Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

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. Let’s focus on how these resources are requested and downloaded. Without priority hints. Large preview ).

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Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL Backup and Recovery Best Practices In this section, we’ll explore essential MySQL backup and recovery best practices to safeguard your data and ensure smooth database operations. This action validates your backups are not corrupted and it provides critical metrics on recovery time. ” Great advice.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

But we can’t really say just yet whether it had any impact on the business metrics — well, we’ll need to wait for a big book release to see that. The final prompt for a more aggressive optimization was the “Core Web Vitals” dashboard in the Google Search Console. With over 56k downloads (just over a thousand per week, and growing!),

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. The key metric for measuring the sustainability of a digital product is its energy usage. You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure”.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Similarly from cross-site navigation — think Google search results or the like and then clicking back. Browsers have lots of caches , the most well-known of which is the HTTP Cache that stores copies of downloaded resources on a local drive for later reuse. 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

From site reliability engineering to service-level objectives and DevSecOps, these resources focus on how organizations are using these best practices to innovate at speed without sacrificing quality, reliability, or security. Learn more about DevOps and best practices to achieve it at scale. Read this blog to learn more.

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. I’m hopeful this can serve as a good introduction for any developer interested in learning about how to work with Google Lighthouse programmatically.

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Testsigma

MARCH 24, 2021

2020, a new game called FAU-G was released on the Google play store. Android’s official application store, the Google play store, hosts 2.87 This number is excluding the third-party hostings which are large in number and are not on the Google play store. Check For File Upload/Download.

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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. You can see that Lighthouse does indeed provide that metric. It replaces the First Input Delay (FI D ) metric. Analytics is a good example.

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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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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. Don’t think of it solely from a metric point of view.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Last year, Google started emphasizing the importance of Core Web Vitals and how they reflect a person’s real experience when visiting sites around the web. It wasn’t long before a sea of red “poor” and yellow “needs improvement” notices in our Google Search Console needed our attention. How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study).

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Sutter's Mill

MARCH 11, 2024

In that context, I’ll focus on C++ and try to: highlight what needs attention (what C++’s problem “is”), and how we can get there by building on solutions already underway; address some common misconceptions (what C++’s problem “isn’t”), including practical considerations of MSLs; and leave a call to action for programmers using all languages.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Smaller HTML means less time for Google to download and process those long strings of text. Both for Google bots (SEO) and to actual clients. Part of having a small LCP is to let the user download as small HTML as possible. Part of having a small LCP is to let the user download as small HTML as possible.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? Poorly executed stylesheets can create a host of performance problems, ranging from stylesheets taking too long to download and parse, to improperly placed stylesheets that block the rest of the page from rendering. seconds for Largest Contentful Paint.

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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. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. seconds faster on average and it drove 60 million more Firefox downloads per year.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Largest Contentful Paint (or LCP) is one of three metrics of the Core Web Vitals. These metrics are used by Google to evaluate the quality of user experience. To address this problem, I’ll provide an overview of the best practices for the integration and optimization of an LCP image. Eloïse Martin. Large preview ).

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Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

That's because video seems to have had a surge in growth, which should be a cause of concern for anyone who cares about metrics like Largest Contentful Paint, which measures the largest visual element on a page – including videos. Core Web Vitals are a Google search ranking factor. More on that below.)

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Researchers and major companies have been publishing case studies for years , proving that slower page load experiences impact business metrics, including conversion rate, revenue, bounce rate, and more. The most popular, by far, is the Google Lighthouse report (available in Chrome Developer Tools) and Google’s Page Speed Insights.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

As a second example, TCP sees all of the data it transports as a single “file” or byte stream , even if we’re actually using it to transfer several files at the same time (for example, when downloading a web page consisting of many resources). It combines decades of deployment experience and best practices of TCP with some core new features.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This in turn affects how fast a page’s resources can be downloaded. For web-page loading, this slow-start approach can also affect metrics such as the first contentful paint, because only a small amount of data (tens of to a few hundred KB) can be transferred in the first few round trips. Did You Know? What Does It All Mean?

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

We last talked to him in July 2020 , where we asked if modern best practices about for the web. Last time we talked, we posed this question of if modern best practices, the use of reactive frameworks and these sorts of things were actually bad for the progress of the web. Drew: You want it to remain unspoiled.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome who was working all around web performance for decades. Jump to the details ↓ Download a free PDF sample (12MB). Download PDF , ePUB , Kindle. Download PDF , ePUB , Kindle. Get the eBook.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome and focusing around performance for decades. Jump to the details ↓ Download a free PDF sample (12MB). Download PDF , ePUB , Kindle. Which metrics should you focus on to improve the user experience?

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

It’s an initiative by Google to share unified guidance for quality signals that can be key to delivering a great user experience on the web. CWV is part of a set of page experience signals Google Search will be evaluating for ranking. Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS, a Core Web Vitals metric) measures the instability of content.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics Performance culture, Core Web Vitals, performance profiles, CrUX, Lighthouse, FID, TTI, CLS, devices. Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Table Of Contents.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Download The Checklist (PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word). You can also just download the checklist PDF (166 KB) or download editable Apple Pages file (275 KB) or the.docx file (151 KB). (You Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Setting Realistic Goals. Defining The Environment.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Download The Checklist (PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word). You can also just download the checklist PDF (166 KB) or download editable Apple Pages file (275 KB) or the.docx file (151 KB). (You Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Setting Realistic Goals. Defining The Environment.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Key user-centric metrics often depend on the size, number, layout, and loading priority of images on the page. Smaller file size directly impacts the Largest contentful Paint (LCP) metric for the page as image resources needed by the page get loaded faster. As a result, AVIF files download faster and consume lower bandwidth.

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