Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. Large preview ) That’s a nice big view and is a good illustration of TBT’s impact on page speed. Analytics is a good example. It’s worth asking.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

It definitely is. We definitely have a lot more need for UI than marketing stuff. There’s accessibility, best practices, performance and one fourth one. I’ve definitely seen it. People are definitely enjoying it. Next.js, it simplifies a lot of speed related issues and accessibility related issue.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Rest assured, all these definitions (and others) would be correct, provided the right context. Core Web Vitals are the subset of Web Vitals that Google has identified as having the greatest impact on the end-user experience. This helps taking action directly targeted to the issue instead of simply trusting general best practices.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. Core Web Vital metrics definitions. SEO is key to our success.

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Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. seconds or less, which is Google's recommendation for page experience and SEO. It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Easier to fight regressions Integrating SpeedCurve into your development pipeline – so you can take advantage of performance budgets and alerts to catch issues before (or right after) they go into production – has been a popular practice over the last several years. In 2021, Google relaunched CLS with a session window.

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

Keptn uses SLO definitions to automatically configure Dynatrace or Prometheus alerting rules. While Google’s SRE Handbook mostly focuses on the production use case for SLIs/SLOs, Keptn is “Shifting-Left” this approach and using SLIs/SLOs to enforce Quality Gates as part of your progressive delivery process.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Drew McLellan: He’s an engineer at Skypack and a major contributor to a new project called Astro, which aims to combine performance best practices with the developer experience improvements we see from component based approaches. I think Jason Miller of Google came up with this terminology. Transcript. Is that right?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”. It is physically limited by the speed of light or, practically, how fast signals can travel in wires or in the open air. Congestion Control. Did You Know?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

To simplify this behavior, a best practice is to ensure your styles include resetting all elements to use border-box. Then, we can see that the color property for just p is crossed-out as an extra indicator that that rule definition is not applied. Google also provides a resource describing preloading fonts.

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Rigor

JANUARY 8, 2020

Reality: While it’s true that when there’s a web performance budget in place, teams need to keep it in mind when updating code or site design, this doesn’t have to impact the speed at which these updates happen. Mark notes that Steve* first experienced performance budgets while Head Performance Engineer at Google. Addy Osmani.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

WordPress’ architecture often does not offer the possibilities we sometimes need when working on a website, especially when it comes to optimizing performance , one of the most important points when ranking our site in a search engine like Google and especially now that Web Vitals is up and running. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Most sites were all hosted on a single physical server somewhere on our own hosting infrastructure, and it was the server we thought about defending when it came to security best practices. Googling for your own platform of choice with SRI or Sub Resource Integrity will likely point you in the right direction.

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CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

Yet, this criticism of React isn’t completely unwarranted: React and ReactDOM total about 120 KiB of minified JavaScript, which definitely contributes to slow startup time. Google Chrome on Nokia 2. While I think startup time is crucial, it’s probably inevitable that you’ll trade some amount of speed for a better developer experience.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. This is because, as I stated in the introduction to part 1 , much of the early HTTP/2 content was overly optimistic about how well it would work in practice, and some of it, quite frankly, had major mistakes and bad advice.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights (no, it isn’t deprecated), you can get CrUX performance data for specific pages instead of just the aggregates.

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