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The “Best” Performance Metrics? Start With These Six

Rigor

It’s true that what might be considered the “most important” or “best” web performance metrics can vary by industry. These six metrics were not chosen at random – they work together to give you a snapshot of your site’s performance and overall user experience so you can set a baseline and improve speed and usability. Speed Index.

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

Speed Curve

"I made my pages faster, but my business and user engagement metrics didn't change. The performance poverty line is the plateau at which changes to your website’s rendering metrics (such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint) cease to matter because you’ve bottomed out in terms of business and user engagement metrics.

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2022 in review: New dashboards, Core Web Vitals enhancements, third-party tracking & more!

Speed Curve

You can see at a glance: Key metrics like Core Web Vitals and your User Happiness score. Your current competitive benchmarks status. Hint: If you're considering installing a big-screen performance monitor at your organization, this dashboard is a good candidate for that.). Expanded Industry Speed Benchmarks.

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An Opinionated Guide to Performance Budgets

Speed Curve

Web pages are unbelievably complex, and there are hundreds of different metrics available to track. A performance budget is a threshold that you apply to the metrics you care about the most. This is when you run into three important questions: Which metrics should you focus on? Which metrics should you focus on?

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A Complete Guide to Performance Budgets

Speed Curve

A performance budget is a threshold that you apply to the metrics you care about the most. A performance budget is a threshold that you apply to the metrics you care about the most. Which metrics should you start with? With hundreds of potential performance metrics to track, this is a huge question. Let's get started!

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Cumulative Layout Shift: What it measures, when it works (and doesn't), and how to use it

Speed Curve

Back in May, we shared that SpeedCurve supports Google's Core Web Vitals in both our synthetic monitoring and LUX real user monitoring tools. The newcomer to the scene was Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), and, not surprisingly, it's the metric that's gotten the most questions. How is it calculated? What does CLS measure?

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

Speed Curve

"I made my pages faster, but my business and user engagement metrics didn't change. The performance plateau is the point at which changes to your website’s rendering metrics (such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint) cease to matter because you’ve bottomed out in terms of business and user engagement metrics.