Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

I joined the team in early 2017, and I'm blown away at how quickly the years have flown by. Fighting regressions should be the top priority of anyone who cares about the speed of their site. The best way to fight regressions is to create performance budgets on key metrics, and get alerted when they go out of bounds.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Similar to our article Average Page Load Times for 2018 , we’ll go over the averages for metrics and help you determine if your site is faster or slower than average. As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is.

Best Practices 105

Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

TL;DR: A lot has changed since 2017 when we last estimated a global baseline resource per-page resource budget of 130-170KiB. The scale of the effect can be deeply situational or hard to suss out without solid metrics. The Moto G4 , for example. Performance work often focuses on high percentile users (the slowest), after all.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. A 2017 study by Akamai says as much when it found that even a 100ms delay in page load can decrease conversions by 7% and lose 1% of their sales for every 100ms it takes for their site to load which, at the time of the study, was equivalent to $1.6

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. Developers representing hundreds of companies work together at these meetups to become masters in performance metrics and the latest trends in measuring site speed.) We at Rigor respect many web performance leaders around the world. Rachel Andrew.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

— Alex Russell (@slightlylate) October 4, 2017. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. This helps support executive sponsors who then have meaningful metrics to point to in justifying the investments being made. This matters because all script loading delays the metric we value most: Time to Interactive.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68