Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Why speed matters, examples of the impact saving a few seconds of load time has had on revenue and engagement. Bandwidth, latency and it's fundamental impact on the speed of the web. An overview of tools for measuring performance, uptime monitoring, real user monitoring and performance benchmarking. Muti-device challenges.

Speed 40

Speed Benchmarking Latency Mobile 40

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

What are some good sites I can use for benchmarking? Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive dashboard that lets you explore and compare web performance data for leading websites across several industries – from retail to media. Identify sites you can use for your own competitive benchmarking.

Benchmarking 134

Benchmarking Speed Performance Media 134

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

My kids love LEGO, too, which means that every year I find myself spending a fair bit of time on the LEGO website during the holidays. We track LEGO.com, along with a handful of other leading ecommerce sites, in our public-facing Retail Benchmarks dashboard , which I encourage you to check out. I love LEGO. Those are already big wins.

Performance 66

Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 66

Speed Curve

AUGUST 8, 2017

They don't represent the "typical" website, because there's no such thing as a typical website. These numbers should not in any way even remotely be taken as a benchmark for your own site. Custom font use continues to increase : 69% of the top 500,000 websites use them. They represent trends – that's all.

Metrics 80

Metrics Website Speed Benchmarking 80

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. When a website has a prefetch link, the browser will silently download the content and store it within its cache.

Cache 128

Cache Performance Servers Social Media 128

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. If you want to vastly improve the startup and load performance of your website, you cannot miss the impactful observations and insights that Jake posts on jakearchibald.com/ and shares on Twitter @ jaffathecake. Here is our (ever-growing!) Rachel Andrew.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

Keep reading to learn how you can apply these best practices to your own site and give your pages a speed boost. The critical rendering path is the set of steps browsers must take to convert HTML, CSS and JavaScript into living, breathing websites. JavaScript, fonts, and video carry the bulk of the rest of the weight.

Performance 77

Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 77

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. Also, there was a 65% increase in video consumption on mobile devices in 2020. According to Tim Kadlec (video), that’s an Android device that’s couple of years old, and costs around $200. This optimization is quite complex in nature though.

Mobile 136

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 136

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Watch a video walkthrough of the Vitals dashboard.). Watch a demo video showing how to create custom charts and performance budgets for Web Vitals.). This video shows you how to use SpeedCurve to investigate CLS issues.). More: Watch this video for a walkthrough of the RUM Sessions dashboard. Relaunched website.

Retail 52

Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 52

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

I intentionally left out the numbers for video, because they seemed inconsistent. These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. You can see this by looking at the synthetic test result for Sears.com (again, available via our Industry Benchmarks ). The CLS score for this page is 1.0468.

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast. If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. It's only tracked on certain elements, e.g., IMG and VIDEO.

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Media Google 98

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

For more than ten years, I've been writing about page bloat, its impact on site speed, and ultimately how it affects your users and your business. Video – For the first time in the many years that I've been covering the topic of page growth, I'm going to focus on the volume of video that pages contain. More on that later.)

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Benchmark a variety of metrics and choose a target of 20% faster or less resources. SpeedCurve's Benchmark dashboard is a great way to see how you compare to your competitors for setting budgets. Your users don't care how your website is constructed. Speed Index. Be faster than what’s in production right now.

Performance 45

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Media 45

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Reading time 11 min As companies become more aware of the importance of web performance, internal teams begin to research tools they can use to use to track their metrics and improve the user experience of their websites and applications. Not everyone uses Chrome to access your website. But that is the assumption that Lighthouse makes.

Google 51

Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Real-life performance for your users and how the website “feels” when you’re using it should not be discounted, even if it costs you a point or two in Page Speed (otherwise, we would all just have a search bar and unstyled text).

Performance 118

Performance Cache Website Mobile 118

KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

Customer want to know they can trust the website they are buying from, they want to access the website fast, and they want a great offer. eCommerce Conversion Rate Benchmarks First off, we’ll start with some benchmarks. eCommerce Conversion Rate Benchmarks First off, we’ll start with some benchmarks.

Ecommerce 41

Ecommerce Speed Website Mobile 41

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!),

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. Video Transcoding. We already use the public cloud to autoscale some async processing like Video Transcoding, text extraction, data migration, Search, etc. Document store.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52