Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

As the world’s leading search engine, Google is committed to delivering the best possible search results to its users. This commitment involves prioritizing websites that offer not only relevant content but also an excellent user experience. Core Web Vital metrics definitions.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. But as it stands, websites are growing ever more obese, which means that the energy demand of the Internet is continuing to grow exponentially. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database uptime and availability Monitoring database uptime and availability is crucial as it directly impacts the availability of critical data and the performance of applications or websites that rely on the MySQL database. Monitoring these metrics helps ensure data protection, minimize downtime, and ensure business continuity.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 104

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

In order for the browser to display the image, it has a fairly long chain of dependencies: Download the HTML. Download and parse the CSS. Download the image. So noticeable, in fact, that Core Web Vitals has a metric all about it called Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). Reconcile the CSS ruleset with the DOM.

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Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 73

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Note : You can also just download the checklist (PDF, 158 KB). Table Of Contents. Quick Wins.

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Engineering Google Website Analytics 131

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

My kids love LEGO, too, which means that every year I find myself spending a fair bit of time on the LEGO website during the holidays. It shows how key metrics align with the rendering timeline (the filmstrip view at the top of the chart). I love LEGO. This is a high-level waterfall for the LEGO.com home page.

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Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 66

MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Unfortunately, Target.com is not a fast website. And this is shocking since we all know that page load speed is directly correlated to site revenue (you’re aware that faster websites lead to increased conversion and sales, right?). Look again at the metrics above. Time to Interactive (TTI): 6.2s Total Blocking Time: 2.2s

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Retail Speed Website Google 82

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 2, 2022

The new WebPageTest website design. And not just defining it in terms of specific metrics (even that is tricky), but answer questions like: What are this discipline’s guiding principles? What does it look like to practice web performance? Caching Header Best Practices — Simon Hearne’s dissertation on Cache headers.

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Performance Cache Best Practices Strategy 68

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.

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Google Cache Speed Analytics 103

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. seconds faster on average and it drove 60 million more Firefox downloads per year. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Having a slow site might leave you on page 452 of search results, regardless of any other metric.

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Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Total Blocking Time One thing I know would be more helpful than a set of Core Web Vitals scores from Lighthouse is knowing the time it takes to go from the First Contentful Paint (FCP) to the Time to Interactive (TTI), a metric known as the Total Blocking Time (TBT). You can see that Lighthouse does indeed provide that metric.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 91

Tasktop

OCTOBER 28, 2020

An online investment firm discovering a system bottleneck impeding digital channel innovation , t he remarkable success that organizations are witnessing with flow-based value stream metrics provides an exciting glimpse of what’s possible. Download e-book on data-driven value stream management. Introducing the Flow Institute.

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Healthcare Innovation Government Best Practices 90

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

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. Download the eBook now What are the Common Performance Issues in MySQL Databases? Key metrics such as CPU usage, memory usage, and disk I/O offer insights into how efficiently your database server operates.

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Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

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. Optimizing The Image Element LCP.

Media 105

Media Mobile Website Metrics 105

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. How does page bloat hurt your business?

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Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? Download The Checklist (PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word). Table Of Contents.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

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. Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. so reusing them from that home page visit is a good saving.

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Cache Games Performance Website 91

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Download The Checklist (PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word). Build Optimizations.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Projects built using JavaScript-based frameworks often ship large bundles of JavaScript that take time to download, parse and execute, blocking page render and user input in the process. JavaScript’s effect on performance consists of download, parsing and the execution costs. Website performance is not consistent across devices.

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Code Performance Network Website 89

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Download The Checklist (PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word). Build Optimizations.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

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. Google Lighthouse is one of the best-automated tools available on a web developer's utility belt. website if you prefer.

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Google Latency Website Metrics 82

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. It bears repeating: excessive JS can hurt all your user-oriented performance metrics.

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

CSS - Tricks

JANUARY 31, 2020

From 2016 (PDF warning) to 2019 , the average mobile download speed in the U.S. In Brazil and India, average mobile download speeds increased by 75% and 28%, respectively, in that same period of time. This is the time at which you develop and roll out training, documentation, best practices, and standards the organization can embrace.

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Innovation Mobile Best Practices Speed 50

Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

CSS is a simple stylesheet language for defining a website or document’s presentation. Some such examples include: Decreasing code quality as more features are added due to the varying CSS skill levels within a development team and lacking internal rules, conventions, and best practices. Refactoring CSS: Introduction (Part 1).

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Best Practices Website Architecture Media 145

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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Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Websites would magically become 50% faster with the flip of a switch! Five years later, we know that server push doesn’t really work in practice, streams and prioritization are often badly implemented , and, consequently, (reduced) resource bundling and even sharding are still good practices in some situations. For HTTP/1.1,

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites written by Dan Shappir. Adding A Dyslexia-Friendly Mode To A Website written by John C Barstow. We last talked to him in July 2020 , where we asked if modern best practices about for the web. Chris on Twitter. The Vanilla JavaScript Podcast. Weekly Update. Chris: Indeed.

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Technology Technology Servers Code 94

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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Network Servers Cache Traffic 105

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If you’re optimizing for the Web Vitals , you might be interested to hear that images account for ~ 42% of the Largest Contentful Paint element for websites. Key user-centric metrics often depend on the size, number, layout, and loading priority of images on the page. JPEG is also a lossy compression format. AVIF And Performance.

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Open Source Speed Website Google 144