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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Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2021

This becomes even more challenging when the application receives heavy traffic, because a single microservice might become overwhelmed if it receives too many requests too quickly. Istio is a popular Kubernetes-native mesh developed by Google, IBM, and Lyft that helps manage deployments, breeds resilience, and improves security in Kubernetes.

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DZone

MAY 31, 2022

A website needs to be constantly tested and optimized to be in line with Google's web and SEO guidelines. As a result, it has an advantage over others in terms of visibility, brand image, and driving traffic. However, to tactically assess the website's performance , it needs to be measured in a well-thought-out manner.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. These functions are executed by a serverless platform or provider (such as AWS Lambda, Azure Functions or Google Cloud Functions) that manages the underlying infrastructure, scaling and billing. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns.

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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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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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Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2023

Although the APIs were all managed by the Google API manager Apigee, the bank group was not getting consistent data types from the output. This restriction made it impossible to totally export all traces from Apigee unless the sampling rate was below the maximum, in which case they could use Google Cloud Trace.

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Dynatrace

JULY 15, 2024

You also might be required to capture syslog messages from cloud services on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud related to resource provisioning, scaling, and security events. ActiveGate also optimizes traffic volume in your network and serves as a secure relay layer in protected networks and DMZs.

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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.” Application usage and traffic. Application usage and traffic monitors the number of users accessing your system and informs many other metrics, including system uptime.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

With Dynatrace OneAgent you also benefit from support for traffic routing and traffic control. OneAgent implements network zones to create traffic routing rules and limit cross-data-center traffic. – Sergey Kanzhelev (Google). Enrich OpenTelemetry instrumentation with high-fidelity data provided by OneAgent.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2021

A page with low traffic and failing CWV compliance does not hold the same weight as a failing page with high traffic. To start organizations in the right direction, Google provides some basic guidelines for how to optimize for each CWV score. Not all pages are equally important, and development resources are top priority.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

According to the Google Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) handbook, monitoring the four golden signals is crucial in delivering high-performing software solutions. These signals ( latency, traffic, errors, and saturation ) provide a solid means of proactively monitoring operative systems via SLOs and tracking business success.

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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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Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

Typically, organizations might experience abnormal scanning activity or an unexpected traffic influx that is coming from one specific client. Operation Aurora was a series of cyberattacks in 2009 that specifically targeted major enterprises, including Google, Adobe Systems, Yahoo, and more.

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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

APRIL 8, 2021

App developers and digital teams typically rely on separate analytics tools, such as Adobe and Google Analytics, that may aggregate user behavior and try to understand anomalies in traffic. And those are just the tools for monitoring the tech stack. These teams may also have a separate mobile crash tool.

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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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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Start looking for signals Begin by monitoring the “four golden signals” that were originally outlined in Google’s SRE handbook : Latency : the time it takes to serve a request Traffic : the total number of requests across the network Errors: the number of requests that fail Saturation : the load on the network and servers 2.

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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

To ensure their global service levels, they fully embraced the best practices outlined in Google’s SRE handbook , called the “Four Golden Signals,” to standardize what they show on their SRE dashboards. In this case, the customer offers a managed service that runs on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google. Saturation.

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DZone

JUNE 1, 2020

75% of all site traffic at present mainly runs through search engine-Google. Statistics Overview. Some stats that prove that UI should not be taken lightly ever: By 2020, there will be around 6.1 billion Smartphone users. 90% of audiences stopped using applications because of poor performance. 55% of businesses conduct UX testing.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

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. So how can teams start implementing SLOs? This telemetry data serves as the basis for establishing meaningful SLOs. Define SLOs for each service.

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Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2019

based sample service in a staging and production namespace, a Jenkins instance and execute some moderate load to “simulate constant production traffic”. A quick google search reveals several articles on Prometheus performance optimizations we should look into. Automated Metric Anomaly Detection.

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High Scalability

MARCH 15, 2019

trillion suns : weight of the Milky Way; 300 +: backdoored apps on GitHub; 10% : hacked self-driving cars needed to bring traffic to a halt; $3 million : Marriott data breach cost after insurance; Quoteable Quotes: @kelseyhightower : Platform in a box solutions that are attempting to turn Kubernetes into a PaaS are missing the "as a service" part.

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Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2021

In their case, this is specifically about the pensions element of their platform which had seen 6-7x as much traffic during the pandemic. Rapidly approaching in June, Google will be tracking three new KPIs in the form of “ Core Web Vitals ” – Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), First Input Delay (FID), and Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS).

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2023

Almost two decades ago, a Google experiment showed that fast-loading transactions are more important to customers than content quality—even small increases in transaction delay result in substantially more abandoned sessions. IT teams spend months preparing for the peak traffic they anticipate will arrive with holiday shopping.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

Synthetic CI/CD testing simulates traffic to add an outside-in view to the analysis. DORA stands for the DevOps Research and Assessment team, a Google-headed project tasked with analyzing DevOps practices. DevOps best practices include testing within the CI/CD pipeline, also known as shift-left testing.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 9, 2020

In such circumstances, it’s challenging to investigate the reasons for unexpected behavior or traffic between pods. For this example, we’ll use a simple application called “Online Boutique,” which is based on the Google microservices demo application. calls to services that are outside the K8s environment).

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

In this role, I am leading a global team that works closely with our strategic partners such as AWS, Microsoft, Google, Pivotal, Red Hat and others. Resource consumption & traffic analysis. What is the network traffic going to be between services we migrate and those that have to stay in the current data center?

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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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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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Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Earlier this year, Google announced that Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is no longer an experimental metric. Safari users currently account for roughly 20% of global traffic. In North America, Safari users represent almost one-third of all traffic.) INP will replace First Input Delay (FID) as a Core Web Vital in March of 2024.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 12, 2021

In some cases, like Google Optimize, it’s even free. You would also have access to your actual conversion rate, value per order, monthly traffic, and stuff like that. While not perfect, Google’s Impact Calculator is a decent way to guess-timate potential improvements in revenue based on performance. million dollars.

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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. . $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 That's not an obvious statement at all. There more.

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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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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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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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