Speed Curve

JANUARY 27, 2025

Review some CSS optimization tips and best practices. You can dive deeper into best practices for image optimization.) These numbers should NOT be taken as a benchmark for your own site. Improving image optimization and rendering best practices could have a noticeable impact on page speed.

Mobile 97

Mobile Best Practices Google Metrics 97

High Scalability

DECEMBER 3, 2019

By having appropriate indexes on your MySQL tables, you can greatly enhance the performance of SELECT queries. But, did you know that adding indexes to your tables in itself is an expensive operation, and may take a long time to complete depending on the size of your tables?

Best Practices 21

Best Practices Performance Processing Systems 21

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Thus, using Dedicated Log Volumes (DLVs), though new in AWS RDS, has been one of the recommended best practices and is a welcome setup improvement for your RDS instance. Benchmarking AWS RDS DLV setup Setup 2 RDS Single DB instances 1 EC2 Instance Regular DLV Enabled Sysbench db.m6i.2xlarge 2xlarge c5.2xlarge MySQL 8.0.31

AWS 117

AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 117

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. What is Performance Testing?

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Google’s best practice is to have a speed index under 3 seconds. Google’s best practice is to be below 0.5 However, Google’s best practice is to keep the number of requests below 50, so there is still work to be done. Google’s best practice is to achieve a time under 1.3

Best Practices 105

Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

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 . uname -a Linux ubuntu19 5.3.0-rc3-custom

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

O'Reilly

MARCH 25, 2025

Weve seen this across dozens of companies, and the teams that break out of this trap all adopt some version of Evaluation-Driven Development (EDD), where testing, monitoring, and evaluation drive every decision from the start. The best practices in those fields have always centered around rigorous evaluation cycles.

Systems 67

Systems Development Tuning Monitoring 67

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. You can see this by looking at the synthetic test result for Sears.com (again, available via our Industry Benchmarks ). Here are some tips and best practices to help on that journey. Not all pages are getting bigger. How quickly do they show up?

Mobile 145

Mobile Google Benchmarking Metrics 145

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

These new applications are a great way for enterprise companies to test out PostgreSQL before migrating their entire infrastructure. This is largely attributed to the shift from commercial to open source, where organizations will develop new applications using an open source database while their legacy systems still remain on Oracle.

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Percona

MARCH 17, 2023

The VictoriaMetrics team has also published some best practices , which can also be referred to while planning for resources for setting up PMM2. We have tested PMM version 2.33.0 Capacity planning and setup details We used a dedicated 32-core CPU and 64GB of RAM for our testing.

Monitoring 117

Monitoring Scalability Database Cache 117

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Indexing efficiency Monitoring indexing efficiency in MySQL involves analyzing query performance, using EXPLAIN statements, utilizing performance monitoring tools, reviewing error logs, performing regular index maintenance, and benchmarking/testing. This KPI is also directly related to Query Performance and helps improve it.

Performance 136

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 136

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

How would we test to see if there is any difference between a good sans serif and a serif typeface with users? What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices.

Performance 123

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 123

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Key metrics like throughput, request latency, and memory utilization are essential for assessing Redis health, with tools like the MONITOR command and Redis-benchmark for latency and throughput analysis and MEMORY USAGE/STATS commands for evaluating memory. It depends upon your application workload and its business logic.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

” Here are additional metrics used to determine the reliability of a database, make adjustments that minimize downtime, and set benchmarks for meeting business continuity requirements. Please note that these are presented as general best practices. Please note that these are presented as general best practices.

Availability 132

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 132

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This post complements the previous best practice guides this time with the focus on MySQL and MariaDB and achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB MySQL TPC-C test. InnoDB is the storage engine that will deliver the best OLTP throughput and should be chosen for this test. .

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

Inspired by that post, I wanted to dig a bit deeper into a few of the best practices they mentioned, which fall loosely into these three buckets: Analyze your pages – understand the critical rendering path and page composition. Read: Performance testing in CI: Let's break the build! What's blocking the user experience?

Performance 85

Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 85

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In FFMPEG, the principal quality/size benchmark is the Constant Rate Factor (CRF) compression, with values ranging from 0 (no compression) to 50 (high compression). For brevity, we’ll test only the Pumpkin patch video. Video Playback On The Web: Video Delivery Best Practices (Part 2). Hiding Videos On the Mobile Web. (vf,

Network 144

Network Speed Website Mobile 144

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You’ve tested and retested the site for errors. You can adjust what browser is used, the kind of network connection to employ, the locations to test from, whether or not the browser’s cache is empty or full, how frequently to take the measurements, and more. They are more of a benchmark than a true measurement of real user experience.

Website 138

Website Design Network Testing 138

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Page labels give you the ability to: Compare and benchmark similar pages across different sites. Compare and benchmark similar pages across different sites. For synthetic testing, page labels give you the ability to add URLs to a defined segment. When you configure a synthetic test, you provide the URL as well as a page label.

Benchmarking 64

Benchmarking Best Practices Monitoring Traffic 64

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

There's also a test and println() in the loop to, hopefully, convince the compiler not to optimize-out an otherwise empty loop. This will slow this test a little.) Amazon even provides an official [recommendation] (2021): "For EC2 instances launched on the AWS Xen Hypervisor, it's a best practice to use the tsc clock source.

Speed 103

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 103

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Background For this performance audit, I looked at this synthetic test for the LEGO.com home page. (We We track LEGO.com, along with a handful of other leading ecommerce sites, in our public-facing Retail Benchmarks dashboard , which I encourage you to check out. Let's dig deeper. seconds, LCP lags at 3.96 Those are already big wins.

Performance 78

Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 78

HammerDB

JULY 8, 2024

A frequently asked question with HammerDB is when a user is using the TPROC-C workload to test database failure and failover scenarios, by deliberately killing connections or shutting down the database during a workload and then restarting it. We can also configure multiple databases in the same instance to test at the same time as well.

Database 52

Database Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 52

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Expanded our test agent locations to bring you even more places to test from worldwide. Your current competitive benchmarks status. As you may already know, we run full Lighthouse audits on every page you test in synthetic. Expanded Industry Speed Benchmarks. The current status of your performance budgets.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

This practical guide shows users how run tests & interpret results to gain a better and more thorough understanding of hidden features in WebPageTest. For UX designers, product managers, developers - essential concepts, methods, and techniques for digital design that have withstood the test of time. Information Architecture.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

You can then configure your monitoring tools to send you alerts – or even break the build, if you're testing in your staging environment – when your budgets are violated. Use synthetic testing to visually validate your metrics The metrics mentioned above are not hard-and-fast suggestions.

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Media Google 98

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

We apply this litmus test to everything we do, and I believe it's the secret of our success. We've made LCP events easy to spot by highlighting them in your Vitals dashboard, your test details, and your Sites dashboard, where you'll also see how key metrics are trending over time. Performance Culture Best Practices.

Retail 52

Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 52

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When you run Lighthouse, you can choose to receive up to five different scores, including SEO, Best Practices, Progressive Web App (PWA), Accessibility, and Performance , that can provide valuable insight for your dev team to act on. Even better, Rigor holds that performance data for 2 years.

Google 51

Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

PostgreSQL performance optimization aims to improve the efficiency of a PostgreSQL database system by adjusting configurations and implementing best practices to identify and resolve bottlenecks, improve query speed, and maximize database throughput and responsiveness. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Efficiency Performance 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

There's also a test and println() in the loop to, hopefully, convince the compiler not to optimize-out an otherwise empty loop. This will slow this test a little.) Amazon even provides an official recommendation (2021): "For EC2 instances launched on the AWS Xen Hypervisor, it's a best practice to use the tsc clock source.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Testing and Validation : Thorough testing and validation are essential when working with triggers, especially in a production environment. Changes to triggers should be carefully reviewed and tested to ensure they do not introduce unintended consequences. for i in `seq 1 1 16`; do mysql test -e "SELECT * FROM tc_test"; done.

Cache 75

Cache Database Games Healthcare 75

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

Swift Papers felt like a well-scoped project to test how well AI handles a realistic yet manageable real-world programming task. Perhaps future AI tool developers could use Swift Papers as a benchmark to assess how well their tool performs on an example real-real-world programming task.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

Best Practices for Implementing MySQL Partitioning With these best practices, you can ensure that your MySQL partitioning setup is efficient, well-maintained, and improves database performance. Test, Test, and Test Again : Before implementing partitioning in production, thoroughly test it in a controlled environment.

Strategy 40

Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

There's also a test and println() in the loop to, hopefully, convince the compiler not to optimize-out an otherwise empty loop. This will slow this test a little.) Amazon even provides an official [recommendation] (2021): "For EC2 instances launched on the AWS Xen Hypervisor, it's a best practice to use the tsc clock source.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. Amazon is a good example of a site that serves large, fast pages, as you can see in this recent look at our Retail Page Speed Benchmarks : In the waterfall chart for this test run , you can see why the Amazon home page ranks fastest for Start Render.

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

You’ll be able to use a scaffolding tool referred to as create-react-app to begin building your project , establish a local development server, check your code for errors, and execute unit tests/e2e. They are battle-tested leaders with the support from tech giants and a large open-source community. Both React.js

Open Source 52

Open Source Mobile Google Scalability 52

Speed Curve

JANUARY 31, 2018

In this post, I'm going to share some proven tips and best practices to help you create a healthy, happy, celebratory performance culture. One of the great things about synthetic monitoring via tools like WebPageTest (which SpeedCurve synthetic is built on top of) is that you can test any page on the web, not just your own.

Performance 40

Performance Metrics Traffic Monitoring 40

Speed Curve

JULY 8, 2024

I recently investigated the test results for twenty top sites and discovered that many of them are not taking advantage of optimizations – including some fairly easy low-hanging fruit – that could make their pages faster, their users happier, and their businesses more successful.

Speed 139

Speed Cache Benchmarking Metrics 139