MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

You can use it through the Chrome Dev tools, through the command line, or as a Node module if you really want to get your hands dirty. It offers audits for best practices, accessibility, progressive web apps, SEO and of course, performance. Let’s take a look at how to get the most out of this powerful tool.

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Google Speed Testing Tools Testing 82

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.

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Performance Speed Best Practices Metrics 103

DZone

MAY 4, 2022

Without a crystal clear understanding of the processes when a team works on a software product, it can be tempting to think that all the problems stem from under-qualified QA engineers who click around randomly and ruin the hard work of the whole team.

Strategy 100

Strategy Best Practices Testing Development 100

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. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors.

Engineering 135

Engineering Google Website Mobile 135

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

There are many key performance indicators (KPI) that measure different points during the lifecycle of the web page (such as TTFB, domInteractive and onload ), but these metrics don’t reflect how the end-user experiences the page. We found out user-centric performance metrics to be the perfect fit for this purpose. Large preview ).

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Website Google Metrics Testing Tools 120

Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

It is recommended to follow rules and best practices of building and sending emails. With this article, you will enhance your testing workflows by covering all the important aspects, and saving time and stress with suitable email testing methods and tools. Are You Keeping On Top Of Your Email Metrics?

Testing 112

Testing Servers Social Media Testing Tools 112

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

WebPageTest is one of the few web performance testing tools that actually tests a reload of the page using a primed HTTP Cache — most of the other tools just flag if your HTTP resources are not explicitly set to be cached. 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices.

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Cache Games Performance Website 106

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

So noticeable, in fact, that Core Web Vitals has a metric all about it called Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). This metric measures the time it takes, in seconds, to render the largest image or text block that is visible on the initial load. We can test for LCP in a number of ways. And most of all, we need to care.

Media 77

Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 77

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

At a minimum, Optimal recommends that you have RUM, APM, synthetic, and load test tools set up, instrumented, and producing meaningful data. Review OWASP’s recommendations and best practices with your developers. Are they providing meaningful, actionable data? STEP 7: Tune Your CDN Performance.

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Website Cache Traffic Ecommerce 74

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. This is because, as I stated in the introduction to part 1 , much of the early HTTP/2 content was overly optimistic about how well it would work in practice, and some of it, quite frankly, had major mistakes and bad advice.

Network 120

Network Servers Cache Traffic 120

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

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

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Google Cache Speed Analytics 103

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2020

The good news is there are website monitoring tools specially designed to solve this problem. You may start your diagnosis from our free speed test tool , and no sign up is required. For this article, we ran a speed test for the TED website as the target website. Best Practices.

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Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JULY 7, 2020

The good news is there are website monitoring tools specially designed to solve this problem. You may start your diagnosis from our free speed test tool , and no sign up is required. For this article, we ran a speed test for the TED website as the target website. Best Practices.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

The good news is there are website monitoring tools specially designed to solve this problem. You may start your diagnosis from our free speed test tool , and no sign up is required. For this article, we ran a speed test for the TED website as the target website. Best Practices.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

My goal is always to deliver tangible best practices that can be implemented today, and that can help teams transform their organization to true software-centric, digital cloud-native businesses. Chef, Puppet, Ansible), or delivery tools (e.g. A game-changing two days of enhancing business and IT performance.

DevOps 47

DevOps Software Software Best Practices 47

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Testing And Monitoring. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Table Of Contents. Setting Realistic Goals.

Performance 111

Performance Cache Network Metrics 111

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Testing And Monitoring. 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.

Performance 112

Performance Cache Network Servers 112

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 29, 2024

If you're scrambling to optimize your site before Black Friday, you still have time to implement some or all of these best practices. Real user monitoring (RUM) can sometimes be harder to implement on short notice compared to synthetic tools. Google Tag Manager) or A/B testing tool if you need to circumvent code changes.

Speed 64

Speed Benchmarking Traffic Retail 64

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. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. DOM complete, time to first byte, first input delay, client CPU and memory usage. Get a free trial of LogRocket today.

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Performance Cache Metrics Media 145