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How To Test Your Application in Different Network Conditions by Simulating Artificial Delays in Network Requests

DZone

As a frontend developer or QA, we want to test our website performance in different network conditions and with different API latencies too. Testing certain components of web applications requires simulating delay in one or more web app components.

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How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing

Smashing Magazine

In this article, well discuss six ways to design websites for high-traffic events like product drops and sales: Compress and optimize images , Choose a scalable web host , Use a CDN , Leverage caching , Stress test websites , Refine the backend. This enables you to find out how your website performs in various conditions.

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Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time

Smashing Magazine

What Network Latency Means For Time To First Byte Lets add up all the network round trips in the example above: 2 server connections: 6 round trips. Thats where network latency comes in, or network round trip time (RTT) if we look at the time it takes to send data to a server and receive a response in the browser.

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Performance Testing - Tools, Steps, and Best Practices

KeyCDN

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. What is Performance Testing?

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Dynamic Content Vs. Static Content: What Are the Main Differences

IO River

Developing, testing, and maintaining dynamic range can take more time and effort, especially for complex or customized functionalities.Caching Limitations: Caching dynamic content poses challenges compared to static content. This increased bandwidth consumption can affect server costs, network performance, and user data usage.‍How

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Optimize Images for Web

KeyCDN

We normally focus solely on the performance aspect, but today we want to dive into additional ways you can optimize images for the web. The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better.

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SRE Principles: The 7 Fundamental Rules

Dotcom-Montior

Monitoring can provide SREs and teams with a historical trend of performance and can offer insight to what is a one-off issue versus a wider, systemic problem. As defined by the Google SRE initiative, the four golden signals of monitoring include the following metrics: Latency. Monitoring can provide a way to differentiate between.