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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?” Where Google Lighthouse Shines Bright.

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What is page bloat? And how is it hurting your business, your search rank, and your users?

Speed Curve

Video – For the first time in the many years that I've been covering the topic of page growth, I'm going to focus on the volume of video that pages contain. JavaScript – A page can have a relatively low JS weight but still suffer from JS-inflicted performance problems. More on that later.) More on that below.)

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Ten years of page bloat: What have we learned?

Speed Curve

How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? Poorly executed stylesheets can create a host of performance problems, ranging from stylesheets taking too long to download and parse, to improperly placed stylesheets that block the rest of the page from rendering. This falls short of Google's threshold of 2.5

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Jake worked at the BBC for four years, writing low-level JavaScript that catered to their strict accessibility, performance and browser support requirements.

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Getting started with web performance? Here's what you need to focus on.

Speed Curve

JavaScript, fonts, and video carry the bulk of the rest of the weight. It's widely considered to be a performance leader, yet it has relatively heavy pages. If you're tracking custom metrics, you probably want to create performance budgets for them. Read: Performance testing in CI: Let's break the build!

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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 ). You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Lara Hogan’s guide on how to approach designs with a performance budget can provide helpful pointers to designers.

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Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

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. Video Transcoding.