Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Also called continuous monitoring or synthetic monitoring , synthetic testing mimics actual users’ behaviors to help companies identify and remediate potential availability and performance issues. Availability testing Availability testing helps organizations confirm that a site or application is responding to user requests.

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Dynatrace

JULY 9, 2020

Gone are the days for Christian manually looking at dashboards and metrics after a new build got deployed into a testing or acceptance environment: Integrating Keptn into your existing DevOps tools such as GitLab is just a matter of an API call. A popular use case of Keptn is the SLI/SLO-based Quality Gate capability.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

We’ll go over how to integrate Dynatrace with your load & performance testing tools (e.g. Neotys , JMeter , LoadRunner ); how to analyze the data, both through UI, as well as how to automate analysis through the API, and push the data to other tools (e.g. Jira, Slack, MS Teams).

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Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Otherwise we wouldn’t see so many commercial tools built on the top of open source including BlazeMeter (it is ironic that the article is posted on the BlazeMeter site), Flood, and OctoPerf. I remember really liking the technical side of these tests. What load testing tools did you use? What is your business model?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

But they can accomplish even more by letting developers decide what metrics, dashboards, and insights they want to see as they’re pushing their code through each stage of the pipeline. By empowering your teams to specify SLOs at the test transaction level, you can bring your SLO-based test analysis to the next level.

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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

It would’ve been really embarrassing if we’d tested poorly in ‘Performance’! What Does Google Lighthouse Test? Here you’ll find the usual page speed metrics such as Speed Index, First Contentful Paint, Time to Interactive, etc. Performance. Let us know below!

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KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

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? For example, you can use load testing tools to see how your application performs with a certain number of simultaneous users.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

To prepare ourselves for a big change in the tech stack of our endpoint, we decided to track metrics around the time taken to respond to queries. After some consultation with our backend teams, we determined the most effective way to group these metrics were by UI screen.

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Testlodge

JANUARY 3, 2017

You’ll likely want to leverage some usage metrics in order to make these decisions and validate any assumptions. Key word: “majority” Cross Browser Testing Tools. Cross browser testing comes with the challenge of needing to test on physical devices/browsers – many of which you may not have direct access to.

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Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

Intuit’s Sumit Nagal explained how his team uses quality gates and key metrics to process build data using Dynatrace to ensure SLOs are met. The company is already saving time and effort by shifting the enforcement of SLOs and BLOs earlier in the build process.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2019

Introducing Pitometer: Metrics-based Deployment Validation in your CI/CD. The following shows how to evaluate a deployment score based on metrics from Prometheus and Dynatrace. If you want to automate deployment validation based on metrics or data from tools that you already use in your CI/CD pipeline give Pitometer a try.

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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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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. In this post, I’m going to attempt to explain a bit more about what’s going on here and explain some of the nuances and misunderstandings of these tools.

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Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2021

Every CD pipeline is unique to the organization it serves, and varies according to architectures, computing environments, tool sets, and corporate, industry, and regulatory requirements. Here are a few common metrics teams should track for every CD pipeline to help you evaluate its efficacy.

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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

It’s one of the most frequently asked questions I see asked, “I’ve tested my site speed, so now what do these metrics mean?” Here we’ll explain what each of the common web performance metrics mean, and how can you use that data to optimize your site and make it faster. Standard Website Speed Metrics.

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Speed Metrics Website Cache 56

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

This gives us a relatively unique opportunity to analyse and aggregate performance metrics to gain some interesting insights. In this post, I'm going to analyse some browser-based paint timing metrics: First Paint & First Contentful Paint (defined in the Paint Timing spec and implemented in Chromium). What are paint timing metrics?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

There are many key performance indicators (KPI) that measure different points during the lifecycle of the web page (such as TTFB, domInteractive and onload ), but these metrics don’t reflect how the end-user experiences the page. We found out user-centric performance metrics to be the perfect fit for this purpose. Large preview ).

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Have you ever looked at the page speed metrics – such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint – for your site in both your synthetic and real user monitoring tools and wondered "Why are these numbers so different?" You also shouldn't rely on synthetic tests to give you a true sense of how your pages perform.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 12, 2021

WebPageTest’s blocking feature lets us block all calls to optimizely.com so we can test the impact. When I did that, the result was a significant improvement in the paint metrics. In practice, were you doing this to your own site, you would hopefully have some data about how performance impacts your own business metrics.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Prioritizing Metrics Online metrics are almost limitless. HTTP/2 Test Tool by Geekflare. Testing And Monitoring. Run your site through speed testing tools like PageSpeed Insights and GTmetrix. A Smashing Guide To The World Of Search Engine Optimization. Setting Realistic Goals. Like, literally.

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Engineering Google Website Mobile 135

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The AOI will determine what areas you will calculate metrics for. After defining the AOIs and designing the test, it is time for the participants to join the study and interact with your app or website. The metrics and how they will be shown depending on the eye-tracking tool you choose.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 21, 2021

You can now start working on identifying your goals and metrics to achieve them. Once you know what features to be tested, the next step is to start assigning the tasks to your test participants. Tasks are basically, the interactions that are to be performed by the test participants. Scope of the product.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

However, there are quite a few high-profile case studies exploring the impact of mobile optimization on key business metrics. Driving Business Metrics. The earlier you invest in accessibility testing, the more you’ll save down the road on expensive consultancy, expensive third-party services, or expensive lawyers.

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Testsigma

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Selenium was one of the first tools that supported conversion of the recorded tests to required scripting language. This made the test cases easier to maintain according to changing requirements. Now, there are codeless/scriptless testing tools too that allow maintenance of these tests even without writing code or script.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Many people often confuse site speed with page speed grades of performance testing tools, which are actually calculated based on multiple factors of a page including its loading speed. Core web vitals are modern performance metrics that analyze page speed signals that are crucial to providing a superior web experience.

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KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

Running speed tests with tools like Google PageSpeed Insights , WebPageTest , or KeyCDN’s Website Speed Test are always a good way to help gauge your website’s performance. While these metrics can be very helpful it is also important to keep this data in perspective.

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Testsigma

MAY 26, 2021

If we’re not encountering any bugs or major blockers during pre-production, it means the software has been tested enough for vulnerabilities. When the test coverage is high: Test coverage is a metric that determines how much testing is done on the software, which is under testing.

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Testing Testing Tools Metrics Code 59

Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

With this article, you will enhance your testing workflows by covering all the important aspects, and saving time and stress with suitable email testing methods and tools. Are You Keeping On Top Of Your Email Metrics? With any type of email you send, you need to track at least these metrics: Open rate.

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Tim Kadlec

MARCH 10, 2015

As our understanding of performance on the web improves, we are starting to shift from the traditional metrics we’ve focused on. Things like load time and page weight are rightfully being given less focus as we move to more mature metrics like SpeedIndex that provide a better understanding of perceived performance. Running Tests.

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Metrics Mobile Testing Tools Testing 58

Testsigma

JANUARY 22, 2021

Testsigma provides real devices to be used for native applications and since the end-user will also be on a real device, this method provides precise performance and metrics for your application under test. While you might still have to go through various devices during mobile app testing, it works as a safety net.

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Tasktop

AUGUST 26, 2020

The right set of metrics into the health of the software delivery organization can help leadership quickly identify what’s working — and what’s not. Measuring the Value Stream with Flow Metrics. Capable of using real-time metrics to test hypotheses for data-driven continuous improvement across key value streams.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

WebPageTest is one of the few web performance testing tools that actually tests a reload of the page using a primed HTTP Cache — most of the other tools just flag if your HTTP resources are not explicitly set to be cached. Back/Forward Cache Testing Tool. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

So noticeable, in fact, that Core Web Vitals has a metric all about it called Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). This metric measures the time it takes, in seconds, to render the largest image or text block that is visible on the initial load. We can test for LCP in a number of ways. And most of all, we need to care.

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Testlodge

JULY 4, 2018

Metrics to Monitor in Stress Testing. There is certain information that you need to ascertain from stress testing results. Stress Testing Tools. Stress testing uses a similar procedure to Load testing and Performance testing. These include: Measuring Performance.

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MachMetrics

JANUARY 23, 2020

Below you’ll see an image showing a graph of a website’s test results over the course of a month. The website hasn’t had any changes made to it, (it’s a personal site I haven’t updated in some time), and you can see how each individual metric varies. The trend is your friend.

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Testsigma

AUGUST 24, 2020

You can make changes to the tool/framework to get desired behaviour, but that is a costly affair in terms of resources. You are now investing your resources to evolve the tool/framework rather than the product. Lack of Faster Feedback Loops: To leverage Continuous Testing, it is important to incorporate feedback on an on-going basis.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The way we now look at software engineering has revolutionized test automation, with QA teams adapting automation to expand test scope, increase efficiency and do more testing in less time. Automation testing has many advantages that have led to its wide adoption. What are the benefits of Test Automation?

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