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Core Web Vitals: Why Website Performance Monitoring Matters?

Core Web Vitals is a new initiative from Google designed to measure and improve user experience on the web. Core Web Vitals’ focus is for a better user experience and the below metrics are the most important ones for providing a great user experience. At the moment, there are three…

Web Perf

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Core Web Vitals: Why Website Performance Monitoring Matters?

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Whitelabel Reports for Performance Tests

Providing your clients with excellent load testing and JMeter performance testing reporting is one of the most desired outcome after assessing the performance of their websites or APIs. And rightfully so, showing results for your cloud tests will improve customer happiness and avoid churn rate. With Whitelabel Reports from LoadFocus…

Software Development

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Whitelabel Reports for Performance Tests

Dec 3, 2021

Understand the 6 Core Web Vital Metrics

FIRST CONTENTFUL PAINT marks the time at which the first text or image is painted. 2. SPEED INDEX shows how quickly the contents of a page are visibly populated. 3. TIME TO INTERACTIVE is the amount of time it takes for the page to become fully interactive. 4. LARGEST CONTENTFUL PAINT marks the time at which the largest text or image is painted. 5. TOTAL BLOCKING TIME represents the sum of all time periods between FCP and Time to Interactive.

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Understand the 6 Core Web Vital Metrics

FIRST CONTENTFUL PAINT marks the time at which the first text or image is painted.

2. SPEED INDEX shows how quickly the contents of a page are visibly populated.

3. TIME TO INTERACTIVE is the amount of time it takes for the page to become fully interactive.

4. LARGEST CONTENTFUL PAINT marks the time at which the largest text or image is painted.

5. TOTAL BLOCKING TIME represents the sum of all time periods between FCP and Time to Interactive.

6. CUMULATIVE LAYOUT SHIFT measures the movement of visible elements within the viewport.

You can easily run a speed test to check how your website behaves https://loadfocus.com/monitor-website-performance, also it grades your site against key metrics like performance, mobile readiness, SEO, and security.

Jan 29, 2021

How to Include Load Testing in your CI/CD Pipeline

Jenkins is one of the most popular CI/CD open source tools in the market at the moment. To get a better understand why is it useful to use Jenkins or a CI/CD tool, let’s dive in a brief description to better understand what is Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD). What is Continuous Integration (CI)? Continuous integration…

Load Testing

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Oct 29, 2020

Cloud JMeter Load Testing at Scale

Load Testing Your Application Using JMeter just got way easier with JMeter Load Testing Cloud tool from LoadFocus. You can upload your JMeter test scripts and run tests in just a few steps with our new JMeter Cloud Load Testing Tool. 1. How to run a new load test: Choose from multiple world cloud locations Set the number…

Apache Jmeter

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Aug 1, 2019

Agile nowadays: Hybrid Scrum & Kanban

Agile methodology nowadays, Scrum or Kanban, is completely different from what we were used to when was it was first presented to us. We switched from Scrum to Kanban to some hybrid Agile Scrum/Kanban methodology that worked pretty well for us. Scrum We used to have 2/4 weeks sprints, with…

Agile

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Apr 16, 2019

Our new React blog

We’ve started our new React Blog, and we’ll be writing articles about React and React related libraries and testing frameworks. We are going to talk about: JavaScript fundamentals React Components, Forms, State, Props React Router and Data Fetching Styled Components and Storybook Open-source Component Libraries React Testing Tools and Frameworks Docker for React Apps React Best Practices and Gotchas

React

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Mar 12, 2019

KissFront: Lighthouse as a Service

KissFront is a web performance monitoring tool running Lighthouse continuously or on-demand (using Lighthouse as a service) to monitor your website performance and get insights on speed with modern performance metrics. It uses Lighthouse as a Service to provide regression testing for developers and product people. Provides five categories of…

Web Development

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KissFront: Lighthouse as a Service

KissFront is a web performance monitoring tool running Lighthouse continuously or on-demand (using Lighthouse as a service) to monitor your website performance and get insights on speed with modern performance metrics.

It uses Lighthouse as a Service to provide regression testing for developers and product people.

Provides five categories of…

Aug 12, 2018

The Future of Web Browsers is so Exciting

From collapsable tabs that close themselves after certain amount of time, or AI algorithm identifying the unused tabs and storing them in an area that may be called Staled Tabs (tabs the browser thinks you don’t need anymore), to Better Search in the History Tab and Performance & Security issues…

Web Development

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The Future of Web Browsers is so Exciting

Jul 31, 2018

Best Practices for Implementing E2E (End-to-End) UI Tests

Writing UI tests that are resilient and easy maintainable is hard. Everyone knows that UI tests are slow and flaky but using a few best practices can make the job of implementing and maintaining UI tests a little more easier. Here are some best practices that we found useful: use the page object model/robot pattern; this makes the tests easier to understand and update make the tests run independently from one another and still pass; not fulfilling this will make your tests flaky and give weird behaviours on different environments

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