MachMetrics

MAY 2, 2020

Our most recent article identified (and remedied) the 4 most common page speed testing mistakes we see website owners making, and it inspired us to do even more to help those who make mistake #2: Only testing from 1 location. This is obviously a situation where his website has to be performant around the globe.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Similar to our article Average Page Load Times for 2018 , we’ll go over the averages for metrics and help you determine if your site is faster or slower than average. As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is.

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Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

A WordPress website comprises many parts, including web servers and their settings, different plugins, and themes. Unoptimized content could also be one of the reasons why your WordPress website is not performing as per your expectations. We will also discuss how you can speed up your slow WordPress site.

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Cache Website Speed Website Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

Plesk VPS Hosting For Better Website Outcomes. Plesk VPS Hosting For Better Website Outcomes. This is a sponsored article.) In early discussions you have with clients about the website you’re tasked with designing, does the topic of web hosting ever come up? Suzanne Scacca. 2019-03-28T10:30:39+01:00.

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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Because of nobody like a slow website. Getting your websites, images, and videos to load quickly is an absolute necessity for inbound marketing success. Getting your websites, images, and videos to load quickly is an absolute necessity for inbound marketing success. Slow website and your business bottom line. Want proof?

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Our solution doesn't require any change on the origin server. It improves the user experience, results in less bandwidth usage, and makes your website faster. How to measure performance The Website Speed Test is the ideal tool for measuring the performance of your website. We won't go into detail in this article.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. By running basic optimizations of our videos before adding them to our websites, we can prevent these issues from occurring for good — well, most of them. There is a solution though!

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. Client Side Rendering, Server Side Rendering And Jamstack. To run it, you have to make another API call to the server and retrieve any data you want to load. Caching Schemes.

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

Frontend frameworks let you hit the ground running when developing a new website. Then again, a newer but less widely known framework may more effectively suit your needs, so it's worth it to get up to speed about today's most popular options. What makes React unique is that it can be rendered either server or client side.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

At the same time, they open a door to lots of concepts that might be overwhelming: PRPL, RAIL, Paint Timing API, TTI, HTTP/2, Speed Index, Priority Hints and more … Why Performance doesn’t get Prioritized Web performance at organizations is a real challenge. What happens when a browser tries to load a website? When will that be run?

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

So in this article, we’ll pit Gzip vs Brotli and completely end the debate! Simply put, compression allows the web server to send smaller files to your web site viewers. When someone enters your URL and requests your site, their browser will indicate to the web server that it understands compression (and which type it understands).

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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? High Performance Websites. Even Faster Websites. How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance. Want your web site to display more quickly?

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 27, 2019

While it’s important to check various speed metrics , the Web Almanac uses data from the Chome UX Report which focuses on how Chrome users actually experience the web. In the below image, ‘fast’ websites are those with a FCP consistently below 1 second. It can also be described as server delay.

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Performance Speed Website Mobile 52

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

HTTP Preload and HTTP/2’s feature “Server Push” are both methods that can be used to improve the loading efficiency of your web application. In this article, we’ll go over the similarities and differences between HTTP Preload vs HTTP/2 Push and discuss when it makes sense to use each.

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Speed Servers Website Efficiency 99

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

I’ve written a few articles here before on Core Web Vitals, and am always interested to see what’s in their annual Web Performance Checklist. Running a failing article page through WebPageTest highlighted the LCP element: The LCP image of a typical Smashing Magazine article. OK, so the article author photo is the LCP element.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

This space can act as its own website — not tied to anything. For example, later in this article, we’ll be developing a web toy that flips a webpage upside down making it readable for Australians. Server Side In getServerSideProps. Hosting Content And Personal Portfolios. Wilder More Creative Use Cases. More after jump!

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Servers Website Code Best Practices 84

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. If you want to vastly improve the startup and load performance of your website, you cannot miss the impactful observations and insights that Jake posts on jakearchibald.com/ and shares on Twitter @ jaffathecake. Here is our (ever-growing!) Rachel Andrew.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

Reading Time: 8 minutes Whether your ecommerce business is 100% online or you supplement with bricks and mortar, your website is a critical revenue driver. When your website isn’t performing optimally, you risk not only your revenue but also your reputation as a trusted resource.

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Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

This is due to the fact that the cloud enables the provisioning of test servers on demand. This also ensures unused servers are not sitting idle. In this article, we will discuss what features make Testsigma a recommended tool for cloud automation testing. This feature can further speed up your test case execution.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 20, 2018

So then why are you serving an entire page of images to your website visitors when they’re only looking above the fold? Most browsers implement the Intersection Observer API, common libraries make it super simple to implement, and speed is more important than ever. Your server, and your users will thank you.

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Cache Speed Internet Internet 75

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. Reduced Resource Usage Optimizing resource-intensive queries and configurations can lead to a reduced burden on your server. A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results.

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Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

At the same time, they open a door to lots of concepts that might be overwhelming: PRPL, RAIL, Paint Timing API, TTI, HTTP/2, Speed Index, Priority Hints and more …. I use a Macbook Pro to develop websites. Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London.

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

In this article we’ll take a look at the main types of Resource Hints and when and where we can use them in our pages. For a busy page with lots of external resources (like perhaps a news website with loads of ads and trackers), there might be dozens of DNS lookups required per page. Preconnecting. TLS negotiation on HTTPS sites.

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Performance Games Servers Cache 106

All Things Distributed

JUNE 28, 2017

This article titled " Wartet nicht auf Perfektion – lernt aus euren Fehlern! That's how you gain speed and quickly digitize old machines and connect them to the cloud within a manageable cost framework. Take the case of a website: Why was it down last Friday? The web servers reported timeouts. Why were there timeouts?

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Innovation Website Servers Technology 113

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Geoff Graham 2023-08-10T08:00:00+00:00 2023-08-10T12:35:05+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear There is no shortage of ways to measure the speed of a webpage. Lighthouse results. One type is called lab data.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

However, at the end of 2020, about 1% of websites included a Service Worker, and 2.2% This also implies that you don’t have to spend additional time and money on creating a PWA to suit various devices, greatly speeding up time-to-market. The pages can be crawled, indexed, and ranked, as it happens with regular websites.

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Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

CSS - Tricks

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

You can now use WebPageTest to capture any layout shifts that occur on your website during page load, and identify what caused them. If you serve videos for your website from your own web server, keep an eye on the video bitrate (the author suggests FFmpeg and streamclarity.com ). Let's get into the news! via Rick Viscomi ).

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Website Metrics Speed Servers 42

MachMetrics

APRIL 15, 2020

Using a page speed optimization audit tool like GTmetrix or WebPageTest is a great first step towards assessing how your website loads for visitors. However, you may be making one of the common page speed testing mistakes that often cost website owners engagement, and ultimately, revenue. Mistake #1: Only Testing Desktop.

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Speed Testing Website Mobile 88

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I began writing this article in early July 2023 but began to feel a little underwhelmed by it and so left it unfinished. Concatenating our files on the server: Are we going to send many smaller files, or are we going to send one monolithic file? in this article. The former makes for a simpler build step, but is it faster? ?️

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Cache Latency Strategy Speed 291

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

These authors are experts and many have a ton of additional articles and resources that you can check out. If you’re looking to read optimization ideas from one of the greatest minds in speed performance, look no further. If these rules can be applied to improving speeds at Yahoo! Let’s get started! – Aurel V.

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Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. She understood how important mobile page speeds were to the user experience and, by proxy, SEO.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals Matt Zeunert 2024-04-16T10:00:00+00:00 2024-04-16T12:05:36+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative has increased the attention website owners need to pay to user experience.

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Google Monitoring Website Speed 106

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2017

This article titled " Wie Unternehmen digitale Talente anziehen " appeared in German last week in the "Tipps für Arbeitgeber" section of Wirtschaftwoche. Today, companies take their server capacity and software from the cloud. Everyone can find these values on our website, and they apply to everyone. That can be inconvenient.

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Social Media Retail Automotive Innovation 84

CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 16, 2019

By any metric, images are a major slice of the resources on websites, and we're notoriously bad at optimizing them and doing all the things we could to lower the performance hit from them. The images should be uploaded to my own server. But it should go to my server first, then to the service. CDNs are vital for speed.

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Media Servers Database Design 44

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. Your website may be using more third-party services than you realize. Ken Harker.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131