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Performance Engineering has become increasingly complex and critical to the success and user adoption of web applications, especially with evolving technologies and the demand to be at Internet scale. Not all performance testing strategies are implemented alike to fulfill the needs of the business. As performance test engineers, we are often tasked with challenges not […]

“Make fewer calls.” It’s one of the first suggestions for #webperf engineering and web design. “If you want your application to go fast, you should first try to make fewer requests.” Oh cool! So, you can go fast by doing less … and less … and less? Until you reach point where the application is […]

Traditional load testing typically means testing the back-end application by simulating a request and measuring how long it takes to get the first byte and the last byte. Browser render time is not measured. Why not? Because render time can be impacted by the speed of the user’s computer or device, how many tabs are […]