In our previous article, we shared details on cURL can be used to test the performance of a website, and how it can be used to troubleshoot performance issues. Building on that, we used the same technique to measure the performance of the NOC CDN. We created test servers across multiple datacenters to get the performance […]
Category: Website Performance
Using cURL to test the Performance of a Website
cURL is an amazing tool (available by default on Macs and Linux) that allows an administrator to remotely transfer data and most commonly used against URLs (i.e., websites). Think of it as a terminal-based browser that doesn’t try to parse the HTML. For example, if you want to get the HTML content for noc.org, all […]
How to Improve the Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) – Web Core Vital Metrics
In May of 2020, Google announced that Core Web Vitals would become an official ranking measure in 2021. This introduced special focus on Page Experience, or the signals that measure how a user perceives the experience of interacting with your website. We don’t want to dive into what Core Web Vitals are, or the specifics […]