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In Defence of DOM­Content­Loaded

CSS Wizardry

I never thought I’d write an article in defence of DOMContentLoaded , but here it is… For many, many years now, performance engineers have been making a concerted effort to move away from technical metrics such as Load , and toward more user-facing, UX metrics such as Speed Index or Largest Contentful Paint. Or are they…?

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Implementing service-level objectives to improve software quality

Dynatrace

By implementing service-level objectives, teams can avoid collecting and checking a huge amount of metrics for each service. Instead, they can ensure that services comport with the pre-established benchmarks. This process includes benchmarking realistic SLO targets based on statistical and probabilistic analysis from Dynatrace.

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Google PageSpeed Insights - Scoring 100/100 with WordPress

KeyCDN

Running speed tests with tools like Google PageSpeed Insights , WebPageTest , or KeyCDN’s Website Speed Test are always a good way to help gauge your website’s performance. While these metrics can be very helpful it is also important to keep this data in perspective. Why Care About Page Speed? A site which loads in 2.6

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10 things I love about SpeedCurve (that I think you'll love, too)

Speed Curve

The best way to fight regressions is to create performance budgets on key metrics, and get alerted when they go out of bounds. These charts let even the most non-technical stakeholder easily see the correlation between performance and user engagement and business metrics, such as bounce rate and conversion rate.

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An Opinionated Guide to Performance Budgets

Speed Curve

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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Web Performance for Product Managers

Speed Curve

What do the different metrics mean? While the focus in most cases tends to be directed toward front-end developers, it's important to remember the back-end as well if you see higher than normal start render times or increases in more basic metrics like time to first byte. What do the different metrics mean? Let's get started.

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Why you need to know your site's performance poverty line (and how to find it)

Speed Curve

"I made my pages faster, but my business and user engagement metrics didn't change. The performance poverty line is the plateau at which changes to your website’s rendering metrics (such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint) cease to matter because you’ve bottomed out in terms of business and user engagement metrics.