Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time Matt Zeunert 2025-02-12T17:00:00+00:00 2025-02-13T01:34:15+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Loading your website HTML quickly has a big impact on visitor experience. Here, Ive tested a website thats hosted in Brazil.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. Your website may be using more third-party services than you realize. Ken Harker.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

To illustrate how our five service level objective examples apply to different applications, we will explore the following two use cases: E-commerce websites : Whether you use Amazon, Walmart, BestBuy, or any other websites to buy and sell goods, we all expect a seamless shopping experience. or 99.99% of the time.

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 27, 2025

Core Web Vitals are a Google search ranking factor. Given that Google continues to dominate search usage, you should care about Vitals alongside the other metrics you should be tracking. Image size is another issue, as excessive image weight hurts your SEO ranking in Google Image Search. How does page bloat hurt Core Web Vitals?

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Dynatrace

MARCH 30, 2023

With the platform boasting over 3,000 technical users and millions of end users, Dimitris sheds some light on his experience with SRE, User Experience, and Service Monitoring. Listen and subscribe on our website , or your favorite podcast platform, and leave us a review !

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Organizations are constantly being measured against the best available digital experiences — coming from Google, Amazon, Facebook, and other industry leaders. A digital touchpoint may be a mobile application, a website, a smart TV, ATM, airport check-in kiosk, point-of-sale terminal, and so on. Was their operation successful?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 14, 2023

User experience monitoring is critical for organizations that want to keep their end users happy, whether they are customers, admins, or employees. Listen and subscribe on our website , or your favorite podcast platform, and leave us a review !

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Dynatrace

JUNE 22, 2022

Careful monitoring is of paramount importance for any successful operation. Listen and subscribe on our website , or your favorite podcast platform, and leave us a review ! Google Podcasts. Threat Team Purple with Richard Ford. Episode 34 – Observability Explained with Mike Maciag. Apple Podcasts. Amazon Music. Pocket Casts.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

You can watch the recording of my Online Kubernetes Meetup on YouTube (embedded below), watch the recording of DevOps Fusion on their website as well as access the slides on my Slideshare : Since the talk, I made a few adjustments based on feedback and plan on giving an updated version at upcoming events including our own Dynatrace Go!

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

With so many of their transactions occurring online, customers are becoming more demanding, expecting websites and applications to always perform perfectly. Website load times have been found to have a direct correlation with conversion rates. It can also send targeted notifications to the service and application owners as needed.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Are Imposter Domains Re-Publishing Your Website? Are Imposter Domains Re-Publishing Your Website? We explore how you can use web analytics or real user measurement data on your website to get insight into any imposter domains re-publishing your work. Ken Harker. 2021-09-20T11:30:00+00:00. 2021-09-20T14:12:33+00:00.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform delivers all the necessary Service-Level Indicators (SLIs) for defining your Service-Level Objectives (SLOs) and monitors the status and error budgets of those objectives. The SLO wizard gives you guidance on creating SLOs based on the metrics (SLIs) Dynatrace monitors for your environment.

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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. Synthetic Monitoring: Continuous Website Performance Monitoring.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. By doing this, China is also able to force people to use Chinese alternatives for websites. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 18, 2024

that will help you master website monitoring, analytics, and diagnostics. According to Google, a 'good' INP time is faster that 200 milliseconds. Learn how to identify and debug slow interactions – and most important, how to make them faster, improve your INP time, and potentially improve your Google search rank!

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A digital touchpoint may be a mobile application, a website, a SmartTV app, an ATM, an airport check-in kiosk or similar. You have to be aware that at any of your digital touchpoints, the digital experience is measured against the best-in-class available coming from Google, Facebook and other digital leaders. Dynatrace news.

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MachMetrics

AUGUST 15, 2020

Monitoring your website resource breakdown is one of the most important things you can do when you own or run a website. Some of our most recent articles detailed how to keep track of the impact that Google Fonts , Page Weight , and CSS files have on your website performance. Website Resource Monitoring is Key!

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Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

It is difficult to browse database and tables, check indexes, and monitor databases through the console. The dashboard lets you monitor server activities such as database locks, connected sessions, and prepared transaction. pgAdmin can be downloaded from their official website. pgAdmin Cost: Free (open source).

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites. What happens when a browser tries to load a website? Performance monitoring should be effortless.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 6, 2025

How To Fix Largest Contentful Issues With Subpart Analysis How To Fix Largest Contentful Issues With Subpart Analysis Matt Zeunert 2025-03-06T10:00:00+00:00 2025-03-06T14:50:25+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear The Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) in Core Web Vitals measures how quickly a website loads from a visitors perspective.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

To illustrate how our five SLO examples apply to different applications, we will explore the following two use cases: E-commerce websites : Whether you use Amazon, Walmart, BestBuy, or any other websites to buy and sell goods, we all expect a seamless shopping experience. or 99.99% of the time. Thus, an ApDex score of 0.85

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

As the most widely used logging framework on the internet, Apache Log4j 2 is integrated into myriad applications, used on major cloud services such as Apple, Google, Microsoft and Cloudflare, as well as platforms like Twitter and Stream. What is Log4j 2, and what does it do? It logs messages from software, and searches for errors afterwards.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). Testing And Monitoring. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. What is your website already ranking well for and why?

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Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. By doing this, China is also able to force people to use Chinese alternatives for websites. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

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Website Internet Internet Performance 82

Dynatrace

MAY 30, 2020

To deliver outstanding customer experience for your applications and websites, you need reliable benchmarks that measure what good customer experience looks like. Dynatrace is the only solution that provides these user experience metrics consistently for real user monitoring as well as for synthetic monitors. Dynatrace news.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

Around 600,000 websites have installed SSL certificates for security. These certificates are then activated on the company’s website which ensures that a secure connection is always set up between the web browser and the web server. Over 90 percent of the time, Chrome users prefer secure websites with SSL certificates.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 18, 2019

We’ve written tons of articles giving you step-by-step advice on how to make your website faster – but not everyone wants to go through lots of steps. Many people reach out to us asking what is the #1 most important bang-for-your-buck tip on optimizing your website’s speed. It’s a godsend.

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Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. In fact, most (if not all) of those terms are present on any technology website you visit. Observability, OpenTracing, and OpenTelemetry.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Why do we need Lighthouse at all when Google also offers similar reports in PageSpeed Insights (PSI)? And when discussing the two types of data, we’re actually talking about what is called real-user monitoring , or RUM for short. Google focuses on the 75th percentile of users in the CrUX data when reporting core web vitals metrics.

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Speed Google Website Metrics 117

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. What is Google Lighthouse? Google Lighthouse is one of the best-automated tools available on a web developer's utility belt.

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. What is Google Lighthouse? Monitoring Time to Interactive. Recommended!

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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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MachMetrics

APRIL 24, 2019

Google PageSpeed Insights has a their “Speed Score.” Who is your website’s users – Google, or your real customers? Many people assume that Google takes the score from their Insights into account, but that’s simply untrue. Yes, Google is marking us down for using their own analytics tools.

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Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Reading time 11 min As companies become more aware of the importance of web performance, internal teams begin to research tools they can use to use to track their metrics and improve the user experience of their websites and applications. Where Google Lighthouse Shines Bright. Google Lighthouse has a lot going for it.

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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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Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? A Google machine-learning study I participated in a few years ago found that the total number of page elements was the single greatest predictor of conversions. You can dive deeper into image optimization and SEO tips in this article in Google Search Central.).

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