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.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. All of the major browsers provide developer tools that allow us to measure network activity. Reduce Network Requests. Data transfer is one thing that we can measure quite easily. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get accurate results and goals though, first study your analytics to see what your users are on. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. While download times are critical for low-end networks, parse times are critical for phones with slow CPUs.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Lighthouse also caught a cache misconfiguration that prevented some of our static assets from being served from our CDN. We are hosted on Google Cloud Platform, and the Google Cloud CDN requires that the Cache-Control header contains “public”. Google Analytics can show an average value of your web vitals scores. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. As for mobile network connection type, 84.7% Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Ukraine follow at $0.27, $0.49

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

This includes building websites, hosting websites, managing campaigns, SEO, analytics, CRM, and much more. While mobile devices have come a long way in terms of network and CPU speed, many of them are still significantly underpowered when compared to desktops, especially in countries where mobile connectivity is still poor.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

Providing rich, interactive website experiences needs added assets that consume your users’ resources, from CPU and GPU to memory and network. Consider Google Analytics, which collects and sends tracking data using navigator.sendBeacon(). It’s a known fact that JavaScript is one of the main culprits behind website bloat.

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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. And JavaScript can certainly make requests for additional network resources. Your website may be using more third-party services than you realize.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Due to the use of modern frameworks, advanced caching and rendering, and data transmission via API, properly developed PWAs can be a seven-league step up to boost the store’s speed. To specify, users can continue using those parts of the site that were cached if the Internet connection is unstable or when offline. Large preview ).

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