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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences. RUM, however, has some limitations, including the following: RUM requires traffic to be useful. For example, in e-commerce, you can validate and test checking out a shopping cart.

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Have You Tested Your App Performance & Capacity Recently?

Apica

Whatever size of company you are, performance monitoring and testing is a critical part of the success you will have. It is also worth noting that brand popularity doesn’t translate into more success if you are not testing load to confirm your streaming services will performs. Apica’s scale is enterprise-grade.

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DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming - All Things.

All Things Distributed

One wireless company for example has an international plan that will charge you $25 per month for 50MB after which they will charge you $20 per MB. After many investigations I settled for T-Mobile which has an international Blackberry supplement that is $20/month for all BB mail traffic. This includes 50MB data traffic per day.

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Notes on 'It's a Write/Read Mobile Web'

Tim Kadlec

“The Mobile Moment”—when your mobile traffic crosses your desktop traffic and becomes your majority experience. Both consumption and creation process were tested by timing how quickly people could complete their tasks. For example, shears are tested with people who have arthritis. Just in Time Actions.

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HTTP/3: Practical Deployment Options (Part 3)

Smashing Magazine

This explains the challenges involved in deploying and testing HTTP/3 yourself. In our own early tests , I found seriously diminishing returns at about 40 files. Note that there is an Apache Traffic Server implementation, though.). This is more in-depth and technical. People who already know the basics can start here.

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HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2)

Smashing Magazine

This explains the challenges involved in deploying and testing HTTP/3 yourself. One of the reasons Google saw very good 0-RTT results for QUIC was that it tested it on its already heavily optimized search page, where query responses are quite small. This is more in depth and technical. People who already know the basics can start here.