KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. What is Performance Testing?

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Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Powered E-Commerce Website (Case Study). Powered E-Commerce Website (Case Study). We use Lighthouse and WebPagetest as our synthetic testing tools for performance to measure CLS. Apart from that, we check the Google Search Console Core Web Vitals Report section to get an idea of any potential CLS issues in any of our pages.

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Website Google Metrics Testing Tools 106

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Reading time 11 min As companies become more aware of the importance of web performance, internal teams begin to research tools they can use to use to track their metrics and improve the user experience of their websites and applications. Where Google Lighthouse Shines Bright. Google Lighthouse has a lot going for it.

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Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

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). Testing And Monitoring. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. What is your website already ranking well for and why?

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Engineering Google Website Analytics 131

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is. By analyzing the data from Backlinko.com and their Page Speed Stats article, we’ll look to answer these questions: What size should be a website be?

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Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

MachMetrics

JUNE 18, 2019

We’ve written tons of articles giving you step-by-step advice on how to make your website faster – but not everyone wants to go through lots of steps. Many people reach out to us asking what is the #1 most important bang-for-your-buck tip on optimizing your website’s speed. It’s a godsend.

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Speed Website Social Media Media 81

MachMetrics

APRIL 24, 2019

All of the popular speed testing tools typically provide a page speed score along with their objective results. Google PageSpeed Insights has a their “Speed Score.” The reality is that these scores are estimates of how well your site implements performance best practices. PSI Score Reality.

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Speed Best Practices Google Website 111

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. What is Google Lighthouse? Google Lighthouse is one of the best-automated tools available on a web developer's utility belt.

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Google Latency Website Metrics 82

Testlodge

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Table of Contents What is HTML Validation Testing? Benefits of HTML Validation Testing How to Validate HTML CSS and JavaScript Validation Challenges Tips Conclusion. What is HTML Validation Testing? Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) uses tags and attributes to control how the text in the front end of a website is displayed.

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Testing Best Practices C++ Code 61

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

About two decades ago, testing was only limited to the desktop. With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. The native and mobile web browser testing is being performed more and more compared to desktop testing.

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Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

But with the growing smartphone user base, two things are a given: one — There will be more people who will want to access your website via mobile, ensuring great quality and usability for your websites for mobile and testing them well will become very important. What Is Mobile Web Testing?

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Mobile Testing Website Speed 65

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In this article, we will take a deeper dive into the various SRE principles and guidelines that a site reliability engineer practices in their role. Google was the first company to create, embrace, and put support behind the role of site reliability engineering. Monitoring.

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Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 2, 2022

The new WebPageTest website design. It’s one of those products that’s clearly a best-in-class tool for performance practitioners, yet had a prettttty gnarly design for a lot of years. It’s like when Google Fonts finally got a redesign and the broad community let out a collective exhale of appreciation.

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Performance Cache Best Practices Strategy 68

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast. You can then configure your monitoring tools to send you alerts – or even break the build, if you're testing in your staging environment – when your budgets are violated. What should a performance budget look like? It's important to have your 2.5

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Performance Metrics Media Google 98

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. You can dive deeper into image optimization and SEO tips in this article in Google Search Central.).

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Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

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. Background For this performance audit, I looked at this synthetic test for the LEGO.com home page. (We You can drill down into the test details for each site and learn how the fastest sites stay fast.)

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Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 66

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The limited number access points, compounded with the fact that traffic is controlled by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, creates performance bottlenecks for all users in China when trying to access websites from inside and outside of the country. These updates will disable access of Google apps downloader, for example.

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Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

According to Google, a website can lose as many as half its visitors while loading. Google’s PageSpeed Insights tools may be just what you need to leverage data collected through speed testing. The test will take a few seconds to complete, and results for both mobile and desktop devices will display in separate tabs.

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Speed Best Practices Google Website 49

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

You can then configure your monitoring tools to send you alerts – or even break the build, if you're testing in your staging environment – when your budgets are violated. The tricky part comes when you try to put them into practice. The easiest way to do this is to look at rendering filmstrips in your synthetic test data.

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Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 133

The Polyglot Developer

MARCH 25, 2019

As you know, The Polyglot Developer is a static generated website that is built with Hugo. Given the nature of static generated websites, they are generally much faster than the CMS alternatives, but just because they’re fast, doesn’t mean they pass all of Google’s tests by default.

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Cache Best Practices Google Website 45

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?). Of course, any major retailer is going to have its fair share of ads and integration with Google.

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Retail Speed Website Google 82

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Similarly from cross-site navigation — think Google search results or the like and then clicking back. Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. Now close the tab.

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Cache Games Performance Website 91

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Websites. Even Faster Websites. How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance. Want your web site to display more quickly?

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

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. We can get a better view if we run the same test in another service, like SpeedCurve , which digs deeper into the metric. Analytics is a good example.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 91

Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

Lazy loading is a way to improve the performance of a website or web application by maximizing the rendering speed of the above-the-fold images and iframes (and sometimes videos) by deferring the loading of below-the-fold content. Your website will gradually benefit from it as support arrives to your users in most modern browsers.

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Website Best Practices Media Open Source 103

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

We apply this litmus test to everything we do, and I believe it's the secret of our success. 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.

Retail 52

Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 52

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Chapter 9 describes ways we can consider likely problems when planning the design of our apps and websites. Chapter 10 covers best practices in how the UIs of interactive elements are designed to attract the eye, afford action, be readable, and inspire confidence that they can be safely tapped. 1, 2, 3: Designing by Zones. +.

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Mobile Design Best Practices Website 87

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 77

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2021

With best practices and guidelines on accessibility, assistive technology and inclusive design patterns. As an add-on, if you are new to testing — like I am at the point of this writing — you might be interested in 7 tests written for this utility function. react-keyed-flatten-children tests.

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Open Source C++ Google Website 138

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

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? Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ).

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

Core Web Vitals are a Google search ranking factor. Given that Google continues to dominate search usage, you should care about Vitals alongside the other metrics you should be tracking. Image size is another issue, as excessive image weight hurts your SEO ranking in Google Image Search. How does page bloat hurt Core Web Vitals?

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Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

JavaScript, CSS, images, iframes, and other resources impact how quickly website loads, renders and becomes usable to the user. Of all those options, it’s safe to assume that text is the best choice for LCP performance because it loads and renders fast. web.dev’s main content is an image according to LCP (test ran on WebPageTest).

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Media Tuning Metrics Google 70

CSS - Tricks

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Clicking the “Generate report” button will run a series of tests on the web page and display the results right there in the Lighthouse tab. This makes it easy to test any web page, whether public or requiring authentication. When the Lighthouse CI is run, it will start a server that’s able to run the tests accordingly.

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KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

Customer want to know they can trust the website they are buying from, they want to access the website fast, and they want a great offer. The lower conversion rate on mobile could be due to a variety of reasons including the website not being responsive for mobile devices, the speed isn’t up to par, etc.

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Ecommerce Speed Website Mobile 41

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? Testing And Monitoring. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Table Of Contents.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

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? Testing And Monitoring. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Table Of Contents.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

MAY 23, 2022

When creating responsive websites, we often make assumptions about input mechanisms based on their screen size. We assume that the screen size of 1920px belongs to a desktop computer or laptop and the user is interacting with the website using a mouse and keyboard, but what about laptops with touchscreen or smart TV screens?

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Media Tuning Design Website 141