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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

RUM gathers information on a variety of performance metrics. Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed). Real user monitoring limitations.

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HTTP/3: Practical Deployment Options (Part 3)

Smashing Magazine

Note that there is an Apache Traffic Server implementation, though.). However, to the firewall, this will look as if a new connection is being used without first using a handshake, which might just as well be an attacker sending malicious traffic. Support is unclear at this time. Nothing has been announced.

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HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2)

Smashing Magazine

For web-page loading, this slow-start approach can also affect metrics such as the first contentful paint, because only a small amount of data (tens of to a few hundred KB) can be transferred in the first few round trips. You might have heard the recommendation to keep your critical data to smaller than 14 KB.). Did You Know?