Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

However, when looking at Googles Core Web Vitals , TTFB starts from the time when the users start navigating to a new page. Connecting to a server on the web typically takes three round trips on the network: DNS: Looking up the server IP address. You can see the impact of that in practice by running a global TTFB test on a website.

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Servers Latency Cache Website 78

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?

Mobile 97

Mobile Best Practices Google Metrics 97

Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2019

I’ve been speaking to customers over the last few months about our new cloud architecture for Synthetic testing locations and their confusion is clear. When we wanted to add a location, we had to ship hardware and get someone to install that hardware in a rack with power and network. Sound easy? Try doing that in India.

Cloud 203

Cloud Hardware Testing Logistics 203

Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

Microservices are run using container-based orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and Docker or cloud-native function-as-a-service (FaaS) offerings like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions, all of which help automate the process of managing microservices. Simple network calls. Potential for decreased reliability.

Architecture 246

Architecture Software Software Development 246

Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

Microservices are run using container-based orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and Docker or cloud-native function-as-a-service (FaaS) offerings like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions, all of which help automate the process of managing microservices. Simple network calls. Potential for decreased reliability.

Architecture 246

Architecture Software Software Development 246

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

This enables teams to quickly develop and test key functions without the headaches typically associated with in-house infrastructure management. Cloud providers such as Google, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft also followed suit with frameworks such as Google Cloud Functions , AWS Lambda , and Microsoft Azure Functions.

Development 279

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 279

Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2021

The control plane also provides an API so operators can easily manage traffic control, network resiliency, security and authentication, and custom telemetry data for each service. A service mesh enables DevOps teams to manage their networking and security policies through code. Why do you need a service mesh?

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Traffic DevOps Infrastructure Network 279

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

And how can you verify this performance consistently across a multicloud environment that also uses Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform frameworks? 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.

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AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 305

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Historically, I’d maybe look at Google Analytics—or a RUM solution if the client had one already—but this is only useful for showing me particular outliers, and not necessarily any patterns across the whole project. Any time you run a test with WebPageTest, you’ll get this table of different milestones and metrics. See entry 6.

Speed 337

Speed Ecommerce Metrics Analytics 337

Speed Curve

JANUARY 19, 2025

Annie leads the Chrome Speed Metrics team at Google, which has arguably had the most significant impact on web performance of the past decade. It's really important to acknowledge that none of this would have been possible without the great work from Annie and her small-but-mighty Speed Metrics team at Google. Nice job, everyone!

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Performance Google Speed Metrics 98

DZone

JUNE 20, 2019

On Sunday June 2nd, Google Cloud Platform had an extended networking-based outage. There was significant disruption of commonly used services like YouTube and Gmail, as well as Google-hosted applications like Snapchat. Previously we've written about having hard conversations with cloud providers. Summary of Findings.

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Google Latency Cloud Network 100

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. And don’t forget about covering your back with tests. Testing : Well, we should write some tests, right?

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Enterprises can deploy containers faster, as there’s no need to test infrastructure or build clusters. IaaS provides direct access to compute resources such as servers, storage, and networks. Container-based software isn’t tied to a platform or operating system, so IT teams can move or reconfigure processes easily.

Serverless 297

Serverless Azure Hardware Transportation 297

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 12, 2021

Client-side A/B testing has been a performance loving developer’s worst friend for years. From a convenience perspective, running client-side tests is significantly easier to do than server-side testing. With server-side testing, you need developer resources to create different experiments.

Testing 137

Testing Google Traffic Servers 137

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Modifying Headers In HTTP(s) Requests In UI Automation Testing. Modifying Headers In HTTP(s) Requests In UI Automation Testing. That was when I first got to witness the power of network headers. Therefore I decided to write this piece to throw some light on the ways to modify headers in automated testing. Nafees Nehar.

Testing 117

Testing Network Website Google 117

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Let’s start with the four most common metrics Google’s DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team established known as “ The Four Keys.” Two important ways to improve this metric are to implement quality assurance testing throughout multiple development environments and to automate testing and DevOps processes.

DevOps 246

DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency 246

Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

half of all corporate networks. The Spring framework is popular because it enables software engineers to more easily write and test code to maintain modular applications. Operation Aurora was a series of cyberattacks in 2009 that specifically targeted major enterprises, including Google, Adobe Systems, Yahoo, and more.

Java 261

Java Traffic Benchmarking Strategy 261

CSS Wizardry

JANUARY 10, 2023

- [link] --> If you’ve ever run a Lighthouse test before, there’s a high chance you’ve seen the audit Avoid document.write() : For users on slow connections, external scripts dynamically injected via `document.write()` can delay page load by tens of seconds. You may have also seen that there’s very little explanation as to why.

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Google Network Performance Availability 308

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

If your app runs in a public cloud, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), the provider secures the infrastructure, while you’re responsible for security measures within applications and configurations. What are some key characteristics of securing cloud applications?

Cloud 245

Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring 245

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. And to ensure the quality of a product, we always need to test — on a number of devices, and in a number of conditions. What’s a representative device to test on in 2021? Kelvin Omereshone. State Of Mobile 2021.

Mobile 142

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 142

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Such testing makes it easier to detect any potential issues before they impact real users. Synthetic tests can monitor performance and availability and can be run from multiple locations to simulate user traffic from different regions. In addition to these service level objective examples, Dynatrace can jumpstart your SLO journey.

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Latency Website Traffic DevOps 245

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

At the start, Docker was mainly use d by developers for testing purpose s , but the main challenge was to manage containers at scale in real-world production environments. . ? Who manage s the networking aspects? GKE (Google Cloud Platform) . Why are containers so hot?? . ? But how will you set up the communication?

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Google DevOps Ecommerce Cloud 173

Speed Curve

APRIL 27, 2022

Experimentation tools that use asynchronous scripts – such as Google Optimize, Adobe Target, and Visual Web Optimizer – recommend using an anti-flicker snippet to hide the page until they've finished executing. Google Optimize) has finished applying its experiments. The test in top row has the anti-flicker snippet in place.

Performance 145

Performance C++ Google Retail 145

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

It automates complex tasks during the container’s life cycle, such as provisioning, deployment, networking, scaling, load balancing, and more. At its start in 2013, Docker was mainly used by developers as a sandbox for testing purposes. Who manages the networking aspects? Kubernetes forged by the rise of Google.

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Virtualization DevOps Infrastructure Cloud 182

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

In this blog, we will discuss both data and network-level compression offered in MongoDB. We will discuss snappy and zstd for data block and zstd compression in a network. By default, MongoDB provides a snappy block compression method for storage and network communication. Snappy is a compression library developed by Google.

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Storage Network Open Source Latency 130

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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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 143

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Google search ranking. Large preview ). The Wix Challenge. Heavier websites.

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Website Performance Google Website Performance 141

Brendan Gregg

JULY 21, 2024

Meta, Isovalent, Google) and academia (e.g., Google and Meta already rely on eBPF to detect and stop bad actors in their fleet, thanks to eBPF's speed, deep visibility, and safety guarantees. Beyond security, eBPF is also used for networking and observability. Rutgers University , University of Washington ).

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Airlines Programming Google Media 135

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It may even be something you do regularly with Lighthouse in Chrome DevTools, where testing is freely available and produces a very attractive-looking report. The linked-up explainer provides more details, from how scores are weighted to why scores may fluctuate between test runs. Can’t be perfect every time!

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Speed Google Website Metrics 117

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

vl : I have a hilarious story about this from Google: I wanted second 30" monitor, so I filed a ticket. It's the fastest device I've ever tested. . $2 billion : Pokémon GO revenue since launch; 10 : say happy birthday to StackOverflow; $148 million : Uber data breach fine; 75% : streaming music industry revenue in the US; 5.2

Internet 35

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 35

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Last year, Google made two significant changes to their search indexing and ranking algorithms : In March, indexing became based on the mobile version of a page , rather than desktop. What is Google Lighthouse?

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Google Engineering Speed Mobile 73

Testlodge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Various testing activities take place throughout the software development lifecycle, including compatibility testing, which is a non-functional testing technique. Compatibility testing should be performed under all possible scenarios to prevent bug spillover in the production environment. Types of Compatibility Testing.

Testing 78

Testing Hardware Operating System Mobile 78

High Scalability

JULY 6, 2018

ThousandEyes : The Internet is made up of thousands of autonomous networks that are interdependent on one another to deliver traffic from point to point across the globe. tyingq : This is why AWS and Azure continue to gain market share in cloud, while Google remains relativity stagnant, despite (in many cases) superior technology.

Internet 110

Internet Internet Scalability Google 110

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

But pages keep getting bigger and more complex year over year – and this increasing size and complexity is not fully mitigated by faster devices and networks, or by our hard-working browsers. How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? This falls short of Google's threshold of 2.5

Mobile 145

Mobile Google Benchmarking Metrics 145

Testsigma

AUGUST 12, 2021

The Importance of Testing Web Applications. As per StatCounter , there are more than ten browsers in use with Google Chrome leading the way. To ensure our web app performs as intended across various devices and browsers — we have to test our web app. Modern Automated Testing Tools for Web Applications.

Testing 102

Testing Testing Tools Mobile Cloud 102

High Scalability

JUNE 29, 2018

jedberg : Despite being a strong advocate for AWS, this is where I will say Google completely outshines Amazon. Google's approach to pricing is, "do it as efficiently and quickly as possible, and we'll make sure that's the cheapest option". Google applies bulk discounts after the fact, AWS makes you ask for them ahead of time.

Internet 131

Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 131

Testsigma

APRIL 23, 2021

So, there’s a solid reason why mobile app testing is a crucial step in any app development process. To ensure our users get a seamless experience across any device — we perform mobile app testing. . That’s where mobile app automation testing comes into the picture. Best Mobile App Automation Testing Tools.

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Testing Tools Mobile Testing Open Source 86