Marie Cruz
Marie is a software tester and also a tech blogger at testingwithmarie.com where she talks about testing and test automation in general. Currently, she works as a Developer Advocate for k6.io
Performance Testing with Cypress, Lighthouse and k6
Why care for performance?
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We use technology on a daily basis and have been accustomed to instant gratification.
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“While customers will forgive and forget the odd bug, crash, or period of site maintenance, they will not tolerate a site that doesn't move at the speed they’ve become accustomed to.”
- Dr. John Bates, CEO, Eggplant from Slow Websites Are Silent Killers for Businesses
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Performance Testing
Front End/Client Side
Back End/Server Side
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Google Lighthouse
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Key metrics to know
1. First Contentful Paint
2. Large Contentful Paint
3. Speed Index
4. Time to Interactive
5. Total Blocking Time
6. Cumulative Layout Shift
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Ways to run Lighthouse tests
1. Chrome Dev Tools (Lighthouse tab)
2. Browser extension
4. Lighthouse CLI
5. cypress-audit plugin
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Time for some live demo! 😱
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Performance Testing with Cypress, Lighthouse and k6
By Marie Cruz
Performance Testing with Cypress, Lighthouse and k6
In this meetup, I'm teaming up with Nicole van der Hoeven to talk all things about Performance Testing! I'll be specifically talking about front end performance testing while Nicole will talk about back end performance testing.
