CSS Wizardry

JUNE 30, 2023

I never thought I’d write an article in defence of DOMContentLoaded , but here it is… For many, many years now, performance engineers have been making a concerted effort to move away from technical metrics such as Load , and toward more user-facing, UX metrics such as Speed Index or Largest Contentful Paint.

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Metrics Google Code Monitoring 327

Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

ShuffleBench i s a benchmarking tool for evaluating the performance of modern stream processing frameworks. Optimized fault recovery We’re also interested in exploring the potential of tuning configurations to improve recovery speed and performance after failures and avoid the demand for additional computing resources.

Engineering 245

Engineering Tuning Latency Open Source 245

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability. Instead, to speed up response times, applications are now processing most data at the network’s perimeter, closest to the data’s origin. But is five nines availability attainable? Each decimal point closer to 100 equals higher uptime. Automate IT operations.

Infrastructure 246

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 246

KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

Running speed tests with tools like Google PageSpeed Insights , WebPageTest , or KeyCDN’s Website Speed Test are always a good way to help gauge your website’s performance. Why Care About Page Speed? There are a multitude of reasons why you should care about page speed. A site which loads in 2.6

Google 103

Google Cache Speed Analytics 103

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

HammerDB doesn’t publish competitive database benchmarks, instead we always encourage people to be better informed by running their own. So over at Phoronix some database benchmarks were published showing PostgreSQL 12 Performance With AMD EPYC 7742 vs. Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 Benchmarks .

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

After all, when we look at our analytics, we will hardly find any customers browsing our sites or apps with a mid-range device on a flaky 3G connection. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known. That might come a little bit unexpected. billion by 2026. Its CI counterpart not so much. Large preview ).

Mobile 142

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 142

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

Poverty lines emerged for both Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint I expected the results for Start Render, as it's been around as a page speed metric for many years, and has been proven to correlate to business metrics. The blue bar represents the change in bounce rate across all cohorts. Ultimately, this is good for your business.

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Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 128

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Query performance Query performance is a key performance indicator (KPI) in MySQL, as it measures the efficiency and speed of query execution. PMM monitors the MySQL uptime: show global status like 'uptime'; Indicates the amount of time (seconds) the MySQL server has been running since the last restart.

Performance 135

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 135

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. An overview of tools for measuring performance, uptime monitoring, real user monitoring and performance benchmarking. Muti-device challenges.

Speed 40

Speed Benchmarking Mobile Website 40

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load. Benchmarking Cache Speed Memcached is optimized for high read and write loads, making it highly efficient for rapid data access in a basic key-value store.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Memory Allocation: Allocating sufficient memory linked directly to the assigned CPU ensures effective utilization resulting in better system speed. This makes it ideal not only for regular scalability but also for advanced analytics with intricate workload management capabilities. This also aids scalability down the line.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

This post is targeted towards the questions most often asked by non-technical management who want to get up to speed on what HammerDB is (what it isn’t) and how it can benefit their organization. HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. What is HammerDB? Derived Workloads.

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 63

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

To show that I can criticize my own work as well, here I show that sustained memory bandwidth (using an approximation to the STREAM Benchmark ) is also inadequate as a single figure of metric. (It Here I assumed a particular analytical function for the amount of memory traffic as a function of cache size to scale the bandwidth time.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Yet, we wanted to put together our list of the top web performance books for anyone who cares about speed of the web and would like to explore the timeline of web performance engineering milestones over nearly two decades through the lens of published books. Site speed & SEO go hand in hand. Speed Up Your Site. Still good.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Fighting regressions should be the top priority of anyone who cares about the speed of their site. Benchmark your site against your competitors Our public-facing Industry Benchmarks dashboard gets a lot of visits, but did you know you can create your own custom competitive benchmarking dashboard in SpeedCurve?

Benchmarking 72

Benchmarking Metrics Website Testing 72

Speed Curve

JULY 2, 2013

SpeedCurve focuses on a third which I like to call web performance benchmarking. It's often called synthetic testing as tests are run from servers in a data centre and don't accurately represent what speeds an actual user might get. Web Performance Benchmarking. Uptime Monitoring. Real User Monitoring.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Performance Website Analytics 40

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. India's speed test medians are moving quickly, but variance is orders-of-magnitude wide, with 5G penetration below 25% in the most populous areas. target="_new"> the U.K.

Performance 98

Performance Network Mobile Speed 98

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

To show that I can criticize my own work as well, here I show that sustained memory bandwidth (using an approximation to the STREAM Benchmark ) is also inadequate as a single figure of metric. (It Here I assumed a particular analytical function for the amount of memory traffic as a function of cache size to scale the bandwidth time.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 40

Tasktop

DECEMBER 12, 2022

To start, the leaders decided to use Flow Time to benchmark the team’s performance. Once the team’s baseline Flow Metrics had been established, they began to experiment with structural changes, all the while measuring flow to see how their efficiency and speed were impacted. Having access to Flow Metrics has drove results.

Metrics 52

Metrics Benchmarking Efficiency Speed 52

KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

We will also discuss how you can speed up your slow WordPress site. Many factors affect the speed of your WordPress website; some of them are: Your web host Server-side optimizations (PHP version, compression, caching, etc.) Several website speed testing tools available could be used for this purpose. Why is WordPress slow?

Cache 52

Cache Website Speed Website Performance 52

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

Plateaus emerged for both Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint I expected the results for Start Render, as it's been around as a page speed metric for many years, and has been proven to correlate to business metrics. The blue bar represents the change in bounce rate across all cohorts. Ultimately, this is good for your business.

Performance 52

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

These services use requests to external hosts (not servers you control) to deliver JavaScript framework libraries, custom fonts, advertising content, marketing analytics trackers, and more. The most popular, by far, is the Google Lighthouse report (available in Chrome Developer Tools) and Google’s Page Speed Insights.

Website 138

Website Design Network Testing 138

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

through one of the dozens of analytics tools they've inevitably integrated over the years), but nobody looks at it. These organisations may perform incidental data collection (from business analytics tools, e.g.) but are inconsistently reviewing performance metrics or considering them when formulating KPI s and OKR s. Photo by von Vix.

Performance 99

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 99

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

For anyone benchmarking MySQL with HammerDB it is important to understand the differences from sysbench workloads as HammerDB is targeted at a testing a different usage model from sysbench. GHz. The governor "performance" may decide which speed to use within this range. current CPU frequency: 1.99

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Synthetic is great for trending over time, especially when looking at the number and size of requests (images, JavaScript, CSS), which collectively have a big impact on speed. Think of RUM as performance-based analytics measured from the end user's actual browser. Benchmark yourself. Real user monitoring (RUM).

Performance 143

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In one request hitting just ten services, there might be ten different analytics dashboards and ten different log stores. Telltale provides Edgar with latency benchmarks that indicate if the individual trace’s latency is abnormal for this given service. The downside is that we have so many dashboards.

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Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 298

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Throughout this post I've used examples from our public Industry Benchmarks dashboard , which I'd encourage you to check out so that you can explore these metrics on your own. > Speed Index (Synthetic). Speed Index was an important metric when it first came out several years ago. Is it loading?

Performance 138

Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 138

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Using a global ASP as a benchmark can further mislead thanks to the distorting effect of ultra-high-end prices rising while shipment volumes stagnate. Recall that single-core performance most directly translates into speed on the web. Today, either method returns a similar answer. Tap for a larger version. How bad is it?

Performance 127

Performance Network Mobile Metrics 127

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 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. Study common complaints coming into customer service and sales team, study analytics for high bounce rates and conversion drops.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to. Large preview ). Large preview ).

Performance 112

Performance Cache Servers Network 112

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Time to First Byte (TTFB) can be a page speed killer , especially during peak traffic. Benchmark your site against your competitors. Setting up a competitive benchmarking dashboard – which is easy to do with synthetic monitoring – is an effective way to see who's delivering a good UX and who isn't. Track your CDN.

Speed 64

Speed Benchmarking Traffic Retail 64

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. We also use internal haproxy reports to plot upload/download speeds observed by the customer and proactively hunt them and use network pops and other strategies to accelerate packets.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52