Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

How To Benchmark And Improve Web Vitals With Real User Metrics. How To Benchmark And Improve Web Vitals With Real User Metrics. Different products will have different benchmarks and two apps may perform differently against the same metrics, but still rank quite similarly to our subjective “good” and “bad” verdicts.

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Benchmarking Metrics Best Practices Monitoring 133

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Social media was relatively quiet, and as always, the Dynatrace Insights team was benchmarking key retailer home pages from mobile and desktop perspectives. Below is a Dynatrace honeycomb chart depicting the performance of the synthetics tests tracked by the Dynatrace Business Insights team.

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Retail Social Media Performance Benchmarking 278

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences. Because pre-production environments are used for testing before an application is released to end users, teams have no access to real-user data. What is synthetic monitoring?

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Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 244

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Many good security tools provide that function, and benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) are clear and prescriptive. Four types of tools are commonly used to detect software vulnerabilities: Source-code tests that are used in development environments. Source code tests. Run source code tests.

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Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 279

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2021

As organizations aim for faster delivery of value to their customers, the frequency of releases inevitably increases, which introduces risks and uncertainty into production systems—unless automated tests and quality gates can be leveraged to provide confidence. What are quality gates? Shift left your SRE practices.

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Cloud DevOps Benchmarking Speed 246

Speed Curve

APRIL 3, 2022

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. Scroll down to the bottom of this post for more testing details.). The Guardian ( view desktop test results ).

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Benchmarking Speed Retail Mobile 59

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 111

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? 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.) Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems. include <sys/time.h>

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 103

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

MySQL on AWS Performance Test. Reads and writes to your Primary, and even reads from Slave-1 will work at SSD speed. MySQL Performance Benchmark Configuration. MySQL Performance Test Scenarios and Results. Amazon RDS. Instance Type. AWS High Performance XLarge (see system details below). DB Instance r4.xlarge

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AWS Latency Performance Performance Testing 183

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. And to ensure the quality of a product, we always need to test — on a number of devices, and in a number of conditions. What’s a representative device to test on in 2021? Kelvin Omereshone. State Of Mobile 2021.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 142

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In today’s world, the speed of innovation is key to business success. Static Application Security Testing (SAST) solutions are a traditional way of addressing this. A perfect OWASP benchmark score for injection attacks – 100% accuracy and zero false positives – impressively proves the precision of our approach.

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Traffic Benchmarking Innovation Java 246

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

PageSpeed Compare is a page speed evaluation and benchmarking tool. Network and CPU are throttled for lab data tests for more realistic conditions. Running the test takes a while, as each web page test is done one at a time. The tests can be run for both mobile and desktop. PageSpeed Compare.

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Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 134

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

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. By analyzing the data from Backlinko.com and their Page Speed Stats article, we’ll look to answer these questions: What size should be a website be?

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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

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Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

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 ). The problem isn't them – it's the scale of their sites, the speed of their release cycles, and the number of people who touch each page.

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Mobile Google Benchmarking Metrics 145

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

A micro-benchmark suite, LEBench was then built around tee system calls responsible for most of the time spent in the kernel. On the exact same hardware, the benchmark suite is then used to test 36 Linux release versions from 3.0 This causes average slowdowns of 66% across the select , poll , and epoll tests.

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Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

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++ 114

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.

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Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Image by Freepik On-demand testing has sparked a lot of discussion here at SpeedCurve over the past year. You've always had the ability to manually trigger a round of tests – based on the scheduled tests in your settings – using the 'Test Now' button. What are the two types of tests within SpeedCurve?

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Testing Benchmarking Performance Testing Metrics 83

KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

Running speed tests with tools like Google PageSpeed Insights , WebPageTest , or KeyCDN’s Website Speed Test are always a good way to help gauge your website’s performance. Why Care About Page Speed? There are a multitude of reasons why you should care about page speed. A site which loads in 2.6

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Google Cache Speed Analytics 103

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. Bitrate is the playback speed of the video. However, all the other connections have a downlink speed that’s significantly lower than 20 MBPS. There is a solution though! Large preview ).

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Network Speed Website Mobile 144

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

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? 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.) Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

There will be a considerable gain if we combine this with other sets of great improvements in WAL archiving in PostgreSQL 15, as discussed in previous posts New WAL Archive Module/Library in PostgreSQL 15 and Speed Up of the WAL Archiving in PostgreSQL 15. I couldn’t see any adverse effect on the TPS on quick tests.

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Database Benchmarking Open Source Latency 142

Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Sometimes developers only care about speed. Why RPC is “faster” It’s tempting to simply write a micro-benchmark test where we issue 1000 requests to a server over HTTP and then repeat the same test with asynchronous messages. But that’s just a micro-benchmark and doesn’t tell you the whole story.

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Benchmarking Latency Servers Systems 97

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. You should not only monitor the backup mount for disk space and backup log but also regularly test the restores and log to match RPO and RTO objectives.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 135

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.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Real-life performance for your users and how the website “feels” when you’re using it should not be discounted, even if it costs you a point or two in Page Speed (otherwise, we would all just have a search bar and unstyled text).

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 132

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?

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Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

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.

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Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Nowadays, solid-state drives (SSDs) or non-volatile memory express (NVMe) drives are preferred over traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) for database servers due to their faster read and write speeds, lower latency, and improved reliability. Benchmark before you decide. Transparent huge pages (THP) disabled.

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Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 144

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Fighting regressions should be the top priority of anyone who cares about the speed of their site. Fighting regressions should be the top priority of anyone who cares about the speed of their site. READ : How to create a competitive benchmark dashboard ––––– 4. This is the place to find that out.

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Benchmarking Metrics Website Testing 72

Speed Curve

MAY 31, 2014

As of the 1st of June SpeedCurve has switched to using faster testing agents at Amazon EC2 data centers. As web pages become more Javascript and resource heavy I've noticed more and more pages max out the CPU while performance testing. Do note that SpeedCurve's strength is competitive benchmarking and detailed build analysis.

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Testing Benchmarking Speed Website 40

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Yet, we wanted to put together our list of the top web performance books for anyone who cares about speed of the web and would like to explore the timeline of web performance engineering milestones over nearly two decades through the lens of published books. Site speed & SEO go hand in hand. Information Architecture. Mobile First.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

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? HammerDB development. Derived Workloads.

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Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 63

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? 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.) Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems. include <sys/time.h>

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

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.

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Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52