Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. Prioritizing Metrics Online metrics are almost limitless. Google Trends.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

Loading experience is crucial to the user’s first impression and overall usability, so Google defined Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric to measure how quickly the main content loads and is displayed to the user. We can run Lighthouse test to check the metrics and use this data for comparison. Without priority hints.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

But we can’t really say just yet whether it had any impact on the business metrics — well, we’ll need to wait for a big book release to see that. The final prompt for a more aggressive optimization was the “Core Web Vitals” dashboard in the Google Search Console. Are Modern Best Practices Bad For The Web? What Is Gatsby?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

If you’re new to SLOs and want to learn more about them, how they’re used, and best practices, see the additional resources listed at the end of this article. According to the Google Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) handbook, monitoring the four golden signals is crucial in delivering high-performing software solutions.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Certain service-level objective examples can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. With this objective, the app ensures that users experience real-time feedback and immediate updates when logging workouts, recording sets and reps, or tracking performance metrics. The Apdex score of 0.85

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Certain SLOs can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. With this objective, the app ensures that users experience real-time feedback and immediate updates when logging workouts, recording sets and reps, or tracking performance metrics. The Apdex score of 0.85

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Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

Organizations can now accelerate innovation and reduce the risk of failed software releases by incorporating on-demand synthetic monitoring as a metrics provider for automatic, continuous release-validation processes. This metric indicates how quickly software can be released to production. Dynatrace news.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. You can see that Lighthouse does indeed provide that metric. It replaces the First Input Delay (FI D ) metric. Analytics is a good example.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

While you may assume a great majority of the cloud database deployments are run on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, small to medium-sized businesses in particular are gravitating towards the developer-friendly cloud provider, DigitalOcean , for their hosting for MongoDB® needs. MongoDB Replication Strategies.

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

While Google’s SRE Handbook mostly focuses on the production use case for SLIs/SLOs, Keptn is “Shifting-Left” this approach and using SLIs/SLOs to enforce Quality Gates as part of your progressive delivery process. Once Dynatrace sees the incoming traffic it will also show up in Dynatrace, under Transaction & Services.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

A well-established metric we provide is APDEX , which tell us how users are perceiving page load times (time to the first byte, page speed, speed index), errors (JavaScript errors, crashes,) and also factors in the overall user journey (each user interaction) including their environment (browser, geolocation, bandwidth).

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

However, the above table is not actually representative of total traffic, and that’s another point to note about this data. Perhaps this is a best practice even for those using Save Data, as perhaps they’re unaware or had forgotten that they turned this setting on, and so are getting a different experience. Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic. Researchers and major companies have been publishing case studies for years , proving that slower page load experiences impact business metrics, including conversion rate, revenue, bounce rate, and more. These tools fall into several categories.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. This is because, as I stated in the introduction to part 1 , much of the early HTTP/2 content was overly optimistic about how well it would work in practice, and some of it, quite frankly, had major mistakes and bad advice.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

For example, if the device is a firewall, it might be configured to block all traffic containing (unknown) extensions. In practice, it turns out that an enormous number of active middleboxes make certain assumptions about TCP that no longer hold for the new extensions. We will discuss these features in more depth later in this article.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

For web-page loading, this slow-start approach can also affect metrics such as the first contentful paint, because only a small amount of data (tens of to a few hundred KB) can be transferred in the first few round trips. Initial tests by Google , for example, show low percentage improvements for its use cases. What does it all mean?

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome who was working all around web performance for decades. For sites with large traffic and a global reach, basic optimizations at build time are usually not enough. Let’s figure it all out. About the Author.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome and focusing around performance for decades. For sites with large traffic and a global reach, basic optimizations at build time are usually not enough. Let’s figure it all out. Image Content Delivery Networks. +.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 93

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics Performance culture, Core Web Vitals, performance profiles, CrUX, Lighthouse, FID, TTI, CLS, devices. Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Table Of Contents.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Table Of Contents. Quick Wins.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Table Of Contents. Setting Realistic Goals. Defining The Environment.

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