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The ultimate Google Algorithm update checklist for your website

As we are all well aware, this month Google will be updating its algorithm with the aim of improving the user experience. With these changes, however, it’s reported that many of the top-ranking websites will be affected, meaning they need to take action now to ensure all of the hard SEO work they’ve done is not lost.

How to Improve First Contentful Paint

Chances are, you've run a PageSpeed Insights test and noticed "First Contentful Paint" as one of the first numbers in the report. I've covered most of the metrics before in my article on Understanding the Page Speed Metrics in Google Lighthouse, but in this article I wanted to dive deeply into First Contentful Paint - particularly what it is, what a good score is, and how to improve. Table of Contents.

Monitor these Metrics to Keep your Servers Controlled

If we look at server definition, it is a piece of computer software or hardware that provides functionality to other devices or programs called clients. System administrators often come up with a common question over the performance of a server – Why is my server down? If server monitoring and management are inefficient, it often makes it very difficult to correctly analyze complex and unpredictable information in a data center. It’s hard to find a reason for server outage.

OpenTelemetry Trace 1.0 is now available

For decades, application development and operations teams have struggled with the best way to generate, collect, and analyze telemetry data from systems and apps. In 2010, we discussed our approach to telemetry and tracing in the Dapper papers, which eventually spawned the open-source OpenCensus project, which merged with OpenTracing to become OpenTelemetry.

Cloud Logging in a minute

Cloud Logging is a real-time log management tool that allows you to securely store, search, analyze, and alert on all of your log data and events. In this video, we show you what Cloud Logging is and how you can use it to convert logs to log-based metrics for monitoring, alerting, analyzing and visualizing for your applications infrastructure.

Datadog Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

Datadog APM provides end-to-end application monitoring, from frontend browsers to backend database queries and code profiles, so you can monitor and optimize your stack at any scale—no sampling required. APM and distributed tracing are fully integrated with the rest of Datadog, giving you rich context for troubleshooting issues in real time.

Database Performance Monitor Overview

SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor (DPM) provides deep database performance monitoring at scale, without overhead. Our SaaS-based platform helps increase system performance, team efficiency, and infrastructure cost savings by offering full visibility into major traditional, open-source, and cloud-native database such as Microsoft SQL, Azure SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and more.