Dynatrace

MAY 30, 2020

To deliver outstanding customer experience for your applications and websites, you need reliable benchmarks that measure what good customer experience looks like. Dynatrace is the only solution that provides these user experience metrics consistently for real user monitoring as well as for synthetic monitors. Dynatrace news.

Metrics 182

Metrics Performance Benchmarking Monitoring 182

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

vl : I have a hilarious story about this from Google: I wanted second 30" monitor, so I filed a ticket. JavaScript benchmark. After all, nobody gets fired from creating a hierarchy. dhh : The iPhone XS is faster than an iMac Pro on the Speedometer 2.0 It's the fastest device I've ever tested. How does Apple do it?! There more.

Internet 35

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 35

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? A Google machine-learning study I participated in a few years ago found that the total number of page elements was the single greatest predictor of conversions. You can dive deeper into image optimization and SEO tips in this article in Google Search Central.).

Mobile 145

Mobile Google Benchmarking Metrics 145

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 seconds on desktop and 11.4

Best Practices 105

Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

One free tool has become prominent in the space – Google Lighthouse – and one question often bubbles up: “I use Google Lighthouse for one-off snapshots of my site’s performance, so why do I need a performance monitoring solution?” Where Google Lighthouse Shines Bright.

Google 51

Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Back in May, we shared that SpeedCurve supports Google's Core Web Vitals in both our synthetic monitoring and LUX real user monitoring tools. According to Google, pages should maintain a CLS score of less than 0.1 Fortunately, we have the ability to do both those things in synthetic and real user monitoring (RUM).

Retail 88

Retail Benchmarking Google Metrics 88

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

For each site, I used a month's worth of RUM (real user monitoring) data to generate correlation charts. LCP is relatively new, and has received a great deal of attention since it was introduced a couple of years ago as part of Google's Core Web Vitals. You need to look at your own real user data. (If

Performance 128

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 128

Rigor

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Reading time 8 min There are many different classes of web performance tools, from synthetic monitoring to application performance monitoring ( APM) , to real user monitoring ( RUM ), and more. Competitive & Industry Benchmarking. These different classes exist because each has its own strengths and weaknesses.

Monitoring 59

Monitoring Benchmarking Mobile Testing 59

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

2022: Upstreaming, first attempt Other large companies with OS and perf teams (Meta, Google) hinted strongly that they had already enabled frame pointers for everything years earlier. Google should be no surprise because they pioneered continuous profiling.) Back-end servers. Bear in mind that Netflix doesn't even use Fedora!)

Java 137

Java Cache Google Hardware 137

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

Page speed has been a key factor in Google’s ranking algorithm since 2010 , so it is essential to understand the various ways you can optimize your pages and why implementing synthetic monitoring can ensure your pages perform flawlessly and revenue isn’t lost. Synthetic Monitoring: Continuous Website Performance Monitoring.

Website 92

Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

Percona

JUNE 13, 2024

At Percona, we monitor our users’ needs and try to accommodate them. One aspect we monitor is the MySQL version distribution/utilization. Observing that, we identified a very interesting trend: the lack of migration from 5.7 x, or better yet, the need of many to remain on 5.7.

Monitoring 141

Monitoring Google Benchmarking AWS 141

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

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? With SpeedCurve Synthetic , you can monitor any other website in the same way that you can monitor your own website.

Benchmarking 72

Benchmarking Metrics Website Testing 72

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

They’re your roadmap to linking cloud moves with real business outcomes, helping you monitor progress. You manage cost optimization in a multi-cloud world by monitoring costs, using the right tools, and constantly adjusting. Setting up and tracking Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) is crucial.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

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. seconds or less, which is Google's recommendation for page experience and SEO. Let's get started! Background: How performance budgets work 1.

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Media Google 98

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

The most popular, by far, is the Google Lighthouse report (available in Chrome Developer Tools) and Google’s Page Speed Insights. These tools generally work with data from a single page load but go into some greater depth on impact than the tools designed for ongoing monitoring. Large preview ). Large preview ).

Website 138

Website Design Network Testing 138

Speed Curve

JULY 2, 2013

Over the last few years the web performance monitoring toolset has expanded dramatically with the introduction of many new services and products. There are two main types of web performance monitoring, uptime monitoring and real user monitoring. Uptime Monitoring. Real User Monitoring.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Performance Website Analytics 40

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

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

Speed 40

Speed Benchmarking Mobile Website 40

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Examples include associations with Google Docs, Facebook chat group interactions, streaming live forex market feeds, and managing trading notices. To this vital function is workload automation which optimizes scheduling, execution, and monitoring processes for each individual task or process within cloud-based workflows.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

Monitor your longest Long Tasks. They take the hassle out of monitoring your page performance by notifying you whenever your metrics cross a certain threshold. Benchmark your site against your competitors. Wherever possible, load them asynchronously or even defer them. Read more: Measuring Jank and UX. Understand page bloat.

Performance 85

Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 85

Rigor

JUNE 4, 2019

First, it is used as a factor in the Google Lighthouse Performance Score. In the beginning of web performance monitoring, there was a great emphasis on Page Load Time because everything was about speed and how seconds translate to dollars. Why Should You Care About the Latest Performance Metrics?

Metrics 71

Metrics Speed Benchmarking Website 71

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

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. Unlike spike tests, scalability tests involve gradually increasing workload while monitoring the effects on performance. What is Performance Testing?

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. Complete Web Monitoring. Designing for Performance. High Performance Responsive Design.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Steve first experienced performance budgets while Head Performance Engineer at Google. Before setting your performance budgets, you first have to be monitoring your user experience. Benchmark a variety of metrics and choose a target of 20% faster or less resources. Here's an example of tracking a budget for image size.

Performance 45

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Media 45

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Recently Grigorik has been championing this approach and the Google Pagespeed Insight rules have been updated to reflect this best practice with recommendations on how to reduce the size of "above the fold" content. It’s a new image format developed by Google that’s 30-40% smaller than a jpeg.

Performance 60

Performance Mobile Website Benchmarking 60

High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

Database 177

Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Tools and CI systems help them monitor progress & prevent regressions. Deciding what benchmark to use for a performance budget is crucial. Our metrics at Google show a conflicted picture (which I’m working to get to clarity on). Global Ground-Truth.

Performance 74

Performance Network Benchmarking Mobile 74

The Morning Paper

JULY 2, 2019

The watermarking model used traces its lineage back to Millwheel , Google Cloud Dataflow , and from there to Beam and Flink. Query 7 from the NEXmark stream querying benchmark monitors the highest price items in an auction. Every ten minutes, it returns the highest bid and associated itemid for the most recent ten minutes.

Efficiency 65

Efficiency Processing Benchmarking Open Source 65

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In this benchmark, I discovered some interesting discrepancies in performance between AMD and Intel CPUs when running under systemd. Percona Monitoring and Management: Look After Your pmm-data Container. Setting up PMM on Google Compute Engine in 15 minutes or less. Running Percona XtraDB Cluster in Kubernetes/OpenShift.

Database 44

Database Tuning Performance AWS 44

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

For each site, I used a month's worth of RUM (real user monitoring) data to generate correlation charts. LCP is relatively new, and has received a great deal of attention since it was introduced a couple of years ago as part of Google's Core Web Vitals. You need to look at your own real user data. (If

Performance 52

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 52

Rigor

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Whether it be time, money, or technical know how, every day we talk to eCommerce and Retail teams who explain why they aren’t monitoring their site’s performance. You don’t have the time to monitor something that affects your company’s revenue and almost every online metric your business cares about ? Conclusion.

Ecommerce 40

Ecommerce Retail Performance Benchmarking 40

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc. AWS handles essential administrative tasks, including database setup, configuration, backups, monitoring, and scaling, making it easier for businesses to manage complex database infrastructures.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Rigor

JULY 9, 2019

First, it is used as a factor in the Google Lighthouse Performance Score. In the beginning of web performance monitoring, there was a great emphasis on Page Load Time because everything was about speed and how seconds translate to dollars. Why Should You Care About the Latest Performance Metrics?

Metrics 40

Metrics Speed Benchmarking Website 40

Speed Curve

JANUARY 27, 2025

Core Web Vitals are a Google search ranking factor. Given that Google continues to dominate search usage, you should care about Vitals alongside the other metrics you should be tracking. Image size is another issue, as excessive image weight hurts your SEO ranking in Google Image Search. How does page bloat hurt Core Web Vitals?

Mobile 97

Mobile Best Practices Google Metrics 97

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In fact, according to ScyllaDB’s performance benchmark report, their 99.9 Google Cloud. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) was the second most popular cloud provider for ScyllaDB, coming in at 30.4% So what are some of the reasons why users would pick ScyllaDB vs. Cassandra? So this type of performance has to come at a cost, right?

Big Data 187

Big Data Database Open Source Azure 187

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Synthetic monitoring. Synthetic monitoring is essentially a bot that does what you tell it to do ("go visit my home page from X location on X browser") and actively collects performance data. But for all the goodness of synthetic monitoring, it's missing a critical component: end users. Real user monitoring (RUM).

Performance 143

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Speed Curve

JULY 8, 2024

With many synthetic monitoring tools, you can benchmark your site against your competitors. Competitive benchmarking is a great way to see how you stack up – and how much you need to improve. Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive set of dashboards that anyone can explore and use for their own research.

Speed 139

Speed Cache Benchmarking Metrics 139

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

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. For each of these metrics, I've included what type of tool you can use to track them: synthetic and/or real user monitoring (RUM). Is it loading?

Performance 138

Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 138