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How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget

Smashing Magazine

A performance budget as a mechanism for planning a web experience and preventing performance decay might consist of the following yardsticks: Overall page weight, Total number of HTTP requests, Page-load time on a particular mobile network, First Input Delay (FID). The Art Of Balancing Performance With Media Content.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications.

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How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps

Smashing Magazine

Even if your website is designed with usability in mind, these factors impede users from fully benefiting from the website’s features. This is why performance is crucial when building websites. It’s a known fact that JavaScript is one of the main culprits behind website bloat. More after jump! Large preview ).

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An In-Depth Guide To Measuring Core Web Vitals

Smashing Magazine

The fact that RUM data is used, is an important distinction because some of these metrics (FID excepted) are available in synthetic or “lab-based” web performance tools like Lighthouse that have been the staple of web performance monitoring for many in the past. At the top is the big Lighthouse performance score out of 100.

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Average Page Load Time in 2021

MachMetrics

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. High-performing fast sites attract and preserve users better than low-performing ones. Importance of page loading speed – Google checks your website load time and they like it as fast with a better user experience.

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How to Get Ready for Google’s Speed Update

Rigor

This change to how Google ranks websites for searches will now take mobile page speed into account in its ranking algorithm. This announcement is part of a Google’s ongoing efforts to incentivize good web performance. Mobile usage overall is on the rise, so it’s no surprise the same is true for search. Consider Content.

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Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties

Smashing Magazine

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. There are two big questions: How do you quantify the impact that these third-party requests have on website performance?

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