to date – not just with which metrics to track, but also with what they measure and why they're important. Which performance metrics should you focus on for SEO?

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Performance Google Metrics Mobile 96

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. On Thursday of that week, traffic increased to 153,000 sessions. .

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Website Monitoring Retail Media 211

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Earlier this year, Google announced that Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is no longer an experimental metric. Now that INP has arrived to dethrone FID as the responsiveness metric in Core Web Vitals, we've turned our eye to scrutinizing its effectiveness. When it comes to new performance metrics, it's easy to jump on bandwagons.

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Google Traffic Ecommerce Metrics 110

Speed Curve

MARCH 11, 2024

After years of development and testing, Google has added Interaction to Next Paint (INP) to its trifecta of Core Web Vitals – the performance metrics that are a key ingredient in its search ranking algorithm. INP replaces First Input Delay (FID) as the Vitals responsiveness metric. This is what the INP metric assesses."

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Mobile Google Metrics Monitoring 82

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? Experiencing database performance issues?

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Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

When your website isn’t performing optimally, you risk not only your revenue but also your reputation as a trusted resource. Additionally, teams are measuring and tracking key business metrics – conversion rates, cart abandonment rates, customer lifetime value, revenue by traffic source, and so on.

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Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

It's being reposted here for completeness, but if you care about web performance, make sure to check out the whole series and get subscribed to the RSS feed to avoid missing any of next year's posts. The predominant answer: a unified theory of web performance. What, in particular, is "web performance"? How do we do it?

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Performance Latency Architecture Network 104

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In contrast, a server application runs on servers which are typically identical and a routing abstraction can serve sampled traffic to new versions. Application version adoption over time for a staged rollout This chart represents a counter metric, which exhibits version adoption over the duration of a staged rollout.

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Metrics Mobile Testing Strategy 197

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.

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

As an ad publisher, your revenue depends on two main factors: traffic to your site and ad optimization. A lot of the focus goes into the practice and processes of driving traffic to your site from an SEO perspective, but what if when visitors get to your site, they have a less than ideal experience? Find Your Performance Baseline.

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Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

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.

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Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52

Speed Curve

APRIL 30, 2024

However, as a general time-based metric, INP didn't leave a lot of hints as to the source of the problem. This is still a viable option for all non-Chromium browsers – which, to be clear, is probably more than half of your traffic! Developers are left to their own devices to troubleshoot performance on iOS devices.

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Google Metrics Traffic Mobile 67

Speed Curve

JULY 26, 2022

RUM: Performance heat maps. Fixing high-traffic but poorly performing areas of your site will improve your overall metrics – and create a faster, better experience for more of your users. You can then prioritize and focus on these areas to improve important metrics like Largest Contentful Paint. Suggestions?

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Testing Performance Metrics Traffic 52

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?

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Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Sometimes it’s easy enough to find the answer to that question and the site just needs to invest in performance. Sometimes though, it’s a little trickier and, despite thinking your site was great on the performance for some reason it still fails. And the “contentful” part of the name shows this metric is intended to ignore (e.g.

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Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

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.

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Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Fighting regressions should be the top priority of anyone who cares about the speed of their site. The best way to fight regressions is to create performance budgets on key metrics, and get alerted when they go out of bounds. READ: A Complete Guide to Performance Budgets ––––– 2.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 17, 2018

As a result, any time-based metrics we capture can have variations as those tubes wobble a bit as we shove data down them. All that variation can make it difficult to see if your metrics are getting better or worse over time. Highlight trends in your metrics. Keep a watchful eye on third-party metrics.

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Metrics Internet Internet Traffic 45

High Scalability

JUNE 4, 2019

PerfOps is a data platform that digests real-time performance data for CDN and DNS providers as measured by real users worldwide. Get visibility into your production issues without juggling multiple tabs and different services -- all of your logs, server metrics and alerts are in your browser and at your fingertips. Learn more today.

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Java Metrics Software Engineering Traffic 116

Apica

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

With the continued growth of applications being used in and out of an organization, getting a firm grasp on the performance of these devices and its impact on your IT environment is important. With this growth and added complexity, how are your legacy performance testing solutions keeping up? The short answer is that they aren’t.

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Performance Testing Testing Performance Games 40

Speed Curve

MAY 29, 2022

Traffic size. We see a large variety of sites at SpeedCurve, representing an assortment of countries, industry segments, traffic levels and more. Traffic fluctuates based on the hour of the day, day of the week, and due to seasonality. Not all metrics are created equal and I try to avoid picking favorites. Key findings.

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Traffic Metrics Monitoring Performance 52

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

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Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

Apica

OCTOBER 29, 2019

With the continued growth of applications being used in and out of an organization, getting a firm grasp on the performance of these devices and its impact on your environment is important. Legacy performance testing platforms have their place and are still required to ensure past investments can be monitored.

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Performance Testing Testing Performance Software 40

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Your customers demand optimal performance, whether they’re the only user or one of a thousand. 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. Identifying performance bottlenecks.

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Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

Speed Curve

JANUARY 17, 2022

There are several components on this dashboard, which all automatically refresh to give you the most current look at user performance. Here you'll find a high-level overview for your site over the most recent time period, so you can see basic usage metrics at a glance. Geographic performance. User Happiness and Core Web Vitals.

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Metrics Traffic Website Performance 62

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.

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Speed Google Website Metrics 97

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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Monitoring Performance Website Ecommerce 40

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2017

And how do you know what to leave out in order to present a clear case for performance? Engagement charts give you a histogram view of all your user traffic, broken out into cohorts based on start render and load time. This lets you see at a glance the relationship between page speed and user engagement. Why you need them.

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Performance Traffic Metrics Speed 42

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. Win, win, win.

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Engineering Google Website Analytics 130

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

We love the idea of having a lean, shared set of metrics that we can all rally around – not to mention having a broader conversation about web performance that includes teams throughout an organization. Suggestions for how you can look at FID in relation to your other key metrics. We call these "interaction (IX) metrics".

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Metrics Entertainment Google Monitoring 109

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Geoff Graham 2023-08-10T08:00:00+00:00 2023-08-10T12:35:05+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear There is no shortage of ways to measure the speed of a webpage. Not the best way to get a high-level view of performance.

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Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

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. How distributed is your traffic? Are you only interested in a specific type of traffic?

Retail 59

Retail Traffic Media Metrics 59

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google do strongly encourage you to focus on site speed for better performance in Search, but, if you don’t pass all relevant Core Web Vitals (and the applicable factors from the Page Experience report) they will not push you down the rankings. While Core Web Vitals can help with SEO, there’s so much more to site-speed than that.

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Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. Certain service-level objective examples can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. But the pressure on CIOs to innovate faster comes at a cost.

Traffic 173

Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. Certain SLOs can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. But how do you get started, and what are some service level objective examples?

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Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 174

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The data we get from real user monitoring (RUM) is extremely useful when trying to get a grasp on performance. Not only does it serve as the source of truth for your most important budgets and KPIs, it help us understand that performance is a broad distribution that encompasses many different cohorts of users. Investigate anomalies.

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Traffic Monitoring Metrics Performance 52