MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

If you’re looking to read optimization ideas from one of the greatest minds in speed performance, look no further. Author Steve Souders writes about the best practices that he gained as the Chief Performance Yahoo!, and the Head Performance Engineer at Google.

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Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You may have a lean, agile, responsive site design only to find it gradually loaded down with more and more “extras” that are often put onto the site by marketing departments or business leaders who are not always thinking about website performance. The CSS-Tricks website has good documentation on font-display.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

JavaScript, CSS, images, iframes, and other resources impact how quickly website loads, renders and becomes usable to the user. Loading experience is crucial to the user’s first impression and overall usability, so Google defined Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric to measure how quickly the main content loads and is displayed to the user.

Media 70

Media Tuning Metrics Google 70

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Defining The Environment Choosing a framework, baseline performance cost, Webpack, dependencies, CDN, front-end architecture, CSR, SSR, CSR + SSR, static rendering, prerendering, PRPL pattern. Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Luckily, there are many great options that help you automate the collection of data and measure how your website performs over time according to these metrics. Depending on the network connection, performance budgets should adapt , but payload on slower connection is much more "expensive", regardless of how they’re used.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Addy Osmani has written a very detailed write-up on how to start performance budgeting , how to quantify the impact of new features and where to start when you are over budget. Image source ).

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145