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An Opinionated Guide to Performance Budgets

Speed Curve

The easiest way to do this is to look at rendering filmstrips in your synthetic test data. 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. Look at your own industry/competitor benchmarks and your own data!

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

Smashing Magazine

Keep in mind that a good performance picture covers a set of performance metrics, lab data and field data : Synthetic testing tools collect lab data in a reproducible environment with predefined device and network settings (e.g. Real User Monitoring ( RUM ) tools evaluate user interactions continuously and collect field data (e.g.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

Keep in mind that a good performance picture covers a set of performance metrics, lab data and field data : Synthetic testing tools collect lab data in a reproducible environment with predefined device and network settings (e.g. Real User Monitoring ( RUM ) tools evaluate user interactions continuously and collect field data (e.g.