Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. By doing this, China is also able to force people to use Chinese alternatives for websites. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

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Website Internet Internet Performance 97

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

In order to begin optimizing your pages, you’ll need to see how your pages are currently performing. Running a website speed test can help to determine what factors may be slowing your pages down. There are tools available such as Dotcom-Monitor’s free speed test that you can utilize to gauge performance.

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Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2021

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. By doing this, China is also able to force people to use Chinese alternatives for websites. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 27, 2021

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. By doing this, China is also able to force people to use Chinese alternatives for websites. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

MachMetrics

APRIL 15, 2020

Using a page speed optimization audit tool like GTmetrix or WebPageTest is a great first step towards assessing how your website loads for visitors. However, you may be making one of the common page speed testing mistakes that often cost website owners engagement, and ultimately, revenue. Mistake #1: Only Testing Desktop.

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Speed Testing Website Mobile 88

MachMetrics

JUNE 1, 2020

Mobile use surpassed desktop use years ago, but all too often websites are still being built desktop first and mobile second. In fact, failing to run a mobile page speed test is the number 1 speed testing mistake we see our users make! In addition, Google has made it clear that page speed is being used as a ranking factor.

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Speed Mobile Testing Google 67

MachMetrics

JANUARY 4, 2019

The way a website is constructed can have a major impact on website speed performance, but developers often have a hard time keeping track of factors that cause slow page loads and other speed-related issues. The PageSpeed Module is one of several free Google tools designed to help assess and improve page load speed times.

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Speed Website Open Source Google 60

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. What is Google Lighthouse? Google Lighthouse is one of the best-automated tools available on a web developer's utility belt.

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Google Latency Website Metrics 82

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. Quite a number of brands prefer WordPress to maintain their website.

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Cache Website Speed Website Performance 52

Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

Time is a crucial usability factor If you don't consider time a crucial usability factor, you're missing a fundamental aspect of the user experience I'm embarrassed to admit that, in my previous career as a usability tester, I spent years testing websites in lab conditions. This translates to two full days every year.

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Speed Website Mobile Cloud 133

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. 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. What is Performance Testing?

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Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. High-performing fast sites attract and preserve users better than low-performing ones. The screenshot below explains that page load time and lighthouse performance scores are not the same, yet they are really close to each other.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

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? How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance. High Performance Websites. Even Faster Websites. Designing for Performance.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. We normally focus solely on the performance aspect, but today we want to dive into additional ways you can optimize images for the web. KB (30%) without losses.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

MachMetrics

OCTOBER 31, 2020

WebPageTest is one of the best website speed auditing services for any designer or developer concerned with site speed (which should be all of them). We use it as the engine for our automated testing services at MachMetrics.com. Who are your competitors in your website’s niche? Visual Comparison. WebPageTest Scripting.

Social Media 52

Social Media Website Speed Google 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

In previous articles from this series, we’ve covered auditing CSS codebase health and the incremental CSS refactoring strategy , testing, and maintenance. Deploying the refactored codebase shouldn’t result in worse website performance and worse user experience. After all, users won’t wait around forever for the website to load.

Media 109

Media Performance Cache Strategy 109

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

We apply this litmus test to everything we do, and I believe it's the secret of our success. Google's Core Web Vitals have been a huge topic this year. We've been tracking these as individual metrics – Largest Contentful Paint, First Input Delay, and Cumulative Layout Shift – since before Google branded them as a set.

Retail 52

Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 52

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 5, 2020

In the show, Google is portrayed by the fictional company Hooli, which is after Pied Piper’s intellectual property. The funny thing is that, while being far from a startup, Google does indeed have a powerful compression engine in real life called Brotli. At that time, I was working as a freelance website performance consultant.

Cache 79

Cache Website Servers Open Source 79

Rigor

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Google recently announced the launch of their Speed Update. This change to how Google ranks websites for searches will now take mobile page speed into account in its ranking algorithm. This announcement is part of a Google’s ongoing efforts to incentivize good web performance. Get Familiar with your Analytics.

Speed 40

Speed Social Media Google Traffic 40

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The limited number access points, compounded with the fact that traffic is controlled by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, creates performance bottlenecks for all users in China when trying to access websites from inside and outside of the country. IP Blocking. HTTP/S Certificate Filtering.

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Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

According to Google, a website can lose as many as half its visitors while loading. Google’s PageSpeed Insights tools may be just what you need to leverage data collected through speed testing. The test will take a few seconds to complete, and results for both mobile and desktop devices will display in separate tabs.

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Speed Best Practices Google Website 49

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Google was the first company to create, embrace, and put support behind the role of site reliability engineering. When Google first introduced the role of SRE, they set a goal that half of an SREs time should be focused on reducing future operational work or adding service features. Monitoring.

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Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Jake worked at the BBC for four years, writing low-level JavaScript that catered to their strict accessibility, performance and browser support requirements.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Rigor

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

This event will feature tracks on mobile, innovation, and UX development, so attendees will certainly leave with many ideas for how they can improve their website. These focus areas are integrally linked with website performance, so it’s essential that brands also work to improve their digital experience. Conclusion.

Retail 40

Retail Ecommerce Website Performance Mobile 40

Speed Curve

AUGUST 8, 2018

One of the longest-standing items on my performance monitoring tool wishlist is an automatically-generated performance improvement checklist , with the improvements ordered by the impact that they will have on the website. Why we created the Improve dashboard. The Improve dashboard is available in the global left-hand navbar.

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Performance Website Performance Website Google 45

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? Image credit: Performance is a distribution via Karolina Czczur ). Quick Wins.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

Lazy loading is a way to improve the performance of a website or web application by maximizing the rendering speed of the above-the-fold images and iframes (and sometimes videos) by deferring the loading of below-the-fold content. Your website will gradually benefit from it as support arrives to your users in most modern browsers.

Website 103

Website Best Practices Media Open Source 103

Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 19, 2021

It is a general-purpose language, meaning that it has a wide-range of uses, such as the backbone of websites or web applications, automating tasks, or even testing. Golang, or Go, is an open-source programming language created by Google in 2009 that is used to create software programs. Dotcom-Monitor.

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Engineering Open Source Programming Monitoring 86

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

JavaScript, CSS, images, iframes, and other resources impact how quickly website loads, renders and becomes usable to the user. Of all those options, it’s safe to assume that text is the best choice for LCP performance because it loads and renders fast. web.dev’s main content is an image according to LCP (test ran on WebPageTest).

Media 70

Media Tuning Metrics Google 70

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

As a result, website performance can suffer. Recommended reading : How To Use Heatmaps To Track Clicks On Your WordPress Website. If long website response times keep you up at night, this is a how-to for you. Another advantage is reflected in the website security. Let’s create a small test plugin.

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Cache Website Speed Database 78

KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

Customer want to know they can trust the website they are buying from, they want to access the website fast, and they want a great offer. The lower conversion rate on mobile could be due to a variety of reasons including the website not being responsive for mobile devices, the speed isn’t up to par, etc.

Ecommerce 41

Ecommerce Speed Website Mobile 41

Dotcom-Montior

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

It is a general-purpose language, meaning that it has a wide-range of uses, such as the backbone of websites or web applications, automating tasks, or even testing. Golang, or Go, is an open-source programming language created by Google in 2009 that is used to create software programs. Dotcom-Monitor.

Engineering 52

Engineering Open Source Programming Monitoring 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Testing And Monitoring. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Quick Wins.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Testing And Monitoring. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Quick Wins.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 104