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. What is your business model?

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Open Source Performance Testing Testing Performance 223

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

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). “ The app description and supporting files such as load testing scripts are on the Keptn Example GitHub. This is what this blog is all about.

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Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 185

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. 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.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. And to ensure the quality of a product, we always need to test — on a number of devices, and in a number of conditions. What’s a representative device to test on in 2021? Driving Business Metrics.

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Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

Establishing clear, consistent, and effective quality gates that are automatically validated at each phase of the delivery pipeline is essential for improving software quality and speeding up delivery. Keptn integrates seamlessly with Jenkins and other deployment tools. Using quality gates for measurable impacts.

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Benchmarking Latency Speed Software 173

Dynatrace

MARCH 17, 2021

This increase in speed, alongside a more unified team utilizing a single source of truth to build trust, has enabled the business to benefit too; having the capability to adapt more dynamically to pricing changes, be more agile with new product offerings and follow the market more accurately and quicker than ever before.

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DevOps Media Metrics Technology 179

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

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Web pages are unbelievably complex, and there are hundreds of different metrics available to track. A performance budget is a threshold that you apply to the metrics you care about the most. This is when you run into three important questions: Which metrics should you focus on? Which metrics should you focus on?

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Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 133

Testsigma

JANUARY 22, 2021

In this post, we will analyze these challenges of mobile app testing and how we can manage them. Each one of them has its own set of challenges and testing methods. While performing the mobile app testing, we need to take care of specific challenges for each of them. One such tool is Testsigma.

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Mobile Testing Energy Operating System 74

Testsigma

AUGUST 24, 2020

Continuous Testing is the process of testing at all stages of software development – one after the another- without any human intervention. Continuous Testing is key to faster delivery of Agile products to the market. But the path to achieving Continuous Testing has its own challenges, most common of which are mentioned below.

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Testing Open Source Scalability Latency 69

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

As we’ve noticed, website performance, especially its speed and availability, are essential to the success of your business. High speed, on the other hand, improves your customers’ user experience, and results in an increased conversion rate and income. For this article, we ran a speed test for the TED website as the target website.

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Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

There are many key performance indicators (KPI) that measure different points during the lifecycle of the web page (such as TTFB, domInteractive and onload ), but these metrics don’t reflect how the end-user experiences the page. We found out user-centric performance metrics to be the perfect fit for this purpose. Large preview ).

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Website Google Metrics Testing Tools 107

Testsigma

JANUARY 6, 2022

So, we thought of sharing some tips and tricks with the testing community that is working from home, aiming to improve their working experience overall. Also, the integrations with tools such as JIRA, Microsoft Teams, Sharepoint etc. Tools such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Skype, etc. Maintain continuous team collaboration.

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Testing Internet Internet Testing Tools 52

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

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). What are paint timing metrics?

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Metrics Performance Testing Testing Internet 49

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. Testing And Monitoring. Prioritizing Metrics Online metrics are almost limitless. Table Of Contents.

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Engineering Google Website Analytics 132

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2020

As we’ve noticed, website performance, especially its speed and availability, are essential to the success of your business. High speed, on the other hand, improves your customers’ user experience, and results in an increased conversion rate and income. For this article, we ran a speed test for the TED website as the target website.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JULY 7, 2020

As we’ve noticed, website performance, especially its speed and availability, are essential to the success of your business. High speed, on the other hand, improves your customers’ user experience, and results in an increased conversion rate and income. For this article, we ran a speed test for the TED website as the target website.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

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.

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Java Testing Tools Performance Testing Testing 65

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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Performance Testing Testing Performance Games 40

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. In this post, I’m going to attempt to explain a bit more about what’s going on here and explain some of the nuances and misunderstandings of these tools.

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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 141

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?

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Google Cache Speed Analytics 103

Apica

OCTOBER 29, 2019

With this shift in applications everywhere enterprises need to do their due diligence in testing complex modern applications at scale, often and at a lower cost to stay competitive. 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

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

So noticeable, in fact, that Core Web Vitals has a metric all about it called Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). This metric measures the time it takes, in seconds, to render the largest image or text block that is visible on the initial load. We can test for LCP in a number of ways. WebPageTest waterfall timeline report.

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Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 74

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics Performance culture, Core Web Vitals, performance profiles, CrUX, Lighthouse, FID, TTI, CLS, devices. Testing And Monitoring Auditing workflow, proxy browsers, 404 page, GDPR cookie consent prompts, performance diagnostics CSS, accessibility. Quick Wins.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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 93

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The eye-tracking methodology can be extremely valuable for usability tests since it records the journey without interfering with the users’ natural behavior. Imagine, for example, that you test a prototype but discover that users are not interacting with the interface how they are supposed to. Mariana Macedo. 2021-10-27T10:00:00+00:00.

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Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 114

Tasktop

AUGUST 26, 2020

Systems and capabilities will be required to not only continue support for e-health interactions but also for logistics and deployment for vaccines and daily tests, as well as assisting programs for general health not related to the global virus. . Measuring the Value Stream with Flow Metrics. Digital Innovation is Here to Stay .

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Healthcare Automotive Logistics Metrics 64

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Testing And Monitoring. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Testing And Monitoring. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Table Of Contents. Assets Optimizations.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

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

Dotcom-Montior

JANUARY 18, 2018

But beyond that, even more, important is speed and user experience. They anticipate websites and online applications to load at lightning speed. Now, speed and user experience has been added to the mix. 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

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

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Many high-end disk subsystems provide high-speed cache facilities to reduce the latency of read and write operations. With the proper battery backup and algorithms, the hardware write cache can secure the data safely (on stable media) as well as increase the speed of an application like SQL Server by hiding much of the true physical I/O time.

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