Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. Things have changed quite a bit over the last decade when we just started exploring what we could do on a tiny, shiny mobile screen. State Of Mobile 2021. Kelvin Omereshone. Large preview ).

Mobile 133

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

It's an overview of why front-end performance matter, how to monitor it and the challenges faced when building for an increasingly mobile world. The network constraints and what makes the web slow? An overview of tools for measuring performance, uptime monitoring, real user monitoring and performance benchmarking. References.

Speed 40

Speed Benchmarking Latency Mobile 40

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. Google Lighthouse Google Lighthouse is a free and open source tool that is part of the Google Chrome DevTools family. What is Performance Testing?

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

But pages keep getting bigger and more complex year over year – and this increasing size and complexity is not fully mitigated by faster devices and networks, or by our hard-working browsers. How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? Clearly we need to keep talking about it.

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

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?” Where Google Lighthouse Shines Bright.

Google 51

Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed. She understood how important mobile page speeds were to the user experience and, by proxy, SEO.

Website 110

Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. seconds on the target device and network profile, consuming 120KiB of critical path resources to become interactive, only 8KiB of which is script. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript. These are generous targets.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

Size matters, especially to mobile users who have limited and/or metered data. Core Web Vitals are a Google search ranking factor. Given that Google continues to dominate search usage, you should care about Vitals alongside the other metrics you should be tracking. This includes: Size – Total page weight in bytes.

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This is sometimes referred to as using an “over-cloud” model that involves a centrally managed resource pool that spans all parts of a connected global network with internal connections between regional borders, such as two instances in IAD-ORD for NYC-JS webpage DNS routing. This also aids scalability down the line.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. All modern browsers are fast, Chromium and Safari/WebKit included. Gamepad API.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. billion if the site slowed down by just one second. Lighthouse.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

With entrance into the industry being so easy and lack of proper benchmarking (Note: this is somewhat contradictory to point 2, but more on that later) around what makes a good designer, software engineer, or product manager, we’re forced to face the facts that it’s a recipe for poor quality products. More after jump! Yes, stuck.

Design 126

Design Social Media Website Best Practices 126

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this case, we are not going to be talking about infrastructure services, such as a cloud computing platform like Microsoft Azure or a content distribution network like Akamai. of mobile sites and 94.1% of requests on mobile and 45.1% And JavaScript can certainly make requests for additional network resources.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Rigor

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Comparing mobile performance to desktop, or even different mobile devices. Can you test with 3G, 4G, or different networking connections? Here are a few options to look for: Mobile teams in multiple countries? Competitive & Industry Benchmarking. Determining the impact of Single Points of Failure.

Monitoring 59

Monitoring Benchmarking Mobile Traffic 59

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. media="(min-width: 750px)"> <img srcset="img@mobile.png, img@mobile-2x.png 2x". Deciding what benchmark to use for a performance budget is crucial.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

vl : I have a hilarious story about this from Google: I wanted second 30" monitor, so I filed a ticket. JavaScript benchmark. . $2 billion : Pokémon GO revenue since launch; 10 : say happy birthday to StackOverflow; $148 million : Uber data breach fine; 75% : streaming music industry revenue in the US; 5.2 How does Apple do it?!

Internet 35

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 35

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. Ultimately, for now it seems that it’s only the latter that contribute to SEO ranking — both on mobile and on desktop. PageSpeed Compare is a page speed evaluation and benchmarking tool. The tests can be run for both mobile and desktop.

Performance 130

Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 130

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Today, the website is much faster and ranks highly in various showcases and benchmarks. This Lighthouse mobile report for the front page showed that a lot of work needed to be done. Jennifer Brehm. Large preview ).

Performance 115

Performance Cache Website Mobile 115

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. On mobile, per session, users who experienced fast load times bring 17% more revenue than average.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Study your main competitors, collect metrics on how they perform on mobile and desktop and set thresholds that would help you outpace them. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. Google cloud.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52