The Morning Paper

JULY 7, 2019

Software engineering for machine learning: a case study Amershi et al., Previously on The Morning Paper we’ve looked at the spread of machine learning through Facebook and Google and some of the lessons learned together with processes and tools to address the challenges arising. ICSE’19. Today it’s the turn of Microsoft.

Software Engineering 92

Software Engineering Engineering Software Software 92

Speed Curve

MARCH 11, 2024

After years of development and testing, Google has added Interaction to Next Paint (INP) to its trifecta of Core Web Vitals – the performance metrics that are a key ingredient in its search ranking algorithm. INP replaces First Input Delay (FID) as the Vitals responsiveness metric. This is what the INP metric assesses."

Mobile 81

Mobile Google Metrics Monitoring 81

Jos

MARCH 13, 2020

Web Performance is important for user experience and business metrics. Look, there are many case studies proving a correlation between loading time and business metrics!” ?-?I Using Test My Site from Think with Google : Gives you an estimation of potential revenue increase for your site when saving loading time.

Performance 204

Performance Google Mobile Analytics 204

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. While these metrics can be very helpful it is also important to keep this data in perspective. Don’t think of it solely from a metric point of view.

Google 103

Google Cache Speed Analytics 103

Jos

MARCH 13, 2020

Web Performance is important for user experience and business metrics. Look, there are many case studies proving a correlation between loading time and business metrics!” ?-?I Using Test My Site from Think with Google : Gives you an estimation of potential revenue increase for your site when saving loading time.

Performance 130

Performance Google Mobile Analytics 130

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

A performance budget is a threshold that you apply to the metrics you care about the most. A good performance budget chart, such as the one above, should show you: The metric you're tracking The threshold you've created for that metric When you exceed that threshold How long you stayed out of bounds When you returned to below the threshold 3.

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Performance Metrics Media Google 98

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Chances are, you're here because of Google's update to its search algorithm , which affects both desktop and mobile, and which includes Core Web Vitals as a ranking factor. The metrics that comprise Web Vitals are still evolving. These metrics will (I think) always be in a state of evolution. When Google talks, people listen.

Performance 96

Performance Google Metrics Mobile 96

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites. One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0, Well, not so fast.

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Self-hosted Kubernetes installations or services — such as Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, or the Google Kubernetes Engine — make it possible for enterprises to select and implement best-fit functions. Key metrics for OpenShift monitoring. It also protects your development infrastructure at scale with enterprise-grade security.

Monitoring 147

Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

Website Optimization

APRIL 26, 2020

In this follow-up article we explore additional metrics to help optimize PPC ads faster, including Impressions Top & Absolute Top, and Average Session Duration. Using these metrics can give you an early indication of the performance of text ads in search campaigns. Google previously provided the average ad position (1.5

Google 59

Google Analytics Metrics Code 59

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Web pages are unbelievably complex, and there are hundreds of different metrics available to track. A performance budget is a threshold that you apply to the metrics you care about the most. This is when you run into three important questions: Which metrics should you focus on? Which metrics should you focus on?

Performance 133

Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 133

CSS Wizardry

APRIL 22, 2020

21 years later, in 2013, Google launched Brotli, a new algorithm that claims even greater improvement than Gzip! of a reasonable size (compression is more relevant) and not formed predominantly of non-compressible content (like, for example YouTube)), and/or; not all multi-billion dollar corporations (let’s use some normal case studies, too).

Latency 269

Latency Servers Website Speed 269

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

However, that pesky 20% on the back end can have a big impact on downstream metrics like First Contentful Paint (FCP), Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), and any other 'loading' metric you can think of. Google recommends that TTFB be 800ms at the 75th percentile. That performance golden rule still holds true today.

Servers 57

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. Core Web Vital metrics definitions. SEO is key to our success.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

MachMetrics

JANUARY 16, 2020

His article in the Web Performance Calendar, The ugly truth about optimizing beautiful images , explores a few case studies and offers some solutions as well. This allows you to see metrics such as First Contentful Paint, frame by frame. In the final case study in Michael’s article, the total image size was reduced by 95%.

Speed 89

Speed Website Metrics Cache 89

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The best way to fight regressions is to create performance budgets on key metrics, and get alerted when they go out of bounds. These charts let even the most non-technical stakeholder easily see the correlation between performance and user engagement and business metrics, such as bounce rate and conversion rate.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

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.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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. Which metrics should you focus on to improve the user experience? Twitter’s Image Pipeline (Case Study). +. Let’s figure it all out.

Media 106

Media Cache Google Best Practices 106

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ). One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. This is difficult to prove because developers will say that “the experience” is what they are seeing on their computers using, for example, Google Chrome.

Performance 130

Performance Speed Google Media 130

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Software 2.0 , in case you missed it, is a term coined by Andrej Karpathy to describe software in which key components are implemented by neural networks. The particular system discussed in this paper is Google’s email information extraction system. I.e., Google engineers don’t have access to them. But in Software 2.0

Systems 84

Systems Design Software Software 84

Speed Curve

JUNE 15, 2020

New JavaScript CPU metrics. Track CPU metrics in your first and third parties. For those three new metrics, you not only get them for the full page load, but you also get them split out by first-party or third-party attribution, so you know exactly where the responsibility for a janky page lies. Total Blocking Time.

Metrics 74

Metrics Best Practices Monitoring Google 74

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. Which metrics should you focus on to improve the user experience? Twitter’s Image Pipeline (Case Study). +. Let’s figure it all out. Get the eBook.

Media 93

Media Cache Google Best Practices 93

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

However, there are quite a few high-profile case studies exploring the impact of mobile optimization on key business metrics. WPO stats collects literally hundreds of them — case studies and experiments demonstrating the impact of web performance optimization (WPO) across verticals and goals.

Mobile 134

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 134

Tasktop

MAY 24, 2021

Business agility guru, Jon Smart , revealed that since 2018 OKRs have overtaken portfolio management and balance sheet in Google search trends. While Smart gave a concise overview of what OKRs are and what good and bad OKRs look like, our CEO and founder Dr. Mik Kersten shared a compelling case study into the role of flow in OKRs.

DevOps 91

DevOps Metrics Healthcare Innovation 91

Website Optimization

MAY 31, 2018

Drafts and experiments lets you propose and test changes to your Google Adwords search and display campaigns. In Google Adwords, you can propose and test variations to your campaigns usind drafts and experiments respectively. Setting Up An Experiment in Google Adwords. Target Cost Per Acquisition (CPA) that Google recommended.

Google 40

Google Strategy Traffic Metrics 40

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

However, having a performance budget as a standalone metric might not be of much help. Anyone with a web presence would appreciate the relationship between the effect of various performance measures on business metrics. Performance budget, as used on performance monitoring tools, such as SpeedCurve. Large preview ).

Media 118

Media Performance Mobile Latency 118

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. Quick Wins.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Let’s add in some metrics ( click here if you need a refresher on these ): Time to First Byte (TTFB): 0.47s First Contentful Paint: 0.7s Look again at the metrics above. Of course, any major retailer is going to have its fair share of ads and integration with Google. Time to Interactive (TTI): 6.2s Total Blocking Time: 2.2s

Retail 82

Retail Speed Website Google 82

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

A while back, our friends at Shopify published this great case study , showing how they optimized one of their newer themes from the ground up – and how they worked to keep it fast. At SpeedCurve we call these metrics "IX Time" and they're available on your LUX Performance dashboard.) hero images, headlines) renders.

Performance 77

Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 77

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Heatmap of the most popular pages and their Web Vitals metrics I then typically switch to the RUM > Design dashboard and use the list of popular interaction elements to determine which ones I want to investigate further. He shared a case study where they replaced over 50,000 lines of JavaScript with native HTML and CSS features.

Analytics 91

Analytics Processing Google Mobile 91

Tim Kadlec

MARCH 7, 2017

The first day of the first ever Google AMP conference was today in New York. I would have loved to have been able to participate, but I had to settle for listening to bits and pieces from afar (thanks to Google for always doing such a good job of live streaming all of their events). And AMP does all those things.

Cache 72

Cache Google Performance Metrics 72

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. Assets Optimizations.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

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. Green Scores in Lighthouse on Mobile. CSS Generators.

Mobile 140

Mobile Design Cache Code 140

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

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. Configuring WebPageTest to run a test measurement that simulates a failure of the Google Fonts third-party service.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In one of my case studies, I’ll share how we used velcro and felt to have potential users explore the concept of a touch screen kiosk at a zoo exhibit. I’ve also been a part of studies where we created an ATM out of cardboard to simulate a user interacting with an ATM as part of the concept. Case Studies.

Design 98

Design Testing Education Processing 98

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Case Study: Image Component In A Jamstack Site. Images are crucial elements for performance and UX, and data extracted from Core Web Vitals metrics such as Largest Contentful Paint , which attempts to identify the most important piece of the above-the-fold content on a given page, proves this. Fixes To Common Problems.

Media 106

Media Cache Website Mobile 106

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Recently Grigorik has been championing this approach and the Google Pagespeed Insight rules have been updated to reflect this best practice with recommendations on how to reduce the size of "above the fold" content. It’s a new image format developed by Google that’s 30-40% smaller than a jpeg.

Performance 60

Performance Mobile Website Benchmarking 60