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. Of course, testing won’t often be available exactly where you are, but we can get very close.

Speed 52

Speed Testing Website Mobile 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

In the second stage, I weighed edX’s website against the 10 usability heuristics identified by Jacob Nielsen. Computer Electronics” and “Technology” appear to be the most popular course categories among edX students. According to my findings, there are two common scenarios for how users select an educational course.

Education 83

Education Website Google Design 83

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

The success of your website depends on the impression it leaves on its users. It’s worth mentioning that good Core Web Vitals scores don’t necessarily mean that your website scores in high 90s on Lighthouse. PageSpeed Compare is a page speed evaluation and benchmarking tool. Zara Cooper. 2022-08-09T14:00:00+00:00.

Performance 130

Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 130

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In today’s world, the speed of innovation is key to business success. Of course, as with all vulnerability management solutions, there was and is the risk that vulnerabilities are exploited while DevSecOps teams are working to fix them. Real-time attack detection and blocking for Java will be available in the next 120 days.

Traffic 231

Traffic Benchmarking Innovation Java 231

CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This, of course, is exacerbated by the new Vitals announcement, whereby data from the Chrome User eXperience Report will be used to aid and influence rankings. Every browser available on iOS is simply a wrapper around Safari. Same page, same connection speed, same locale, same release year, different devices. Chrome for iOS?

Network 225

Network Mobile Performance Traffic 225

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Thanks to their simplicity and widespread support, GIF files remain wildly popular despite the dozens of other image and video formats available today. Let’s cover some ways to speed up GIF animations on your website and look at some alternative formats that you should consider. Why Speed Up GIF Animations?

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Speed Website Latency Cache 50

CSS Wizardry

APRIL 22, 2020

One of the more fundamental rules of building fast websites is to optimise your assets, and where text content such as HTML, CSS, and JS are concerned, we’re talking about compression. Each new TCP connection has no way of knowing what bandwidth it currently has available to it, nor how reliable the connection is (i.e. packet loss).

Latency 269

Latency Servers Website Speed 269

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors.

Engineering 130

Engineering Google Website Analytics 130

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

Plesk VPS Hosting For Better Website Outcomes. Plesk VPS Hosting For Better Website Outcomes. In early discussions you have with clients about the website you’re tasked with designing, does the topic of web hosting ever come up? Of course , they’re going to look to other areas to offset those costs. Suzanne Scacca.

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Website Servers Design Traffic 48

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!

Network 143

Network Speed Website Mobile 143

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Did this issue result from the order in which the user added the data or the speed with which they selected the UI controls? . Consider the following example: A user session on your travel website crashes while a customer is booking a journey. What makes this session different from other sessions that follow the same path?

Mobile 189

Mobile Tuning Monitoring Storage 189

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

The encoder can typically be improved years after the standard has been frozen including varying speed and quality trade-offs. AOM has produced the reference software for AV1, which is called libaom and is available online. The encoder speed helps innovation, as it is faster to run experiments. 264 standard was finalized.

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Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

To speed up release frequency, they’re investing in delivery-pipeline automation. The flip side of speeding up delivery, however, is that each software release comes with the risk of impacting your goals of availability, performance, or any business KPIs. Defining your target by setting a Service-Level Objective (SLO).

Metrics 150

Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 150

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Of course, the extent for each business varied; how much of the business was online; Was it optimized and prioritized internally; Were they prepared for such load? BCA witnessed CAB processes speeding up, allowing implementations of optimizations discovered by Dynatrace to be carried out much faster. You saw that coming, right?

Ecommerce 132

Ecommerce Retail Virtualization Innovation 132

Dynatrace

JUNE 30, 2020

In my role as DevOps and Autonomous Cloud Activist at Dynatrace, I get to talk to a lot of organizations and teams, and advise them on how to speed up delivery while also increasing the delivery in order to minimize the impact on operations. This can be your external facing website, internal business applications. Dynatrace news.

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Lambda Monitoring Cloud DevOps 174

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

For some websites this works, but for others (such as Hack Club’s Scrapbook , a site built by @lachlanjc that I help maintain), the user expects the data to be kept up to date. The more interesting thing, however, is the impact on the speed of our side. When we measure speed through Lighthouse, we get a speed index of 1.5

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Cache Internet Internet Servers 102

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Real-life performance for your users and how the website “feels” when you’re using it should not be discounted, even if it costs you a point or two in Page Speed (otherwise, we would all just have a search bar and unstyled text).

Performance 115

Performance Cache Website Mobile 115

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Of course, it matters what your users experience rather than what some search engine crawler sees, but one of the great things about the Core Web Vitals initiative is that it does measure real user experience rather than what Google Bot sees! Authors are important of course, but is that really what the reader came here to see?

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Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The project is available in twenty languages, and encourages all kinds of contributions to open-source projects — including non-pull-request contributions. If you’re already familiar with the HTMHell website, then you can guess how interesting its advent calendar is going to get! Accessible websites are simply better websites.

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Design Development Programming Website 107

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The fact that INP is already available in performance reports means we have an opportunity to familiarize ourselves with it today, in advance of its release. This way, you’ll not only have the information you need to read your performance reports come March 2024 but can proactively prepare your website for the change.

Traffic 94

Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 94

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

This split decision was available via last year's update , but was somewhat buried. JavaScript-Heavy # Since at least 2015, building JavaScript-first websites has been a predictably terrible idea, yet most of the sites I trace on a daily basis remain mired in script. [1] Going forward, I'll produce both as top-line guidance.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Similar to LCP, Element Timing measures when a DOM element is rendered, and it's available in synthetic and RUM. After you've added conversion data, you're all ready to create lots of compelling visualizations to get your organization to care about site speed. This is where Element Timing comes in. Learn more here.

Performance 57

Performance Metrics Speed Google 57

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. The Smashing team has done a lot to make a fast website, so even a fresh load (though this experiment may not be a completely fresh load if you came to this article from the home page). Here’s an experiment for you.

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Cache Games Performance Website 91

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

Unquestionably, media enlivens websites, adding appeal, excitement, and intrigue, let alone enticements to stay on a page and frequently revisit it. Of the many factors that affect page-load speed, media is a significant one. And of course, you need to host and deliver your images. There are also other options available.

Media 117

Media Performance Mobile Latency 117

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. The code for the site is available on GitHub for reference. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Website and web application technologies have grown tremendously over the years. Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. They now allow users to interact more with the company in the form of online forms, shopping carts, Content Management Systems (CMS), online courses, etc.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Page speed, design systems, search engine optimization, frameworks, accessibility — the list goes on and on. In this third edition of our web design done well series, we’re honing in on the beating heart of many websites: content. Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial. Frederick O’Brien. 2021-09-10T10:00:00+00:00.

Design 131

Design Internet Internet Mobile 131

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

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 project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!), Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The Chrome DevTools can greatly improve your workflow by helping you develop, test, and debug your websites right within your browser. You can do everything from testing the viewport on a mobile device to editing a website on the fly, and even measuring the performance of an entire website or individual assets.

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Google Website Network Media 85

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

This space can act as its own website — not tied to anything. This approach, however, is far from perfect as there is a delay between the page’s first render and the wildcard being available. It is, of course, still handy to know. The live version is available at [link] and the source code can be found at [link].

Servers 83

Servers Website Code Best Practices 83

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

It has never been easier to build a personalized website, digitalize a product and start seeing results. Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website.

Media 105

Media Cache Website Mobile 105

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 9, 2020

As you can see, the impact is considerable — especially on lower-end devices and slow network speed, where images are coming in separately. However, when you use CSS like below to ensure images do not overflow their available space, then you run into problems as soon as the available width becomes smaller than the actual image size.

Website 125

Website Code Mobile Network 125

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Large preview ) That’s a nice big view and is a good illustration of TBT’s impact on page speed. That’s a lifetime in web seconds, particularly considering that this test is based on a desktop experience on a high-speed connection. But does it need to be available immediately ? The user is forced to wait a whopping 4.1

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 90

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.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Google Website 106

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 1, 2021

We can, of course, add input where someone types their name and we use that input in the greeting function. In fact, I’ve added the component to my personal website and provided it with its own URL route. Accessibility tests make sure people with disabilities can effectively access and use a website. Our component is covered.

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Testing Performance Testing Website Code 95

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2019

You know how critical it is to build websites that load quickly. Google takes many factors into account when ranking a website and visitors take maybe a handful of factors into account when deciding to explore a site. At the intersection of the two is website speed. Of course, there are the SEO benefits of images, too.

Mobile 62

Mobile Media Website Storage 62

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

The Core Web Vitals are a set of three metrics designed to measure the “core” experience of whether a website feels fast or slow to the users, and so gives a good experience. Time to First Byte (TTFB), DOM Content Loaded, Start Render, Speed Index) — but from the experience of the user. What Are The Core Web Vitals?

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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140