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The Humble ` ` Element And Core Web Vitals

Smashing Magazine

Some tips to get us started: For a fast Largest Contentful Paint : Request your key hero image early. Lazy-load offscreen images (reduce network contention for key resources). For low impact to First Input Delay : Avoid images causing network contention with other critical resources like CSS and JS.

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The Fight For The Main Thread

Smashing Magazine

All of that is dumped on any given page in one fell swoop courtesy of Google Tag Manager (GTM), which allows us to deploy and run scripts without having to go through the pain of re-deploying the entire site. seconds between the time the first significant piece of content loads and the time the page becomes interactive.

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10 things I love about SpeedCurve (that I think you'll love, too)

Speed Curve

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 Third parties add tons of value by increasing conversions (via targeting beacons) and helping you understand your users in unprecedented ways (via analytics tags).

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Introducing Last Painted Hero

Speed Curve

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. It's especially difficult for browsers and performance monitoring tools that don't know the content in the page.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

Table Of Contents. Rendering metrics provide an estimate of how fast content renders (e.g. Good for measuring and tweaking rendering performance, but not so good for measuring when important content appears and can be interacted with. Start Render time, Speed Index ). The lower the score, the better.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024

Alex Russell

First, we'll look at limits for JavaScript-heavy content, and separately we'll enunciate recommendations for markup-centric stacks. The usual caveats also apply: Performance is a deep and nuanced domain, and much can go wrong beyond content size and composition. The blog you're reading loads over a single connection in ~1.2

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Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

When we talk about an e-commerce website, the main pages you’ll have are: the home page (and “content” pages), category and search pages, product detail pages, the cart and checkout (obviously). Content pages offer more flexibility, and there we generate and use different sizes and include both WebP and fallback formats. Icon Loading.