Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

What was once an onslaught of consumer traffic between Black Friday and Cyber Monday has turned into a weeklong event, with most retailers offering deals well ahead of Black Friday. Social media was relatively quiet, and as always, the Dynatrace Insights team was benchmarking key retailer home pages from mobile and desktop perspectives.

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Retail Social Media Performance Benchmarking 278

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 27, 2025

In part 3 I mentioned that I had developed some phone based apps while at eBay Research Labs in 2006, and I had also become involved in the Homebrew Mobile Phone Club , where a bunch of people got together in their spare time to try and build a phone that would be programmable by anyone. I built two more iOS apps that worked with Netflix.

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C++ Mobile Hardware Java 88

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In a recent workshop I did with a global player in the financial market we used their new mobile banking app as a reference. Therefore, the first three goals/objectives are all related to the mobile app itself including adoption, app store rating, and crashes. Mobile app rating is a good example of Objective Driven Development.

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DevOps Social Media Mobile Metrics 246

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A vital aspect of such development is subjective testing with HDR encodes in order to generate training data. The pandemic, however, posed unique challenges in conducting a conventional in-lab subjective test with HDR encodes. 1) depicts the migration of traffic from fixed bitrates to DO encodes. The graphic below (Fig.

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Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 260

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

As per April 2019 data of Statistica[1], the global mobile population accounted for 4 billion unique users. That’s not all, the global mobile traffic is expected to increase sevenfold between 2017 and 2022. The daily media consumption on mobile devices has grown by 504 percent since 2011[2]. Mobile-first indexing.

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Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

Given the global nature of the service and Netflix’s commitment to creating a service that members enjoy, it is not surprising that we support a wide variety of streaming devices, from set-top-boxes and mobile devices to smart TVs. Hence, as the encoding team, we continuously maintain a variety of encode families, stretching back to H.263.

Innovation 242

Innovation Traffic Network Efficiency 242

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

DEM provides an outside-in approach to user monitoring that measures user experience (UX) in real time to ensure applications and services are available, functional, and well-performing across all channels of the digital experience, including web, mobile, and IoT. Endpoint monitoring (EM).

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Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 246

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

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

All Core Web Vitals data used to rank you is taken from actual Chrome-based traffic to your site. Conversely, search results on desktop and mobile may appear different as desktop searches will use desktop Core Web Vitals data and mobile searches will use mobile data.

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Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

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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Monitoring Software Software DevOps 246

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

At Netflix, we have significant investments in ensuring new versions of our applications are well tested. However, Netflix is available for streaming on thousands of types of devices and it is powered by hundreds of micro-services which are deployed independently, making it extremely challenging to comprehensively test internally.

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Metrics Mobile Testing Strategy 206

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Earlier posts covered the basics of A/B tests ( Part 1 and Part 2 ), core statistical concepts ( Part 3 and Part 4 ), how to build confidence in a decision ( Part 5 ), and the the role of Experimentation and A/B testing within the larger Data Science and Engineering organization at Netflix ( Part 6 ).

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Education Innovation Testing Programming 245

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2023

Everything needed to function correctly and perform as well or better in the cloud while meeting federal accessibility guidelines with a smooth rollout for both desktop and mobile users.

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Government Strategy Cloud Traffic 246

Dynatrace

MARCH 9, 2022

The Ministry of Interior (MOI) in Qatar provides these immigration services online for their residents via their mobile app, Metrash. Therefore, it was unsurprising to see a huge spike in traffic for Family Visa enrollment via Metrash. You can test for them before releasing to production and can even simulate chaotic situations, e.g:

Java 246

Java Traffic Government Code 246

Dynatrace

MAY 9, 2019

Standard integrations are through Slack, xMatters, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, our Mobile App or by simply calling a webhook to notify any external tool. NYCM also recently started using the Dynatrace Mobile App, which provides easy access to problems and their status to Management or anyone else that is interested.

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Mobile Traffic Java Infrastructure 195

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Migration Testing Infrastructure Our monolith had been around for many years and hadn’t been created with functional and unit testing in mind, so those were independently bolted on by each UI team. For the migration, testing was a first-class citizen. Replay Testing Enter replay testing.

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Latency Cache Java Traffic 241

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2024

By simulating user interactions and running tests from various locations worldwide, synthetic monitoring provides a comprehensive view of application performance and availability. The problem card helped them identify the affected application and actions, as well as the expected traffic during that period.

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Airlines Monitoring Healthcare Traffic 258

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Here we describe the role of Experimentation and A/B testing within the larger Data Science and Engineering organization at Netflix, including how our platform investments support running tests at scale while enabling innovation. What more can we learn from this test, to inform the next one?”

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Innovation Metrics Engineering Testing 245

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 28, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. Quite often the whole area of load testing is reduced to pre-production testing using protocol-level recording/playback. – Cloud.

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Performance Testing Technology Technology Testing 100

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The world isn’t new to the mobile-first approach. Call it convenience or anything else — people are consuming content on their mobile phones more than their desktops and this will only increase in the near future. According to Statista , at least 50% of global online traffic is driven by mobile users.

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Mobile Testing Website Speed 65

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! The issue was that LCP was too slow on mobile. Search Console told Smashing Magazine that their LCP on mobile for most of their pages needed improving. Investigating The LCP Issue.

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Google Traffic Mobile Website 144

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

The recipients of watermarked documents are able to access these documents and links in their email as well as in the Prodicle mobile application. Prodicle Distribution Our service is required to be elastic and handle bursty traffic. Early prototypes and load tests validated that the offering could meet our needs.

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Traffic Java Latency Google 166

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Using Davis, Cloud Automation can trigger the right fix for an issue , validate the fix by running a synthetic test, update the service ticket, and notify stakeholders using communication channels—all in an automated way. Proactively manage web and mobile applications based on user experience or traffic.

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Infrastructure Code Cloud DevOps 244

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Build apps your customers love and grow your business with Dynatrace mobile monitoring. A Cluster ActiveGate acts most commonly as a proxy that routes traffic between externally deployed Dynatrace OneAgents and your cluster. For large LDAP deployments, the configuration test was optimized to provide feedback in a reasonably short time.

Traffic 150

Traffic Monitoring Mobile Engineering 150

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

DevOps aims to move applications more quickly into production by releasing new builds frequently — often several times per day — and incorporating constant feedback and testing, both during development and after software is deployed. But when and how does DevOps monitoring fit into the process?

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DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure 246

Jos

MARCH 13, 2020

Measuring the Relative Mobile Conversion Rate : Identify performance issues by comparing the conversion rates on mobile and desktop. Using Test My Site from Think with Google : Gives you an estimation of potential revenue increase for your site when saving loading time. Take this example: Mobile. Conversion rate.

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Performance Google Mobile Metrics 130

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Typical Dynatrace use cases cover SLOs for service availability, web application performance, mobile application availability, and synthetic availability. A service that delivers perfect results within milliseconds in most cases could take ages on an outdated mobile device running in a low bandwidth geolocation.

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Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 231

Testsigma

JANUARY 13, 2021

Mobile phones have taken over the world in a way few technologies and inventions have been able to in the past. As mobile phone usage and internet penetration continue to grow at unprecedented rates, competition amongst developers is also at all-time heights. Why do you need to engage in testing a mobile application?

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Mobile Strategy Testing Efficiency 54

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

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

By moving to AWS, Lamborghini was able to prepare the development and test environment in a couple of days. The website went online in less than one month and was able to support a 250 percent increase in traffic around the launch of the Aventador J. ENEL is one of the leading energy operators in the world. million unique visits.

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AWS Energy Automotive Traffic 164

Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

The origin value is an aggregate of the values of all the pages for that origin, computed as a weighted average based on page traffic. This means that an origin that has relatively little traffic, but sufficient to be included in the dataset, is counted equally to a very popular, high-traffic origin. Large preview ).

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Google Performance Website Mobile 136

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As mobile device usage is growing, the time spent on it is also increasing. Today, if I list what these mobile devices are doing, it will be very amateurish and naive. The usage of smartphones has increased because of the interesting mobile apps installed on them. What is Mobile Automation testing?

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Mobile Testing Testing Tools Open Source 52

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

Speed Curve

MARCH 17, 2025

A few years ago, I directed a neuroscientific research project in which participants were asked to complete transactions on an e-commerce site using mobile devices. Participants believed they were participating in a standard usability/brand perception study, so they had no idea that speed was a factor in the tests.

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Metrics Airlines Website Speed 66

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

About two decades ago, testing was only limited to the desktop. With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. The native and mobile web browser testing is being performed more and more compared to desktop testing.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

2014 saw the trend of mobile app testing as they were becoming a multi-billion dollar business all over the world. 2015 saw the trend of scriptless testing and IoT focussed methodologies. So the trend of mobile web testing came into the picture. AI and Machine learning-based testing.

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Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89

Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Here are my notes on his presentation, “It’s a Write/Read Mobile Web” presented at Smashing Conference in 2013. ” In the United States, 78% of Facebook monthly users are mobile. 60% mobile on Twitter, 40% mobile on YouTube. 127% growth of mobile only Facebook users in the last year.

Mobile 60

Mobile Wireless Education Traffic 60