Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2024

The Web Performance Guide is – as its name suggests – a collection of articles we've been writing over the years to answer the most common questions we field about performance topics like site speed, why it matters, how it's measured, website monitoring tools, metrics, analytics, and optimization techniques.

Performance 92

Performance Speed Best Practices Metrics 92

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?

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

From my experience, a month of monitoring is the optimal duration to gain statistically significant insights into “how my entity behaves with the configured SLO.” Let’s assume we created a service-availability SLO, monitoring the request failure count against the overall request counts. What characterizes a weak SLO?

Efficiency 219

Efficiency Traffic Tuning Metrics 219

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Automating tasks throughout the SDLC helps software development and operations teams collaborate while continuously improving how they design, build, test, deploy, release, and monitor software applications. Defect escape rate is the rate of issues and bugs that escape testing and arise after a software application is in production.

DevOps 183

DevOps Speed Innovation Monitoring 183

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 4, 2019

To tackle this problem Christian experimented with automatically creating Dynatrace Synthetic Tests as part of his GitLab Pipelines. Create Synthetic Test : Query the readiness endpoint and ingress of the deployed service, then create a Dynatrace Synthetic Test through the Dynatrace Synthetic API.

Monitoring 144

Monitoring Best Practices Testing Network 144

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. If so, test against the response time objective under the same Site Reliability Guardian. If both objectives pass, you have achieved your cost reduction on CPU size.

AWS 242

AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 242

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

When an incident occurs, developers need to know what data to look at, where the incident occurred, and other relevant metrics. With traditional monitoring tools, the granular data that developers require typically involves manual preparation. The scale and the highly distributed systems result in enormous amounts of data.

Development 257

Development DevOps Programming Cloud 257

Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

Automatically collect and evaluate business, service, and architectural indicator metrics to promote or roll back deployments. Automating lifecycle orchestration including monitoring, remediation, and testing across the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC). Topics in this blog series. Kubernetes pod attributes.

Software 246

Software Software Open Source Azure 246

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Validation tasks are then extended left to cover performance testing and release validation in a pre-production environment. These examples can help you define your starting point for establishing DevOps and SRE best practices in your organization. The queries are depicted below (sensitive data has been removed).

DevOps 182

DevOps Traffic Latency Best Practices 182

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

As businesses compete for customer loyalty, it’s critical to understand the difference between real-user monitoring and synthetic user monitoring. These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences.

Best Practices 171

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 171

O'Reilly

JUNE 15, 2023

If we want prosocial outcomes, we need to design and report on the metrics that explicitly aim for those outcomes and measure the extent to which they have been achieved. The creators of generative AI systems and Large Language Models already have tools for monitoring, modifying, and optimizing them.

Artificial Intelligence 116

Artificial Intelligence Best Practices Metrics Systems 116

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance. In this blog, we will explore various MySQL KPIs that are basic and essential to track using monitoring tools like PMM.

Performance 106

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 106

Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

One way to apply improvements is transforming the way application performance engineering and testing is done. This involves new software delivery models, adapting to complex software architectures, and embracing automation for analysis and testing. Check out Dynatrace’s Load testing tool integration. Get started today! .

Performance 238

Performance Education Innovation Software Architecture 238

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Establish the relevant service level indicators (SLIs) that need to be monitored, the process for remediating any issues, the relevant tools required, and timeframes for resolution. Commonly, teams create SLOs because they are simply following what others in the industry are doing, or because they are common best practices.

DevOps 191

DevOps Metrics Best Practices Latency 191

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

As defined by Gartner , service-level objectives are an agreed-upon target within an SLA that must be achieved for each activity, function, and process to provide the best opportunity for customer success. SLIs provide the actual metrics and measurements that indicate whether you are meeting your SLO. SLO best practices.

Metrics 186

Metrics Best Practices DevOps Infrastructure 186

Dynatrace

JULY 30, 2021

Cloud Automation workshop attendees not only get to walk through my Three-step implementation guide to answer-drive SLO-based release validation , but they also get to trigger multi-stage and multi-environment cloud automation including Monitoring As Code , Deployment Automation, and SLO-based Release Validation.

Cloud 212

Cloud DevOps Azure Virtualization 212

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Part one also provided an overview of Dynatrace’s Cloud Automation solution, Microsoft’s GitHub Actions , and open-source examples you can use and extend related to deployment and release monitoring. Example #3 – Automate Monitoring configuration as code. Monitoring as Code workflow example. Blog series use cases.

Software 195

Software Software Open Source DevOps 195

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

APRIL 9, 2023

Here's how the update to Lighthouse 10 may affect your metrics. Metrics and scoring weights include the deprecation of Time to Interactive (TTI) and the increase in weight for Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS). It's important to note that the recommended thresholds may still be adjusted, as this is still an experimental metric.

Cache 73

Cache Best Practices Metrics Google 73

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 30, 2023

By following key log analytics and log management best practices, teams can get more business value from their data. Challenges driving the need for log analytics and log management best practices As organizations undergo digital transformation and adopt more cloud computing techniques, data volume is proliferating.

Best Practices 238

Best Practices Analytics Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 238

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In one of our previous articles , we discussed what an SRE is, what they do, and some of the common responsibilities that a typical SRE may have, like supporting operations, dealing with trouble tickets and incident response, and general system monitoring and observability. SLIs are the actual performance metrics of your services.

Monitoring 91

Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

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. The tricky part comes when you try to put them into practice. Which metrics should you focus on? Here are some metrics to consider.

Performance 133

Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 133

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Expanded our test agent locations to bring you even more places to test from worldwide. You can see at a glance: Key metrics like Core Web Vitals and your User Happiness score. Hint: If you're considering installing a big-screen performance monitor at your organization, this dashboard is a good candidate for that.).

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Testing And Monitoring. Prioritizing Metrics Online metrics are almost limitless.

Engineering 132

Engineering Google Website Mobile 132

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

Inspired by that post, I wanted to dig a bit deeper into a few of the best practices they mentioned, which fall loosely into these three buckets: Analyze your pages – understand the critical rendering path and page composition. Monitor your longest Long Tasks. Create performance budgets and fight regression.

Performance 77

Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 77

Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2024

Observability Observability is the ability to determine a system’s health by analyzing the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces. There are three main types of telemetry data: Metrics. Metrics are typically aggregated and stored in time series databases for monitoring and alerting purposes.

Latency 228

Latency Best Practices Metrics Open Source 228

Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2021

CD is the next step in the process that automates the delivery of applications to selected infrastructure environments, such as a development environment for a related feature, or testing environments to verify feature functionality and proper integration with other parts of the software. Testing quality improves. Test pass rate.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices DevOps Open Source Cloud 130

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

You’ve likely uttered the phrases “test early and often” and “shift left,” but do you always remind yourself of the importance of that phrase from the end user’s perspective? LoadView – Best Practices and Process. Distribute user load by geographical testing locations, simulating your customer base.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2024

While DORA emphasizes managing risks associated with some third-party ICT service providers, financial institutions have limited control over security practices of these vendors. Effectively assessing and mitigating these external risks requires robust vendor due diligence and continuous monitoring of their cybersecurity posture.

Best Practices 261

Best Practices Government DevOps Analytics 261

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

Without SRE best practices, the observability landscape is too complex for any single organization to manage. Like any evolving discipline, it is characterized by a lack of commonly accepted practices and tools. Like any evolving discipline, it is characterized by a lack of commonly accepted practices and tools.

Best Practices 182

Best Practices Open Source Tuning Infrastructure 182

Speed Curve

JUNE 15, 2020

No one plans to make a page or web app that sucks the life out of their users' devices, so it's super important to monitor the effect your JS is having. New JavaScript CPU metrics. Track CPU metrics in your first and third parties. We felt it was an important metric, but we were disappointed with the lack of usage.

Metrics 74

Metrics Best Practices Monitoring Google 74

Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

Real user monitoring can help you catch these issues before they impact the bottom line. What is real user monitoring? Real user monitoring (RUM) is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about a user’s interaction with an application. Real user monitoring collects data on a variety of metrics.

Monitoring 175

Monitoring Mobile Latency Best Practices 175

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Synthetic testing simulates real-user behaviors within an application or service to pinpoint potential problems. Here’s a look at why this testing matters, how it works, and what companies need to get the most from this approach. What is synthetic testing? RUM, meanwhile, requires actual users.

Testing 203

Testing Best Practices Testing Tools Monitoring 203

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

Organizations can now accelerate innovation and reduce the risk of failed software releases by incorporating on-demand synthetic monitoring as a metrics provider for automatic, continuous release-validation processes. The ability to scale testing as part of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) has proven difficult.

Monitoring 195

Monitoring Software Software DevOps 195

Tasktop

JANUARY 9, 2020

Even better, we can glean valuable end-to-end system data that can be used for higher-level business-centric Flow Metrics , empowering you to generate more business value through your software delivery. . Because data is stored in tools in different formats, cross-tool metrics require data normalization to make sense of it all.

Software 59

Software Software Metrics Database 59

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.

Benchmarking 119

Benchmarking Metrics Best Practices Monitoring 119

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance. This practical guide shows users how run tests & interpret results to gain a better and more thorough understanding of hidden features in WebPageTest. Complete Web Monitoring. Time is Money. High Performance Websites. Information Architecture.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75