Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Your current competitive benchmarks status. Expanded Industry Speed Benchmarks. 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 – over the past year. Lots of new videos!

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KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

A WordPress website comprises many parts, including web servers and their settings, different plugins, and themes. Unoptimized content could also be one of the reasons why your WordPress website is not performing as per your expectations. But this article won't just help you figure out why your WordPress website is not fast enough.

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Rigor

JULY 9, 2019

“How fast is a website?” In the past, the answer would be based on the load time of a page, but over the years, we have evolved our approach to site speed to incorporate new metrics, alone or in combination with existing metrics. The post Beyond Speed: Why You Should Be Tracking Interactive Metrics appeared first on Rigor.

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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.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. By running basic optimizations of our videos before adding them to our websites, we can prevent these issues from occurring for good — well, most of them. There is a solution though!

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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.

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Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Websites. Even Faster Websites. How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance. Want your web site to display more quickly?

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Throughout this post I've used examples from our public Industry Benchmarks dashboard , which I'd encourage you to check out so that you can explore these metrics on your own. > Speed Index (Synthetic). Speed Index was an important metric when it first came out several years ago. Is it loading?

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Rigor

JUNE 14, 2019

But there is some information that is universal for all websites – and everyone has to start somewhere, right? These six metrics were not chosen at random – they work together to give you a snapshot of your site’s performance and overall user experience so you can set a baseline and improve speed and usability. Speed Index.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database uptime and availability Monitoring database uptime and availability is crucial as it directly impacts the availability of critical data and the performance of applications or websites that rely on the MySQL database. This KPI is also directly related to Query Performance and helps improve it.

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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.

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KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. When the word “performance” is heard, most people immediately think of speed. What is Performance Testing? What Are the Benefits of Performance Testing?

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Speed Curve

JULY 2, 2013

SpeedCurve focuses on a third which I like to call web performance benchmarking. Uptime services like Pingdom and Uptime Robot ping your website with an HTTP request every couple of minutes to check that it's online and available. Web Performance Benchmarking. Uptime Monitoring. Real User Monitoring.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Speed Curve

MARCH 23, 2016

SpeedCurve provides nine emulated phones & tablets or you can build your own custom browsers and control settings like viewport size, device pixel ratio, connection speed and even packet rate loss. You can also distribute checks more flexibly across your sites and the competitors you are benchmarking. Flexible Testing.

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Speed Curve

MAY 31, 2014

The connection speed for testing agents is still throttled to an average US connection speed so simple pages may not improve as much. Overall this should provide more consistent results that are more on par with what an average user of your website might experience. For CPU heavy pages you should see a drop in overall load time.

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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. Speed Index (synthetic only): 4 seconds recommended. Understand page bloat.

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 78

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. Enhanced User Experience Whether you operate an e-commerce platform, a content management system, or any other application reliant on MySQL, users will notice and appreciate the improved speed and responsiveness.

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PDC

APRIL 14, 2019

It ranks the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers based on their performance as measured by the Linpack benchmark. However, the speed of a computer in FLOPS can vary depending on the number of bits used in the representation of the floating point numbers in the tests. You may have heard of the Top500 list. Performance development.

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Energy Benchmarking Efficiency Website 40

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. She understood how important mobile page speeds were to the user experience and, by proxy, SEO.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. Your website may be using more third-party services than you realize. Ken Harker.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed). RUM works best only when people actively visit the application, website, or services.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. If you’d like to dive deeper into the performance of Android and iOS devices, you can check Geekbench Android Benchmarks for Android smartphones and tablets, and iOS Benchmarks for iPhones and iPads. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known.

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Dynatrace

MAY 30, 2020

To deliver outstanding customer experience for your applications and websites, you need reliable benchmarks that measure what good customer experience looks like. Let’s illustrate the threshold setting using the Dynatrace website as an example. Dynatrace news. Get started with just a few clicks. Prerequisites.

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CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Same page, same connection speed, same locale, same release year, different devices. What we really want to do, alongside capturing good benchmark- and more permanent data with WebPageTest, is interact with and inspect a site slightly more realtime. Here is how my actual iPhone on a throttled connection deals with my website.

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HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

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Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

The performance poverty line is the plateau at which changes to your website’s rendering metrics (such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint) cease to matter because you’ve bottomed out in terms of business and user engagement metrics. What is the "performance poverty line"? Ultimately, this is good for your business.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Relaunched website. In the summer, we launched a brand-new version of our website ! Industry speed benchmarks for Japan. We have a number of SpeedCurve users who want an ongoing understanding of how popular Japanese websites perform, so we added Japan to our Industry Page Speed Benchmarks dashboard.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

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 ). In this recent test run from our Industry Page Speed Benchmarks , you can see that the Amazon home page ranks fastest in terms of Start Render.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Memory Allocation: Allocating sufficient memory linked directly to the assigned CPU ensures effective utilization resulting in better system speed. Additionally, the platform continuously monitors data through benchmarking functionalities providing valuable insights through its data analytics tools.

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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. Focus on key pages You don't need to apply performance budgets to all your pages.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

The performance plateau is the point at which changes to your website’s rendering metrics (such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint) cease to matter because you’ve bottomed out in terms of business and user engagement metrics. What is the "performance plateau"? Ultimately, this is good for your business.

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Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 52

KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

Running speed tests with tools like Google PageSpeed Insights , WebPageTest , or KeyCDN’s Website Speed Test are always a good way to help gauge your website’s performance. Why Care About Page Speed? There are a multitude of reasons why you should care about page speed. A site which loads in 2.6

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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.

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