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Year in Web Performance: 2019

MachMetrics

While it’s important to check various speed metrics , the Web Almanac uses data from the Chome UX Report which focuses on how Chrome users actually experience the web. In the below image, ‘fast’ websites are those with a FCP consistently below 1 second. Only 2% of the websites in the pool had a TTFB under 0.2

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How do you decide your approach for mobile website testing?

Testsigma

As per April 2019 data of Statistica[1], the global mobile population accounted for 4 billion unique users. This essentially means that your website should not only be mobile-friendly but it should also have a Responsive Web Design so that your target customers can access your products (or services) with ultra-ease on their hand-held devices.

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Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

Dynatrace

With so many of their transactions occurring online, customers are becoming more demanding, expecting websites and applications to always perform perfectly. Website load times have been found to have a direct correlation with conversion rates. More than one in seven outages cost more than $1 million.

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Browser/Native Lazy-Loading Coming in 2019

MachMetrics

It’s no secret that we’re a huge fan of lazy loading your below-the-fold images to improve page speed. Given the pace of Google is to release a new stable version every 1-2 months, we can be confident that Chrome 75, with the native lazy-loading, will be released to the public before the end of this year, 2019.

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Introducing SVT-AV1: a scalable open-source AV1 framework

The Netflix TechBlog

Intel and Netflix announced their collaboration on a software video encoder implementation called SVT-AV1 on April 8, 2019. The encoder can typically be improved years after the standard has been frozen including varying speed and quality trade-offs. The encoder speed helps innovation, as it is faster to run experiments.

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Plesk VPS Hosting For Better Website Outcomes

Smashing Magazine

Plesk VPS Hosting For Better Website Outcomes. Plesk VPS Hosting For Better Website Outcomes. 2019-03-28T10:30:39+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. In early discussions you have with clients about the website you’re tasked with designing, does the topic of web hosting ever come up? Suzanne Scacca.

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Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition)

Smashing Magazine

Back in October of 2019, “Perl 6” was renamed to “Raku”. If you’re already familiar with the HTMHell website, then you can guess how interesting its advent calendar is going to get! Good ol’ PerfPlanet is back for another season with all things speed and web performance. Accessible websites are simply better websites.

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