CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Compressing, minifying and caching assets. Lighthouse.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. PowerPoint or Google Slides). This is as it should be. Trusted Types.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google. Although we’ve been told for years that visitors are willing to wait three seconds for a web page to load , Google considers 2.9 Clean coding practices. Minification.

Website 110

Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Deciding what benchmark to use for a performance budget is crucial. Our metrics at Google show a conflicted picture (which I’m working to get to clarity on). Simulated packet loss and variable latency, however, can make benchmarking extremely difficult and slow.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68