Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? A Google machine-learning study I participated in a few years ago found that the total number of page elements was the single greatest predictor of conversions. This falls short of Google's threshold of 2.5 How does page bloat hurt your business?

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Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. You can see that Lighthouse does indeed provide that metric.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In one of our previous articles , we discussed what an SRE is, what they do, and some of the common responsibilities that a typical SRE may have, like supporting operations, dealing with trouble tickets and incident response, and general system monitoring and observability. SLIs are the actual performance metrics of your services.

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Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. Prioritizing Metrics Online metrics are almost limitless. Google Trends.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Here’s another article about reducing JavaScript dependencies and the bundle size sent to the client. This article is about a couple of things that Bookaway faced and we (as a company in the traveling industry) managed to optimize our pages, so that the HTML we send is smaller. Both for Google bots (SEO) and to actual clients.

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Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

A performance budget is a threshold that you apply to the metrics you care about the most. A good performance budget chart, such as the one above, should show you: The metric you're tracking The threshold you've created for that metric When you exceed that threshold How long you stayed out of bounds When you returned to below the threshold 3.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Kubernetes Dashboard as a part of a comprehensive monitoring solution This article introduces the key building blocks to consider when designing your Kubernetes monitoring solution. metrics, traces, and logs) to gain a better understanding of the behavior of their code during runtime. The Kubernetes experience.

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 2, 2022

I have a handful of good links to articles about performance that are burning a hole in my bookmarks folder, and wanna drop them here to share. And not just defining it in terms of specific metrics (even that is tricky), but answer questions like: What are this discipline’s guiding principles? The new WebPageTest website design.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

There are many key performance indicators (KPI) that measure different points during the lifecycle of the web page (such as TTFB, domInteractive and onload ), but these metrics don’t reflect how the end-user experiences the page. We found out user-centric performance metrics to be the perfect fit for this purpose. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Last year, Google started emphasizing the importance of Core Web Vitals and how they reflect a person’s real experience when visiting sites around the web. It wasn’t long before a sea of red “poor” and yellow “needs improvement” notices in our Google Search Console needed our attention. How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study).

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Rigor

JANUARY 8, 2020

In her article, Performance budgets 101 , Milica highlights the concept of understanding and building a performance budget and how important it is to evaluate your frameworks and libraries based on their size and parsing cost. She does so while referencing one of the most popular articles by Addy Osmani, The Cost of Javascript. .

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Performance Mobile Metrics Speed 122

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. Core Web Vital metrics definitions. SEO is key to our success.

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Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

That's because video seems to have had a surge in growth, which should be a cause of concern for anyone who cares about metrics like Largest Contentful Paint, which measures the largest visual element on a page – including videos. Core Web Vitals are a Google search ranking factor. More on that below.) That's huge.

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Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Largest Contentful Paint (or LCP) is one of three metrics of the Core Web Vitals. These metrics are used by Google to evaluate the quality of user experience. To address this problem, I’ll provide an overview of the best practices for the integration and optimization of an LCP image. Eloïse Martin.

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Media Mobile Website Metrics 104

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

Ironically, at the moment of publishing that article in late February, we still had floating labels used in most of our forms, and we wanted to explore if removing them would actually help us improve the overall experience on the site. On February 19th, most of our articles landed in the red zone. Floating Labels Are Gone.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

In my last article , I suggested using the SaveData API to deliver a different, more performant, experience to users that expressed that desire. In this article, I want to spend a bit more time on this, and also look at other signals we can similarly use to help us make decisions on what to load on our websites. Barry Pollard.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics Performance culture, Core Web Vitals, performance profiles, CrUX, Lighthouse, FID, TTI, CLS, devices. Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Table Of Contents.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Google's Core Web Vitals have been a huge topic this year. We've been tracking these as individual metrics – Largest Contentful Paint, First Input Delay, and Cumulative Layout Shift – since before Google branded them as a set. Performance Culture Best Practices. Continued focus on Core Web Vitals.

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Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this article, we will review what third-party resource requests are, consider how impactful they can be to the user experience, and discuss common optimization strategies to reduce the impact on the user experience. Configuring WebPageTest to run a test measurement that simulates a failure of the Google Fonts third-party service.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

Loading experience is crucial to the user’s first impression and overall usability, so Google defined Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric to measure how quickly the main content loads and is displayed to the user. We can run Lighthouse test to check the metrics and use this data for comparison. Use It Sparingly.

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Media Tuning Metrics Google 69

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Lighthouse.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Table Of Contents. Quick Wins.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Table Of Contents. Setting Realistic Goals. Defining The Environment.

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CSS - Tricks

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Lighthouse is a free and open-source tool for assessing your website’s performance, accessibility, progressive web app metrics, SEO, and more. It is a suite of tools that help you identify the impact of specific code changes on you site not just performance-wise, but in terms of SEO, accessibility, offline support, and other best practices.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. The key metric for measuring the sustainability of a digital product is its energy usage. You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure”.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance. A collection of practical articles on front-end website performance for front-end developers.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

With that caveat out of the way, let’s get to the guts of the article: What is the Back/Forward Cache and why does it matter so much? Think about the number of times you visit a home page, click on an article, then go back to the home page to view another article? so reusing them from that home page visit is a good saving.

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Cache Games Performance Website 91

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Take a system trained to make predictions on a language (word or character) model – an example you’re probably familiar with is Google Smart Compose. In evaluating our exposure metric, we find unintended memorization to be both commonplace and hard to prevent. Wrapping up.

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Network Testing Strategy Google 55

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

It’s an initiative by Google to share unified guidance for quality signals that can be key to delivering a great user experience on the web. CWV is part of a set of page experience signals Google Search will be evaluating for ranking. Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS, a Core Web Vitals metric) measures the instability of content.

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Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In this article, I will compare React.js It has a vast community that explains online courses, many available tutorials, articles, and three times more questions on Stack overflow. According to Google Trends, development companies were more interested in hiring React developers, followed by Vue over the past year. and Vue.js

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Open Source Mobile Scalability Google 52

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

The following article was originally published in the 2013 Performance Calendar. There's 31 great articles to explore in the calendar including Steve Souders's browser wishlist and Tim Kadlec's take on what it takes to create a performance culture. -. Control and branch the loading of CSS and JS.

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Performance Mobile Website Benchmarking 60

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

To simplify this behavior, a best practice is to ensure your styles include resetting all elements to use border-box. Reviewing how to handle a lack of support for a feature is a bit beyond the scope of this article. If you’re unfamiliar, you may enjoy my article on practical uses of CSS functions. Large preview ).

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Design Availability Mobile Website 145

Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

It is recommended to follow rules and best practices of building and sending emails. In this article, we’ll explain how a proper email testing workflow can help you improve email sending efficiency. Are You Keeping On Top Of Your Email Metrics? How can we address these challenges? Large preview ). Email template.

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Testing Servers Social Media Automotive 109

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). Practical HTTP/3 deployment options ( coming up soon! ). For web-page loading, this slow-start approach can also affect metrics such as the first contentful paint, because only a small amount of data (tens of to a few hundred KB) can be transferred in the first few round trips.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 105

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As a trend, it’s not performing well on Google; it shows little long-term growth, if any, and gets nowhere near as many searches as terms like “Observability” and “Generative Adversarial Networks.” However, growth always ends: nothing grows exponentially forever, not even Facebook and Google. Should it be? Is retraining needed?

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Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

These statements and articles typically skip over some crucial technical details , are lacking in nuance, and usually are only partially correct. In this article series, I will discuss the new protocol, especially its performance features , with more nuance. We will discuss these features in more depth later in this article.

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Practical HTTP/3 deployment options ( current article ). You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. mvfst (Facebook), MsQuic , (Microsoft), (Google), ngtcp2 , LSQUIC (Litespeed), picoquic , quicly (Fastly). Google Lighthouse.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 104