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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. You don’t have the time to monitor something that affects your company’s revenue and almost every online metric your business cares about ? Conclusion.

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The “Best” Performance Metrics? Start With These Six

Rigor

For example, a media organization may be interested in tracking Time to Interactive because its site relies on third-party advertising for revenue, while an ecommerce business might want to dig deeper into First Meaningful Paint so it can ensure that customers can quickly take action to purchase an item. Speed Index. Why track it?

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

Speed Curve

For each site, I used a month's worth of RUM (real user monitoring) data to generate correlation charts. Poverty lines emerged for both Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint I expected the results for Start Render, as it's been around as a page speed metric for many years, and has been proven to correlate to business metrics.

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

Speed Curve

For each site, I used a month's worth of RUM (real user monitoring) data to generate correlation charts. Plateaus emerged for both Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint I expected the results for Start Render, as it's been around as a page speed metric for many years, and has been proven to correlate to business metrics.

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Google Lighthouse vs Rigor

Rigor

One free tool has become prominent in the space – Google Lighthouse – and one question often bubbles up: “I use Google Lighthouse for one-off snapshots of my site’s performance, so why do I need a performance monitoring solution?” But that’s exactly it – it’s a place to start.

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A Management Maturity Model for Performance

Alex Russell

your-ecommerce-site-is-not-an-spa] Inexperienced managers and engineers often blame this on the proliferation of third-party content. Teams looking to grow past Level 1 develop (or uncover they already had) Real User Monitoring (" RUM data") infrastructure in previous cycles. Nothing is more depressing than managerial cosplay.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!), Vitaly Friedman.