Speed Curve

APRIL 9, 2023

Here's how the update to Lighthouse 10 may affect your metrics. Metrics and scoring weights include the deprecation of Time to Interactive (TTI) and the increase in weight for Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS). Basically, we see a trend similar to the trend observed by Google. Read on to learn more about these exciting changes!

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2022

The Dynatrace documentation and video tutorials give a good overview of integrating any HTTP-based testing tool with Dynatrace. Here’s how we have implemented and extended those practices: Test context through web request header. A decent solution is the W3C Trace context standard , created by Dynatrace, Google, Microsoft, and others.

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Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

Video – For the first time in the many years that I've been covering the topic of page growth, I'm going to focus on the volume of video that pages contain. Core Web Vitals are a Google search ranking factor. Heavier visual elements can take much longer to render, especially videos. More on that later.)

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Web pages are unbelievably complex, and there are hundreds of different metrics available to track. A performance budget is a threshold that you apply to the metrics you care about the most. This is when you run into three important questions: Which metrics should you focus on? Which metrics should you focus on?

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure released Scope 3 data in 2021. The last number I saw was “over 20GW”, and Amazon has much better global PPA coverage, including India and China, than Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, who have very few PPAs in Asia. This session revisits the pillar and its best practices.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. Prioritizing Metrics Online metrics are almost limitless. Google Trends.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? A Google machine-learning study I participated in a few years ago found that the total number of page elements was the single greatest predictor of conversions. I intentionally left out the numbers for video, because they seemed inconsistent.

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Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

A performance budget is a threshold that you apply to the metrics you care about the most. A good performance budget chart, such as the one above, should show you: The metric you're tracking The threshold you've created for that metric When you exceed that threshold How long you stayed out of bounds When you returned to below the threshold 3.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What do the different metrics mean? There are a ton of best practices for front-end developers to follow. It's also important to note that, while not all performance gains will show up in your metrics, users with poor bandwidth or restrictive data plans will thank you. What do the different metrics mean?

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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.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

There are many key performance indicators (KPI) that measure different points during the lifecycle of the web page (such as TTFB, domInteractive and onload ), but these metrics don’t reflect how the end-user experiences the page. We found out user-centric performance metrics to be the perfect fit for this purpose. More after jump!

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Google's Core Web Vitals have been a huge topic this year. We've been tracking these as individual metrics – Largest Contentful Paint, First Input Delay, and Cumulative Layout Shift – since before Google branded them as a set. Watch a video walkthrough of the Vitals dashboard.). RUM Live dashboard.

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Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 52

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. Next to videos, images are the heaviest, most requested assets on the web. Which metrics should you focus on to improve the user experience?

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

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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Rigor

JANUARY 8, 2020

Be sure to check out this in-depth piece written by Tim Kadlec about how to make a performance budget stick within your organization (and watch this awesome video, too). Video size by media format on mobile and desktop. He recommends watching out for JavaScript, image sizes, Time to Interactive , and many other metrics.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

LCP measures when the largest visual element in the viewport – typically a hero image or video – finishes rendering. According to Google's thresholds, an LCP time of 3.96 It shows how key metrics align with the rendering timeline (the filmstrip view at the top of the chart). seconds, LCP lags at 3.96

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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. Next to videos, images are the heaviest, most requested assets on the web. Downloading files such as images or videos over the network can be slow and costly.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 92

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

Inspired by that post, I wanted to dig a bit deeper into a few of the best practices they mentioned, which fall loosely into these three buckets: Analyze your pages – understand the critical rendering path and page composition. Create performance budgets and fight regression. Create performance budgets and fight regression.

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 78

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. 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. Table Of Contents. Quick Wins.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. 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. Table Of Contents. Setting Realistic Goals. Defining The Environment.

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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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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

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. This element could be an image, video, or simply, just a large block of text. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

For others, it might involve using smaller images or not loading videos by default. Perhaps this is a best practice even for those using Save Data, as perhaps they’re unaware or had forgotten that they turned this setting on, and so are getting a different experience. Conclusion.

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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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Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. To simplify this behavior, a best practice is to ensure your styles include resetting all elements to use border-box. More after jump! Debugging Overflow.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

It is recommended to follow rules and best practices of building and sending emails. Are You Keeping On Top Of Your Email Metrics? With any type of email you send, you need to track at least these metrics: Open rate. HTML Email with Rémi Parmentier (webinar/video). (vf, How can we address these challenges?

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Testing Servers Social Media Automotive 109

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

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. The user will still notice the switch, but it won’t drop the video feed entirely. What does it all mean?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

In practice, UDP is mostly used for live traffic that updates at a high rate and thus suffers little from packet loss because missing data is quickly outdated anyway (examples include live video conferencing and gaming). It combines decades of deployment experience and best practices of TCP with some core new features.

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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. However, you should ideally replace such images with videos.

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