Practical Monitoring by Mike Julian

Author:Mike Julian
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Published: 2017-10-26T04:00:00+00:00

Synthetic Monitoring

If you’ve ever run curl on a website to ensure it was working, you’ve performed a synthetic test. There are tools out there that take it much further, specifically designed for web page performance. The big dog in that space is WebpageTest.org.

I’ve mentioned WebpageTest (they’re the folks who created the Speed Index), but I want to come back to it for a particularly neat use case: integrating it into your testing suite. Performance of webapps tends to degrade over time, unless you actively optimize for performance on a regular basis. Since you can’t improve what you don’t measure, what if you could measure the frontend performance impact of every pull request? This is where WebpageTest private instances save the day.

By making use of WebpageTest’s API in your automated testing process, you can ensure your team is considering the performance impact of new features and not lose those hard-won performance gains.

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