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. Zara Cooper.

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Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 130

CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

So far this year, all but one of my clients have been concerned about Google’s upcoming Web Vitals update. This, of course, is exacerbated by the new Vitals announcement, whereby data from the Chrome User eXperience Report will be used to aid and influence rankings. It’s vital. Everything is very Google centric. Why Bother?

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Network Mobile Performance Traffic 225

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

INP will replace First Input Delay (FID) as a Core Web Vital in March of 2024. Now that INP has arrived to dethrone FID as the responsiveness metric in Core Web Vitals, we've turned our eye to scrutinizing its effectiveness. During this time, SpeedCurve has stayed objective when looking at the Vitals metrics.

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Google Traffic Ecommerce Metrics 110

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?” I’m a big fan of Smashing Magazine and am very interested in web performance and the Core Web Vitals. OK, so the article author photo is the LCP element.

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Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

With so much at risk during an emergency, ensuring performance apps don’t lag or crash when they’re most needed is vital. Agency leaders can cut costs and improve productivity by eliminating the monitoring tool sprawl that pushes teams to work in silos. Acknowledgment This article was developed in conjunction with Maria Siatos.

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Government Infrastructure Monitoring Database 223

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 30, 2021

This article includes key takeaways on AIOps strategy: Manual, error-prone approaches have made it nearly impossible for organizations to keep pace with the complexity of modern, multicloud environments. Traditional cloud monitoring tools haven’t solved the challenge with their bolt-on correlation and machine-learning approaches.

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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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Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 94

Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

This article strips away the complexities, walking you through best practices, top tools, and strategies you’ll need for a well-defended cloud infrastructure. The importance of security monitoring work in the context of cloud security monitoring work cannot be overstated, as it is vital for maintaining a secure environment.

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Best Practices Cloud Monitoring Strategy 130

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. Now that INP has arrived to dethrone FID as the responsiveness metric for Core Web Vitals, we've turned our eye to scrutinizing its effectiveness.

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Metrics Google Mobile Analytics 96

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 24, 2022

One of the most useful tools for measuring granular changes as we work is the User Timing API. This next example was the motivation for this whole article. It’s vital to understand the remit and extent of the things we are changing. It’s vital to benchmark our changes only on the things we are changing. Signal vs. Noise.

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Benchmarking Metrics Cache Network 212

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

We can use it to report the load time of elements on the page, even going so far as to report on Core Web Vitals metrics in real time. But as far as Core Web Vitals go, we’re going to want to work in Chrome for the most part as we go along. Let’s look at a few ways we can use the API to report some CWV metrics. Need a CWV metric?

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Performance Metrics Monitoring Google 95

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? Barry Pollard.

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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

This article will explore hybrid cloud benefits and steps to craft a plan that aligns with your unique business challenges. Defining Hybrid Cloud Strategy The decision-making process about where to situate data and applications is vital to any hybrid cloud solution. A hybrid cloud strategy could be your answer.

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Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Barry Pollard has written an excellent in-depth article about CLS. We use Lighthouse and WebPagetest as our synthetic testing tools for performance to measure CLS. We also use the web-vitals library to measure CLS for real users. Debugging CLS Issue Using Different Tools. How We Discovered CLS Issue In Our Product Page.

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Website Google Metrics Testing Tools 105

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. Plus, they’ve created some more transparency about this, both in documentation and tooling. Now close the tab. Even faster yeah?

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Cache Games Performance Website 91

CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 26, 2020

I still think the Google-devised Core Web Vitals are smart. That’s why Core Web Vitals are smart: they measure those things. Web Core Vitals are factoring into SEO and for the new carousel requirements that were previously reserved only for AMP pages. Performance tooling like Calibre covers them. cache things!

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Cache Metrics Google Performance Testing 96

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure.

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CSS Wizardry

MARCH 28, 2022

link] [link] --> Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is my favourite Core Web Vital. Yet, surprisingly, it’s the least optimised CWV in CrUX—at the time of writing, only half of origins in the dataset had a Good LCP : Once more, we saw an increase in the number of origins having good Core Web Vitals (CWV) driven by improved good CLS.

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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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Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 73

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. We have enabled Web Vitals which lets us see which element caused the LCP.

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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. It grants access to peer into these logs’ contents.

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Database Strategy Servers Best Practices 162

Speed Curve

APRIL 27, 2022

Experimentation tools that use asynchronous scripts – such as Google Optimize, Adobe Target, and Visual Web Optimizer – recommend using an anti-flicker snippet to hide the page until they've finished executing. Anti-flicker snippets hide the contents of a page until the the experimentation tool (e.g.

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Performance C++ Google Retail 145

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

This article cuts through the complexity to showcase the tangible benefits of DBMS, equipping you with the knowledge to make informed decisions about your data management strategies. It provides tools for organizing and retrieving data efficiently. Enhanced data security, better data integrity, and efficient access to information.

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Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

These shifts of content are very annoying, making you lose your place in an article you’ve started reading or, worse still, making you click on the wrong button! In this article, I’m going to discuss some front-end patterns to reduce CLS. It’s a very different beast to the other two Core Web Vitals. We want the page to be 0.1

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Media Metrics Website Google 125

Scalegrid

JANUARY 19, 2024

This article dives straight into what triggers a rollback in MongoDB, the risks it carries, and concrete steps you can take to both prevent and recover from one. Write Concern ‘Majority’ The ‘MAJORITY’ write concern is a valuable tool in preventing rollbacks when performing write operations on MongoDB.

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Database Network Servers Monitoring 130

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

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. The tooling to get a report with details from the time it takes to establish a server connection to the time it takes for the full page to render is out there.

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Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Implementing service-level objectives (SLOs) has become a vital method for meeting service-level agreements that ensure great user experiences. For more information about defining critical paths, see the article Understanding your application’s critical path. 7 Steps to identify effective SLOs.

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Software Software Benchmarking Latency 269

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

With Core Web Vitals , Google has been pushing the experience factors on mobile further to the forefront. Lighthouse CI is quite remarkable: a suite of tools to continuously run, save, retrieve, and assert against Lighthouse results. Fortunately, there is no shortage of mobile testing tools out there. Large preview ).

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CSS - Tricks

JUNE 25, 2020

” And the performance tools we use report this kind of data to us readily. Now apply that to performance tooling. For example, one of Google’s Web Core Vitals , which are soon to affect the SEO of our pages, include a metric called First Input Delay (FID) and you have to collect data via JavaScript¹ on your page to use it.

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Analytics Google Metrics Performance Testing 93

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Labeling your pages in your synthetic and real user monitoring (RUM) tools is a crucial step in your performance monitoring setup. There are so many benefits to labeling your pages in both your synthetic and real user monitoring (RUM) tools. for Core Web Vitals that are measurable in synthetic and RUM). RUM page labels.

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Benchmarking Best Practices Monitoring Traffic 57

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

This article is part two of the mobile application monitoring series covering the benefits the Dynatrace platform provides for mobile application owners. When it comes to mobile app development, it’s vital that owners get the full picture. Dynatrace also helps application owners protect data privacy.

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Mobile Metrics Monitoring Latency 225

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

In this article, we will particularly look at the average page load time in 2021 and importance of web vitals. Many people often confuse site speed with page speed grades of performance testing tools, which are actually calculated based on multiple factors of a page including its loading speed. What is Google Web Vitals?

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. One of the key Next.js

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

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. All of this adds up to what I often hear described as a “fight for the main thread.”

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 90

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Interaction to Next Paint (INP) will become a Core Web Vital on March 12th. Like all Core Web Vitals, INP has a set of thresholds: INP thresholds for Good, Needs Improvement, and Poor Many sites tend to be in the Needs Improvement or Poor categories. A 'Bad Ads reporting tool' adds a stylesheet. Amazon Ads executes.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

It's why we have such an incredible team, such wonderful customers, and such a heartfelt commitment to building tools that make your life easier. We've also grown our team, expanded our customer base, completed a full-scale site redesign, launched our in-house consulting practice, and refined our tools and processes.

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Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 52