Speed Curve

JUNE 18, 2019

Raise your hand if you've ever poured countless hours into making a fast website, only to have it slowly degrade over time. At some point you'll be given permission to "focus on performance" and after many more hours, the website will be fast again. The secret to a faster website? Performance as acceptance criteria.

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Performance Testing Testing Performance Cache 49

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 29, 2021

Raygun is an error and performance monitoring software for websites and mobile apps. In the case of websites, you install their JavaScript snippet onto your site, which takes 2 seconds, and now you’ve got monitoring in place. This is Real User Monitoring (RUM). Useful, but fake. Crash Reporting.

Monitoring 90

Monitoring Website Mobile Performance Testing 90

CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 10, 2019

WebPageTest is an online tool and an Open Source project to help developers audit the performance of their websites. As a Web Performance Evangelist at Theodo , I use it every single day. How can you test the performance of your users’ flow, when most of it happens client-side and does not have a specific URL to point to?

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Performance Testing Testing Performance Open Source 51

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

You’ve likely uttered the phrases “test early and often” and “shift left,” but do you always remind yourself of the importance of that phrase from the end user’s perspective? LoadView, our on-demand, cloud-based load and stress testing platform , takes an outside-in approach to performance testing.

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Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

Testsigma

MAY 26, 2021

In today’s world where ‘data is the new oil’ ( as said by Clive Humby), not giving proper attention to data-driven testing is not justified. If you have an application that needs data input in some form then it will require data-driven testing. The steps will be: Create and store the test data in a data repository.

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Testing Healthcare Performance Testing Website 70

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 19, 2017

Let’s face it - the ideal load test emulates real world traffic, yet most load testing software doesn't come close. A series of GET requests from an in-house server can't possibly replicate what actually happens when a website sees a sudden increase in users from all over the world.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Testing Performance Traffic 40

MachMetrics

MAY 31, 2019

These days everyone knows the importance of front-end site testing and has some basic tools in place to help them – but how do you know if your testing efforts are ideal? From speed testing to usability testing, use these ten strategies to ensure your website is always running on all cylinders.

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Website Testing Speed Website Performance 49

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. Can’t be perfect every time!

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Speed Curve

MARCH 12, 2023

Coming off of the back of our latest RUM Compare dashboard release, we are super excited to launch four new dashboards to make your life better, your work easier, and your websites faster. Sites - We've rebuilt our Sites dashboard to give you a holistic look across all of the URLs you are monitoring. Home - Well, now you have one.

Testing 52

Testing Metrics Monitoring Website 52

Testlodge

JANUARY 26, 2022

Non-functional testing focuses on user expectations, whereas functional testing is to do with user requirements. Non-functional testing examines how a system operates rather than looking at specific functions or behaviors. Why is Non-Functional Testing necessary? Both functional and non-functional tests are essential.

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Testing Open Source Testing Tools Programming 74

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

You can watch the recording of my Online Kubernetes Meetup on YouTube (embedded below), watch the recording of DevOps Fusion on their website as well as access the slides on my Slideshare : Since the talk, I made a few adjustments based on feedback and plan on giving an updated version at upcoming events including our own Dynatrace Go!

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DevOps Metrics Innovation Azure 246

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Testing for mishaps you can predict is essential. Chaos engineering is a method of testing distributed software that deliberately introduces failure and faulty scenarios to verify its resilience in the face of random disruptions. Practitioners subject software to a controlled, simulated crisis to test for unstable behavior.

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Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 225

Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

If you’ve been performing on-premise testing in your organization, you know the rules already. But for the uninitiated, on-premise testing is a form of testing where testers perform tests on local machines, systems, or devices set up at an office. On-premise testing comes with a lot of responsibility.

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Cloud Testing Storage DevOps 57

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 19, 2017

Let’s face it – the ideal load test emulates real world traffic, yet most load testing software doesn’t come close. A series of GET requests from an in-house server can’t possibly replicate what actually happens when a website sees a sudden increase in users from all over the world. Setting Up the Test.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Testing Performance Virtualization 40

Dotcom-Montior

JANUARY 18, 2018

Retailers Still Fail to Prepare Websites for Holiday Shoppers Monitoring of Retailer’s Websites during Black Friday holiday shopping. This year I’ve spent some time for collecting meaningful metrics during Black Friday sales of our leading Retailers websites. The Setup. Real browser-based simulation with Chrome.

Retail 40

Retail Website Monitoring Servers 40

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. Most of us believe that content and popularity of websites are the only factors, which are responsible for the success of our sites. People who spend time online have high expectations.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Performance Website Ecommerce 40

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

Testsigma

MARCH 12, 2021

Consequently, there has also been an increase in the range of channels or media through which these websites are accessed. When we speak about the medium, we talk about the variety of devices (desktop and handheld), the different types of browsers that the users use to access these websites, etc. efficiently. Let’s consider a scenario.

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Testing Tools Testing Website Media 52

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

According to IEEE Std 829-1998, Software Testing is defined as “the process of analyzing a software item to detect the differences between existing and required conditions (i.e. ” With the advent of new technologies and new software being released every day, software testing is gaining more strength and accolades.

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Software Software Testing Scalability 69

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

After every experiment run Akamas changes application, runtime, database or cloud configuration based on monitoring data it captured during the previous experiment run. A full list of currently-released Akamas Optimization Packs can be found on our website. or do you pull different percentiles? via Cloud APIs or plain simple SSH).

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Performance Java Metrics Cloud 185

Testlodge

JULY 4, 2018

Stress testing gives a measure of the reliability of a software system. Stress testing reveals how long a system can remain stable without crashing under a heavy, stressful load. In other words, we can say that stress testing discovers the breakpoint where a system starts to become unreliable. Why Stress Testing?

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 27, 2019

When you are delivering a web-based or mobile-based software in the competitive market, you need to ensure your website functions smoothly on every type of environment as intended. We do ‘ Cross Browser Testing ’ to meet the end user expectations across different web browsers. What is Cross Browser Testing? But which is better?

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Testing Testing Tools Operating System Mobile 54

CSS - Tricks

JULY 2, 2020

People use it for stuff like taking a screenshot of a website or running integration tests. not based on real-users) performance tests, like some of these new Web Core Vitals. Addy Osmani lists out a bunch of these “recipes” for measuring certain performance things in Puppeteer. Did the unit tests pass?

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Performance Lambda Metrics Website 87

Testsigma

JUNE 26, 2021

MarketQuest (2021) predicts automation testing to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 9.8% That brings us to the crux of our conversation — codeless test automation. In the past, it was always important for testers to learn to code and keep updating their skills for performing automation tests.

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Testing Testing Tools Automotive Scalability 57

Apica

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Nor is it encompassed by a website or marketing materials. A typical user journey would include all the actions in a typical human user’s session using a website or application – the screens they are presented with, what objects they click on, and what screens and data payloads are returned.

Retail 52

Retail Website Infrastructure Software Architecture 52

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Rich Howard is the founder and CEO of Optimal , a company dedicated to improving the performance of websites and mobile apps. Performance testing. When working on a project for the Man Booker Prize in 2007 (now known as the Booker Prize), Howard saw first-hand how a heavy-load day could impact a website.

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Performance Traffic Website Performance Testing 68

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. The Smashing team has done a lot to make a fast website, so even a fresh load (though this experiment may not be a completely fresh load if you came to this article from the home page). Now close the tab.

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Cache Games Performance Website 91

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Load Testing: HTTP vs Headless vs Real Browser. Therefore, performance testing has become a fundamental part of the development chain and the demand is still growing. Performance testing platforms provide a broad range of load simulation methods such as HTTP, headless, and real browser-based. Comparison.

Testing 40

Testing Performance Testing Servers Programming 40

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.

Testing 40

Testing Benchmarking Speed Website 40

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

You can see this by looking at the synthetic test result for Sears.com (again, available via our Industry Benchmarks ). In this recent test run from our Industry Page Speed Benchmarks , you can see that the Amazon home page ranks fastest in terms of Start Render. We need to monitor our pages consistently over time. Takeaways.

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Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Testlodge

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Load testing is a form of non-functional testing that is carried out to understand the behaviour of an application under a specific user load. Why Load Testing? It was revealed that their application wasn’t good enough to accept the larger than usual number of users who tried to access their website during the deal time.

Testing 51

Testing Testing Tools Servers Network 51

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

The critical rendering path is the set of steps browsers must take to convert HTML, CSS and JavaScript into living, breathing websites. To optimize for performance, you need to understand what happens in the steps between receiving the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript bytes and the processing that's required to turn them into rendered pixels.

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 78

Speed Curve

AUGUST 8, 2018

One of the longest-standing items on my performance monitoring tool wishlist is an automatically-generated performance improvement checklist , with the improvements ordered by the impact that they will have on the website. LUX is SpeedCurve's Real User Monitoring (RUM) product. Why we created the Improve dashboard.

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Performance Website Performance Website Google 45

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. How Lighthouse calculates the Performance Score. During performance tests, Lighthouse records many metrics focused on what a user sees and experiences. Monitoring Time to Interactive. Recommended!

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Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

It has never been easier to build a personalized website, digitalize a product and start seeing results. What Is Web Performance? Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. The Relation Between Images And Web Performance.

Media 105

Media Cache Website Mobile 105

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study). Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study). Plan For Performance And Measure Performance. Add Performance Checks To Your Quality Gate. Add Automated Tests. ESLint ,” official website.

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Website Code Servers Analytics 113

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

The post Load Testing: HTTP vs Headless vs Real Browser appeared first on Dotcom-Monitor Web Performance Blog. An outline of the main aspects of load simulation methods such as HTTP, headless, and real browser-based followed by a comparison matrix, to help you choose an appropriate simulation approach.

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