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Better Video Streaming With imgix

Smashing Magazine

How do I account for different network speeds in different environments? This solution is fine when network speeds are fast, but it can be problematic when network speeds are not fast (or fluctuate). And if there is one thing we all know — we cannot control the speed network our customers are using.

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Improving Core Web Vitals, A Smashing Magazine Case Study

Smashing Magazine

LCP, or Largest Contentful Paint , is one of the three Core Web Vitals that you must “pass” to get the full search ranking boost from Google as part of their Page Experience Update. From an SEO perspective, it doesn’t really matter what other tools tell you, GSC is what Google Search sees. The issue was that LCP was too slow on mobile.

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Compatibility Testing – An introduction

Testlodge

Network Compatibility Testing: Application connected with different available networks such as 3G, 4G, LTE, Wi-Fi, need to be tested too. Media may not play on some environments. The aim is to ensure that a particular application works across all tested browsers, operating systems, mobile devices, hardware, and networks.

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites. Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient. A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0,

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How to Get Ready for Google’s Speed Update

Rigor

Google recently announced the launch of their Speed Update. This change to how Google ranks websites for searches will now take mobile page speed into account in its ranking algorithm. This announcement is part of a Google’s ongoing efforts to incentivize good web performance. Get Familiar with your Analytics.

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

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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Come On and Take a Free (Regulatory) Ride

The Agile Manager

Within 24 hours of last month's post on regulation of technology firms , new anti-trust probes into Google and Apple were reported by the Wall Street Journal. It's worth examining the prior in the context of the latter to understand why the regulatory free ride Big Tech Media firms enjoy will continue for quite some time to come.