Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The scale of the effect can be deeply situational or hard to suss out without solid metrics. Since then, the metrics conversation has moved forward significantly, culminating in Core Web Vitals , reported via the Chrome User Experience Report to reflect the real-world experiences of users. Here begins our 2021 adventure.

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Tasktop

MAY 24, 2021

The European leg of the DevOps Enterprise (Virtual) Summit 2021 returned last week (17-20 May) as the community reflected on a year like none other. Business agility guru, Jon Smart , revealed that since 2018 OKRs have overtaken portfolio management and balance sheet in Google search trends. And their popularity is on the rise.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

2021 has been a full year. Google's Core Web Vitals have been a huge topic this year. We've been tracking these as individual metrics – Largest Contentful Paint, First Input Delay, and Cumulative Layout Shift – since before Google branded them as a set. and ultimately make your users' lives easier, too!

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

However, getting reliable answers from observability data so teams can automate more processes to ensure speed, quality, and reliability can be challenging. This drive for speed has a cost: 22% of leaders admit they’re under so much pressure to innovate faster that they must sacrifice code quality.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Considering all aspects and needs of current enterprise development, it is C++ and Java which outscore the other in terms of speed. According to other comparisons [Google for 'Performance of Programming Languages'] spread over the net, they clearly outshine others in all speed benchmarks. Ahem, Slow!

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2022

While the test step, use case, and thread group name context are helpful we also want to speed up the analysis of individual requests that fail. A decent solution is the W3C Trace context standard , created by Dynatrace, Google, Microsoft, and others. In this example, the application has reached its limit near the 90 percent load.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Web pages are unbelievably complex, and there are hundreds of different metrics available to track. A performance budget is a threshold that you apply to the metrics you care about the most. This is when you run into three important questions: Which metrics should you focus on? Which metrics should you focus on?

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

React vs Vue: Which one to choose in 2021? According to Google Trends, development companies were more interested in hiring React developers, followed by Vue over the past year. Two primary metrics verify the speed of an app: start-up time and runtime performance. Google Careers. . State management. Conclusion.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2023

It's been hugely helpful to have a simple set of three UX-oriented metrics – focused on loading, interactivity, and responsiveness – that everyone can understand and focus on. And we've discovered that INP for mobile has an even stronger correlation with user engagement metrics than INP for desktop.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

2021-05-05T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-05-05T16:06:35+00:00. Smaller HTML means less time for Google to download and process those long strings of text. Both for Google bots (SEO) and to actual clients. But first, let’s talk about the importance of speed improvement. Why Is Speed Improvement Necessary To Our SEO Efforts?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

2021-10-18T14:00:00+00:00. 2021-10-18T15:38:23+00:00. There are many key performance indicators (KPI) that measure different points during the lifecycle of the web page (such as TTFB, domInteractive and onload ), but these metrics don’t reflect how the end-user experiences the page. Solving CLS Issues In A Next.js-Powered

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

2021-04-19T08:30:00+00:00. 2021-04-19T08:35:54+00:00. Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. The three Core Web Vitals metrics ( Large preview ). Barry Pollard. First Input Delay (FID).

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Cloud-native architecture is a structural approach to planning and implementing an environment for software development and deployment that uses resources and processes common with public clouds like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Stateless whenever possible.

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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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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

2021-12-20T05:30:00+00:00. 2021-12-20T09:34:43+00:00. LCP, or Largest Contentful Paint , is one of the three Core Web Vitals that you must “pass” to get the full search ranking boost from Google as part of their Page Experience Update. And the “contentful” part of the name shows this metric is intended to ignore (e.g.

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Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

Page speed has been a key factor in Google’s ranking algorithm since 2010 , so it is essential to understand the various ways you can optimize your pages and why implementing synthetic monitoring can ensure your pages perform flawlessly and revenue isn’t lost. Remember, speed is key to the user experience. Optimize Your Pages.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

2021-06-02T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-06-02T13:32:39+00:00. Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. In this article, I’ll highlight some of the work we did and how we were able to achieve our speed. Jennifer Brehm. Large preview ). Legacy Support.

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MachMetrics

MAY 26, 2021

On June 30th, 2021, our speed monitoring service will be retired. Speed tests will stop running, and all accounts will be closed. MachMetrics started out as a passion project, and while I worked hard to deliver robust and reliable speed monitoring, the industry is changing too fast for me to keep up.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

2021-03-02T16:30:00+00:00. 2021-04-14T15:55:39+00:00. State Of Mobile 2021. What’s a representative device to test on in 2021? However, there are quite a few high-profile case studies exploring the impact of mobile optimization on key business metrics. Driving Business Metrics. Kelvin Omereshone.

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Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

We’ve been pretty vocal about Core Web Vitals since Google announced this initiative last spring. We love the idea of having a lean, shared set of metrics that we can all rally around – not to mention having a broader conversation about web performance that includes teams throughout an organization. Let's dig in!

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

2021-03-25T13:00:00+00:00. 2021-03-25T18:06:03+00:00. Of the many factors that affect page-load speed, media is a significant one. However, having a performance budget as a standalone metric might not be of much help. How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. Akshay Ranganath.

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CSS - Tricks

MAY 3, 2021

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

2021-06-08T12:00:00+00:00. 2021-06-08T14:53:55+00:00. For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome who was working all around web performance for decades. Which metrics should you focus on to improve the user experience? Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

2021-04-28T13:20:00+00:00. 2021-04-28T14:35:12+00:00. For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome and focusing around performance for decades. Which metrics should you focus on to improve the user experience? Vitaly Friedman. Get the eBook.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

2021-10-27T10:00:00+00:00. 2021-10-27T10:16:44+00:00. The AOI will determine what areas you will calculate metrics for. The metrics and how they will be shown depending on the eye-tracking tool you choose. The metrics available in eye-tracking can vary from tool to tool. Eye-Tracking In Mobile UX Research.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. 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.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. According to the Web Almanac in late 2021, 95.9 — Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter. Mobile image transfer size by year graphic from Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

2021-06-02T12:30:00+00:00. 2021-06-02T13:32:39+00:00. Nor will I talk too much about the mechanics of how CLS is calculated: Google has some good documentation on that , and Jess Peck ’s The Almost-Complete Guide to Cumulative Layout Shift is an awesome deep dive into that too. How To Fix Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) Issues.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

2021-04-29T12:15:00+00:00. 2021-04-29T13:04:47+00:00. It’s an initiative by Google to share unified guidance for quality signals that can be key to delivering a great user experience on the web. CWV is part of a set of page experience signals Google Search will be evaluating for ranking. Addy Osmani. Lighthouse.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-22T11:06:56+00:00. 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.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

According to the Third Parties chapter of their 2021 Web Almanac report , “a staggering 94.4% Researchers and major companies have been publishing case studies for years , proving that slower page load experiences impact business metrics, including conversion rate, revenue, bounce rate, and more. of mobile sites and 94.1%

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

2021-11-02T12:00:00+00:00. 2021-11-02T17:37:55+00:00. Moreover, Garten-und-Freizeit, a German e-commerce store that sells furniture, saw an amazing improvement in their metrics after getting a PWA. Hence, they can’t be promoted separately or found by users who’ve input a search query in Google. Alex Husar. Why is that?

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Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2022

People spent USD $170 billion through mobile applications only in 2021. After security, the next scenario that is critical for our mobile testing journey is the performance metric. Testsigma is a test automation tool designed especially for speeding up the test automation process up to five times than usual.

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Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Few teams I’ve encountered have actionable metrics associated with the real experiences of their users. I can count on one hand the number of teams I’ve worked with who have goals that allow them to block launches for latency regressions, including Google products. And they do. Which set of users do we intend to serve?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

2021-01-21T14:00:00+00:00. 2021-01-21T16:39:57+00:00. Image source: Lighthouse Metrics ) ( Large preview ). Much of this data related to Core Web Vitals which Google has announced back in 2020, and which also contribute to and are exposed in Lighthouse. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

2021-08-30T10:00:00+00:00. 2021-08-30T12:07:38+00:00. If the stylesheet file has a large file size or multiple dependencies which are located on third-party servers or CDNs, website rendering can be delayed significantly depending on the network speed and reliability. Refactoring CSS: Optimizing Size And Performance (Part 3).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

2021-10-19T10:00:00+00:00. 2021-10-19T12:05:52+00:00. Not everyone is Google. Stop reading posts from Netflix and Google. Jeff: Now, what are the things that we can do to speed this up? And one of the common sort of pitfalls of metrics is we look for errors instead of verifying success. Drew McLellan.

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