3 minutes read We managed to get a 99/100 Performance Score with Google Lighthouse, check the details below how we did it. Read more on how to run a Google Lighthouse audit. First of all, you’ll need to install a list of WordPress plugins, activate and configure them. WordPress Plugins for Optimization: Autoptimize This will manage your JS,… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Test Automation
Understanding Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)
4 minutes read Cumulative Layout Shift or CLS, Web Vitals and Core Web Vitals, these terms seem complicated, but it’s actually not that hard to understand what they stand for. Web Vitals is a set of metrics used by Google to identify potential issues with your website. Core Web Vitals is a subset of Web Vitals, focused on… Read more »
Agile Software Release Checklist Manifesto
2 minutes read In this new agile world, you want to improve your application every day by releasing early and often. How do you manage to release often without major issues? Create a checklist for your software releases, a list of steps to blindly follow every time release a new piece of software. Here is an example of… Read more »
How to Build, Schedule and Execute Performance Tests Before Black Friday and Cyber Week
8 minutes read Well into the pandemic and with the E-commerce boom rapidly accelerating due to people needing to stay inside, you’ll need to make sure that your website and mobile applications are performing well under high load for the holiday shopping season and especially for Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale events. We have written a handbook,… Read more »
Where to find the configuration files for JMeter when installed with Homebrew?
< 1 minute read When you choose to install JMeter using Homebrew you may find yourself a bit lost with JMeter configuration files and ask yourself: “What is the location of the configuration files now?” To make it easy for you to find the folders please see below the mapping for the folders in the Standard JMeter vs Homebrew… Read more »
Should I use the JMeter GUI for running the load tests against my application/API?
< 1 minute read Often software developers get to ask themselves the question: Should I just run the tests in the GUI now that I finished developing them? The answer is pretty simple, NO. You should not use the GUI when running the tests. The GUI should be used only for developing the tests. For running the tests you… Read more »
How to Increase Heap Size in JMeter?
2 minutes read Why is Apache JMeter very slow when creating and running load tests? If you just downloaded and opened Apache JMeter and the UI it feels very slow, here are some items you can follow to make Apache Jmeter GUI move faster. Increase the Apache JMeter Heap Size Apache JMeter is a Java application, this means… Read more »