O'Reilly

MARCH 25, 2025

Evaluation : How do we evaluate such systems, especially when outputs are qualitative, subjective, or hard to benchmark? Business value : Once we have a rubric for evaluating our systems, how do we tie our macro-level business value metrics to our micro-level LLM evaluations? How do we do so? We tested both retrieval quality (e.g.,

Systems 67

Systems Development Tuning Monitoring 67

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The newcomer to the scene was Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), and, not surprisingly, it's the metric that's gotten the most questions. Does it correlate to user behaviour or business metrics in any measurable way? While I understand why score-based metrics add value, I'm a visual person. How is it calculated? is considered poor.

Retail 88

Retail Benchmarking Google Metrics 88

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

A performance budget is a threshold that you apply to the metrics you care about the most. A good performance budget chart, such as the one above, should show you: The metric you're tracking The threshold you've created for that metric When you exceed that threshold How long you stayed out of bounds When you returned to below the threshold 3.

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Media Google 98

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

KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

While these metrics can be very helpful it is also important to keep this data in perspective. 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.

Google 103

Google Cache Speed Analytics 103

Speed Curve

AUGUST 8, 2017

Because the average page is now 3MB in size, and this seems like a good time to pause, check our assumptions, and ask ourselves: Is there any reason to care about page size as a performance metric? And if we don't consider page size a meaningful metric, then what should we care about? They represent trends – that's all.

Metrics 85

Metrics Website Speed Benchmarking 85

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

That's why it's a good idea to not just focus on metrics like Start Render – you should also investigate Hero Rendering metrics , which track when the most meaningful content on your pages (e.g., At SpeedCurve we call these metrics "IX Time" and they're available on your LUX Performance dashboard.)

Performance 85

Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 85

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Having a slow site might leave you on page 452 of search results, regardless of any other metric. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018.

Cache 94

Cache Social Media Media Website 94

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

You can see at a glance: Key metrics like Core Web Vitals and your User Happiness score. Your current competitive benchmarks status. Here you can still find time series charts that show how performance is trending over time across a number of key metrics, including Core Web Vitals. Expanded Industry Speed Benchmarks.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 19, 2015

The idea is to identify your performance goals and track the metrics that help you achieve your goals. 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.

Performance 45

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Media 45

Rigor

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Visual Metrics Alone Paint Only Half The Picture. Existing metrics like DOM Content Loaded and Onload Time are giving way to user-centric metrics such as visual timings and user timings. Interactivity metrics can provide insight and uncover blind spots not yet realized and are a valuable addition to your metrics arsenal.

Metrics 40

Metrics Social Media Website Retail 40

Rigor

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Visual Metrics Alone Paint Only Half The Picture. Existing metrics like DOM Content Loaded and Onload Time are giving way to user-centric metrics such as visual timings and user timings. Interactivity metrics can provide insight and uncover blind spots not yet realized and are a valuable addition to your metrics arsenal.

Metrics 40

Metrics Social Media Website Retail 40

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. This helps support executive sponsors who then have meaningful metrics to point to in justifying the investments being made. Very rarely have we seen a team succeed that doesn’t set budgets, gather RUM metrics, and carry representative customer devices.

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. How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance. Time is Money. High Performance Websites.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Graph of resource request chains on a typical news media website. Researchers and major companies have been publishing case studies for years , proving that slower page load experiences impact business metrics, including conversion rate, revenue, bounce rate, and more. Large preview ). Ad Blockers Makes Sites Faster.

Website 138

Website Design Network Testing 138

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"I made my pages faster, but my business and user engagement metrics didn't change. The performance plateau is the point at which changes to your website’s rendering metrics (such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint) cease to matter because you’ve bottomed out in terms of business and user engagement metrics.

Performance 52

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 52

Speed Curve

JANUARY 31, 2018

Over the years, I've learned that performance can be mapped to all of these metrics – and almost any other business metric you can think of. To hook different people on performance, you need to understand which metric motivates them. Here's how to set up ongoing competitive benchmarking and generate comparison videos.

Performance 40

Performance Metrics Traffic Monitoring 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

Speed Curve

JULY 8, 2024

A recent analysis of twenty leading websites found a surprising number of page speed optimizations that sites are not taking advantage of – to the detriment of their performance metrics, and more importantly, to the detriment of their users and ultimately their business.

Speed 139

Speed Cache Benchmarking Metrics 139

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Web pages are unbelievably complex, and there are hundreds of different metrics available to track. A performance budget is a threshold that you apply to the metrics you care about the most. This is when you run into three important questions: Which metrics should you focus on? Which metrics should you focus on?

Performance 138

Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 138

Speed Curve

MAY 31, 2020

One of the huge benefits of tracking web performance over time is the ability to see trends and compare metrics. Understand which metrics got better or worse. In this demo account, we track a number of leading retail, travel, and media sites. Hovering over any metric in the waterfall chart shows you the metric for both tests.

Metrics 66

Metrics Retail Benchmarking Testing 66

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

We've been tracking these as individual metrics – Largest Contentful Paint, First Input Delay, and Cumulative Layout Shift – since before Google branded them as a set. Your Sessions dashboard lets you drill down and segment your RUM data by: Metric / duration. Industry speed benchmarks for Japan. RUM Live dashboard.

Retail 52

Retail Benchmarking Website Metrics 52

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Developers representing hundreds of companies work together at these meetups to become masters in performance metrics and the latest trends in measuring site speed.) And, of course, you should follow him on Twitter @ igrigorik for in-depth insights on web performance metrics, user experience, and industry news. Maximiliano Firtman.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics Performance culture, Core Web Vitals, performance profiles, CrUX, Lighthouse, FID, TTI, CLS, devices. Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Table Of Contents.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. 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. Table Of Contents. Quick Wins.

Performance 112

Performance Cache Servers Network 112

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Make sure you’re tracking the right metrics Think beyond Core Web Vitals. Consider adding custom metrics. If you need to track iOS traffic and other clients, custom metrics let you measure what is most important to your business. Third parties can hurt important metrics, like Core Web Vitals.

Speed 64

Speed Benchmarking Traffic Retail 64

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

We started with SEM/SEO but over time as we grew, we used many channels to acquire customers like Social media, Biz dev, Trade shows, SEM, SEO, Inbound marketing and high touch sales for Enterprise customers. We also generate quite a bit of internal application metrics using a home grown framework. How do you market your product?

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52