Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

For this, you can use such well-known tools as Semrush and SimilarWeb and reviews from Trustpilot , Google Play , and Apple’s App Store. The tool analyzes edX’s rank, traffic sources, advertising, and audience interests. SimilarWeb analytics for the edX platform ( Large preview ). Take SimilarWeb. I started from page loading.

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Education Website Google Design 83

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Terabyte of wasted traffic. Switch your analytics. Do you really need Google Analytics on every site you build? On the Fact Sheets page, we can save approx. 85% of images’ file sizes without a noticeable loss of image quality. With approx. 1,300,000 annual page views…this makes for 5.2 The difference is approx.

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Strategy Development Energy Website 123

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

I was working on an application that opened the provided webpage and then give the user an option to modify elements, add events, add analytics, and so on. The ability to modify the headers of traffic that pass through your browser is a great tool to have. Modifying Headers: How Can This Be Helpful? without any need to code.

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Testing Network Website Google 99

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

A big JavaScript bundle might seem out of place on a magazine that merely publishes articles, but actually, there is plenty of scripting happening behind the scenes. Now, analytics tools and performance monitoring tools will provide this data when needed, but we looked specifically into CrUX , Chrome User Experience Report.

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Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

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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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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. These tools fall into several categories. Large preview ).

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

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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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Google Homepage — DOM. This isn’t useless JavaScript; Google has to have some in order to display suggestions as you type. For comparison, I disabled JavaScript and reloaded the page: The disabled JS version of Google search was only 102 KB and had just 5 network requests. Google Dev Docs. 402 KB transferred, 1.1

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Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get accurate results and goals though, first study your analytics to see what your users are on. For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Large preview ). Assets Optimizations.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103