Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

When I think of network speeds, I tend to rely on WebPageTest ’s traffic profiles: Traffic profiles to keep in mind on WebPageTest : ranging from Cable and DSL to 3G Slow and 2G. The table below is showing the total amount of traffic used. Large preview ). Another thing to keep in mind is Constant Rate Factor.

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CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Google has a pretty tight grip on the tech industry: it makes by far the most popular browser with the best DevTools, and the most popular search engine, which means that web developers spend most of their time in Chrome, most of their visitors are in Chrome, and a lot of their search traffic will be coming from Google. Why This Is a Problem.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known. Testing the Smashing Magazine website on different devices.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 134

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic. They are more of a benchmark than a true measurement of real user experience. As a discovery tool, request maps are great for identifying the source of third-party, fourth-party, fifth-party, etc.,

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. But account for the different types and usage behaviors of your customers (which Tobias Baldauf called cadence and cohorts ), along with bot traffic and seasonality effects. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. On Smashing Magazine, we could measure 19-32% improvement , too. Large preview ).

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