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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
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
Top finding #2: Speed index exceeds a percentage of Visually complete timing. The second threshold is related to the Speed index and Visually complete metrics and how they relate to each other. The larger the difference between Speed index and Visually complete timing the better. 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
Managing The Execution Speed of The Slaves. With these settings, we will be able to get better parallelization and speed on the slave, but if there are too many parallel threads, the overhead involved in coordinating between the threads will also increase and can unfortunately offset the benefits. This is explained in detail in J-F Gagné’s blog where he refers to this behavior as ‘ slowing down the master to speed-up the slave’. 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
Like it’s older brother YSlow, Page Speed , released by Google in in mid-2009, is primarily a tool to audit and analyze the performance of your site. However a closer looks shows that there is in fact a lot more that Page Speed can do. Page Speed analyzes the performance of a page based on a set of 26 rules (as of version 1.7) A complete list of the rules Page Speed checks for is below: Combine external CSS. MORE
performance mobile apps app design bridge cross platform app rendering speedSlowness comes in two flavors. One flavor includes loading screens, waiting for UI to build up, etc. MORE
Understanding Execution Speed of the MySQL Slave. Assuming that the SQL Thread and IO Thread on the slave are in running states, it’s possible to understand the relative execution speeds of the master and the slave by monitoring the SBM value. A consistent ‘0’ value or a constant value indicates that the slave is executing at the same speed as the master. MORE
Many people reach out to us asking what is the #1 most important bang-for-your-buck tip on optimizing your website’s speed. The most important thing you can do to speed up your site is: Optimize your images! 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
One of the metrics produced when you run a test using webpagetest.org is called Speed Index and it changed the way I thought about web performance. The NCC group website does a great job of explaining clearly how Speed Index is calculated. "Each MORE
By reducing the size of the HTML files used to build your webpage, you can speed up your site’s page load times and make the download less expensive (in terms of data usage and browser work) for your user. Reading time 3 min. 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
Three seconds does not always equal three seconds. Our perception of time is greatly skewed by a variety of seemingly unrelated factors, making it easy for us to perceive 3 seconds as 5 seconds, or as 1 second. Since ultimately it is how fast the user thinks our site is that matters, regardless what the stats say, we need to be very aware of these extraneous factors that influence their perception. One such factor is color. MORE
From speed testing to usability testing, use these ten strategies to ensure your website is always running on all cylinders. Keep a Constant Eye on Speed. Speed monitoring is a major part of any robust and effective frontend testing routine. Speed Optimization Tips 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
After a most successful 2018 edition, Dareboost is proud to keep sponsoring the French Web Performance event: We Love Speed. MORE
Personal consumer data has become the oil of the 21st century. American companies are expected to spend close to $20 billion on consumer data in 2018 (New York Times 2018). Data trackers are the main way advertisers gather this valuable consumer data. JavaScript optimization MORE
Let’s cover some ways to speed up GIF animations on your website and look at some alternative formats that you should consider. Why Speed Up GIF Animations? In other words, optimizing your animated GIFs for speed often means sacrificing image quality. 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
For example, while the average mobile download speed on 4G in Switzerland is fast at 35.2 Mbps, countries with a growing Internet users like India is only at an average mobile download speed of 6.8 We ran some speed tests again on a test site with and without the CDN. 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
Web Performance google page speed insights HTTP javascript redirection optimize optimize URLs page speed insights redirectsRedirection occurs anytime your user attempts to load a page with a given URL, but is instead sent to a site that uses a slightly different address. MORE
In today’s world where everyone is struggling for speed, time is money, and a slow website it is nothing more than poison to your business. performance cross browser testing cdn website speed amp image optimization mobile first website optimizationToday, everything is becoming more fast-paced. We look forward to faster things that save our time. MORE
They get even MORE impatient when it comes to website speed. Conversion: 1 second delay means a 7% reduction in conversions Speed Affects Revenue: If your site makes $100,000/month, a one second improvement in page speed brings $7,000 month. Importance of seconds in page speed. 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
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 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
Why speed matters, examples of the impact saving a few seconds of load time has had on revenue and engagement. Bandwidth, latency and it's fundamental impact on the speed of the web. Here's the slides from my presentation at the Auckland Web Dev Nights meetup. It's an overview of why front-end performance matter, how to monitor it and the challenges faced when building for an increasingly mobile world. Content. MORE
When data locality is achieved, Spark tasks can read in-Alluxio data from local Alluxio workers at memory speed (when ramdisk is configured) instead of transferring the data over the network. performance data spark speed alluxio load balance data locality capacity managementThe Apache Spark + Alluxio stack is getting quite popular particularly for the unification of data access across S3 and HDFS. MORE
Pay attention to your site speed, and take pride knowing you’re making the earth greener, including all economic classes, preventing bad moods, and spreading love. The post Fast Websites Are Good for the World appeared first on MachMetrics Speed Blog. Speed Optimization Tips MORE
While lots of these KPIs are speed metrics, content performance metrics, and behavioral metrics, don’t lose sight of your main purpose (perhaps revenue). This is an important content performance metric, as it almost always negatively correlated with speed. Speed Optimization Tip MORE
Speed Related Topics 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
JUNE 18, 2019
Many people reach out to us asking what is the #1 most important bang-for-your-buck tip on optimizing your website’s speed. The most important thing you can do to speed up your site is: Optimize your images! Speed Optimization Tips
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.
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.
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
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
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?”
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
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
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?”
Addy Osmani
DECEMBER 14, 2018
Learn how to speed up next-page navigations using prefetching
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
KeyCDN
FEBRUARY 14, 2019
Let’s cover some ways to speed up GIF animations on your website and look at some alternative formats that you should consider. Why Speed Up GIF Animations? In other words, optimizing your animated GIFs for speed often means sacrificing image quality.
KeyCDN
JULY 11, 2019
For example, while the average mobile download speed on 4G in Switzerland is fast at 35.2 Mbps, countries with a growing Internet users like India is only at an average mobile download speed of 6.8 We ran some speed tests again on a test site with and without the CDN.
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.
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.
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
Dynatrace
APRIL 18, 2019
Top finding #2: Speed index exceeds a percentage of Visually complete timing. The second threshold is related to the Speed index and Visually complete metrics and how they relate to each other. The larger the difference between Speed index and Visually complete timing the better.
Website Optimization
DECEMBER 19, 2018
Personal consumer data has become the oil of the 21st century. American companies are expected to spend close to $20 billion on consumer data in 2018 (New York Times 2018). Data trackers are the main way advertisers gather this valuable consumer data. JavaScript optimization
Scalegrid
JANUARY 30, 2019
Understanding Execution Speed of the MySQL Slave. Assuming that the SQL Thread and IO Thread on the slave are in running states, it’s possible to understand the relative execution speeds of the master and the slave by monitoring the SBM value. A consistent ‘0’ value or a constant value indicates that the slave is executing at the same speed as the master.
Rigor
JULY 2, 2019
Web Performance google page speed insights HTTP javascript redirection optimize optimize URLs page speed insights redirectsRedirection occurs anytime your user attempts to load a page with a given URL, but is instead sent to a site that uses a slightly different address.
DZone
JULY 10, 2019
When data locality is achieved, Spark tasks can read in-Alluxio data from local Alluxio workers at memory speed (when ramdisk is configured) instead of transferring the data over the network. performance data spark speed alluxio load balance data locality capacity managementThe Apache Spark + Alluxio stack is getting quite popular particularly for the unification of data access across S3 and HDFS.
Tim Kadlec
MAY 11, 2010
Like it’s older brother YSlow, Page Speed , released by Google in in mid-2009, is primarily a tool to audit and analyze the performance of your site. However a closer looks shows that there is in fact a lot more that Page Speed can do. Page Speed analyzes the performance of a page based on a set of 26 rules (as of version 1.7) A complete list of the rules Page Speed checks for is below: Combine external CSS.
Dean Hume
SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
One of the metrics produced when you run a test using webpagetest.org is called Speed Index and it changed the way I thought about web performance. The NCC group website does a great job of explaining clearly how Speed Index is calculated. "Each
Rigor
JULY 17, 2019
By reducing the size of the HTML files used to build your webpage, you can speed up your site’s page load times and make the download less expensive (in terms of data usage and browser work) for your user. Reading time 3 min.
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.
Tim Kadlec
DECEMBER 2, 2010
Three seconds does not always equal three seconds. Our perception of time is greatly skewed by a variety of seemingly unrelated factors, making it easy for us to perceive 3 seconds as 5 seconds, or as 1 second. Since ultimately it is how fast the user thinks our site is that matters, regardless what the stats say, we need to be very aware of these extraneous factors that influence their perception. One such factor is color.
MachMetrics
AUGUST 7, 2019
Pay attention to your site speed, and take pride knowing you’re making the earth greener, including all economic classes, preventing bad moods, and spreading love. The post Fast Websites Are Good for the World appeared first on MachMetrics Speed Blog. Speed Optimization Tips
DZone
MAY 26, 2019
performance mobile apps app design bridge cross platform app rendering speedSlowness comes in two flavors. One flavor includes loading screens, waiting for UI to build up, etc.
DZone
MAY 14, 2019
In today’s world where everyone is struggling for speed, time is money, and a slow website it is nothing more than poison to your business. performance cross browser testing cdn website speed amp image optimization mobile first website optimizationToday, everything is becoming more fast-paced. We look forward to faster things that save our time.
Scalegrid
JANUARY 8, 2019
Managing The Execution Speed of The Slaves. With these settings, we will be able to get better parallelization and speed on the slave, but if there are too many parallel threads, the overhead involved in coordinating between the threads will also increase and can unfortunately offset the benefits. This is explained in detail in J-F Gagné’s blog where he refers to this behavior as ‘ slowing down the master to speed-up the slave’.
MachMetrics
MARCH 21, 2019
While lots of these KPIs are speed metrics, content performance metrics, and behavioral metrics, don’t lose sight of your main purpose (perhaps revenue). This is an important content performance metric, as it almost always negatively correlated with speed. Speed Optimization Tip
MachMetrics
MAY 31, 2019
From speed testing to usability testing, use these ten strategies to ensure your website is always running on all cylinders. Keep a Constant Eye on Speed. Speed monitoring is a major part of any robust and effective frontend testing routine. Speed Optimization Tips
Speed Curve
SEPTEMBER 4, 2013
Why speed matters, examples of the impact saving a few seconds of load time has had on revenue and engagement. Bandwidth, latency and it's fundamental impact on the speed of the web. Here's the slides from my presentation at the Auckland Web Dev Nights meetup. It's an overview of why front-end performance matter, how to monitor it and the challenges faced when building for an increasingly mobile world. Content.
MachMetrics
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
They get even MORE impatient when it comes to website speed. Conversion: 1 second delay means a 7% reduction in conversions Speed Affects Revenue: If your site makes $100,000/month, a one second improvement in page speed brings $7,000 month. Importance of seconds in page speed.
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