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How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals

Smashing Magazine

There are three web vitals metrics Google uses to measure different aspects of website performance: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), Interaction to Next Paint (INP). Real User Monitoring (RUM) This data tells you how fast your website is for your actual visitors. What Are Core Web Vitals?

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How to Get Ready for Google’s Speed Update

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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. It makes sense, because, as we’ve said in the past, good website performance has implications on user experience.

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Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties

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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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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.

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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. Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. Vitaly Friedman.

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

Smashing Magazine

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Explore how improving performance can help relieve some of these common problems. 300ms RTT, 1.6

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

Smashing Magazine

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? To get accurate results and goals though, first study your analytics to see what your users are on.