Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Some tips to get us started: For a fast Largest Contentful Paint : Request your key hero image early. If using 11ty for your static sites, try the 11ty high-performance blog template. These include Hero images, images from carousels, stories and banners. A handy overview on Cloudinary blog. We’ll cover this later.

Media 145

Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In this correlation chart, you can see that conversion rate peaks at just over 6% for sessions with Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) times of 1.1 The takeaway here is that improving LCP time for more of this site's visitors could lead to a higher number of conversions overall, and more revenue. – your page renders.

Benchmarking 64

Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 64

Speed Curve

APRIL 3, 2018

We're excited to announce that we've launched Last Painted Hero as an official metric. Last Painted Hero is a synthetic metric that shows you when the last piece of critical content is painted. We call those parts of the page the "hero elements". In fact, Apple's background image has "heroes" in the URL.).

Metrics 56

Metrics Website Speed Media 56

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

This is a great direction, as videos are more engaging than still photos ( videos can double conversion rate and increase time spent on site ), and as such, can really draw customers to explore details about products and services. This is a five-time improvement over the original video. There is a solution though! Real-World Data.

Network 143

Network Speed Website Mobile 143

MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

This is a huge deal because your visitors are still on the hook for the time it takes to download each of these images (as well as the data required), and they don’t even get to see them! The large HD image you use for a hero image on the desktop version of your site isn’t going to look near as good on a small screen.

Design 57

Design Media Mobile Website 57

MachMetrics

JUNE 18, 2019

With modern web design trends such as the full screen hero image, parallax image backgrounds, and large sliders, it’s more important than ever before to make sure that the images on your site are compressed/optimized. This site could save more than 2 seconds of loading time by optimizing the smaller images they have on their site.

Speed 81

Speed Website Social Media Media 81

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

DOM complete, time to first byte, first input delay, client CPU and memory usage. For example, to make performance more tangible, you could expose the revenue performance impact by showing the correlation between the conversion rate and time to application load, as well as rendering performance. LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145