5 minutes readKey takeaways An average hides the slow tail, and the tail is what users complain about. p95 and p99 describe the experience of your least fortunate users. Report a percentile with the median; the mean alone can hide a serious problem. Why Performance Testing We all want our websites to be responsive and useful. However,… Read more »
3 minutes readKey takeaways SEO monitoring catches silent breakage: a noindex shipped by accident, or a redirect chain. Alerts matter more than dashboards, because these failures are invisible until traffic drops. Watch the handful of pages that bring traffic rather than every URL you own. SEO is very important for your website, it brings customers to your… Read more »
2 minutes readKey takeaways Depth in one area beats shallow familiarity with every tool. Learning to read systems and ask better questions outlasts any framework. Automation is a skill within testing, not a replacement for knowing what to test. Software Testing is hard. It involves hard work and dedication in learning the product, but also a huge… Read more »
4 minutes readKey takeaways Most WordPress slowness comes from plugins and unoptimised images, not the core. Caching plus image optimisation covers the majority of the available gain. Audit plugins periodically. Each one adds queries and assets to every page. We managed to get a 99/100 Performance Score with Google Lighthouse, check the details below how we did… Read more »
4 minutes readKey takeaways CLS measures unexpected movement, which is why a page can feel broken while loading fast. The usual causes are images without dimensions, injected banners and late-loading fonts. Reserve space for anything that arrives late and most of the score fixes itself. Cumulative Layout Shift or CLS, Web Vitals and Core Web Vitals, these… Read more »
4 minutes readKey takeaways Lighthouse audits performance, accessibility, SEO and best practices in one run. The score is lab data on a simulated device, so it is a diagnostic rather than reality. Use the individual audits; the composite number moves for reasons that do not matter. If you know nothing about your customers’ experience with your website,… Read more »
4 minutes readKey takeaways Homebrew is the quickest install and keeps JMeter updatable. The archive download is the fallback when you need a specific version. Most install problems are a missing or mismatched Java version. When starting with Apache JMeter for performance testing the first step you need to take is to install JMeter on your development… Read more »
