Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

2020-12-17T15:00:13+00:00. 2020-12-17T16:33:49+00:00. The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). With Google Search Console you can see exactly where your pages are (or aren’t) ranking for different keywords. Google Trends.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] , Jul 2008 [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] , 2010 [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

## References I've reproduced the talk references below, so you can click on links: - [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] Jul 2008 - [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] 2010 - [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency? Ford, et al., “TCP

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Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Chances are, you're here because of Google's update to its search algorithm , which affects both desktop and mobile, and which includes Core Web Vitals as a ranking factor. If you're new to Core Web Vitals , this is a Google initiative that was launched in early 2020. When Google talks, people listen.

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Performance Google Metrics Mobile 96

Speed Curve

MAY 9, 2023

Today at Google I/O 2023, it was announced that Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is no longer an experimental metric. It's been three years since the Core Web Vitals initiative was kicked off in May 2020. INP is a new metric, so the suggested thresholds from Google are subject to change. What is a 'good' INP number?

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

How to measure performance The Website Speed Test is the ideal tool for measuring the performance of your website. WebP is the way to go WebP was first developed by Google back in 2010 and has now become the successor of JPEG. It improves the user experience, results in less bandwidth usage, and makes your website faster.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 27, 2019

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. Obviously this means that there is a ton of work to be done going into 2020 for web performance. First Contentful Paint. 20% of sites are considered slow.

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

Then again, a newer but less widely known framework may more effectively suit your needs, so it's worth it to get up to speed about today's most popular options. According to StatCounter , as of December 2020, mobile traffic has surpassed desktop traffic with 55.73% of traffic coming from mobile devices.

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Speed Curve

JUNE 30, 2020

Google has been on a roll in 2020 with the introduction of Core Web Vitals and this latest update , and we are thrilled to offer support for both. The much-anticipated update to Lighthouse is now available to SpeedCurvers as part of our latest test agent updates.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Nobody frames it precisely this way; instead they'll say, if WebKit weren't mandated, Chromium would take over , or Google would dominate the web if not for the WebKit restriction. The New York Times reported in late 2020 that Google now pays Apple between $8-12 billion per year , up from $1 billion in 2014.

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CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative was launched in May of 2020 and, since then, its role in Search has morphed and evolved as roll-outs have been made and feedback has been received. However, to this day, messaging from Google can seem somewhat unclear and, in places, even contradictory. Don’t have time to read 5,500+ words?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In fact, IT analyst Gartner found that 30% of enterprises implementing distributed system architectures will have adopted observability techniques by 2024, up from less than 10% in 2020. The need for speed has never been more urgent in today’s hyper-digital age. 2021 DevOps Report.

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Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. Site speed & SEO go hand in hand. Speed Up Your Site. Fail, and you can kiss your customers and profits goodbye.”

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O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting. Rural connectivity is a persistent problem; many rural users (and some urban users) are still limited to dial-up speeds. We’ve seen the reaction to news that Amazon’s Echo and Google Home send recordings of conversations back to the server.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While speeding up development processes and reducing complexity does make the lives of Kubernetes operators easier, the inherent abstraction and automation can lead to new types of errors that are difficult to find, troubleshoot, and prevent. Kelsey Hightower via Twitter, 2020). The Kubernetes experience. Conclusion.

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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. I’m hopeful this can serve as a good introduction for any developer interested in learning about how to work with Google Lighthouse programmatically.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

Each smartphone comes with various screen sizes and resolutions, operates on different network speeds, and has different hardware capabilities. The graph below shows the result of a survey performed by Statistica in 2020 on the increase of usage of mobile data across years. Google ranks applications based on how user friendly it is.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

We were going through Adobe Retail Shopping Insights (2020) and found out that more than 42% of consumers have done their holiday shopping via smartphones. Here are some reasons why mobile web testing is important: For A Better Search Result Ranking: Google ranks websites based on how mobile-friendly they are.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

For businesses to be more agile and work with an unmatchable speed, cloud testing is crucial. When You’re Struggling To Meet Release Deadlines: Let’s talk numbers — according to Statista , as of the third quarter of 2020, there were around 2.87 million apps on Google Play, 1.96 by 2024, globally. Picture Credit: [link].

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Cloud Testing Testing Tools Small Business 52

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 31, 2019

We recently learned about a major breakthrough: Google says it has achieved “quantum supremacy” with a 53-qubit computer. Google performed a computation in a few minutes (3 minutes, 20 seconds to be precise ) that would have taken more than 10,000 years on the most powerful computers we currently have.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The major application for high quality compression of photos is Internet speed. This speeds up page loading times, increases website storage capabilities, and allows web pages to be accessed even in low speed areas. While bandwidth does continue to increase each year, so does the quality and size of most Internet media.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

But here are some recent PWA-related findings by Maximiliano Firtman regarding Chrome: The number of origins with PWAs grew 170% in 2020. However, at the end of 2020, about 1% of websites included a Service Worker, and 2.2% Hence, they can’t be promoted separately or found by users who’ve input a search query in Google.

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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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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Dan Shappir. 2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-22T11:06:56+00:00.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The events of 2020 accelerated the trend of organizations shifting to cloud-native technologies in response to the dramatic increase in demand for online services. Cloud-native environments bring speed and agility to software development and operations (DevOps) practices. Dynatrace news. SRE vs DevOps?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2022

Keptn: A reference implementation of Google’s SRE principles. Dynatrace developed and released Keptn to open source in 2020. Developers also need to automate the release process to speed up deployment and reliability. SLOs are a great way to define what software should do.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

2020-12-23T10:00:00+00:00. 2020-12-23T12:33:42+00:00. Progressive web applications (PWA) are still gathering popularity in 2020. It doesn’t come as a surprise, considering the benefits of higher conversion rates, customer engagement, decreased page loading speed, and lower costs on development and overhead. Gert Svaiko.

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Speed Curve

JULY 6, 2021

After Google's announcement about Lighthouse 8 this past month, we have updated our test agents. In case you missed it, Lighthouse is a speed tool created by the Chrome Developer team at Google. Speed Index: 15 -> 10. Understanding how Performance scoring works in Lighthouse (Google Webdev). What is Lighthouse?

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. Many people often confuse site speed with page speed grades of performance testing tools, which are actually calculated based on multiple factors of a page including its loading speed. Daniel An, Google, 2017.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

In the US and the UK, Comscore’s Global State of Mobile 2020 report discovered in August 2020, that mobile usage accounted to 79% and 81% of total digital minutes respectively. Also, there was a 65% increase in video consumption on mobile devices in 2020. ComScore Global State of Mobile 2020 report. Large preview ).

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Dynatrace

MAY 30, 2020

This is why, in addition to Speed index , we’ve added Largest contentful paint (LCP) to the Multidimensional analysis view to provide you with an even more accurate way of measuring when the main content of your pages has loaded. Support for our earlier version of Visually complete will end on November 30, 2020 at 11:59 PM UTC.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Easier to measure the impact of Core Web Vitals on actual user experience It's been almost four years since the Core Web Vitals initiative was kicked off in May 2020. In 2021, Google relaunched CLS with a session window. By introducing a session window, Google reduced the impact of the SPA problem. Learn more here.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Technically, Elena joined us at the very end of 2020, but since this marks the end of her first full year at SpeedCurve, I wanted to include her here. Google's Core Web Vitals have been a huge topic this year. Industry speed benchmarks for Japan. Here are some of the highlights. Elena Kay and Andy Davies joined our team!

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Individual pages can be spot checked via the CrUX API or tools such as Page Speed Insights But as Cliff's already covered in How to find (and fix!) The examples were captured in Chrome Canary on a 2020 i5 MacBook Pro without CPU throttling enabled. Even though I only clicked on the page once, multiple event handlers were invoked.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. India's speed test medians are moving quickly, but variance is orders-of-magnitude wide, with 5G penetration below 25% in the most populous areas. GHz Cortex-A73 and 4x1.7

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Speed Curve

JULY 31, 2023

Google's Core Web Vitals are an attempt to help folks new to web performance focus on three key metrics. Old-school CLS In May 2020, Google introduced CLS as part of Core Web Vitals. I've always found it odd that Google left the representation of CLS as a decimal score. As we all know, naming things is hard.

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