Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Not surprisingly, most of the conversations I've had with SpeedCurve users over the last few months have focused on improving INP. My favourite place to start is with the Web Vitals heatmap on SpeedCurve's RUM > Performance dashboard. We're currently working on adding full attribution for INP to SpeedCurve.)

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Speed Curve

APRIL 3, 2022

This dashboard is publicly available (meaning you don't need a SpeedCurve account to explore it) and is a treasure trove of meaningful data that you can use for your own research. Last Painted Hero – When the last piece of critical content (largest image, largest background image and/or first H1 tag) is painted in the browser.

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Benchmarking Speed Retail Media 54

Speed Curve

APRIL 3, 2018

Here at SpeedCurve, we think it's good to focus on rendering metrics, because they're a closer approximation to what the user experiences. Since these pages often use custom fonts, measuring largest text (within the first h1 tag on the page) is a good way to track how fonts affect rendering. Below is an example from The New York Times.

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Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Third parties add tons of value by increasing conversions (via targeting beacons) and helping you understand your users in unprecedented ways (via analytics tags), so they’re not going away any time soon. Live demo account > SpeedCurve Third Party Dashboard. Live demo account > SpeedCurve Site Dashboard. Stylesheets.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

SpeedCurve reports the number of critical blocking resources in the page. If your site uses any of these techniques, then your "Blocking CSS" SpeedCurve metric will decrease. Synchronous scripts, however, only block the elements that follow the SCRIPT tag in the DOM tree. These are the resources that block rendering.

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Speed Curve

AUGUST 21, 2017

These metrics are available right now to SpeedCurve users. We like Speed Index (which is why we've included it in SpeedCurve ), but because it's dependent on how the page is built, it's not a one-size-fits-all metric. If you're a SpeedCurve user, these core Hero Rendering Times are already sitting in your Sites dashboard.

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Metrics Speed Retail Media 49

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Recommendations can come out of audits from consultants or from automated tools like Lighthouse (or SpeedCurve, of course). Yes, it's true that when they impact your performance, there is little you can do to make them faster, short of removing the tag or throwing the kill switch. That withstanding, you are a product manager.

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Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

This is true for SOASTA's mPulse , WebPageTest , and SpeedCurve. Here's sample code for capturing this custom metric: performance.mark("stylesheets done blocking"); The key to this snippet is making sure that it's placed below all the stylesheet LINK tags in the page. Custom Metrics in SpeedCurve. Sample Custom Metrics.

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Metrics Website Innovation Speed 72

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 31, 2016

We're excited to announce SpeedCurve's RUM product, LUX. SpeedCurve's mission is to help designers and developers create joyous, fast user experiences. Now that SpeedCurve has both synthetic monitoring and RUM, we can mash those up to give better insights. You can see SpeedCurve RUM in action by viewing the LUX demo account.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Keep reading to find out how we set up these benchmarks, and how you can mine our test data – even if you're not a SpeedCurve user – for your own performance research. Teams at media organizations are tasked to collect a huge amount of user data, so we see a lot of tracking and analytics tags. How awesome is that?!

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Benchmarking Speed Performance Media 135

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. web-vitals library can collect and send Core Web Vitals to Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager or any other analytics endpoint. SpeedCurve , New Relic — the tools provide synthetic testing, too).

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Here's how to add custom timers in SpeedCurve.) That was before pages filled up with dozens (and sometimes hundreds) of analytics tags, tracking beacons, and other third parties that silently push out your total load time. Custom metrics are the gold standard. Twitter has used custom timers to create a Time to First Tweet metric.

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Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 134

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. SpeedCurve , New Relic — the tools provide synthetic testing, too). You could use PWMetrics , Calibre , SpeedCurve , mPulse and Boomerang , Sitespeed.io , which all are great options for performance monitoring.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. SpeedCurve , New Relic — both tools provide synthetic testing, too). You could use PWMetrics , Calibre , SpeedCurve , mPulse and Boomerang , Sitespeed.io , which all are great options for performance monitoring.

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