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Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports

Smashing Magazine

Barry Pollard, a web performance developer advocate for Chrome, wrote an excellent primer on the CrUX Report for Smashing Magazine. This data is distinct from CrUX because it’s collected directly by the website owner by installing an analytics snippet on their website. It’s right there in the name!

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How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience

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But once we had a good understanding, we knew exactly what to look for and began analyzing the analytics of our user data to identify areas that could be improved. We can then forward this data to a custom analytics service. One of the key Next.js Time to First Byte over time. LCP in seconds.

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How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget

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Also, if you are not using a content delivery network (CDN) or multiple CDNs to map users to the closest edge regions for reduced latencies — a practice called suboptimal routing — you might slow down the start of the video. Similarly, unoptimized images were the leading cause of page bloat. Deliver through multiple CDNs.

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This week in review: GPUs, Zombies, Biomimicry and Tom Waits.

All Things Distributed

Understanding Throughput-Oriented Architectures - background article in CACM on massively parallel and throughput vs latency oriented architectures. Physics and the limits of human perception - Why goalkeepers have trouble stopping long-range shots - Seed Magazine. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study)

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It can be hosted on a CDN like Vercel or Netlify, which results in lower latency. Vercel also offers an Analytics feature , which measures the core Web Vitals of your production deployment. Vercel Analytics actually collects the measures from the devices of your visitors, so these scores are really what your visitors are experiencing.

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How To Build Resilient JavaScript UIs

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Different browsers running on different platforms and hardware, respecting our user preferences and browsing modes (Safari Reader/ assistive technologies), being served to geo-locations with varying latency and intermittency increase the likeness of something not working as intended. More after jump!

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

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. Study common complaints coming into customer service and sales team, study analytics for high bounce rates and conversion drops.