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Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF)

Smashing Magazine

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors.

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Improve user experience with more visibility into CDN-related HTTP errors (Part 1) 

Dynatrace

Modern web applications rely heavily on Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and 3rd-party integrations (for example, web analytics, tag managers, chat bots, A/B testing tools, ad providers, and more). This has been a best practice for a long time, and some still see it as the best option. Dynatrace news.

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Why Page Speed Scores can be Dangerous

MachMetrics

All of the popular speed testing tools typically provide a page speed score along with their objective results. The reality is that these scores are estimates of how well your site implements performance best practices. These best practices can make your site faster, but they don’t always.

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Manual vs. Automated Software Testing

Apica

Automated testing is executed by software tools, so it is significantly faster than a manual approach. Investment is required for testing tools. Manual testing is only practical when the test cases are run once or twice, and frequent repetition is not required. Automated testing?

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Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache

Smashing Magazine

WebPageTest is one of the few web performance testing tools that actually tests a reload of the page using a primed HTTP Cache — most of the other tools just flag if your HTTP resources are not explicitly set to be cached. 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices.

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Destructive Testing – How to Tear Apart a System

Testlodge

Market Testing Feedback – Unlike personas, market data is drawn from actual users. It is collected through analytics, A/B testing , beta testing , user acceptance testing , or a more formal market test using volunteers. It’s often the Marketing or Design team who provide personas. Conclusion.

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An Opinionated Guide to Performance Budgets

Speed Curve

Google Lighthouse is an open-source tool that checks your page against rules for Performance, PWA, Accessibility, Best Practice, and SEO. That was before pages filled up with dozens (and sometimes hundreds) of analytics tags, tracking beacons, and other third parties that silently push out your total load time.