CSS - Tricks

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Jeremy mentions the proliferation of initials: Personally, my beef with core web vitals is that they introduce even more uneccessary initialisms (see, for example, Harry’s recent post where he uses CWV metrics like LCP, FID, and CLS—alongside TTFB and SI—to look at PLPs, PDPs, and SRPs. Direct Link to Article — Permalink.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 27, 2019

As we mentioned in our article Average Page Load Times for 2020 , mobile page speed is a huge deal going forward. As we’ve covered before, TTFB is the amount of time between the user navigating to a URL and when the browser receives the first byte of information. Only 2% of the websites in the pool had a TTFB under 0.2

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

There are many key performance indicators (KPI) that measure different points during the lifecycle of the web page (such as TTFB, domInteractive and onload ), but these metrics don’t reflect how the end-user experiences the page. Barry Pollard has written an excellent in-depth article about CLS. Large preview ). Key Takeaways.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Studying your network waterfall chart in developer tools will show this delay up under the category of “Waiting (TTFB)”. Any work that the server does to complete a request is squashed into that TTFB wait that the user experiences in their browser. So how do we reduce that time and start delivering the page more quickly to the user?

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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. Running a failing article page through WebPageTest highlighted the LCP element: The LCP image of a typical Smashing Magazine article. OK, so the article author photo is the LCP element.

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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

DECEMBER 17, 2020

There are countless articles on the topic, but here are a few things to be aiming for — clear, original, properly sourced, well written, accessible, and honest. TTFB (Time to First Byte) Test by Geekflare. There’s no question that there exist bad websites that perform well, but more and more are weeded out with each update.

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CSS Wizardry

JUNE 7, 2023

This is an update to my 2020 article Site-Speed Topography. You will need to catch up with that piece before this one makes sense. Around two and a half years ago, I debuted my Site-Speed Topography technique for getting broad view of an entire site’s performance from just a handful of key URLs and some readily available metrics.

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CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

my about page ), and article pages, like this one you’re reading right now; an ecommerce site would have a homepage, a product listings page (PLP), a product details page (PDP), and a search results page (SRP). Gaps between TTFB and First Paint can, by and large, be considered your critical path.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The TTFB and the content download times were the two greatest factors decreased by implementing a CDN. For example, on this article, our featured image is named “optimize-images-for-web” because that is the topic of this article. Always use hyphens when there are multiple words.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Time To First Byte (TTFB) This is the time it takes for the first piece of information from the server to reach the user’s browser. You need to beware that slow server response times can significantly increase TTFB, often due to server overload, network issues, or un-optimized logic on the server side. LCP seconds over time.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

If you think that static rendering is limited to generic, public content that is the same for every user of your website, you should definitely read this article. The witty jokes in each article are only visible to paid users. If the user is paid, the server returns the full article directly as HTML. Eric Burel.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

In this article, we will particularly look at the average page load time in 2021 and importance of web vitals. It is the direct impact of Time to First Byte (TTFB) which is 1.28 Once you have configured the cache settings properly here comes the help of server response time and TTFB (Time To First Byte). Pingdom, 2018.

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CSS - Tricks

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

We’ll cover common metrics, like Time to First Byte ( TTFB ) among others, then compare data across a wide section of sites to see how different ways to slice those sites up compare. Specifically, we will use metrics like: Time To First Byte ( TTFB ). TTFB takes from 200ms to 1 second for users around the world.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Oddly enough we encountered this error to a third party website while writing this article. Using a fast DNS hosting provider ensures there is less latency between the DNS lookup and TTFB. You can test the DNS lookup time and TTFB with a website speed test tool. So DNS services definitely go down!

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Rigor

JULY 25, 2019

Time to First Byte (TTFB). While we can’t help you determine which Simpsons character you are, we can offer you a free report on how your websites perform with the metrics discussed in this article. The Simpsons Family = Web Performance Metrics. Maggie Simpson. The youngest member of the Simpsons family is also one of the smartest.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Geoff Graham 2023-08-10T08:00:00+00:00 2023-08-10T12:35:05+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear There is no shortage of ways to measure the speed of a webpage. Large preview ) Let me be clear that I am no performance expert.

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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. Hey, look at that — great job, team! Large preview ) I love this stuff!

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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. This URL will be used throughout the article. Chrome’s load time was 1.25s (TTFB was 1.25s, content was downloaded in 3.96ms). After a while, we wanted to give the decoupled approach a go.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

This article will help you with exactly that. The metrics selection is outside of the scope of this article and depends highly on the project context, but I recommend that you start by reading User-centric Performance Metrics by Philip Walton. For the site, I would consider Time To First Byte (TTFB) as a metric. 0 libglib2.0-0

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Time to First Byte (TTFB), DOM Content Loaded, Start Render, Speed Index) — but from the experience of the user. I’m sure we’ve all clicked on an article, started reading, and then had the text jump around as images, advertisements, and other content is loaded. This is quite jarring and annoying for users so best to minimize it.

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 15, 2020

Static files are cached on the edge reducing Time to First Byte (TTFB). While we’re talking about performance, here are a few of my favorite performance articles on here at CSS-Tricks: The Complete Guide to Lazy Loading Images The Differing Perspectives on CSS-in-JS Third-Party Scripts. So why do people say that Jamstack is fast?

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Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

That approach lets you: Get comfortable with the mechanics of budgets Confirm that your budgets are working (i.e., Even if you're not responsible for backend time (e.g., you're a front-end developer), it's a good idea to track it because it can delay all your other metrics.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Alternatively, you can also check David Gossage’s article on How to review Core Web Vitals scores in bulk , in which he shares the scripts and how to get an API key to run the script manually without any external tools or services. It uses data from the Chrome UX Report and measures LCP, CLS, FID, TTFB, INP and FCP.

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