If we dig down the history, many incidents occurred that led to system failures and business losses in terms of money and brand value. Among them, some could have been avoided with continuous server monitoring and proper performance testing. So, let’s discuss what history says to us and what we can learn from it. As … Read more
Mobile Application Performance Testing is a new domain opening the door to new challenges due to the lack of a properly defined approach, tool etc. Read the article to understand what are the key points that you need to keep in mind as a Performance Engineer: Challenges in Mobile Application Performance Testing Performance Optimization of … Read more
Parallel Garbage Collector or Throughput Collector has an argument to set the target application throughput. The argument is: -XX:GCTimeRatio=<N> To set the target throughput, you need to calculate the correct GC Time Ratio value and input in the file. The below calculator helps you to calculate the correct GC Time Ratio value (N) on the … Read more
Speed Index (SI) is a UI Performance Testing metric that calculates how quickly the content of the webpage is visually displayed to the end-users. Actually, the speed index is not a time-based unit. It is a score that represents the content loading speed of a web page. The lesser is the value of SI, the … Read more
Largest Contentful Paint or LCP is one of the important metrics in UI Performance Testing. It provides the time when the largest element of the web page is loaded in the browser and ready to consume by the user. Also note that the LCP only counts the loading time of what is relevant to the user … Read more
First Contentful Paint or FCP is one of the important metrics in UI Performance Testing. It provides the time when the browser renders the first bit of content like text, image, non-white canvas etc. It gives the first impression to the user that the page is actually loading. Behind the concept of FCP, there is another … Read more