O'Reilly

MARCH 25, 2025

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? At its core, this case study demonstrates evaluation-driven development in action. They used some local embeddings and played around with different chunking strategies.

Systems 69

Systems Development Tuning Monitoring 69

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Key metrics for OpenShift monitoring. Here are some key metrics for monitoring an OpenShift cluster to understand how it’s performing: Number and state of pods and nodes. These metrics can tell you the condition of the underlying nodes and the number of pods running in each node. Resource usage. Control plane performance.

Monitoring 147

Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

However, there are quite a few high-profile case studies exploring the impact of mobile optimization on key business metrics. WPO stats collects literally hundreds of them — case studies and experiments demonstrating the impact of web performance optimization (WPO) across verticals and goals.

Mobile 142

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 142

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A Case Study in Misleading AI Advice An example of this disconnect in action comes from an interview with Jake Heller, CEO of Casetext. Here are some key takeaways to keep in mind: Be skeptical of advice or metrics that sound too good to be true. This disconnect leads to misunderstandings, misconceptions, and wasted resources.

Latency 66

Latency Tuning Metrics Testing 66

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

Tasktop

MAY 24, 2021

While Smart gave a concise overview of what OKRs are and what good and bad OKRs look like, our CEO and founder Dr. Mik Kersten shared a compelling case study into the role of flow in OKRs. How do we give the software delivery organization a louder voice in business strategy? Moving from Project to Product with Flow Metrics.

DevOps 91

DevOps Metrics Healthcare Innovation 91

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Many articles and case studies published during the last decade successfully achieve the balance between abstract models and machine learning. In most cases it is reasonable to model and optimize gross margin, but, as we will discuss in the next section dedicated to response modeling, other objectives are also possible.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority.

Performance 78

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 78

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this article, we will review what third-party resource requests are, consider how impactful they can be to the user experience, and discuss common optimization strategies to reduce the impact on the user experience. Even if you cannot prevent all third-party requests, web designers can make choices that will have an impact.

Website 138

Website Design Network Testing 138

Website Optimization

MAY 31, 2018

After a suitable amount of traffic, conversions and time, you can see which campaign wins (for various metrics including cost/conversion, CTR, and conversion rate). We wanted to see if another bid strategy would provide even better results, after consulting with Google we tested the "Target CPA" bid strategy. We used the $15.20

Google 40

Google Strategy Traffic Metrics 40

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Case Study: Image Component In A Jamstack Site. Images are crucial elements for performance and UX, and data extracted from Core Web Vitals metrics such as Largest Contentful Paint , which attempts to identify the most important piece of the above-the-fold content on a given page, proves this. Fixes To Common Problems.

Media 125

Media Cache Website Mobile 125

Tasktop

MARCH 18, 2021

Through the combination of technology, coaching and services, Tasktop equips organizations with everything needed for a successful project to product journey, including tooling, infrastructure and metrics. I could see how my prior coursework and co-curricular experience prepared me for this internship.

Social Media 52

Social Media Media Design Software 52

Tasktop

MARCH 18, 2021

Through the combination of technology, coaching and services, Tasktop equips organizations with everything needed for a successful project to product journey, including tooling, infrastructure and metrics. I could see how my prior coursework and co-curricular experience prepared me for this internship.

Social Media 40

Social Media Media Design Software 40

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Based on the data provided by divante ’s findings on 30 PWA case studies, progressive web apps have a 36% larger mobile conversion rate than native applications. Moreover, Garten-und-Freizeit, a German e-commerce store that sells furniture, saw an amazing improvement in their metrics after getting a PWA. Large preview ).

Code 90

Code Cache Mobile Retail 90

Rigor

MAY 29, 2019

Currently, Cliff is senior product line director, web performance, for Akamai Technologies, where he spends his time building product strategy for their performance portfolio. Q: How do you find a balance when it comes to adding value vs. impact to metrics? Create case studies. Be visible. Bring data. Send reports.

Performance 40

Performance Education Engineering Monitoring 40

Testsigma

MARCH 24, 2021

Such case studies uplift the importance of a better user interface and hence the importance of the user interface testing, or UI testing. This has been a standard strategy in development and testing. I can report the time and when another version is released, these metrics can be compared to new metrics to judge the performance.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Testing Mobile Games 52

CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 10, 2019

by Jake Archibald explains how analyzing WebPageTest results can lead you to performance improvements on a Formula 1-themed case study. The problem with testing Single Page Applications. Single Page Applications ( SPA s) radically changed the way websites work. Instead of letting the back end (e.g.

Performance Testing 53

Performance Testing Testing Performance Open Source 53

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Download our eBook, “ Enterprise Guide to Cloud Databases ” to help you make more informed decisions and avoid costly mistakes as you develop and execute your cloud strategy. Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) can also be used to gather metrics. View the full results of the case study here.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). The difference from using the actual separate font weight is slight, but not enough for our use case, where we use almost no bold font, only a handful of words at a time (sorry, font aficionados).

Performance 132

Performance Cache Website Mobile 132

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. Only 3 out of 20 sites passed this audit.

Speed 139

Speed Cache Benchmarking Metrics 139

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

However, having a performance budget as a standalone metric might not be of much help. Anyone with a web presence would appreciate the relationship between the effect of various performance measures on business metrics. However, determining the right content to deliver depends on both your business strategy and site performance. “A

Media 122

Media Performance Mobile Latency 122

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Some of the biggest size savings and performance improvements can come through a better image optimization strategy. Packed with useful tips and techniques , the book has a sharp focus on practical application and longevity of your image optimization strategies. Which metrics should you focus on to improve the user experience?

Media 124

Media Cache Google Best Practices 124

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Some of the biggest size savings and performance improvements can come through a better image optimization strategy. Packed with useful tips and techniques , the book has a sharp focus on practical application and longevity of your image optimization strategies. Which metrics should you focus on to improve the user experience?

Media 105

Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

But we can’t really say just yet whether it had any impact on the business metrics — well, we’ll need to wait for a big book release to see that. We’ve also been reaching out to invite new authors and smart folks like you to work on interesting case studies from your ongoing projects. Green Scores in Lighthouse on Mobile.

Mobile 142

Mobile Design Cache Code 142

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.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Metrics Media 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. Quick Wins.

Performance 112

Performance Cache Servers Network 112

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

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 on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Table Of Contents. Setting Realistic Goals. Assets Optimizations.

Performance 111

Performance Cache Network Metrics 111

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

Image source: Lighthouse Metrics ) ( Large preview ). We’ve re-established a strategy for optimizing images (preferably AVIF or WebP — still work in progress though). Hopefully, this little case-study will be useful to you, and perhaps there are one or two techniques that you might be able to apply to your project right away.

Performance 111

Performance Cache Mobile Network 111