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Performance Testing on Every Commit

According to our latest State of API report, API performance is seen as a top-factor in the success of an API program. With teams shifting to CI/CD and DevOps delivery at a rapid pace, performance testing can still be a major bottleneck to most teams. Siloed performance engineering teams are unable to keep up with the rapid pace of modern software delivery - many organizations still run load tests outside of the pipeline and only when holiday season comes around.

What is First Meaningful Paint (FMP)?

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 users was looking for when they entered your website.

Performance Pitfalls to Avoid in 2019 Video

It’s no secret that your digital performance determines success in today’s day and age. It’s our responsibility as testers and ops engineers to ensure that when we deploy into production, we deploy confidently, knowing we’ve tested for all possible points of failure. Then when, inevitably, something goes wrong in production, we’re able to find and fix the issue with as low of an MTTR that we can reasonably achieve.

Introducing LoadNinja, A SaaS Load Testing Tool from SmartBear

Check out how to load test in real browsers, debug in real time, and get performance metrics right from the browser, with SmartBear's SaaS load testing tool, LoadNinja. In this webinar we walk you through the LoadNinja platform, including how to record and replay your first load test, use our VU Inspector and VU Debugger, and debug with navigations timings.

What's LoadNinja? SaaS Load Testing Tool Overview

LoadNinja is a Performance Testing Tool by SmartBear. Our SaaS load testing tool helps teams cut down their load testing time by over 50% by recording and replaying test scripts in minutes, running load tests in real browsers, debugging in real-time, and providing performance metrics right from the browser.

Webinar Performance Testing in the Cloud

Performance testing is an essential part of today's DevOps workflows. It requires the capability to run load tests both locally and in the cloud to address different users' needs at different stages of the software development cycle. Watch this webinar to learn how you can run performance tests in the cloud using the open source load testing tool - k6.