Speed Curve

JULY 6, 2021

After Google's announcement about Lighthouse 8 this past month, we have updated our test agents. In case you missed it, Lighthouse is a speed tool created by the Chrome Developer team at Google. There are five categories evaluated: Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, SEO, and Progressive Web App (PWA).

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Speed Curve

APRIL 9, 2023

According to Google: “We expect this to improve most pages' performance scores, since most pages tend to score better on CLS than TTI. Basically, we see a trend similar to the trend observed by Google. Here is a quick explainer video that shows you how to add INP to your custom Favorites dashboard. What is bfcache?

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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. Google Keyword Planner. Google Trends. Google Mobile-Friendly Test.

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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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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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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Tracking critical content such as images and videos is a good place to start. > Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is one of Google's Core Web Vitals , so it's been getting a lot of attention lately. It's only tracked on certain elements, e.g., IMG and VIDEO (learn more here ). > Largest Contentful Paint (Synthetic and RUM).

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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. Next to videos, images are the heaviest, most requested assets on the web. Addy Osmani is an engineering manager working on Google Chrome.

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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

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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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

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. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. Root Cause.

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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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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data.

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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 While this unused JS isn't the culprit behind the slow LCP time, it's still considered a best practice to remove unused scripts.

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Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

seconds or less, which is Google's recommendation for page experience and SEO. > Largest Contentful Paint (Synthetic and RUM) Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is one of Google's Core Web Vitals. It's only tracked on certain elements, e.g., IMG and VIDEO. Let's continue with the example above, where the worst LCP time was 8.64

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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.). Performance Culture Best Practices.

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Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 52

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

There are a ton of best practices for front-end developers to follow. This includes: waterfall charts with details about every request, filmstrips and videos that help you visualize the rendering experience, and. There is nothing better than showing a before-and-after video when promoting the great work of your team.

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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. Mark notes that Steve* first experienced performance budgets while Head Performance Engineer at Google.

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Performance Mobile Metrics Speed 122

MachMetrics

JUNE 18, 2019

“Images are still the number one cause of bloat on the web” Recently Addy Osmani of Google Chrome released a guide covering essential image optimization. Google Page Speed and the Lighthouse audit that they use will also check your site for best practices and let you know what images you need to optimize.

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 4, 2019

describe for us the data validation pipeline deployed in production at Google, “ used by hundreds of product teams to continuously monitor and validate several petabytes of production data per day.” Data validation at Google is an integral part of machine learning pipelines. Breck et al. What could possibly go wrong?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2021

With best practices and guidelines on accessibility, assistive technology and inclusive design patterns. Ryan Florence’s Video explains this problem in detail, and how react-call-return fixed it. Ryan Florence’s Video explaining react-call-return. More after jump! Online, and live. Jump to the workshop ?.

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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. This could be an image, a block of text, or even an embedded video.

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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. JavaScript, fonts, and video carry the bulk of the rest of the weight. Take Amazon, for example.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Paddy Ganti’s script constructs two URLs (one normal and one blocking the ads), prompts the generation of a video comparison via WebPageTest and reports a delta.

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KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

With a CDN, you can offload your static assets such as product images, videos, GIFs, CSS files, and much more to the CDN’s edge servers. Google’s PageSpeed Insights tool is a great way to check your speed score for both mobile and desktop devices. a clothing brand).

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Ecommerce Speed Website Mobile 41

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.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik), Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing). Assets Optimizations.

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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. You can read about more advanced dead code elimination (aka tree shaking) in this post for Google by Jeremy Wagner. Are we embedding YouTube videos?

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

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. Important Best Practices. Native Versus JavaScript-Driven Lazy Loading.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 23, 2022

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. When aspect-ratio was initially released, I thought I won’t use it outside image and video elements and in very narrow use-cases. More after jump! Conclusion.

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Media Tuning Design Website 140

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 ).

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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. From Speed at Scale with Katie Hempenius and I at Google I/O. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Google Fonts. Google Sheets sync. You can take a closer look at the thorough guide and video about the plugin to get started. The plugin supports copy and paste from Excel, Google sheet, Numbers and it also can sync with Google Sheets and remote JSON. You can watch a thorough walkthrough video on how to use it.

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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 9, 2021

Examples of keyboard navigation can be seen in this video and in this short video about voice recognition. You could internally document them in a collaborative software such as Notion or Dynalist; or an online documentation like Google Docs or Dropbox Paper. Best Practices For Maintaining Accessibility.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Web pages, such as the one you’re reading now, have text, images, videos and other assets to bring information to you. If you see authors turning to other authoring tools such as Google Docs for its commenting or suggestions capabilities, it may be a red flag as to what features you are missing. External best of breed video services.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Unethical practices at companies lead to the creation of technology that we all use but often neglect the influence of those intended to serve. Start by affinity mapping your industry and academic examples using sticky notes, google slides or miro/mural board. Video/Audio Recording And Recruitment firm. Video/Audio Recording.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

One of the reasons Google saw very good 0-RTT results for QUIC was that it tested it on its already heavily optimized search page, where query responses are quite small. In other cases, you’ll gain only a few dozens of milliseconds at best, even less if you’re already using a CDN (which you should be doing if you care about performance!).

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