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The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters

Smashing Magazine

This goes way beyond basic optimizations such as color contrast and server response times. While a vast majority of the time is spent in just a few mobile apps, social media platforms provide a gateway to the web and your services — especially in education. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known.

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Why is Wordpress Slow?

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A WordPress website comprises many parts, including web servers and their settings, different plugins, and themes. Many factors affect the speed of your WordPress website; some of them are: Your web host Server-side optimizations (PHP version, compression, caching, etc.) It is challenging to figure out why WordPress is slow.

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What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites

Smashing Magazine

One tool that’s particularly helpful is called Lighthouse. Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google. Source: Test My Site ) ( Large preview ). Social media ads.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

In the end, it’s not the load events or server response times that define the experience, but the perception of how snappy the interface feels. It used to provide an insight into how quickly the server outputs any data. This knowledge will give you the best optimization target for ongoing efforts. What does it mean?

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

Smashing Magazine

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? It used to provide an insight into how quickly the server outputs any data. What does it mean?