Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known. It provides a comprehensive support of media queries (e.g. Large preview ).

Mobile 133

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

Background For this new investigation, I selected four sites that experience a significant amount of user traffic. All you need is access to a statistically significant amount of your RUM data, plus whatever analytics tool you use for tracking business or user engagement metrics.

Performance 119

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 119

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Compute optimized – High CPU-to-memory ration, medium traffic web servers and application servers. Memory optimized – High memory-to-CPU ratio, relational database servers, medium to large caches, and in-memory analytics. Throughput measures the data transfer rate to and from the storage media in megabytes per second.

Azure 76

Azure Benchmarking Storage Virtualization 76

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

Background For this new investigation, I selected four sites that experience a significant amount of user traffic. All you need is access to a statistically significant amount of your RUM data, plus whatever analytics tool you use for tracking business or user engagement metrics.

Performance 52

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

These services use requests to external hosts (not servers you control) to deliver JavaScript framework libraries, custom fonts, advertising content, marketing analytics trackers, and more. They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic. Graph of resource request chains on a typical news media website.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Study common complaints coming into customer service and sales team, study analytics for high bounce rates and conversion drops. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Yet often, analytics alone doesn’t provide a complete picture.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145