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2022 in review: New dashboards, Core Web Vitals enhancements, third-party tracking & more!

Speed Curve

Your current competitive benchmarks status. Expanded Industry Speed Benchmarks. Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive dashboard that lets you explore and compare web performance data for leading websites across several industries – from retail to media – over the past year. Lots of new videos!

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An Opinionated Guide to Performance Budgets

Speed Curve

Throughout this post I've used examples from our public Industry Benchmarks dashboard , which I'd encourage you to check out so that you can explore these metrics on your own. Google Lighthouse is an open-source tool that checks your page against rules for Performance, PWA, Accessibility, Best Practice, and SEO. Is it loading?

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Optimizing Video For Size And Quality

Smashing Magazine

Once the page is loaded, we can move to the Network tab, and filter by “media” to see all the video files: Filtering resources by 'Media' in DevTools. In FFMPEG, the principal quality/size benchmark is the Constant Rate Factor (CRF) compression, with values ranging from 0 (no compression) to 50 (high compression).

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A Complete Guide to Performance Budgets

Speed Curve

> Lighthouse Scores (Synthetic) Google Lighthouse is an open-source tool that checks your page against rules for Performance, PWA, Accessibility, Best Practice, and SEO. Media sites are particularly prone to this issue. For each of those categories, you get a score out of 100 and recommendations on what to fix.

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Google PageSpeed Insights - Scoring 100/100 with WordPress

KeyCDN

Take these statistics from Google’s industry benchmarks for mobile page speed guide: We’ve said it before but it’s worth reiterating that as web page load times increase, so does the likelihood of your visitors. According to Google, the best practice for a website’s speed is to keep it under 3 seconds load time.

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2021 in review: It was a big year!

Speed Curve

Performance Culture Best Practices. Industry speed benchmarks for Japan. We have a number of SpeedCurve users who want an ongoing understanding of how popular Japanese websites perform, so we added Japan to our Industry Page Speed Benchmarks dashboard. Improving Cumulative Layout Shift at Telegraph Media Group.

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Getting started with web performance? Here's what you need to focus on.

Speed Curve

Inspired by that post, I wanted to dig a bit deeper into a few of the best practices they mentioned, which fall loosely into these three buckets: Analyze your pages – understand the critical rendering path and page composition. Benchmark your site against your competitors. Read: Performance culture tips and best practices.