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4 Most Common Page Speed Testing Mistakes

MachMetrics

While Google’s PageSpeed Insights give you both a score for how your website performs on both desktop and mobile, most of the other audit services default to testing your site on a desktop. For this reason, it’s important that you test how your site loads on mobile devices with relevant connection speed.

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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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An In-Depth Guide To Measuring Core Web Vitals

Smashing Magazine

A counterpoint however is that, for many Western sites at least, our mobiles are perhaps not quite as low-powered as tools such as Lighthouse in mobile mode suggest, as these are quite throttled. At the top is the big Lighthouse performance score out of 100.

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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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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. Explore how improving performance can help relieve some of these common problems. Vitaly Friedman. Large preview ).

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

Study common complaints coming into customer service and sales team, study analytics for high bounce rates and conversion drops. Explore how improving performance can help relieve some of these common problems. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ).

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

Study common complaints coming into customer service and see how improving performance can help relieve some of these common problems. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop. To get accurate results and goals though, first study your analytics to see what your users are on.