1 minute read Whenever I get asked why do I need load testing or why is load testing so important, over and over again I come up with this simple example. Load Testing Example Let’s say that you send an email campaign to 10,000 subscribers of your website/blog. What will happen to your website if 1000 subscribers open… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Page Load Time
KissFront: Lighthouse as a Service
2 minutes read 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. Lighthouse is an open-source automated tool for analysing and improving the quality of web pages with audits for performance, accessibility, progressive web apps, SEO and best… Read more »
What is First Meaningful Paint (FMP)?
< 1 minute read Time to First Meaningful Paint (TTFMT) is a modern performance metric introduced by few engineers from Google, and is the time to paint the main content that users are interested in, so the thing the users came here for. Rendering some background color can be much easier and faster, but that’s definitely not what the… Read more »
What is First Paint (FP) in Modern Performance Metrics?
< 1 minute read First Paint (FP) shows the time it took for something to happen, anything at all, however this can be not so useful, as this first render, may not be very useful for the user, and for the overall experience. First Paint entry marks the first key moment developers care about in page load – when… Read more »
What is First Contentful Paint?
3 minutes read A customer decides if a website is “slow” or “fast” by multiple moments experienced during the load of the website. Definiton First Contentful Paint (FCP) is a performance metric which measures the time from navigation to the time when the browser renders the first bit of content from the DOM. It provides feedback that the… Read more »
What is Disaster Recovery Testing in Software Testing?
< 1 minute read Disaster Recovery Testing is the process to ensure that an organisation can recover data, restore business critical applications and continue operations after an interruption of its services, critical IT failure or complete disruption. A disaster recovery test (DR test) checks every step from a disaster recovery plan as outlined in an organisation’s business continuity/disaster recovery… Read more »
Why does it take forever to load a website?
< 1 minute read Have you even asked yourself what happens behind the scenes when you enter a website’s URL address in the browser and press Enter? All websites contain a lot of assets that need to load in order for a website to look good, be functional and ready for you to interact with, some of these assets… Read more »