Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2020

Recently introduced improvements to Visually complete and new web performance metrics for Real User Monitoring are now available for Synthetic Monitoring as well. Ensure better user experience with paint-focused performance metrics. These metrics are tightly connected to the perceived load speed of your application.

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Metrics Monitoring Performance Benchmarking 226

Dynatrace

JUNE 21, 2024

Define monitoring goals and user experience metrics Next, define what aspects of a digital experience you want to monitor and improve — such as website performance, application responsiveness, or user engagement — and prioritize what to measure for each application. Speed index. How quickly visible parts of the page are rendered.

Best Practices 213

Best Practices Monitoring Metrics Transportation 213

Rigor

JUNE 4, 2019

In the past, the answer would be based on the load time of a page, but over the years, we have evolved our approach to site speed to incorporate new metrics, alone or in combination with existing metrics. The next evolution of performance brought in paint metrics. This is where so-called interactivity metrics come in.

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Metrics Speed Benchmarking Website 71

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 Visually complete is a point-in-time web performance metric that measures when the visual area of a page has finished loading. Dynatrace news. What you can achieve.

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Metrics Performance Benchmarking Monitoring 134

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 24, 2022

As I see it, there are two main issues when it comes to measuring performance changes (note, not improvements , but changes) in the lab: Site-speed is nondeterministic 1. As noted above, it’s not actually possible to improve certain metrics in their own right. There are myriad reasons for this that I won’t cover here. duration ).

Benchmarking 224

Benchmarking Metrics Cache Network 224

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 192

Engineering Tuning Latency Open Source 192

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. Or are they…?

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Metrics Google Monitoring Code 326

Rigor

JUNE 14, 2019

It’s true that what might be considered the “most important” or “best” web performance metrics can vary by industry. These six metrics were not chosen at random – they work together to give you a snapshot of your site’s performance and overall user experience so you can set a baseline and improve speed and usability.

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Metrics Performance Speed Ecommerce 101

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

But with many organizations relying on traditional, manual processes to ensure service reliability and code quality, software delivery speed suffers. DevOps automation is necessary to increase speed and efficiency in the software development pipeline. The report describes the various benchmarks that constitute each stage in depth.

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DevOps Benchmarking Azure Innovation 217

Rigor

JULY 9, 2019

In the past, the answer would be based on the load time of a page, but over the years, we have evolved our approach to site speed to incorporate new metrics, alone or in combination with existing metrics. The next evolution of performance brought in paint metrics. This is where so-called interactivity metrics come in.

Metrics 40

Metrics Speed Benchmarking Website 40

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

One, by researching on the Internet; Two, by developing small programs and benchmarking. Considering all aspects and needs of current enterprise development, it is C++ and Java which outscore the other in terms of speed. The legacy languages — be it ASM or C still rule in terms of performance.

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Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 214

Tasktop

DECEMBER 12, 2022

By adopting value stream management practices, including Flow Metrics, and leveraging insights from Planview Tasktop Viz, this company turned the tides, reducing Flow Time by 70%, improving quality, and leaving customers much happier. The financial services provider focused their attention on three Flow Metrics in Planview Tasktop Viz: .

Metrics 52

Metrics Benchmarking Efficiency Speed 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

RUM gathers information on a variety of performance metrics. Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed).

Best Practices 186

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 186

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2021

Quality gates are benchmarks in the software delivery lifecycle that define specific, measurable, and achievable success criteria that a service must meet before it is advanced to the next phase of the software delivery pipeline. In other words, 90% of organizations either rely on manual quality checks or, even more risky, rely only on hope!

Cloud 244

Cloud DevOps Benchmarking Speed 244

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What do the different metrics mean? While the focus in most cases tends to be directed toward front-end developers, it's important to remember the back-end as well if you see higher than normal start render times or increases in more basic metrics like time to first byte. What do the different metrics mean? Let's get started.

Performance 143

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Leveraging pgbench , which is a benchmarking utility that comes bundled with PostgreSQL, I will put the cluster through its paces by executing a series of DML operations. And now, execute the benchmark: -- execute the following on the coordinator node pgbench -c 20 -j 3 -T 60 -P 3 pgbench The results are not pretty.

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Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 109

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

Quality gates are benchmarks in the software delivery lifecycle that define specific, measurable, and achievable success criteria a service must meet before moving to the next phase of the software delivery pipeline. Automating quality gates creates reliable checks and balances and speeds up the process by avoiding manual intervention.

Benchmarking 195

Benchmarking Latency Speed Software 195

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"I made my pages faster, but my business and user engagement metrics didn't change. The performance poverty line is the plateau 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.

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Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 118

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 .

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Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Fighting regressions should be the top priority of anyone who cares about the speed of their site. The best way to fight regressions is to create performance budgets on key metrics, and get alerted when they go out of bounds. Fight regressions and stay fast It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Metrics Website Testing 62

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.”

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Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Similar to our article Average Page Load Times for 2018 , we’ll go over the averages for metrics and help you determine if your site is faster or slower than average. As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is.

Best Practices 105

Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

However, that pesky 20% on the back end can have a big impact on downstream metrics like First Contentful Paint (FCP), Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), and any other 'loading' metric you can think of. See this guide to learn how you can define custom dimension data, metadata, or metric (timing, size, numeric).

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Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

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

Brendan Gregg

MAY 22, 2021

Imagine "observable metrics": Are there metrics that _aren't_ observable? Means: What metrics and logs does it have?) - Let me try some observability first. For example, benchmarks. We don't use the _real_ word "observable" since that implies the wrong thing. Wait, aren't all performance tools observability tools?

Benchmarking 110

Benchmarking Metrics Speed Database 110

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. Google's Core Web Vitals are a set of metrics that are intended to focus on measuring performance from a user-experience perspective. How does page bloat hurt your business?

Mobile 145

Mobile Google Benchmarking Metrics 145

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 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

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.

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Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 195

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Many good security tools provide that function, and benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) are clear and prescriptive. In fact, in our recent CISO research, 28% of CISOs told us that application teams sometimes bypass these types of tests to speed up delivery. Why is container security tricky? Remove privileges.

Open Source 261

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 261

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

GHz 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) Up to 20% higher compute performance than z1d instances Up to 50 Gbps of networking speed Up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) We can also verify these capabilities by running some simple benchmarks on the different subsystems.

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Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. A performance budget is a threshold that you apply to the metrics you care about the most. Which metrics should you start with? Let's get started!

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Media Google 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 Building separate models for each of the benchmarks was required to get the correct asymptotic properties.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

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. This includes metrics such as query execution time, the number of queries executed per second, and the utilization of query cache and adaptive hash index.

Performance 108

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 108

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

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. Remember, speed is key to the user experience. Optimize Your Pages.

Website 92

Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

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. Time period.

Retail 52

Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 52

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Benchmarking. Based on feedback from our customers – as well as the industry at large – we now give you the ability to run tests when debugging, benchmarking, or just because you feel like it. What are the two types of tests within SpeedCurve? Synthetic performance testing comes in two forms: Scheduled testing Baselining.

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Testing Benchmarking Performance Testing Metrics 73