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Improving Core Web Vitals, A Smashing Magazine Case Study

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Improving Core Web Vitals, A Smashing Magazine Case Study. Improving Core Web Vitals, A Smashing Magazine Case Study. I’m a big fan of Smashing Magazine and am very interested in web performance and the Core Web Vitals. Search Console told Smashing Magazine that their LCP on mobile for most of their pages needed improving.

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Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports

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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. Source: Source: DebugBear.

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Signals For Customizing Website User Experience

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Approximately two-thirds of Indian mobile Chrome users of Smashing Magazine have this setting turned on, for example. Weirdly, they report as a range of browsers in our analytics including the Android WebView, Chrome and Safari (despite it’s not supporting this!). And Is It Used? Data Saver. In short, this is not a niche setting.

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How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals

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That means you need to install an analytics script to collect it, and the reporting that’s available is less detailed than for lab tests. To monitor real user web vitals, you’ll need to install an analytics snippet that collects this data on your website. They can produce very detailed reports and recommendations.

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The Fight For The Main Thread

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Analytics is a good example. Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. Let’s look at it for a site that’s much “heavier” than Smashing Magazine. Analytics is another difficult choice.

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Are Imposter Domains Re-Publishing Your Website?

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When your content is delivered by other means, from other servers or platforms, it can put the user experience and commercial relationship you have built up with your users at risk. We explore how you can use web analytics or real user measurement data on your website to get insight into any imposter domains re-publishing your work.

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The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters

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This goes way beyond basic optimizations such as color contrast and server response times. 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. Testing the Smashing Magazine website on different devices. LT Browser in action.

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