HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The common trend is to choose a VM based exclusively on vCPU, memory, and storage capacity without benchmarking the current IO and throughput requirements. Throughput measures the data transfer rate to and from the storage media in megabytes per second. Benchmark Test. Generation. MB/s = IOPS * KB per IO / 1,024. Conclusion.

Azure 76

Azure Benchmarking Storage Virtualization 76

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Once the page is loaded, we can move to the Network tab, and filter by “media” to see all the video files: Filtering resources by 'Media' in DevTools. 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).

Network 144

Network Speed Website Mobile 144

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 27, 2020

SpeedCurve's Industry Benchmarks dashboard – which tracks the performance of top sites in retail, media, travel, and other industries – is a good place to start. Here are the current US media benchmarks on a fast desktop connection , ranked by CLS score.

Retail 88

Retail Benchmarking Google Metrics 88

O'Reilly

MARCH 25, 2025

Evaluation : How do we evaluate such systems, especially when outputs are qualitative, subjective, or hard to benchmark? Hallucinations and forgetting : How can we build reliable and consistent software using models that both forget and hallucinate? Iteration : We know we need to experiment with and iterate on these system. How do we do so?

Systems 67

Systems Development Tuning Monitoring 67

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

If you work on a media site, then page views and bounce rate matter. Related: Web performance for retailers How to create correlation charts How to benchmark your site against your competitors How to set up real user monitoring (RUM)

Performance 128

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 128

Rigor

JUNE 14, 2019

For example, a media organization may be interested in tracking Time to Interactive because its site relies on third-party advertising for revenue, while an ecommerce business might want to dig deeper into First Meaningful Paint so it can ensure that customers can quickly take action to purchase an item.

Metrics 101

Metrics Performance Speed Ecommerce 101

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. About the most complex part are some social media buttons for people to share the page. An example CSS file that wouldn’t block rendering would be: <link href="printing.css" rel="stylesheet" media="print">.

Cache 94

Cache Social Media Media Website 94

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Your current competitive benchmarks status. Expanded Industry Speed Benchmarks. Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive dashboard that lets you explore and compare web performance data for leading websites across several industries – from retail to media – over the past year. Lots of new videos!

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

Media sites are particularly prone to this issue. The easiest way to validate your metrics is to look at rendering filmstrips in your synthetic test data, like this: In the example above (taken from our Industry Benchmarks ) you can see: Start Render does correlate to content appearing in the viewport.

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Media Google 98

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Benchmark a variety of metrics and choose a target of 20% faster or less resources. SpeedCurve's Benchmark dashboard is a great way to see how you compare to your competitors for setting budgets. Vox Media, makers of The Verge and SB Nation, benchmarked themselves against the competition and then declared performance bankruptcy.

Performance 45

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Media 45

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

There was an excellent first benchmarking report of the Cluster GPU Instances by the folks at Cycle Computing - " A Couple More Nails in the Coffin of the Private Compute Cluster " The Top500 supercomputer list. The Cluster Compute and the Cluster GPU Instances are now supported by Amazon Elastic Map Reduce.

AWS 62

AWS Cloud Benchmarking Storage 62

Speed Curve

AUGUST 8, 2017

These numbers should not in any way even remotely be taken as a benchmark for your own site. These numbers are mainly relevant when viewed in a historical context. They represent trends – that's all. You haven't necessarily achieved anything great if your pages are smaller than this, nor have you failed if your pages are bigger.

Metrics 85

Metrics Website Speed Benchmarking 85

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. media="(min-width: 990px)"> <source srcset="img@tablet.png, img@tablet-2x.png 2x". media="(min-width: 750px)"> <img srcset="img@mobile.png, img@mobile-2x.png 2x". Deciding what benchmark to use for a performance budget is crucial. Global Ground-Truth.

Performance 74

Performance Network Benchmarking Mobile 74

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

When it comes to web content, you can easily find what you need through many different paths, from search engines and social media to playlists and blogs, jumping from one source to another with just a tap of a finger. Designing for Performance. High Performance Responsive Design.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. Assuming you want to load a social media layout, you might add a loading spinner or a skeleton loader to ensure that you don’t load an incomplete site. At the bottom of the page, you can check how many kB of resources your client consumes. Large preview ).

Cache 141

Cache Performance Servers Architecture 141

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

A media site, on the other hand, might have a higher First Interaction Time because users start reading content before they interact with the page. Benchmark your site against your competitors. First Interaction Time can vary widely depending on the type of site and page. Connect the dots. Collaborate on performance budgets.

Performance 85

Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 85

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

With entrance into the industry being so easy and lack of proper benchmarking (Note: this is somewhat contradictory to point 2, but more on that later) around what makes a good designer, software engineer, or product manager, we’re forced to face the facts that it’s a recipe for poor quality products.

Design 132

Design Website Social Media Best Practices 132

Speed Curve

MAY 31, 2020

In this demo account, we track a number of leading retail, travel, and media sites. Benchmark yourself against your competitors. Now let's walk through how to run a comparison and analysis using a real-world example from our "Top Sites" demo account. I've randomly selected CNN for the purpose of this post. Related reading.

Metrics 66

Metrics Retail Benchmarking Testing 66

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. In early January a related paper was published by Satoshi Matsuoka et. petaflops, which is 0.8%

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Industry speed benchmarks for Japan. We have a number of SpeedCurve users who want an ongoing understanding of how popular Japanese websites perform, so we added Japan to our Industry Page Speed Benchmarks dashboard. Improving Cumulative Layout Shift at Telegraph Media Group. That's our year in review.

Retail 52

Retail Benchmarking Website Metrics 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Graph of resource request chains on a typical news media website. They are more of a benchmark than a true measurement of real user experience. Large preview ). Ad Blockers Makes Sites Faster. In addition to the browser plugins mentioned above, users love to install ad blockers.

Website 138

Website Design Network Testing 138

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Social media ads. second benchmark for mobile loading. Let your tracking pixel follow visitors around the web and then serve your own ads on someone else’s site. There’s good money to be made if you can nail the pay-per-click advertising formula in Google. Stop With Pop-Ups.

Website 111

Website Speed Mobile Design 111

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

If you work on a media site, then page views and bounce rate matter. Related: Web performance for retailers How to create correlation charts How to benchmark your site against your competitors How to set up real user monitoring (RUM)

Performance 52

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 52

Apica

MAY 10, 2019

In addition in this age of social media, brands must perform at their best or expect negative word-of-mouth because 80% of consumers are likely to tell friends, colleagues, and anyone on blog or reviews site about unsatisfactory online experiences. Load and stress-testing benchmark goals for the backend technological components.

Testing 40

Testing Performance Social Media Wireless 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Briefly, WAL requires that all the transaction log records associated with a ​​ particular ​​ data page be flushed to stable media before the data page itself can be flushed to stable media. Stable Media Stable media is often confused with physical storage.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Check out our performance benchmarks that we ran against WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache. Occasionally, they are for adding functionalities like social media sharing, analytics, etc. It's a lightweight caching plugin for WordPress that makes your website faster by generating static HTML files.

Cache 52

Cache Website Speed Website Performance 52

Rigor

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

As performance benchmarks go, 1.937 seconds is a significant delay in which the user could think your link or site is broken because it will not respond. This window of “they can see it but they can’t interact with it” starts when the desired content appears and ends when the First Interactive Time occurs. UGG First Interactive Time.

Metrics 40

Metrics Social Media Website Retail 40

Speed Curve

JANUARY 31, 2018

Here's how to set up ongoing competitive benchmarking and generate comparison videos. This RWD podcast episode is with a couple of members of Vox Media's performance team. Because SpeedCurve synthetic monitoring is built on top of WebPageTest, you can take advantage of WPT's filmstrip and video capabilities. Additional resources.

Performance 40

Performance Metrics Traffic Monitoring 40

Rigor

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

As performance benchmarks go, 1.937 seconds is a significant delay in which the user could think your link or site is broken because it will not respond. This window of “they can see it but they can’t interact with it” starts when the desired content appears and ends when the First Interactive Time occurs. UGG First Interactive Time.

Metrics 40

Metrics Social Media Website Retail 40

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

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. Media sites are particularly guilty of this. Look at your own industry/competitor benchmarks and your own data! Is it loading?

Performance 138

Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 138

KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

Take these statistics from Google’s industry benchmarks for mobile page speed guide: We’ve said it before but it’s worth reiterating that as web page load times increase, so does the likelihood of your visitors. From there on out it will automatically compress your images upon upload.

Google 103

Google Cache Speed Analytics 103

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ Read Retry When a read from stable media returns an error, ​​ the read operation is ​​ tried ​​ again. ​​ Under certain conditions, ​​ issuing the same read returns the correct data.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

” Currently a Principal Software Engineer at Fastly , he previously helped architect some of the world’s largest media websites. Prior to founding start-ups, Luke was an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at Benchmark Capital , the Chief Design Architect (VP) at Yahoo!,

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. Do we use adaptive media loading and client hints? Adaptive media serving in use.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Metrics Media 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. Consider Swapping Images with the Sizes Attribute by specifying different image display dimensions depending on media queries, e.g. to manipulate sizes to swap sources in a magnifier component. AV1 has compression similar to the H.265

Performance 112

Performance Cache Servers Network 112