Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Over the years, I have watched and written about online retail and e-commerce IT performance. Below is a Dynatrace honeycomb chart depicting the performance of the synthetics tests tracked by the Dynatrace Business Insights team. This had the effect of dramatically speeding up its performance and reducing support costs.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Here are some common questions I’m asked when I talk with people about performance: Which metrics should I care about? Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive dashboard that lets you explore and compare web performance data for leading websites across several industries – from retail to media. How fast should I be?

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Thanks to their simplicity and widespread support, GIF files remain wildly popular despite the dozens of other image and video formats available today. That said, GIFs can drag down a web page’s performance, especially if not optimized. Why Speed Up GIF Animations? Here are some alternatives to GIF to consider: 1.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. As organizations digitally transform, they’re also accelerating the speed of software delivery. But how do you get started, and what are some service level objective examples?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. Teams can build on these SLO examples to improve application performance and reliability. 54% deploy updates every two hours or less, and 20% deploy updates every minute or less.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Speed Curve

APRIL 3, 2022

Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive dashboard that lets you explore and compare web performance data for leading websites across several industries – from retail to media – over the past year. Largest Contentful Paint – When the largest element – usually image or video – in the viewport is rendered.

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Benchmarking Speed Retail Media 54

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Automatically Transforming And Optimizing Images And Videos On Your WordPress Website. Automatically Transforming And Optimizing Images And Videos On Your WordPress Website. Indeed, reducing the size of the images is exceptionally important in order to improve the performance of the site. Leonardo Losoviz.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. However, just as out-of-control spending bodes ill in the long run, so does unbudgeted digital media decimate site performance. Of the many factors that affect page-load speed, media is a significant one. Performance Budgets. “A

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2020

Synthetic monitors are also the perfect tool to monitor performance baselines. This clean-room, lab-like environment allows you to react to slight changes in performance. It also gives you the first indication of whether a new deployment of your application or API leads to a performance improvement or, perhaps, a regression.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

I love conversations about performance, and I'm fortunate enough to have them a lot. I hope this post can serve that purpose and cover a few of the fundamental areas of web performance that I’ve found to be most useful while honing the craft of product management. How is performance measured? The audience varies.

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 8, 2021

People often tell me they don't understand performance tool output because they can't tell what's "good" or "bad." It can be hard as performance is subjective. I recently encountered terrible disk performance and thought it'd be useful to collect Linux tool screenshots and share them for reference. I could hear it spin faster.

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Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Sustainability at AWS re:Invent 2022 -All the talks and videos I could find… Las Vegas MSG Sphere under construction next door to the Venetian Sands Expo Center — Photo by Adrian This blog post is long overdue — I spent too long trying to find time to watch all the videos, and finally gave up and listed a few below that I haven’t seen.

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Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. Background: How performance budgets work 1. What is a performance budget? What should a performance budget look like? Let's get started!

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Or even on a plane.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Performance budgets are one of those ideas that everyone gets behind conceptually, but then are challenged to put into practice – and for very good reason. If you're just getting started with performance budgets – or if you've been using them for a while and want to validate your work – this post is for you.

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Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2021

We have seen users who joined our preview program “speed up their release validation by 90%”. Many of our users are performance engineers using Cloud Automation Quality Gates to automate the analysis of their performance and load tests – saving hours of analysis time for each test they run. 03:24 – Pre-Requisites.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

What does this example have to do with software development and video encoding? Intel and Netflix announced their collaboration on a software video encoder implementation called SVT-AV1 on April 8, 2019. The first successful digital video standard was MPEG-2, which truly enabled digital transmission of video.

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Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Shopify Themes (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Shopify Themes (Case Study). Code evolves over time with more features, new or changing dependencies, or maybe a goal of performance improvements. Better performance across the board. Carson Shold. 2021-05-06T11:00:00+00:00.

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Performance Mobile Speed Code 89

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

But Google's prioritization of page speed in search ranking isn't new, even for mobile. Keep reading to find out: How much does web performance matter when it comes to SEO? Which performance metrics should you focus on for SEO? How can you track performance for SEO? Great performance isn't a substitute for poor content.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

by Liwei Guo , Ashwin Kumar Gopi Valliammal , Raymond Tam , Chris Pham , Agata Opalach , Weibo Ni AV1 is the first high-efficiency video codec format with a royalty-free license from Alliance of Open Media (AOMedia), made possible by wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and resources. Video encoding is essentially a search problem?—?the

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

New technologies like Xamarin or React Native are accelerating the speed at which organizations release new features and unlock market reach. How do I connect the dots between mobile analytics and performance monitoring? Optimize mobile app performance and maximize business impact. Dynatrace news.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Our purpose in building this integration is to lower the barrier for getting web performance feedback for your code changes, directly in the environment you are working in. Follow along below for an example of how you can use this integration in practice to fight web performance regressions and keep your pages fast.

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Rigor

JANUARY 8, 2020

Without a set plan in place, any new script can damage performance, affecting user experience, and, therefore, business KPIs. We noticed a few common misperceptions about web performance budgets that can impact their adoption and setting that we would like to address. Five Common Myths About Web Performance Budgets.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

So I thought it would be fun to spend some time poking around behind the scenes and give the site a holiday performance audit. Background For this performance audit, I looked at this synthetic test for the LEGO.com home page. (We The performance team is clearly doing a good job of fighting page bloat. Are images optimized?

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Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 67

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 6, 2022

They can also let the user easily see how good or bad the performance of their website is, showing you exactly what is slowing down your site. Users can also watch the actual URL loading video in the browser window. Element Performance : A user can reach the information of the performance of each element that exists in waterfall chart.

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Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. How did you get into performance engineering? At first, we were using LoadRunner, but we quickly moved to Performance Center. After a year I was put in charge of the Performance Center platform (9.52

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MachMetrics

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

When most people test their site speed, they test a single, static page. If your site utilizes a log in, a simple test may only give you a speed audit on how fast your site loads it’s log in form. Testing the speed of a checkout process. Or a page that’s protected behind a login? Now for the bad news.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. For this article, we will focus on the first three and the performance adjustments for these.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption , Xu et al., Does 5G improve the end-user experience for applications (web browsing, and 4K+ video streaming)? For UDP , the authors achieved 880 Mbps dowload and 130 Mbps upload speeds. Application performance.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Even if you resize your images to the exact specifications of your website and run them through a compressor, they can still put a strain on performance and run up bandwidth usage. Suzanne Scacca. 2019-10-29T12:30:59+02:00. 2019-10-29T13:36:09+00:00.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Read on to learn more about generative AI, causal AI, predictive AI, and how the AWS platform, alongside observability, promotes digital transformation, cloud modernization, and cloud migration without compromising application performance and security.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. Every web performance story is similar, isn’t it? A day when a project, fully polished and carefully optimized, gets launched, ranking high and soaring above performance scores in Lighthouse and WebPageTest. Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. When it comes to performance, you shouldn’t be stingy. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. However, some caveats regarding performance, scalability, and potential data conflicts exist.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

One question I’ve seen posed a few times in the past several months is whether performance really is a moral or ethical concern, or if that’s all heavy-handed exaggeration. When you stop to consider all the implications of poor performance, it’s hard not to come to the conclusion that poor performance is an ethical issue.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. Large preview ) We’ve known for a long time that fast page performance influences search engine rankings.

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