Smashing Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals Matt Zeunert 2024-04-16T10:00:00+00:00 2024-04-16T12:05:36+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative has increased the attention website owners need to pay to user experience.

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Google Monitoring Website Speed 124

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.

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DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency 246

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. And the last thing you want to do with synthetic is introduce false positives (the bane of all synthetic testing) into the system, and yet this was happening too often.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Traffic This SLO measures the amount of traffic or workload an application receives, either in terms of requests per second or data transfer rate. The traffic SLO targets the website’s ability to handle a high volume of transactional activity during periods of high demand. The Apdex score of 0.85

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Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 245

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative was launched in May of 2020 and, since then, its role in Search has morphed and evolved as roll-outs have been made and feedback has been received. However, to this day, messaging from Google can seem somewhat unclear and, in places, even contradictory. Don’t have time to read 5,500+ words?

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Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks. How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks. As I previously mentioned, my primary data source for this analysis is Google CrUX. Starting in June 2021, these metrics have become a ranking factor for Google search.

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Google Performance Website Mobile 136

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.

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Testing Google Traffic Servers 137

Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

Typically, organizations might experience abnormal scanning activity or an unexpected traffic influx that is coming from one specific client. The Spring framework is popular because it enables software engineers to more easily write and test code to maintain modular applications.

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Java Traffic Benchmarking Strategy 261

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

With this approach, teams can scale testing for all environments, which reduces efforts in replicating, updating, and maintaining test scripts. The ability to scale testing as part of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) has proven difficult. No external tools or additional configurations are needed.

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DZone

JUNE 1, 2020

As applications are designed and developed for varied platforms, spanning mobile, desktop, and cloud, testing user interfaces has turned into an increasingly complicated and risk-prone job. While having its series of challenges and loopholes, automated UI testing is gaining traction. 55% of businesses conduct UX testing.

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Testing Tools Open Source Mobile Internet 165

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Stable, well-calibrated SLOs pave the way for teams to automate additional processes and testing throughout the software delivery lifecycle. First, it helps to understand that applications and all the services and infrastructure that support them generate telemetry data based on traffic from real users. SLOs promote automation.

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Software Software Benchmarking Latency 306

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. 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.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Testing on Google Chrome is necessary for any app-designer. Currently, global Internet traffic counts to a whopping 4.3 Internet usage has constantly exploded in the past decade and continues to grow every single day. billion users.

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Testing Internet Internet Google 100

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

Prodicle Distribution Our service is required to be elastic and handle bursty traffic. It also needs to handle third-party integration with Google Drive, making copies of PDFs with watermarks specific to each recipient, adding password protection, creating revocable links, generating thumbnails, and sending emails and push notifications.

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Traffic Java Latency Google 166

DZone

APRIL 30, 2019

There are three different ways ProxySQL can direct traffic between your application and the back-end MySQL services. Locally, on the MySQL servers. Between the MySQL servers and the application. Colocated on the application servers themselves. Without going through too much detail, each has its own limitations.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 16, 2023

That’s a significant amount and certainly more than is necessary relative to the traffic on most clusters. More acutely, if a traffic spike occurs and Zuul instances scale up, it exponentially increases connections open to origins. Subsetting was also top of mind after reading a recent ACM paper published by Google.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

It’s the same concept as Test Driven Development (TDD) where you start with tests that will fail until you finish implementing the code so tests will succeed. This allows pulling or pushing mobile app ratings through the APIs that Google and Apple offer into Dynatrace. Mobile Crashes.

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DevOps Social Media Mobile Metrics 246

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Traffic The traffic SLO example measures the amount of traffic or workload an application receives, either in terms of requests per second or data transfer rate. The traffic SLO targets the website’s ability to handle a high volume of transactional activity during periods of high demand. The Apdex score of 0.85

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Traffic Website Latency Virtualization 173

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

While Google’s SRE Handbook mostly focuses on the production use case for SLIs/SLOs, Keptn is “Shifting-Left” this approach and using SLIs/SLOs to enforce Quality Gates as part of your progressive delivery process. The app description and supporting files such as load testing scripts are on the Keptn Example GitHub.

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Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 270

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

So, Smashing Magazine knows about web performance, and if they were struggling, then this could be an interesting test case to look at! LCP, or Largest Contentful Paint , is one of the three Core Web Vitals that you must “pass” to get the full search ranking boost from Google as part of their Page Experience Update. Large preview ).

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Google Traffic Mobile Website 144

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

While you may assume a great majority of the cloud database deployments are run on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, small to medium-sized businesses in particular are gravitating towards the developer-friendly cloud provider, DigitalOcean , for their hosting for MongoDB® needs.

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Azure AWS Database Latency 187

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

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Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 35

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. The ability to modify the headers of traffic that pass through your browser is a great tool to have. Selenium is widely used as a test automation framework for end-to-end testing of web applications.

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Testing Network Website Google 117

Jos

MARCH 13, 2020

Using Test My Site from Think with Google : Gives you an estimation of potential revenue increase for your site when saving loading time. It’s important to track these conversion events, and you can do it in your own system or leveraging tools like Google Analytics or Facebook Analytics. Screenshot of Google's Test My Site page.

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Performance Google Mobile Metrics 130

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Over the past months, we’ve also worked very closely with Google to bring new SLO capabilities into our Software Intelligence Platform to enable all our users to scale their SRE practices. Read more: Google’s definition of the term Site Reliability Engineering. Release decision making with Service-Level Objectives (SLOs).

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Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 231

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

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 6, 2025

If your website is loading slowly, thats bad for user experience and can also cause your site to rank lower in Google. Google has been working to address that recently by introducing LCP subparts , which tell you where page load delays are coming from. According to Google, you should aim to eliminate resource load delay entirely.

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Website Google Speed Metrics 59

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. Google Keyword Planner. Google Trends. Quick Wins.

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Engineering Google Website Mobile 135

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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MachMetrics

APRIL 15, 2020

However, you may be making one of the common page speed testing mistakes that often cost website owners engagement, and ultimately, revenue. Often, their test results are good, but visitors are reporting slow load times (or they see a high bounce rate ). Mistake #1: Only Testing Desktop. That’s only half of the story!

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Speed Testing Website Mobile 88

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

That’s not all, the global mobile traffic is expected to increase sevenfold between 2017 and 2022. Mobile-first design should be accompanied with mobile website testing for delivering a flawless web experience to your target audience. Why should you focus on Mobile Website Testing? Mobile-first indexing. Speed and Accuracy.

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Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

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.

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Internet Internet Scalability Google 110

Percona

APRIL 20, 2023

For example, in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), you need to create the key in Cloud Key Management Service (KMS) and set it in the StorageClass: apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1beta1 I will use Percona Operator for PostgreSQL v2 (currently in tech preview) in my tests, but such an approach can be used with any Percona Operator.

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Storage AWS Cloud Database 143

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Chances are, you're here because of Google's update to its search algorithm , which affects both desktop and mobile, and which includes Core Web Vitals as a ranking factor. If you're new to Core Web Vitals , this is a Google initiative that was launched in early 2020. When Google talks, people listen.

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Performance Google Metrics Mobile 97

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2019

Most of the time is taken by quality or release engineers looking at test results, comparing them with previous builds or walking through a checklist of items that accumulated over the years in order to harden their release acceptance process. Pitometer is a Node.js The result is graded against thresholds, baselines or previous results.

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Architecture Open Source Azure Metrics 149

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Defenders of Apple's monopoly offer hard-to-test claims, but many boil down to the idea that Apple's product is inferior by necessity. Nobody frames it precisely this way; instead they'll say, if WebKit weren't mandated, Chromium would take over , or Google would dominate the web if not for the WebKit restriction.

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Engineering Traffic Government Google 124

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. Google's Search App and Facebook's various apps for Android undermine these choices in slightly different ways. [3] Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens.

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