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Google recently announced the launch of their Speed Update. This change to how Google ranks websites for searches will now take mobile page speed into account in its ranking algorithm. While the Speed Update won’t be in effect until July 2018, there are steps that companies can take now to make sure they are not penalized. Google won’t notify you if your ranking is dinged by mobile speed, but you will see the impact in your Google Search Console and your traffic. MORE
To keep inline with browser trends and average connection speeds SpeedCurve will begin updating the test setting every quarter. For Q2 2014 we're switching to IE11 which is now the most popular version of IE according to Akamai and StatsCounter and the average connection speed has been updated to 9.8Mbps download, 2.5Mbps upload with a 10ms latency. The 9.8Mbps download speed is based on the latest State of the Internet report from Akamai MORE
If you’re looking to read optimization ideas from one of the greatest minds in speed performance, look no further. If these rules can be applied to improving speeds at Yahoo! High Performance Images: Shrink, Load, and Deliver Images for Speed. Speed Optimization Tips MORE
Speed Index is now available on SpeedCurve. Speed Index is an important measure of a user's experience as the page loads. Here's a great video from Paul Irish introducing Speed Index at the recent Front End Ops Conference Choose "SpeedIndex" from the top right of the main graphs. MORE
The Speed Report in the Google Search Console (recently renamed “Core Web Vitals”) is offering two new performance metrics: Cumulative Layout Shift and Largest Contentful Paint additionally to the First Input Delay. MORE
Today, I'm excited to announce the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) , a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache that can speed up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second. MORE
ccache , the compiler cache, is a fantastic way to speed up build times for C and C++ code that I previously recommended. Recently, I was playing around with trying to get it to speed up my Linux kernel builds, but wasn’t seeing any benefit. Usually when this happens with ccache, there’s something non-deterministic about the builds that prevents cache hits. MORE
Ideally, all of our teams would be delivering at maximum speed and would all be heading in the same direction, highly-aligned with business goals. Unfortunately, we need to balance speed and alignment, and how we make this trade-off is not clear because not all alignment has the same cost. MORE
The post How to Optimize Website Speed for Black Friday 2017 appeared first on Abstracta Software Testing Services. Performance Engineering Software Testing Black Friday load testing Page Speed Performance Performance Testing MORE
Our most recent article identified (and remedied) the 4 most common page speed testing mistakes we see website owners making, and it inspired us to do even more to help those who make mistake #2: Only testing from 1 location. Now you know how to speed test your site from all over the world. MORE
“I feel the need — the need for speed” – Peter “Maverick” Mitchell . Just like the sky-soaring heroes of Top Gun, Cubic has only one speed — fast. The post Need for Speed: Cubic’s Journey with Tasktop Viz and Flow Metrics appeared first on Tasktop Blog. MORE
Chrome’s DevTools suite contains some of the most powerful tools available to help you analyze and improve the speed of your website (or web app). Speed Optimization Tips MORE
Speed Matters on the Internet. When it comes to whether visitors look at your page or not, the most significant factor is how fast your page loads. Amazon revealed that a one-second delay could lead to $1.6 billion fewer in sales per year, while Google claims that less than a one-second delay results in eight million fewer searches per day. performance internet ebusiness MORE
TTFB mobile speed distribution (CrUX, July 2019). FCP mobile speed distribution (CrUX, July 2019). FID mobile speed distribution (CrUX, July 2019). TTFB mobile speed distribution comparison between all web and CMS (CrUX, July 2019). MORE
However, you have likely used the Web UI that Google uses to allow you to test websites for speed – Google PageSpeed Insights. While PageSpeed Insights focuses solely on speed/performance, Lighthouse offers even more. Speed Optimization Tips MORE
The post Web Font Performance – How Your Fonts Affect Page Speed appeared first on MachMetrics Speed Blog. Speed Optimization TipsFor many of us, typography is as big of a decision as anything else in the design process of a website. MORE
In the past, the answer would be based on the load time of a page, but over the years, we have evolved our approach to site speed to incorporate new metrics, alone or in combination with existing metrics. “How fast is a website?” MORE
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. MORE
Using a page speed optimization audit tool like GTmetrix or WebPageTest is a great first step towards assessing how your website loads for visitors. However, you may be making one of the common page speed testing mistakes that often cost website owners engagement, and ultimately, revenue. MORE
MachMetrics is a premium site speed monitoring tool used by #webperf enthusiasts worldwide. Starting today we’re opening up our Starter Plan (60 speed tests per day) for FREE for any open source projects that would like to have their speed monitored. If you’re interest in using our Starter Plan (60 speed tests per day) for FREE for your non-profit simply reach out to us after creating your free account. MORE
The post ACM Survey – Part 3: How your peers speed up time to market appeared first on Dynatrace blog. Dynatrace news. Welcome back to the blog series in which we summarize the findings of our Autonomous Cloud Management survey. MORE
All of the popular speed testing tools typically provide a page speed score along with their objective results. Google PageSpeed Insights has a their “Speed Score.” Below is an example from Pingdom’s page speed optimization score. Speed Optimization Tip MORE
The Mobile Speed Test appeared first on Dotcom-Monitor Web Performance Blog. Page Load Speed Performance Tech TipsSo why do you want to know if your website is mobile friendly? MORE
One year after the Speed Update has been released, Google has launched a brand new Speed Report within the Search Console. The Speed Report is using the Chrome UX Report data to highlight the slow pages of your website. MORE
After a most successful 2018 edition, Dareboost is proud to keep sponsoring the French Web Performance event: We Love Speed. MORE
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. Find out more about why it's so important to test at slow speeds. MORE
Speed-reading is a technique many people have heard about. But don’t worry, we don’t need to set the new world record in speed reading to learn the basic concepts and apply them to another area: our code. So what makes speed reading that fast? MORE
To increase the user’s perception of speed, you may need to influence the order in which these resources are fetched and executed. A web page consists … Continue reading Preload, Prefetch and Preconnect: Speed Up your Website with Resource Hints → Web best Practices MORE
Google’s PageSpeed Insights tools may be just what you need to leverage data collected through speed testing. Having too many large images, files, and plugins may slow down site speed or server response times and that is where PageSpeed testers come in. Why This Matters for Speed. MORE
Any significant reduction in allocations will inevitably speed up your code. By reducing the number of allocated objects, you can both speed up your code and reduce object churn and garbage collection events. Speed up application code itself. Dynatrace news. MORE
This is an announcement for the OneAgent version 1.171 release: you may see a change in Visually complete and Speed index calculation once you upgrade to OneAgent 1.171. Speed index calculation now takes more elements into account. Dynatrace news. MORE
What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google. MORE
In general, performance testing tests the speed, stability, and scalability of an application. A performance test is any test that measures the speed, stability, and/or scalability of your software. MORE
The way a website is constructed can have a major impact on website speed performance, but developers often have a hard time keeping track of factors that cause slow page loads and other speed-related issues. Speed Optimization Tips MORE
The post Architect your software delivery value stream for speed and quality with integration patterns appeared first on Tasktop Blog. “How can you go faster if you don’t know what’s slowing you down?” Carmen DeArdo, author of Standing on Shoulders: A Leader’s Guide to Digital Transformation. MORE
We’re happy to announce two new features that many of you have been asking for: custom dashboards and the ability to specify connection speed for your tests. If you’re monitoring the speed of a few urls, the default “All Urls” dashboard works just great. MORE
In the past, the answer would be based on the load time of a page, but over the years, we have evolved our approach to site speed to incorporate new metrics, alone or in combination with existing metrics. “How fast is a website?” MORE
In this article I describe a technique we used to speed up a Pig build from 9 hours to 1 hour 30 minutes using 6 Jenkins nodes. This technique is generic and can be considered as a general way to speed up maven or ant builds on Jenkins CI server or other CI systems. MORE
It’s one of the most frequently asked questions I see asked, “I’ve tested my site speed, so now what do these metrics mean?” Standard Website Speed Metrics. As we can see, a website’s “speed” is not a one-size-fits-all number that we can simply lower. Speed Index. MORE
In fact, failing to run a mobile page speed test is the number 1 speed testing mistake we see our users make! If you’re unsure of how your website performs on a mobile device (or even got a poor result on a speed audit), stick with us. Test Your Mobile Speed! MORE
Speed of management: with a single command you can manage hundreds or thousands of Dynatrace OneAgents almost instantaneously, wherever they are and whatever they are configured to do. Dynatrace news. MORE
Speed Related Topics MachMetrics
JUNE 1, 2020
In fact, failing to run a mobile page speed test is the number 1 speed testing mistake we see our users make! If you’re unsure of how your website performs on a mobile device (or even got a poor result on a speed audit), stick with us. Test Your Mobile Speed!
MachMetrics
APRIL 15, 2020
Using a page speed optimization audit tool like GTmetrix or WebPageTest is a great first step towards assessing how your website loads for visitors. However, you may be making one of the common page speed testing mistakes that often cost website owners engagement, and ultimately, revenue.
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MachMetrics
APRIL 24, 2019
All of the popular speed testing tools typically provide a page speed score along with their objective results. Google PageSpeed Insights has a their “Speed Score.” Below is an example from Pingdom’s page speed optimization score. Speed Optimization Tip
MachMetrics
APRIL 3, 2020
If you’re looking to read optimization ideas from one of the greatest minds in speed performance, look no further. If these rules can be applied to improving speeds at Yahoo! High Performance Images: Shrink, Load, and Deliver Images for Speed. Speed Optimization Tips
DZone
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
Google needs to step up their speed. Quantum Supremacy Is Arguable, but We Are Almost There.
MachMetrics
MARCH 21, 2020
Chrome’s DevTools suite contains some of the most powerful tools available to help you analyze and improve the speed of your website (or web app). Speed Optimization Tips
MachMetrics
FEBRUARY 22, 2019
It’s one of the most frequently asked questions I see asked, “I’ve tested my site speed, so now what do these metrics mean?” Standard Website Speed Metrics. As we can see, a website’s “speed” is not a one-size-fits-all number that we can simply lower. Speed Index.
MachMetrics
DECEMBER 14, 2019
MachMetrics is a premium site speed monitoring tool used by #webperf enthusiasts worldwide. Starting today we’re opening up our Starter Plan (60 speed tests per day) for FREE for any open source projects that would like to have their speed monitored. If you’re interest in using our Starter Plan (60 speed tests per day) for FREE for your non-profit simply reach out to us after creating your free account.
MachMetrics
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
The post Web Font Performance – How Your Fonts Affect Page Speed appeared first on MachMetrics Speed Blog. Speed Optimization TipsFor many of us, typography is as big of a decision as anything else in the design process of a website.
Dynatrace
JUNE 5, 2020
Speed of management: with a single command you can manage hundreds or thousands of Dynatrace OneAgents almost instantaneously, wherever they are and whatever they are configured to do. Dynatrace news.
MachMetrics
JANUARY 4, 2019
The way a website is constructed can have a major impact on website speed performance, but developers often have a hard time keeping track of factors that cause slow page loads and other speed-related issues. Speed Optimization Tips
Dynatrace
APRIL 8, 2020
Any significant reduction in allocations will inevitably speed up your code. By reducing the number of allocated objects, you can both speed up your code and reduce object churn and garbage collection events. Speed up application code itself. Dynatrace news.
MachMetrics
MAY 2, 2020
Our most recent article identified (and remedied) the 4 most common page speed testing mistakes we see website owners making, and it inspired us to do even more to help those who make mistake #2: Only testing from 1 location. Now you know how to speed test your site from all over the world.
Addy Osmani
DECEMBER 14, 2018
Learn how to speed up next-page navigations using prefetching
Dareboost
JUNE 9, 2020
The Speed Report in the Google Search Console (recently renamed “Core Web Vitals”) is offering two new performance metrics: Cumulative Layout Shift and Largest Contentful Paint additionally to the First Input Delay.
Speed Curve
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
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. Find out more about why it's so important to test at slow speeds.
Dynatrace
JUNE 19, 2019
This is an announcement for the OneAgent version 1.171 release: you may see a change in Visually complete and Speed index calculation once you upgrade to OneAgent 1.171. Speed index calculation now takes more elements into account. Dynatrace news.
Dareboost
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
One year after the Speed Update has been released, Google has launched a brand new Speed Report within the Search Console. The Speed Report is using the Chrome UX Report data to highlight the slow pages of your website.
Smashing Magazine
JUNE 26, 2019
What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google.
Rigor
JUNE 4, 2019
In the past, the answer would be based on the load time of a page, but over the years, we have evolved our approach to site speed to incorporate new metrics, alone or in combination with existing metrics. “How fast is a website?”
Abstracta
OCTOBER 24, 2017
The post How to Optimize Website Speed for Black Friday 2017 appeared first on Abstracta Software Testing Services. Performance Engineering Software Testing Black Friday load testing Page Speed Performance Performance Testing
Dareboost
JULY 26, 2019
After a most successful 2018 edition, Dareboost is proud to keep sponsoring the French Web Performance event: We Love Speed.
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.
MachMetrics
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
Google’s PageSpeed Insights tools may be just what you need to leverage data collected through speed testing. Having too many large images, files, and plugins may slow down site speed or server response times and that is where PageSpeed testers come in. Why This Matters for Speed.
Dynatrace
AUGUST 9, 2019
The post ACM Survey – Part 3: How your peers speed up time to market appeared first on Dynatrace blog. Dynatrace news. Welcome back to the blog series in which we summarize the findings of our Autonomous Cloud Management survey.
Dareboost
MAY 4, 2020
To increase the user’s perception of speed, you may need to influence the order in which these resources are fetched and executed. A web page consists … Continue reading Preload, Prefetch and Preconnect: Speed Up your Website with Resource Hints → Web best Practices
Speed Curve
MAY 27, 2014
Speed Index is now available on SpeedCurve. Speed Index is an important measure of a user's experience as the page loads. Here's a great video from Paul Irish introducing Speed Index at the recent Front End Ops Conference Choose "SpeedIndex" from the top right of the main graphs.
Dotcom-Montior
JANUARY 19, 2016
The Mobile Speed Test appeared first on Dotcom-Monitor Web Performance Blog. Page Load Speed Performance Tech TipsSo why do you want to know if your website is mobile friendly?
MachMetrics
NOVEMBER 30, 2018
We’re happy to announce two new features that many of you have been asking for: custom dashboards and the ability to specify connection speed for your tests. If you’re monitoring the speed of a few urls, the default “All Urls” dashboard works just great.
Tasktop
MAY 28, 2020
“I feel the need — the need for speed” – Peter “Maverick” Mitchell . Just like the sky-soaring heroes of Top Gun, Cubic has only one speed — fast. The post Need for Speed: Cubic’s Journey with Tasktop Viz and Flow Metrics appeared first on Tasktop Blog.
DZone
AUGUST 13, 2019
Speed Matters on the Internet. When it comes to whether visitors look at your page or not, the most significant factor is how fast your page loads. Amazon revealed that a one-second delay could lead to $1.6 billion fewer in sales per year, while Google claims that less than a one-second delay results in eight million fewer searches per day. performance internet ebusiness
DZone
OCTOBER 14, 2019
website load speed website speed wordpress website design and development website speed test in drupal caching with vanish drupal caching wordpress cachingFaster loading? Sign me up!
Rigor
FEBRUARY 2, 2018
Google recently announced the launch of their Speed Update. This change to how Google ranks websites for searches will now take mobile page speed into account in its ranking algorithm. While the Speed Update won’t be in effect until July 2018, there are steps that companies can take now to make sure they are not penalized. Google won’t notify you if your ranking is dinged by mobile speed, but you will see the impact in your Google Search Console and your traffic.
Rigor
JULY 9, 2019
In the past, the answer would be based on the load time of a page, but over the years, we have evolved our approach to site speed to incorporate new metrics, alone or in combination with existing metrics. “How fast is a website?”
CSS - Tricks
NOVEMBER 1, 2019
TTFB mobile speed distribution (CrUX, July 2019). FCP mobile speed distribution (CrUX, July 2019). FID mobile speed distribution (CrUX, July 2019). TTFB mobile speed distribution comparison between all web and CMS (CrUX, July 2019).
Highly Scalable
AUGUST 14, 2012
In this article I describe a technique we used to speed up a Pig build from 9 hours to 1 hour 30 minutes using 6 Jenkins nodes. This technique is generic and can be considered as a general way to speed up maven or ant builds on Jenkins CI server or other CI systems.
Testlodge
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
In general, performance testing tests the speed, stability, and scalability of an application. A performance test is any test that measures the speed, stability, and/or scalability of your software.
Speed Curve
MARCH 31, 2014
To keep inline with browser trends and average connection speeds SpeedCurve will begin updating the test setting every quarter. For Q2 2014 we're switching to IE11 which is now the most popular version of IE according to Akamai and StatsCounter and the average connection speed has been updated to 9.8Mbps download, 2.5Mbps upload with a 10ms latency. The 9.8Mbps download speed is based on the latest State of the Internet report from Akamai
Tasktop
JUNE 25, 2019
The post Architect your software delivery value stream for speed and quality with integration patterns appeared first on Tasktop Blog. “How can you go faster if you don’t know what’s slowing you down?” Carmen DeArdo, author of Standing on Shoulders: A Leader’s Guide to Digital Transformation.
Strategic Tech
DECEMBER 2, 2018
Ideally, all of our teams would be delivering at maximum speed and would all be heading in the same direction, highly-aligned with business goals. Unfortunately, we need to balance speed and alignment, and how we make this trade-off is not clear because not all alignment has the same cost.
Nick Desaulniers
JUNE 2, 2018
ccache , the compiler cache, is a fantastic way to speed up build times for C and C++ code that I previously recommended. Recently, I was playing around with trying to get it to speed up my Linux kernel builds, but wasn’t seeing any benefit. Usually when this happens with ccache, there’s something non-deterministic about the builds that prevents cache hits.
Tasktop
OCTOBER 8, 2019
Speed-reading is a technique many people have heard about. But don’t worry, we don’t need to set the new world record in speed reading to learn the basic concepts and apply them to another area: our code. So what makes speed reading that fast?
All Things Distributed
JUNE 21, 2017
Today, I'm excited to announce the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) , a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache that can speed up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second.
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