Speed Curve

JUNE 18, 2019

So where in a CI/CD pipeline do we put performance testing? The easy answer is: right after a change is deployed to an integration or testing environment. Typically, performance testing should happen at the same time as integration and acceptance testing. Network latency will affect performance testing.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

While the agile approach is focused on implementing small, iterative tests throughout the development and testing phases, the primary goal should be to deliver a world-class, consistent user experience. Your customers demand optimal performance, whether they’re the only user or one of a thousand.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

To test the hypothesis, chaos engineers orchestrate simulated uncertainty combined with load testing and watch for signs of upheaval in the services, infrastructure, networks, and devices that deliver the application. The greater the scope of the test, the more useful chaos engineering becomes. Blast radius.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 28, 2020

Our Dedicated Hosting plans are all-inclusive, including all machine, disk, and network costs, as well as 24/7 support. These plans are fully managed for you across any of these cloud providers, and comes with a comprehensive console to automate all of your database management, monitoring and maintenance tasks in the cloud. Learn more.

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Apica

JULY 18, 2022

Now, more than ever, we’ve been making headlines in the application performance space as we expand our horizons and challenge ideas about what application monitoring really means. . The Apica active monitoring platform has been included in the latest Digital Experience Monitoring Guide from Gartner.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

As businesses compete for customer loyalty, it’s critical to understand the difference between real-user monitoring and synthetic user monitoring. These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 12, 2023

Sites - We've rebuilt our Sites dashboard to give you a holistic look across all of the URLs you are monitoring. Easily identify areas of opportunity and how things are performing over time for specific pages you are monitoring. Tests - We've had a lot of requests for this, so we're happy to deliver it. Let's take a look!

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Testlodge

JANUARY 26, 2022

There are many types of non-functional tests, and their particular significance will depend upon the project. . Security testing – Testing that aims to reveal vulnerabilities that could potentially be open to abuse. A Cybersecurity team will often perform these tests. Performance Testing Tools.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2019

We’re happy to announce the launch of Dynatrace Synthetic private browser monitors! We continue to grow our public synthetic monitoring locations, but customers using Dynatrace Synthetic still need to monitor the performance and availability of internal web applications. How do I set up private browser monitoring?

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Apica

MAY 10, 2019

The spread of where consumers want to consume content, at home, at the office, at the gym, on a plane, at any time where there is connectivity, puts significant pressure on the network and performance monitoring teams for streaming brands. Apica’s scale is enterprise-grade.

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. Over the past couple of years, it has become the go-to free performance analysis tool. How Lighthouse calculates the Performance Score. There are six metrics used to create the overall performance score.

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Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

Apica

OCTOBER 17, 2022

There’s nothing wrong with wanting the reassurance of good old-fashioned human-based user acceptance testing (UAT). Indeed, there was a time when applications were vertical stacks of software atop networks and servers wholly owned by the company. The Intellyx Take. Quality user journeys are at a genuine crossroads.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product. Jim also joined the database performance team.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 13, 2021

Hence, it is always best to employ a switch-and-bait system of testing, allowing for a new pair of eyes to systematically test the features. Staggered Rollout : Consider adopting a staggered rollout plan to allow for adequate testing and monitoring. Performance testing to ascertain the efficiency of the application 6.

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Mobile Strategy Testing Efficiency 54

Speed Curve

MAY 31, 2014

As of the 1st of June SpeedCurve has switched to using faster testing agents at Amazon EC2 data centers. As web pages become more Javascript and resource heavy I've noticed more and more pages max out the CPU while performance testing. medium instances which have 3.75GB of RAM with faster CPU and network performance.

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Testing Benchmarking Speed Website 40

Rigor

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Running performance tests on desktop versions of your website won’t give you insight into how your mobile site is performing. You need network throttling for that. You know that your website performance is lagging but you don’t know where to start. Know about outages before you hear about them on Twitter.

Retail 40

Retail Ecommerce Website Performance Mobile 40

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. Additionally, the Back/Forward Cache is an in-memory cache. The HTTP Cache is a disk cache.

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Cache Games Performance Website 93

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

And when discussing the two types of data, we’re actually talking about what is called real-user monitoring , or RUM for short. For example, the data is pretty slow to update, refreshing every 28 days, meaning it is not the same as real-time monitoring. Type 1: Observed Data Observed data is performance as the browser sees it.

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Testlodge

DECEMBER 4, 2017

A load test is done by simulating the real time user load on the application under test, and this determines how the application responds when multiple users hit the server simultaneously and it reveals the application’s response time, CPU and memory usage, network and bandwidth usage. Why Load Testing? Run time settings.

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Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

If you’re reading this, you likely already know the magnitude of operational tasks associated with maintaining a production deployment, but for a quick recap, there’s provisioning, deprovisioning, master-slave configurations, backups, scaling, upgrades, log rotations, OS patching, and monitoring to name a few. Azure Virtual Networks.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 24, 2022

At Netflix the term “performance” usually encompasses both performance metrics (in the strict meaning) and memory metrics, and that’s how we’re using the term here. Why do we run Performance Tests on commits? What are the Performance Tests? so are power levels and network bandwidth.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 19, 2017

Today we’ll be reviewing LoadView , an on-demand load-testing platform from Dotcom-Monitor that makes realistic load testing possible without an up-front investment in hardware or software infrastructure. Dotcom-Monitor supplies plenty of tooltips to walk you through each option.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

After the jobs are created, it monitors their execution progress. A new wire protocol provided by Titus Job Coordinator allows monitoring of the cache consistency level and guarantees that clients always receive the latest data version. The cache is kept in sync with the current leader process.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

The first version of our logger library optimized for storage by deduplicating facts and optimized for network i/o using different compression methods for each fact. Then we started hitting roadblocks while optimizing the query performance. How do we monitor the quality of data? Pay the storage, network, and compute cost.

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Apica

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Most software delivery teams are already adopting automated tools and DevOps methodologies for shifting unit, functional, regression and performance testing left as far as they can in the software pipeline. Understanding customers starts with active user monitoring of on-screen actions and session data.

Testing 52

Testing DevOps Monitoring Media 52

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. ;). All the fancy performance monitoring tools in the world can't help you if you don't have a strong performance culture at your organization. Fight regression.

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Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Apica

APRIL 27, 2020

In today’s fast-paced, always-on, and available environments, having the right performance monitoring solution for mission-critical applications requires more. We have helped many customers migrate from solutions like SiteScope to ensure their new and more application-focused monitoring needs are met.

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Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

Those businesses perhaps have more awareness of the importance of performance optimization, along with the resources to monitor and tackle performance issues. Having said all that, making your pages as small as possible is in the best interest of your users who don't have access to fast networks and devices.

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

One free tool has become prominent in the space – Google Lighthouse – and one question often bubbles up: “I use Google Lighthouse for one-off snapshots of my site’s performance, so why do I need a performance monitoring solution?” Google Lighthouse is a great place to start for performance analysis.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This problem is more apparent on unreliable and slow networks and lower-end devices. Users can browse the Internet using slow and unreliable networks, so minification, optimization, and code-splitting of JavaScript files ensure that the user downloads the smallest file possible. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Examples of Dynamic Testing- Unit testing, System testing, Integration testing, Performance testing, Security testing. Based on the methodology or approach, testing techniques can be classified as below: Black Box Testing. Types of Non-Functional testing. Hence, the ROI is low.

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Software Software Testing Scalability 69

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. The Relation Between Images And Web Performance. And while optimizing images is a must in any application, in the Jamstack ecosystem, it is even more paramount, considering that one of the main goals of the Jamstack architecture is to improve web performance.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 108

CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 10, 2019

If I enter my dashboard URL into [link] , the audit will be performed against the login page. Moreover, testing and monitoring the performance of dynamic interactions in SPAs cannot be achieved with simple WebPageTest audits. WebPageTest allows us to select which location, browser and network conditions the test will use.

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MachMetrics

JANUARY 23, 2020

You may even have a client who’s wondering why they’re getting inconsistent results on tests they’ve run on a site you built for them. It’s one of the most common (and frustrating) scenarios in web performance testing. The advantage of continuous monitoring is being able to see the results over time.

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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. Testing And Monitoring. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Assets Optimizations.

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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. Testing And Monitoring. Quantity-based metrics measure the number of requests, weight and a performance score. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. If you develop something then you own the lifecycle of that product, which means you would work with QA, DevOps to ensure it’s tested/deployed. Document store.

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