Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast. 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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HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

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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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

We've been tracking these as individual metrics – Largest Contentful Paint, First Input Delay, and Cumulative Layout Shift – since before Google branded them as a set. Your Sessions dashboard lets you drill down and segment your RUM data by: Metric / duration. Relaunched website. RUM Live dashboard. Time period.

Retail 52

Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 52

Rigor

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Visual Metrics Alone Paint Only Half The Picture. Existing metrics like DOM Content Loaded and Onload Time are giving way to user-centric metrics such as visual timings and user timings. Interactivity metrics can provide insight and uncover blind spots not yet realized and are a valuable addition to your metrics arsenal.

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Rigor

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Visual Metrics Alone Paint Only Half The Picture. Existing metrics like DOM Content Loaded and Onload Time are giving way to user-centric metrics such as visual timings and user timings. Interactivity metrics can provide insight and uncover blind spots not yet realized and are a valuable addition to your metrics arsenal.

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Metrics Social Media Website Retail 40

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"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.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. billion if the site slowed down by just one second.

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KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

Running speed tests with tools like Google PageSpeed Insights , WebPageTest , or KeyCDN’s Website Speed Test are always a good way to help gauge your website’s performance. While these metrics can be very helpful it is also important to keep this data in perspective.

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Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance. High Performance Websites. Even Faster Websites. Want your web site to display more quickly?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Get a free trial of LogRocket today.

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Speed Curve

AUGUST 8, 2017

Because the average page is now 3MB in size, and this seems like a good time to pause, check our assumptions, and ask ourselves: Is there any reason to care about page size as a performance metric? And if we don't consider page size a meaningful metric, then what should we care about? They represent trends – that's all.

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Metrics Website Speed Benchmarking 80

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

The critical rendering path is the set of steps browsers must take to convert HTML, CSS and JavaScript into living, breathing websites. That's why it's a good idea to not just focus on metrics like Start Render – you should also investigate Hero Rendering metrics , which track when the most meaningful content on your pages (e.g.,

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 78

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 19, 2015

The idea is to identify your performance goals and track the metrics that help you achieve your goals. Benchmark a variety of metrics and choose a target of 20% faster or less resources. SpeedCurve's Benchmark dashboard is a great way to see how you compare to your competitors for setting budgets.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

If you want to vastly improve the startup and load performance of your website, you cannot miss the impactful observations and insights that Jake posts on jakearchibald.com/ and shares on Twitter @ jaffathecake. He writes about Progressive Web Apps on Medium as well as on his own website. Rick Byers. Rick Byers. Tammy Everts.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Table Of Contents. Quick Wins.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

We started with SEM/SEO but over time as we grew, we used many channels to acquire customers like Social media, Biz dev, Trade shows, SEM, SEO, Inbound marketing and high touch sales for Enterprise customers. Do you have a standard API to your website? Do you have a separate operations team managing your website?

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