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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

I intentionally left out the numbers for video, because they seemed inconsistent. These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. You can see this by looking at the synthetic test result for Sears.com (again, available via our Industry Benchmarks ). We need to monitor our pages consistently over time.

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

Speed Curve

Monitor your longest Long Tasks. 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. Create performance budgets. Performance budgets are a vital tool in your web performance toolbox.

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Have You Tested Your App Performance & Capacity Recently?

Apica

The spread of where consumers want to consume content, at home, at the office, at the gym, on a plane, at any time where there is connectivity, puts significant pressure on the network and performance monitoring teams for streaming brands. Load and stress-testing benchmark goals for the backend technological components.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Testing And Monitoring. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Assets Optimizations.

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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?” Google Lighthouse is a great place to start for performance analysis.

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

High Scalability

Video Transcoding. We already use the public cloud to autoscale some async processing like Video Transcoding, text extraction, data migration, Search, etc. If you develop something then you own the lifecycle of that product, which means you would work with QA, DevOps to ensure it’s tested/deployed. Document store.