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The “Best” Performance Metrics? Start With These Six

Rigor

It’s true that what might be considered the “most important” or “best” web performance metrics can vary by industry. These six metrics were not chosen at random – they work together to give you a snapshot of your site’s performance and overall user experience so you can set a baseline and improve speed and usability. Speed Index.

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eCommerce & Retail: There’s No Excuse to Ignore Performance

Rigor

Whether it be time, money, or technical know how, every day we talk to eCommerce and Retail teams who explain why they aren’t monitoring their site’s performance. Since our team is preparing for eTail West , there is no better time to address some of the common objections I’ve seen when talking to eCommerce and Retail teams about performance.

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Why you need to know your site's performance poverty line (and how to find it)

Speed Curve

"I made my pages faster, but my business and user engagement metrics didn't change. The performance poverty line is the plateau at which changes to your website’s rendering metrics (such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint) cease to matter because you’ve bottomed out in terms of business and user engagement metrics.

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Performance audit: Lego.com

Speed Curve

We track LEGO.com, along with a handful of other leading ecommerce sites, in our public-facing Retail Benchmarks dashboard , which I encourage you to check out. It shows how key metrics align with the rendering timeline (the filmstrip view at the top of the chart). This is a high-level waterfall for the LEGO.com home page.

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Why you need to know your site's performance plateau (and how to find it)

Speed Curve

"I made my pages faster, but my business and user engagement metrics didn't change. The performance plateau is the point at which changes to your website’s rendering metrics (such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint) cease to matter because you’ve bottomed out in terms of business and user engagement metrics.

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A Management Maturity Model for Performance

Alex Russell

Teams I've consulted are too often wrenched between celebration over "the big rewrite" launch and the morning-after realisation that the new stack is tanking business metrics. your-ecommerce-site-is-not-an-spa] Inexperienced managers and engineers often blame this on the proliferation of third-party content. Photo by Jay Heike.

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Google Lighthouse vs Rigor

Rigor

Reading time 11 min As companies become more aware of the importance of web performance, internal teams begin to research tools they can use to use to track their metrics and improve the user experience of their websites and applications. Take an ecommerce site as an example. Even better, Rigor holds that performance data for 2 years.

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