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In Defence of DOM­Content­Loaded

CSS Wizardry

However, as an internal benchmark, there are compelling reasons why some of you may actually want to keep tracking these ‘outdated’ metrics… Measure the User Experience The problem with using diagnostic metrics like Load or DOMContentLoaded to measure site-speed is that it has no bearing on how a user might actually experience your site.

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Why is Wordpress Slow?

KeyCDN

KeyCDN Website Speed Test, GTmetrix, Google PageSpeed Insights, WebPageTest, and Pingdom Tools are some great choices. Even many of their demos, packed full of content, load under 800 ms. Check out our performance benchmarks that we ran against WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache. Avoid themes that do not provide frequent updates.

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2021 in review: It was a big year!

Speed Curve

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. Watch a demo video showing how to create custom charts and performance budgets for Web Vitals.).

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). For each of them, Google recommends a range of acceptable speed goals.

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

Smashing Magazine

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Note : as TCP generally under-utilizes network connection by a significant amount, Google has developed TCP Bottleneck Bandwidth and RRT ( BBR ), a relatively new TCP delay-controlled TCP flow control algorithm.