Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Analytics is a good example. Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. Large preview ) That’s a nice big view and is a good illustration of TBT’s impact on page speed.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Commonly, teams create SLOs because they are simply following what others in the industry are doing, or because they are common best practices. Simply performing eyeball analytics by looking at multiple dashboards slows down the quality evaluation process and introduces a higher risk of failures.

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DevOps Metrics Best Practices Latency 205

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is one of Google's Core Web Vitals , so it's been getting a lot of attention lately. Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) is another one of Google's Core Web vitals. The three metrics above – CLS, FID, and TBT – are all part of Google's Core Web Vitals. > Speed Index (Synthetic).

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2022

In white-box testing, we combine open-source load testing tools such as JMeter with Dynatrace’s observability and analytics capabilities. 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.

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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. SEO is key to our success. Bookaway site search.

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

While Google’s SRE Handbook mostly focuses on the production use case for SLIs/SLOs, Keptn is “Shifting-Left” this approach and using SLIs/SLOs to enforce Quality Gates as part of your progressive delivery process. This opens up new analytics use case to e.g: The following shows the screenshot of a rule for TSN.

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Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 198

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

There are a ton of best practices for front-end developers to follow. Synthetic is great for trending over time, especially when looking at the number and size of requests (images, JavaScript, CSS), which collectively have a big impact on speed. If you want to optimize your site, start by making as few requests as possible.

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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. Web Performance In Action. Designing for Performance.

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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.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Similarly from cross-site navigation — think Google search results or the like and then clicking back. 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. Be aware, however, that other analytics may not see this as a page load and need to take extra efforts to also measure these.

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Cache Games Performance Website 91

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. The most popular, by far, is the Google Lighthouse report (available in Chrome Developer Tools) and Google’s Page Speed Insights.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2018

A couple of years ago, Google announced a new mobile-first initiative it wanted web designers and marketers to pick up on. However, as Google launched this initiative a couple of years ago, its had time to quietly observe users in these micro-moments as well as the websites that have most aptly responded to them. Suzanne Scacca.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. To get accurate results and goals though, first study your analytics to see what your users are on. Start Render time, Speed Index ).

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