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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed). RUM, however, has some limitations, including the following: RUM requires traffic to be useful.

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HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2)

Smashing Magazine

A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”. It is physically limited by the speed of light or, practically, how fast signals can travel in wires or in the open air. What Does It All Mean? 0-RTT Connection Set-Up.

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HTTP/3: Practical Deployment Options (Part 3)

Smashing Magazine

Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. Note that there is an Apache Traffic Server implementation, though.). Secondly, using too many connections could cause early packet loss due to competing congestion controllers.

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