Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

I’ve written a few articles here before on Core Web Vitals, and am always interested to see what’s in their annual Web Performance Checklist. 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.

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Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Earlier this year, Google announced that Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is no longer an experimental metric. Safari users currently account for roughly 20% of global traffic. In North America, Safari users represent almost one-third of all traffic.) INP will replace First Input Delay (FID) as a Core Web Vital in March of 2024.

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Google Traffic Ecommerce Metrics 109

MachMetrics

JUNE 18, 2019

We’ve written tons of articles giving you step-by-step advice on how to make your website faster – but not everyone wants to go through lots of steps. Many people reach out to us asking what is the #1 most important bang-for-your-buck tip on optimizing your website’s speed. Sounds simple, right?

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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. That’s one example and a common one at that.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Of all traffic, 53.3% The top three results in Google SERPs get 54.4% Google is the most prominent global search market player with a market share of 83%. Be Prepared to Add a New E in EAT We all know about the common Google EAT acronym, which is defined as Expertise, Authority, and Trust. comes from organic searches.

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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

In this article, we will check how page load time affects your site revenue and also the importance of even just one second in page loading. They get even MORE impatient when it comes to website speed. drop in the number of articles a visitor read The three-second delay resulted in a 7.9% Want proof? Want proof?

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Preparing For Interaction To Next Paint, A New Web Core Vital Preparing For Interaction To Next Paint, A New Web Core Vital Geoff Graham 2023-12-07T21:00:00+00:00 2023-12-08T00:07:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear There’s a change coming to the Core Web Vitals lineup. That’s what this article is all about.

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

Then again, a newer but less widely known framework may more effectively suit your needs, so it's worth it to get up to speed about today's most popular options. According to StatCounter , as of December 2020, mobile traffic has surpassed desktop traffic with 55.73% of traffic coming from mobile devices.

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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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Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

This project implements multiple techniques and tactics to censor China’s internet and controls the internet gateways to analyze, filter, and manipulate the internet traffic between inside and outside of China. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China.

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Website Internet Internet Performance 82

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. Google Keyword Planner. Google Trends. Google Mobile-Friendly Test.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

This project implements multiple techniques and tactics to censor China’s internet and controls the internet gateways to analyze, filter, and manipulate the internet traffic between inside and outside of China. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China.

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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 ) 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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Performance Speed Google Media 237

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 following qualities are considered great additions to the basic PWA by Google developers. The Application Works Offline As It Does Online.

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Cache Internet Internet Google 124

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. Large preview ).

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 134

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2021

This project implements multiple techniques and tactics to censor China’s internet and controls the internet gateways to analyze, filter, and manipulate the internet traffic between inside and outside of China. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 27, 2021

This project implements multiple techniques and tactics to censor China’s internet and controls the internet gateways to analyze, filter, and manipulate the internet traffic between inside and outside of China. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China.

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Website Internet Internet Performance 52

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Web development is evolving at a rapid speed with each passing year. And so, it optimizes the page loading speed and reduces the bounce rate. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. Let’s dive deep into the top website development trends to expect in 2022.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Yes, that's right: I read the comments on a MacRumors article. Nobody frames it precisely this way; instead they'll say, if WebKit weren't mandated, Chromium would take over , or Google would dominate the web if not for the WebKit restriction. What does this almighty torrent of cash buy Google? At my age, one knows better.

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Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

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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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

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. For more years than I care to mention, I've been advising folks that their TTFB should be under 500ms.

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Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

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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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 22, 2023

However, amidst the drive for speed, ensuring policy compliance is often overlooked, leading to potential security vulnerabilities and compliance risks. For instance, terraform-compliance can enforce that all AWS EC2 instances have specific tags defined or that all Google Cloud resources have encryption enabled.

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AWS Best Practices Infrastructure Traffic 52

Speed Curve

JULY 26, 2022

Fixing high-traffic but poorly performing areas of your site will improve your overall metrics – and create a faster, better experience for more of your users. Track Google's Core Web Vitals (and create performance budgets for them). Most-read support articles. It's been another busy month here at SpeedCurve!

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Testing Performance Metrics Traffic 52

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

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. Also, the management will be dissatisfied with the decreased traffic and revenue caused by the unoptimized codebase, despite the code quality improvements. Adrian Bece.

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Media Performance Cache Strategy 109

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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C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

CSS - Tricks

JULY 15, 2020

We will use continuous performance testing and Google Lighthouse to audit every change. We have reduced the speed of the site down to a score of 66. Let’s pretend we work with a marketing department and they want to start measuring traffic with Google Analytics. From there, we will make changes until it scores a mere 17.

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Cache Google Analytics Servers 71

MachMetrics

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Elon Musk’s need for speed. However, there is excitement around Starlink for other reasons – namely, the implications it might have for internet speed and latency – even by just a small amount (20 milliseconds on average). This ultimately guides us to one conclusion: Speed is incredibly important.

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Internet Internet Latency Speed 44

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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Cache Google Mobile Network 96

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 means faster loading times and less traffic. We won't go into detail in this article.

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Processing Cache Website Servers 127

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 ). At the same time, they open a door to lots of concepts that might be overwhelming: PRPL, RAIL, Paint Timing API, TTI, HTTP/2, Speed Index, Priority Hints and more …. A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0,

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

According to Statista , at least 50% of global online traffic is driven by mobile users. Here are some reasons why mobile web testing is important: For A Better Search Result Ranking: Google ranks websites based on how mobile-friendly they are. We can also gather page’s speed from Google’s PageSpeed Insights.

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Mobile Testing Website Speed 65

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this article, we will review what third-party resource requests are, consider how impactful they can be to the user experience, and discuss common optimization strategies to reduce the impact on the user experience. They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Practical HTTP/3 deployment options ( current article ). You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 105

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”. It is physically limited by the speed of light or, practically, how fast signals can travel in wires or in the open air.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 106

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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