Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Geoff Graham 2023-08-10T08:00:00+00:00 2023-08-10T12:35:05+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear There is no shortage of ways to measure the speed of a webpage. Lighthouse results. One type is called lab data.

Speed 82

Speed Monitoring Testing Network 82

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Architecture Scalability 130

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

How to measure performance The Website Speed Test is the ideal tool for measuring the performance of your website. WebP means faster loading times and less traffic. WebP size comparison In previous case studies, we've analyzed the different image sizes against WebP. PNG to WebP - Size Comparison WebP results in a 42.8%

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Processing Cache Website Servers 127

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

Once Dynatrace sees the incoming traffic it will also show up in Dynatrace, under Transaction & Services. Step 7 accomplished : While there are several options to compare test runs, the multi dimensional analysis view gives us a great starting point into the comparison views of Dynatrace. SimpleNodeJsService.

Engineering 200

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 200

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. You can check the mobile view of your website in a side by side comparison view with mirrored interactions and touch support.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 136

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Benefits of snappy compression in MongoDB: Fast compression and decompression speeds Low CPU usage A streamable format that allows for quick processing Minimal impact on query performance Zstandard Compression or zstd , another newer block compression method provided by MongoDB starting for v4.2, provides higher compression rates.

Storage 115

Storage Network Open Source Latency 115

KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

Then again, a newer but less widely known framework may more effectively suit your needs, so it's worth it to get up to speed about today's most popular options. According to StatCounter , as of December 2020, mobile traffic has surpassed desktop traffic with 55.73% of traffic coming from mobile devices.

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Google Mobile Open Source Website 135

CSS - Tricks

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

TTFB mobile speed distribution (CrUX, July 2019). FCP mobile speed distribution (CrUX, July 2019). FID mobile speed distribution (CrUX, July 2019). TTFB mobile speed distribution comparison between all web and CMS (CrUX, July 2019). TTFB takes from 200ms to 1 second for users around the world. FCP happens after 2.5

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Speed Mobile Metrics Scalability 47

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

With your RUM Compare dashboard, you can easily generate side-by-side comparisons for any two cohorts of data. Triage a performance regression related to the latest change or deployment to your site by looking at a before/after comparison. Evaluate CDN performance by exploring the impact of time-of-day traffic patterns.

Traffic 56

Traffic Metrics Speed Mobile 56

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

I propose four key ingredients: Definition: What is "performance" beyond page speed? Here, for instance, are the network costs of transitioning from the inbox view of Gmail to a message: Displaying the first message requires 82KiB of network traffic in the Ajax version of Gmail, half of which are images embedded in the message.

Performance 113

Performance Latency Architecture Network 113

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems. us on Ubuntu.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

When looking at the load event for comparison, we can see that the first input occurs very late. Traffic for these sites has been extremely high, given increased online activity due to COVID, not to mention the huge volume of cyber shopping happening as we speak. Page experience timeline illustrating typical sequence of metrics.

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Metrics Entertainment Google Monitoring 113

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

It’s “single-threaded,” which is how we get the one-way street comparison. We can expand the metric to glean insights into what exactly is causing traffic on the main thread. Large preview ) That’s a nice big view and is a good illustration of TBT’s impact on page speed. Credit: Brandon Nelson on Unsplash.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 94

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

With your RUM Compare dashboard , you can easily generate side-by-side comparisons for any two cohorts of real user data. Triage a performance regression related to the latest change or deployment to your site by looking at a before/after comparison. Evaluate CDN performance by exploring the impact of time-of-day traffic patterns.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? The CentOS flame graph: The Ubuntu flame graph: Darn, they didn't work.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

For comparison, the same amount of data costs $6.66 The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. Perhaps surprisingly, users experience faster speeds over a mobile network than WiFi in at least 30 countries worldwide, including Australia and France. For comparison, $3.67 in the UK, or $12.37

Cache 97

Cache Mobile Google Network 97

Speed Curve

MAY 29, 2022

Traffic size. We see a large variety of sites at SpeedCurve, representing an assortment of countries, industry segments, traffic levels and more. Traffic fluctuates based on the hour of the day, day of the week, and due to seasonality. Note the consistency in the 95th percentile illustrated in these comparison charts.

Traffic 52

Traffic Metrics Monitoring Performance 52

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Fighting regressions should be the top priority of anyone who cares about the speed of their site. You can prioritize them by how many URLs they affect or how much of your real user traffic they affect. Fight regressions and stay fast It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast.

Benchmarking 66

Benchmarking Metrics Website Testing 66

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. Note that there is an Apache Traffic Server implementation, though.). need to deal with the fact that intermediate networks might block UDP and/or QUIC traffic.

Network 108

Network Servers Cache Traffic 108

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

Each smartphone comes with various screen sizes and resolutions, operates on different network speeds, and has different hardware capabilities. Test how user-friendly an application is: Google search engine gives high priority to websites in comparison to desktop apps. Signup for a free trial of Testsigma and see it for yourself.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Speed Curve

JULY 26, 2022

Fixing high-traffic but poorly performing areas of your site will improve your overall metrics – and create a faster, better experience for more of your users. Compare third parties – When comparing two synthetic tests, see a comparison of common third parties and identify which third parties are unique to each test.

Testing 52

Testing Performance Metrics Traffic 52

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Sure, developing a codebase multiple time was more expensive than the web's write-once-test-everywhere approach, but at least you got speed for the effort. Today's popular JS-based approaches are simply unsafe at any speed. sites from Vercel's showcase , as well as the fraction of mobile traffic to each site. But why do I care?

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Strategy Mobile Google Social Media 76

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The change may be related to volume ("I'm seeing a lot more users from Ireland today" or "We are getting a lot more traffic to our landing pages") or it may be related to a metric ("LCP has really slowed down after this last release, and it looks to be driven by slower backend time").

Traffic 52

Traffic Monitoring Metrics Performance 52

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Treating data as a distribution fundamentally enables comparison and experimentation because it creates a language for describing non-binary shifts. The speed of a client device isn't the limiting site speed factor in an HTML-first world. When the speed of a device dominates, wealth correlates heavily with performance.

Performance 99

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 99

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

In this paper, we will outline the main aspects of those followed by a comparison matrix, which you can use for choosing an appropriate simulation approach. Comparison. Many test-automation and performance testing platforms are using headless browsers to simulate traffic. Component Speed Tests. Comparison.

Testing 40

Testing Performance Testing Servers Programming 40

Enprowess

MAY 24, 2022

More incredible Speed with Virtual DOM. Reactjs can help your business in web and mobile application development by bringing fast speed using the virtual DOM. That makes it a proper fit, as speed is one of the critical factors for making a successful mobile application. React vs React Native: Head to Head Comparison.

Mobile 52

Mobile Open Source Virtualization Speed 52

Speed Curve

JANUARY 31, 2018

search traffic. People on your marketing team probably care about traffic and engagement. Here's how to set up ongoing competitive benchmarking and generate comparison videos. conversions. time on site. page views. user satisfaction. user retention. Case studies are a great way to convert performance skeptics.

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Performance Metrics Traffic Monitoring 40

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

The speed of backup also depends on allocated IOPS and type of storage since lots of read/writes would be happening during this process. PBM uses the faster “s2” library and parallelized threads to improve speed and performance if extra threads are available as resources. Records backup progress logging.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

Angular vs React – The Complete Comparison. Angular vs React – The Complete Comparison. Additionally, Netflix uses the Reactjs library to boost runtime performance, modularization and increase start-up speed. Nothing hits Angular once it comes to reducing the traffic between client and server. Quick Links.

Development 52

Development Google Servers Open Source 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Both Xen and KVM have had many performance and security improvements, and workloads can now be tuned to run at almost bare metal speeds (say, a 3% loss or less). Oracle have a similar useful page as well: the Linux to Oracle Solaris 11 comparison, as well as a [procedure] for migrating from Solaris to Linux.

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 75

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”. It is physically limited by the speed of light or, practically, how fast signals can travel in wires or in the open air. also “only” take two round trips ((b) is rarely shown).

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Performance Network Latency Servers 107

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍What Comprises Video Streaming - Traffic CharacteristicsWith the emphasis on a high-quality streaming experience, the optimization starts from the very core. Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content. Let’s analyze how you can achieve this win-win as effectively as possible!‍What

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What Comprises Video Streaming - Traffic CharacteristicsWith the emphasis on a high-quality streaming experience, the optimization starts from the very core. Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content. Let’s analyze how you can achieve this win-win as effectively as possible!‍What

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 11, 2019

This allows you to do things like increase the sample rate for an A/B test group for comparison with a control group when the test group is extremely small. How distributed is your traffic? Are you only interested in a specific type of traffic? Considerations for determining your sample size.

Retail 59

Retail Traffic Media Metrics 59

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Provides comparison of inference workload on P4dn GPU instances vs. AWS Trainium saving 92% energy and 90% cost, and training workload on P4dn vs. AWS Inferentia 2.6x Partner oriented session getting everyone up to speed on what AWS sees as the customer needs, motivations, business outcomes and architectures around sustainability.

AWS 64

AWS Energy Architecture Programming 64

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

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. Start Render time, Speed Index ). Treo Sites provides competitive analysis based on real-world data.

Performance 112

Performance Cache Network Servers 112

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

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. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights (no, it isn’t deprecated), you can get CrUX performance data for specific pages instead of just the aggregates.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 105