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

AUGUST 9, 2022

Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores. Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores. By optimizing your Core Web Vitals scores, you can gauge and improve user experience. Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. Bulk Core Web Vitals Check.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Improving Core Web Vitals, A Smashing Magazine Case Study. Improving Core Web Vitals, A Smashing Magazine Case Study. Why are my Core Web Vitals failing?” It all started with a series of tweets last March with a cry for help : Smashing Magazine’s tweet asking for help. Barry Pollard. 2021-12-20T05:30:00+00:00.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

We were, however, missing the systematic ability to measure perceptual quality ( VMAF ) of HDR streams since VMAF was limited to standard dynamic range (SDR) video signals. A vital aspect of such development is subjective testing with HDR encodes in order to generate training data. By June 2023 the entire HDR catalog was optimized.

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Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

One of the great things about Google's Core Web Vitals is that they provide a standard way to measure our visitors’ experience. Core Web Vitals can answer questions like: When was the largest element displayed? Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) measures when the largest visual element (image or video) finishes rendering.

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Speed Curve

APRIL 27, 2022

But this practice comes with some performance measurement pitfalls: Hiding the contents of the page can have a dramatic effect on the Web Vitals that measure visual experience, such as First Contentful Paint (FCP) and Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). Effects on other Web Vitals. Hiding the page contents.

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Speed Curve

MAY 9, 2023

INP will replace First Input Delay (FID) as a Core Web Vital in March of 2024. It's been three years since the Core Web Vitals initiative was kicked off in May 2020. While we definitely get excited about emerging metrics, we also approach each new metric with an analytical eye. When should you start caring about INP?

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

An In-Depth Guide To Measuring Core Web Vitals. An In-Depth Guide To Measuring Core Web Vitals. 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. What Are The Core Web Vitals?

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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.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Interaction to Next Paint (INP) will become a Core Web Vital on March 12th. INP measures how responsive a page is to visitor interactions. It measures the elapsed time between a tap, a click, or a keypress and the browser next painting to the screen. Opening a guest profile in Chrome 2. Recording a profile 5.

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Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

Let's get started! As the person responsible for the performance of this page, you don't want to see it get worse than this while you work to make things faster. They answer the question "How can I keep my site from getting slower while I work toward my performance goals?" Background: How performance budgets work 1.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 8, 2024

This article delivers a practical roadmap for using backups and binary logs to achieve accurate MySQL recovery, detailed steps for setting up your server, and tips for managing recovery and backups effectively without overwhelming you with complexity. Data loss or corruption can be daunting. Each caters to specific needs.

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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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CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

So many false starts, tedious workflows, and a complete lack of efficiency really made it difficult for me to find momentum. In a bid to address this, I introduced a new tool into my arsenal so that I could hit the ground running much faster, and get answers to my clients much sooner. Let’s start with the gold standard: WebPageTest.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

If you’re responsible for the overall performance and success of a mobile application, you likely have many KPIs to measure and monitor, along with business KPI tracking. This article is part two of the mobile application monitoring series covering the benefits the Dynatrace platform provides for mobile application owners.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

However, as the world’s most popular browser and the only browser feeding back the Core Web Vitals information for any search ranking boasting, Chrome getting this (finally, some might say) is important. With that caveat out of the way, let’s get to the guts of the article: What is the Back/Forward Cache and why does it matter so much?

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

Recently Noam Rosenthal published two articles analyzing the common benefits and capabilities provided by various frameworks , and also their associated costs. I highly recommend checking out these articles. Collecting Core Web Vitals From The Field. Large preview ). This also increases their importance.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) attempts to measure those jarring movements of the page as new content — be it images, advertisements, or whatever — comes into play later than the rest of the page. In this article, I’m going to discuss some front-end patterns to reduce CLS. How To Fix Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) Issues.

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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. It’s “single-threaded,” which is how we get the one-way street comparison.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

If you've been working in the performance space for a while and you hear me start to talk about page growth, I'd forgive you if you started running away. ;). How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? Not all pages are getting bigger. How does page bloat affect Core Web Vitals?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

Modern Methods For Improving Drupal’s Largest Contentful Paint Core Web Vital Modern Methods For Improving Drupal’s Largest Contentful Paint Core Web Vital Mike Herchel 2023-08-15T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-15T13:35:08+00:00 Let’s start with a fairly common example of a hero component on the homepage of Drupal’s demo installation of the Umami theme.

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CSS - Tricks

JUNE 25, 2020

And it’s not just “I can’t use CSS grid because IE 11 has 1.42% of global usage still” stuff, it’s about measuring metrics that matter to your site, no matter what they are. “ I bet I can get rid of this one extra request ,” I think. I get why Google has to guess. Very clever.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study). How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study). Last year, Google started emphasizing the importance of Core Web Vitals and how they reflect a person’s real experience when visiting sites around the web. Beau Hartshorne. 2021-05-17T11:30:00+00:00. Large preview ).

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Continued focus on Core Web Vitals. Google's Core Web Vitals have been a huge topic this year. In the past year we've expanded your tracking, budgeting, and alerting capabilities to help you get more insight into how these metrics measure user experience on your site. Watch a video walkthrough of the Vitals dashboard.).

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

The Humble `<img>` Element And Core Web Vitals. The Humble `<img>` Element And Core Web Vitals. Given how central it is to image optimization on the web, let’s catch up on what it can do and how it can help improve user experience and the Core Web Vitals. You may have heard of Core Web Vitals (CWV).

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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. However, when a page returns a good grade on speed testing tools most of the time the page tends to loads relatively faster than those unable to get better speed test tool grades.

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 27, 2021

Web performance work is twofold: Step 1) Measure Things & Explore Problems Step 2) Fix it. Of course, after all that, I couldn’t get them out of my head, so I had to spring into action and do the Step 2 stuff as soon as I could, and I’m happy to report I’ve done most of it and seen improvement. > elements.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Get a free trial of LogRocket today. And, most importantly, where do we even start improving performance and how do we establish a performance culture long-term? Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics Performance culture, Core Web Vitals, performance profiles, CrUX, Lighthouse, FID, TTI, CLS, devices. Table Of Contents.

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Tasktop

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

A glowing Forbes article. A competitor’s beaming blog on their scaling agile success; often a SAFe journey (or any investment in a methodology) starts with FOMO. Organizations can get caught in the trap of using SAFe terminology without really changing the way that they work. A jaw-dropping keynote.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Steve told us to focus on the front-end! ;) Well, a lot has changed over the years, including the ability to get more detailed information from the server on the user agent through the use of Server Timing. However, wider adoption has only just started to take off. Also measured by round trip time (RTT). I mean, why wouldn't we?

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Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

You might think that this topic would be played out by now, but every year I learn new things – beyond the overarching fact that pages keep getting bigger and more complex, as you can see in this chart, using data from the HTTP Archive. How does page bloat hurt Core Web Vitals? Core Web Vitals are a Google search ranking factor.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Here’s another article about reducing JavaScript dependencies and the bundle size sent to the client. This article is about a couple of things that Bookaway faced and we (as a company in the traveling industry) managed to optimize our pages, so that the HTML we send is smaller. Liran Cohen. 2021-05-05T10:30:00+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

For the launch, we mostly focused on getting the new design out the door, but once the website’s relaunch went live, we started focusing our attention on turning the red and orange scores to greens. In this article, I’ll highlight some of the work we did and how we were able to achieve our speed. Large preview ).

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

DECEMBER 4, 2023

This article will explain why most companies and their software developers use SDLC to manage their development process. Before we start with the details, let’s first understand the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) concept. We shall discuss the STLC facts in our next article. What is SDLC?

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CSS Wizardry

APRIL 25, 2019

I don’t think this article is definitive or gospel. It helps to quell the nerves, shows that you’re proactive, and gives you a head start. If emails are between you and a recruiter, there’s a strong chance that you will not be getting interviewed by them. Use your emails to get a sense of the person: are they formal or informal?

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Rigor

JANUARY 8, 2020

Reality: While the setup process can feel daunting if you’re just starting out with web performance, you can take advantage of a few fantastic tools, such as the Performance Budget Calculator app , to set a baseline. Reality: If you start incorporating performance now, you won’t have to bake it in later. Milica Mihajlija.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Pagination is beneficial in splitting such collections of information, including products, users, articles, etc., Indexing Strategies for Cursor Pagination Query Results For optimal pagination performance in MongoDB, indexing is of vital importance. You get the idea. As your offset increases, this process gets slower and slower.

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