Smashing Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals Matt Zeunert 2024-04-16T10:00:00+00:00 2024-04-16T12:05:36+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative has increased the attention website owners need to pay to user experience.

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Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me. While this may not seem significant for websites with low traffic, as traffic to the site begins to increase, so does the amount of energy consumed. Jake Archibald has written a great article on this.

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Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me. While this may not seem significant for websites with low traffic, as traffic to the site begins to increase, so does the amount of energy consumed. Jake Archibald has written a great article on this.

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Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me. While this may not seem significant for websites with low traffic, as traffic to the site begins to increase, so does the amount of energy consumed. Jake Archibald has written a great article on this.

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CSS - Tricks

JUNE 25, 2020

There are other analytics we can gather on a site, like usage analytics. For example, we might slap Google Analytics on a site, doing nothing but installing the generic snippet. Those are real user analytics, but it’s very generic analytic information. I get why Google has to guess. Very clever.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ). This is difficult to prove because developers will say that “the experience” is what they are seeing on their computers using, for example, Google Chrome. A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0,

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. Analytics is a good example. Analytics is another difficult choice.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. That’s what this article is about.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

In my last article , I suggested using the SaveData API to deliver a different, more performant, experience to users that expressed that desire. In this article, I want to spend a bit more time on this, and also look at other signals we can similarly use to help us make decisions on what to load on our websites. Barry Pollard.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. With Core Web Vitals , Google has been pushing the experience factors on mobile further to the forefront. Conclusion.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. Examples include associations with Google Docs, Facebook chat group interactions, streaming live forex market feeds, and managing trading notices.

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MachMetrics

APRIL 15, 2020

While Google’s PageSpeed Insights give you both a score for how your website performs on both desktop and mobile, most of the other audit services default to testing your site on a desktop. As we covered in our Average Page Load Times for 2020 article, mobile web usage has surpassed desktop usage, and this will only get wider.

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 15, 2020

We will use continuous performance testing and Google Lighthouse to audit every change. Let’s pretend we work with a marketing department and they want to start measuring traffic with Google Analytics. This will highlight the importance of testing every code change. The post Make Jamstack Slow? Challenge Accepted.

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CSS - Tricks

MAY 15, 2019

Images make up around 50% of an average website's traffic. In short, we’re talking about a mechanism that defers the network traffic necessary to load content when it’s needed — or rather when trigger the load when the content enters the viewport. Native lazy-loading flags in Google Chrome. The benefit?

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

This article is part of a series in which I attempt to use the web under various constraints, representing a given demographic of user. Google Homepage — DOM. This isn’t useless JavaScript; Google has to have some in order to display suggestions as you type. Google Dev Docs. Chris Ashton. 2019-07-29T14:00:59+02:00.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

These services use requests to external hosts (not servers you control) to deliver JavaScript framework libraries, custom fonts, advertising content, marketing analytics trackers, and more. In this article, however, we are going to focus on the third-party services that work their way into the design of your web pages. Large preview ).

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Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2019

based sample service in a staging and production namespace, a Jenkins instance and execute some moderate load to “simulate constant production traffic”. Dynatrace log analytics gives us access to the logs in the context of the current problem. Alerting on high CPU is not special – but – I am really only running a small node.js

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Sadly, data on latency is harder to get, even from Google's perch, so progress there is somewhat more difficult to judge. CrUX data collection and first-party RUM analytics of these metrics require live traffic, meaning results can be predicted but only verified once deployed.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

We were designing and building things, setting up new products, refactoring the components, and publishing articles. The entire site is built with progressive enhancement in mind, meaning that you, dear reader, can read every Smashing article in its entirety without the need to boot the application at all. We had to fix that.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Study common complaints coming into customer service and sales team, study analytics for high bounce rates and conversion drops. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Yet often, analytics alone doesn’t provide a complete picture.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get accurate results and goals though, first study your analytics to see what your users are on. For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In this article, we’ll explore some of the ways that we as individuals can use our skills to have a positive environmental impact within a digital organization. Terabyte of wasted traffic. Switch your analytics. Do you really need Google Analytics on every site you build? Image credit: BBC.com ) ( Large preview ).

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