Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). It is a huge industry, with its own publications, thought leaders, podcasts, video series, and more. Google Keyword Planner. Google Trends. Google Mobile-Friendly Test.

Engineering 131

Engineering Google Website Analytics 131

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

DevOps teams can analyze user behavior analytics and, with Dynatrace Session Replay, video-like replay of individual user sessions. DORA stands for the DevOps Research and Assessment team, a Google-headed project tasked with analyzing DevOps practices.

Monitoring 200

Monitoring Software Software DevOps 200

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Dynatrace provides a centralized approach for establishing, instrumenting, and implementing SLOs that uses full-stack observability , topology mapping, and AI-driven analytics. To see these principles in action, check out our videos about implementing service-level objectives. Define SLOs for each service.

Software 262

Software Software Benchmarking Latency 262

Speed Curve

MAY 9, 2023

Today at Google I/O 2023, it was announced that Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is no longer an experimental metric. While we definitely get excited about emerging metrics, we also approach each new metric with an analytical eye. INP is a new metric, so the suggested thresholds from Google are subject to change.

Metrics 95

Metrics Google Mobile Analytics 95

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

MARCH 25, 2021

For example, a budget can help them decide if a page should contain five images — or three images and one video — and still remain within the planned limits. If you splurge a lot of bytes on nonoptimal videos and images, the rich-media experience will not be so rich anymore. Appeal Of Videos. Large preview ).

Media 118

Media Performance Mobile Latency 118

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

One of the great things about Google's Core Web Vitals is that they provide a standard way to measure our visitors’ experience. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) measures when the largest visual element (image or video) finishes rendering. video element's poster image. How much did the content move around as it loads?

Metrics 141

Metrics Retail Mobile Analytics 141

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

The average user doesn’t spend much time waiting for a web page to load or to interact with the page: According to Google, if a page’s load time goes up from 1 second to 3 seconds, the probability of the user bouncing increases by 32%. Consider Google Analytics, which collects and sends tracking data using navigator.sendBeacon().

Website 81

Website Google Open Source Mobile 81

KeyCDN

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The phrase “every resource” includes every page, image, video, etc. Videos and pages are a little easier because they can be linked, but the compression of pictures has lowered their quality while also making it more difficult for them to maintain the individualized URL. and each of these assets should have a common URL.

Website 73

Website Traffic Ecommerce Google 73

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

After all, when we look at our analytics, we will hardly find any customers browsing our sites or apps with a mid-range device on a flaky 3G connection. Also, there was a 65% increase in video consumption on mobile devices in 2020. With Core Web Vitals , Google has been pushing the experience factors on mobile further to the forefront.

Mobile 134

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 134

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. Watch the video of Jamie’s talk from Green Tech South West. Switch your analytics. Do you really need Google Analytics on every site you build?

Strategy 124

Strategy Development Energy Website 124

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

Cache 96

Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Tracking critical content such as images and videos is a good place to start. > Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is one of Google's Core Web Vitals , so it's been getting a lot of attention lately. It's only tracked on certain elements, e.g., IMG and VIDEO (learn more here ). > Largest Contentful Paint (Synthetic and RUM).

Performance 133

Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 133

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. The Dynatrace documentation and video tutorials give a good overview of integrating any HTTP-based testing tool with Dynatrace. Automation : Single load test executions can be repeated and tracked.

Testing 217

Testing Open Source Metrics Infrastructure 217

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

Weirdly, they report as a range of browsers in our analytics including the Android WebView, Chrome and Safari (despite it’s not supporting this!). Using signals like Save Data allows you to help those users that need help the most, compared to traditional analytics of looking at all users or even segmenting by device type. “.

Website 103

Website Media Mobile Network 103

Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

It didn’t take long for some elements to be built out that were kind of like others, like a full-width homepage video and later videos on your product listing or a popup video modal. A div ID to initialize the video onto. ID of the YouTube video to load. Events (API is ready, video state changed, etc).

Performance 90

Performance Mobile Speed Code 90

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. You can read about more advanced dead code elimination (aka tree shaking) in this post for Google by Jeremy Wagner. Are we embedding YouTube videos?

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This includes: waterfall charts with details about every request, filmstrips and videos that help you visualize the rendering experience, and. Think of RUM as performance-based analytics measured from the end user's actual browser. There is nothing better than showing a before-and-after video when promoting the great work of your team.

Performance 143

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

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

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. This could be an image, a block of text, or even an embedded video.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

" Until now, it's only really been possible to calculate the Speed Index metric by comparing the frames in a video using webpagetest.org. In this article, I am going to show you how to get started using the Speed Index library and how you can start collecting this data using Google Analytics. speedindex-test.

Speed 40

Speed Analytics Google Retail 40

Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

" Until now, it's only really been possible to calculate the Speed Index metric by comparing the frames in a video using webpagetest.org. In this article, I am going to show you how to get started using the Speed Index library and how you can start collecting this data using Google Analytics. speedindex-test.

Speed 40

Speed Analytics Google Retail 40

Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

" Until now, it's only really been possible to calculate the Speed Index metric by comparing the frames in a video using webpagetest.org. In this article, I am going to show you how to get started using the Speed Index library and how you can start collecting this data using Google Analytics. speedindex-test.

Speed 40

Speed Analytics Google Retail 40

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. For this, you can use such well-known tools as Semrush and SimilarWeb and reviews from Trustpilot , Google Play , and Apple’s App Store. So, welcome to my edX audit.

Education 84

Education Website Google Design 84

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

Now, analytics tools and performance monitoring tools will provide this data when needed, but we looked specifically into CrUX , Chrome User Experience Report. Much of this data related to Core Web Vitals which Google has announced back in 2020, and which also contribute to and are exposed in Lighthouse. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

CSS - Tricks

MAY 3, 2021

google-analytics.com", "sanList":[ "*.google-analytics.com", google-analytics.com", "*.fps.goog", Linux; Android 6.0.1; Moto G (4)) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.85 Mobile Safari/537.36 PTST/210419.211328", "accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9",

Transportation 86

Transportation Cache Google Mobile 86

Testsigma

MAY 24, 2021

There are a plethora of browsers available in the market for both web browsing and mobile browsing such as Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc. Robust Reporting Features : The platform comes with powerful test analytics and reporting that is customizable according to the user’s requirements.

Website 52

Website Testing Operating System Testing Tools 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get accurate results and goals though, first study your analytics to see what your users are on. Paddy Ganti’s script constructs two URLs (one normal and one blocking the ads), prompts the generation of a video comparison via WebPageTest and reports a delta. Are videos properly optimized? Assets Optimizations.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Diagnotic Tools WebPagetest and how to read a browser waterfall Google Pagespeed Insights YSlow. Real User Monitoring (RUM) Pingdom New Relic (also backend, database and server health monitoring) Google Analytics mPulse. Performance Tools. Uptime Monitoring Pingdom. Competitive Benchmarking SpeedCurve. Performance Checklists.

Speed 40

Speed Benchmarking Latency Mobile 40

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

It’s crucial for a page to load at considerable speed with all the images, videos, content, and all other elements of the page. Every element like text, navigation, headers, graphics, contact options, analytics, footers, contributes to the page load time. One important aspect of performance is the full page load time.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Third parties add tons of value by increasing conversions (via targeting beacons) and helping you understand your users in unprecedented ways (via analytics tags). Track third parties These days it's common to see pages with dozens of third-party scripts. But they can significantly affect how – or even if! – your page renders.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 8, 2015

If you want to load resources such as images, videos or analytics tracking, you use the provided web components (branded as AMP Components). To further help achieve the goal of “instant load”, Google is offering to provide caching for these AMP pages through their CDN. The result is pretty impactful.

Cache 75

Cache Google Mobile Open Source 75

CSS - Tricks

MAY 15, 2019

Today's websites are packed with heavy media assets like images and videos. As we noted at the start, Chromium and Google Chrome will ship a native lazy-loading mechanism in the form of a new loading attribute, starting in Chrome 75. Native lazy-loading flags in Google Chrome. What’s this thing about images being lazy, you ask?

Traffic 58

Traffic Website Network Analytics 58

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Its videos and blog articles address issues such as web performance, extensible component development and the intersection of CSS with other technologies, like HTML and JavaScript. Igvita Igvita is the blog of Google’s web performance engineer, Ilya Grigorik. Visit website 3. Visit website 33. Visit website 36. Visit website 37.

Development 75

Development Website Design Code 75

KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Unoptimized content (generally images) Slow WordPress themes Sluggish WordPress plugins A huge number of HTTP requests from external sources Not utilizing a specifically dedicated resource to serve content (video hosting, CDN, etc.) Occasionally, they are for adding functionalities like social media sharing, analytics, etc.

Cache 52

Cache Website Speed Website Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Google search ranking. Large preview ). The Wix Challenge. Heavier websites.

Website 126

Website Performance Google Media 126

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

While experienced AI developers are starting to leave powerhouses like Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft, not enough are leaving to meet demand—and most of them will probably gravitate to startups rather than adding to the AI talent within established companies. Microsoft, Google, IBM, and OpenAI have offered more general indemnification.

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108