Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

It doesn’t come as a surprise, considering the benefits of higher conversion rates, customer engagement, decreased page loading speed, and lower costs on development and overhead. The service workers enable the offline usage of the PWA by fetching cached data or informing the user about the absence of an Internet connection.

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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

David Gilbertson and the guys at Hackernoon have a great article and flowchart that will help you decide whether or not you really need to load a web font for your site. Using Google’s Font API. Google Font API is a web service that supports open source font files that can be used for your web designs. Source: caniuse.com.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Similar to our article Average Page Load Times for 2018 , we’ll go over the averages for metrics and help you determine if your site is faster or slower than average. As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Google recommends that TTFB be 800ms at the 75th percentile. Cue server-timing headers Historically, when looking at page speed, we've had the tendency to ignore TTFB when trying to optimize the user experience. Caching the base page/HTML is common, and it should have a positive impact on backend times. I mean, why wouldn't we?

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. In this article, I’ll highlight some of the work we did and how we were able to achieve our speed. For this article, we will focus on the first three and the performance adjustments for these. Jennifer Brehm.

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 116

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

In previous articles from this series, we’ve covered auditing CSS codebase health and the incremental CSS refactoring strategy , testing, and maintenance. In this article, we’re going to cover CSS optimization strategies that can optimize CSS file size, loading times, and render performance. Adrian Bece. 2021-08-30T10:00:00+00:00.

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Media Performance Cache Strategy 109

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2 Lighthouse.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. SEO is key to our success. Bookaway site search. The reportWebVitals function.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Unfortunately, it is a bit difficult to point out the problem directly– there are many possibilities that we will explore in this article. But this article won't just help you figure out why your WordPress website is not fast enough. We will also discuss how you can speed up your slow WordPress site. Why is WordPress slow?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. PageSpeed Compare is a page speed evaluation and benchmarking tool. It measures the web performance of a single page using Google PageSpeed Insights. It also lists cached resources and identifies unused Javascript. PageSpeed Compare.

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Tim Kadlec

MARCH 19, 2018

You have to consider at least four different contexts: How well does AMP perform in the context of Google search? How well does AMP perform when the library is served using the AMP cache? How well does AMP perform compared to the canonical article? How well does AMP perform in the context of Google search?

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Cache Google Speed Metrics 79

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. Active Memory Caching. When you want to get data that you already had quickly, you need to do caching — caching stores data that a user recently retrieved. Caching Schemes. Agustinus Theodorus.

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Cache Performance Servers Social Media 126

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. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. South Korea has the fastest mobile download speed , averaging 52.4 I Used The Web For A Day On A 50 MB Budget.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf. I didn't end up getting published in SysAdmin directly, but my performance work did make it as a feature article (thanks Matty). Or even on a plane. Ford, et al., “TCP

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

How to measure performance The Website Speed Test is the ideal tool for measuring the performance of your website. WebP is the way to go WebP was first developed by Google back in 2010 and has now become the successor of JPEG. WebP delivery doesn't require any change on the origin server with the WebP caching feature.

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Processing Cache Website Servers 127

MachMetrics

JANUARY 16, 2020

His article in the Web Performance Calendar, The ugly truth about optimizing beautiful images , explores a few case studies and offers some solutions as well. In the above article, we walk you through how to implement lazy loading for your images in 83 seconds! Javascript is blocking the render. Those must have been some huge images!

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Speed Website Metrics Cache 89

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. KeyCDN’s Cache Enabler plugin is fully compatible the HTML attributes that make images responsive. In fact they even use WebP themselves on websites like YouTube.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

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 ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites. Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This article is sponsored by Storyblok. Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites. A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites. Alba Silvente. 2022-11-17T10:00:00+00:00. Conclusion.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 106

Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

In this article, I will highlight a few core features that every headless CMS should provide. If you see authors turning to other authoring tools such as Google Docs for its commenting or suggestions capabilities, it may be a red flag as to what features you are missing. Look out for: Caching of images and content via CDN.

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Cache Website Mobile Google 143

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

So in this article, we’ll pit Gzip vs Brotli and completely end the debate! As we discussed in our article on how to test your page weight , compression is pretty much standard practice in web performance now, so you absolutely want to make sure you’re taking advantage of it. One such measure is HTTP compression. OK, not really.

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MachMetrics

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

We seem to link our article on image optimization more than any other one we’ve written. Looking again at the websites above, you’ll see that Google uses one image (their logo), Craigslist uses 0(!) However, you can follow all of the tips above to ensure that your images have a minimal impact on your site speed.

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Website Speed Google Cache 57

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights (no, it isn’t deprecated), you can get CrUX performance data for specific pages instead of just the aggregates.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

If the DNS caches are manipulated to contain wrong IP addresses, it’s called DNS poisoning. If you run ads from Google Adsense, or any other blocked companies, along with banned advertisements in China, they won’t appear on your page and your websites or applications may also face access restrictions. Blocking IP Access.

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Website Internet Internet Performance 82

CSS - Tricks

JULY 15, 2020

We will use continuous performance testing and Google Lighthouse to audit every change. This is not available in the src directory until we run a command to copy over the default from the cache: cp.cache/default-html.js We have reduced the speed of the site down to a score of 66. src/html.js. That gives us html.js

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Cache Google Analytics Servers 71

MachMetrics

AUGUST 15, 2020

Some of our most recent articles detailed how to keep track of the impact that Google Fonts , Page Weight , and CSS files have on your website performance. Google Fonts being loaded on a page that doesn’t use them? We have a ton of articles to help you optimize any part of your site.

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Website Monitoring Google Mobile 67

CSS - Tricks

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Chris made a few notes about Core Web Vitals the other day, explaining why measuring these performance metrics are so gosh darn important: I still think the Google-devised Core Web Vitals are smart. cache things! You may be asking yourself, “Why would I need Sentry to see what these are if I already have Google?” Good question.

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CSS - Tricks

MAY 3, 2021

google-analytics.com", "sanList":[ "*.google-analytics.com", google-analytics.com", "*.fps.goog", Linux; Android 6.0.1; Moto G (4)) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.85 Mobile Safari/537.36 PTST/210419.211328", "accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9",

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Transportation Cache Google Mobile 86

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 5, 2020

In the show, Google is portrayed by the fictional company Hooli, which is after Pied Piper’s intellectual property. The funny thing is that, while being far from a startup, Google does indeed have a powerful compression engine in real life called Brotli. This article is about my experience using Brotli at production scale.

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Cache Website Servers Open Source 79

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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Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

If the DNS caches are manipulated to contain wrong IP addresses, it’s called DNS poisoning. If you run ads from Google Adsense, or any other blocked companies, along with banned advertisements in China, they won’t appear on your page and your websites or applications may also face access restrictions. Blocking IP Access.

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Website Internet Internet Performance 97

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 27, 2019

While it’s important to check various speed metrics , the Web Almanac uses data from the Chome UX Report which focuses on how Chrome users actually experience the web. As we mentioned in our article Average Page Load Times for 2020 , mobile page speed is a huge deal going forward. First Contentful Paint. Page Weight.

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Performance Speed Website Mobile 52

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This also implies that you don’t have to spend additional time and money on creating a PWA to suit various devices, greatly speeding up time-to-market. Hence, they can’t be promoted separately or found by users who’ve input a search query in Google. you don’t have to create code to fit the separate Android and iOS requirements.

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Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

have pointed out in their recent Science article (“There’s plenty of room at the Top”) — and cited by Hennessy in his Turing lecture — a naive implementation of matrix-matrix multiply in Python runs between 100x and 60,000x slower than their counterparts written in a “metal” language (highly optimized C).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

In this article, I’ll share an overview of what it was that we wanted to achieve and what we encountered while trying to implement our goals. In addition to MVC separation, we can (for security reasons or speed improvements) place the JS App on a separate server like in the schema below: Decoupled WordPress diagram. Large preview ).

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