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. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors.

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Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

When it comes to web content, you can easily find what you need through many different paths, from search engines and social media to playlists and blogs, jumping from one source to another with just a tap of a finger. How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance. Time is Money. High Performance Websites.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

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. We couldn’t fix the AVIF issue quickly due to the way media management is running currently, but then Barry Pollard suggested to test if using base64-encoding for images would help.

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Mobile Design Cache Code 140

Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2019

Dynatrace gives automatic insights into all runtime metrics. In our case here we get to see all relevant JVM memory, GC, threads, … metrics. The metrics clearly indicate that the Garage Collector kicked in and suspended all active threads while trying to free up some memory as the used memory reached the available limit.

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Java Metrics Best Practices Media 29

Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

In this three-part series , we are going to go through the CSS refactor process from the beginning to the end, starting with knowledge on how to approach it and some general pros and cons of refactoring, then moving onto the refactoring strategies themselves and ending with some general best practices on CSS file size and performance.

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Best Practices Website Architecture Media 145

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.

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Media Mobile Website Metrics 105

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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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

The upcoming prefers-reduced-data media query, which allows CSS to set different options depending on this setting. 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. prefers-color-scheme.

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Rigor

JULY 26, 2018

If you are familiar with open source performance solutions such as Lighthouse and PageSpeed Insights, you probably understand the value in measuring user experience and paint metrics. Why are paint metrics important to your business? these key metrics have become more important and weighed differently to emphasize the User Experience.

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Metrics Website Best Practices Media 40

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Aside from lost revenue, users and customers may be quick to call out your brand on social media when your offering’s availability struggles, as Instagram experienced not long ago. Best practices for delivering excellent digital experiences. Broken functionality on a critical user path. Break down silos.

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Mobile Social Media Monitoring Metrics 217

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. Having a slow site might leave you on page 452 of search results, regardless of any other metric. About the most complex part are some social media buttons for people to share the page. billion if the site slowed down by just one second.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Google’s Core Web Vitals is a set of performance metrics that site owners can use to evaluate performance and diagnose performance issues. These metrics provide a different perspective on user experience: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) Measures the time it takes for the main content on a webpage to load. One of the key Next.js

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Tasktop

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Proxy metrics, like tracking activities instead of outcomes, coupled with treating IT as cost centre, will kill your transformation.”. You can read more about Tasktop’s work with flow metrics and the development of Tastkop Viz, in Mik’s blog below (we’ll also update the blog with the video of the presentation once it’s available). .

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

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. Your Sessions dashboard lets you drill down and segment your RUM data by: Metric / duration. Performance Culture Best Practices. Time period.

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Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

determining a business's value to its clients, the level of service it provides is often a key metric. Negative experiences can swiftly spread through social media and other platforms, worsening the impact on the brand's image. Regaining trust and a favorable reputation is a difficult and time-consuming process.In

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Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

determining a business's value to its clients, the level of service it provides is often a key metric. Negative experiences can swiftly spread through social media and other platforms, worsening the impact on the brand's image. Regaining trust and a favorable reputation is a difficult and time-consuming process.In

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Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Graph i QL: Auto-generated test GUI for the Star Wars API Our experience has led to an architecture with a number of best-practices for teams interested in GQLMS as a platform for rapid development. Consumers of GraphQL APIs can simply leverage the open-source GraphQL client of their preference.

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 29, 2021

To truly audit CSS, we would need to dig deeper and find places that are not considered best practices. This tool summarizes CSS properties like colors, fonts, contrast issues, unused declarations, and media queries. To find those places, we could use the following tools. Browser DevTools. Performance Monitor.

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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. How can we address these challenges? Large preview ). But how do we know that they work?

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KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

While these metrics can be very helpful it is also important to keep this data in perspective. According to Google, the best practice for a website’s speed is to keep it under 3 seconds load time. As we can see from the graph below, this best practice is far from being met for sites based in the United States.

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Rigor

JANUARY 8, 2020

Video size by media format on mobile and desktop. He recommends watching out for JavaScript, image sizes, Time to Interactive , and many other metrics. While this article is from a few years ago, it is in every respect on par with most modern best practices. Images file sizes on mobile broken down by image format.

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Performance Mobile Metrics Speed 122

Speed Curve

JANUARY 31, 2018

In this post, I'm going to share some proven tips and best practices to help you create a healthy, happy, celebratory performance culture. Over the years, I've learned that performance can be mapped to all of these metrics – and almost any other business metric you can think of. conversions. time on site.

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Performance Metrics Traffic Monitoring 40

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Review OWASP’s recommendations and best practices with your developers. Use a static analysis tool or a vulnerability scanner (available from all major vendors such as Qualys , Veracode , or Micro Focus ) to assess how well you are complying with security best practices. STEP 7: Tune Your CDN Performance.

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Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Graph of resource request chains on a typical news media website. 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. Large preview ). Ad Blockers Makes Sites Faster.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Delivering Light Media Experiences with Data Saver. +. Get the eBook.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 106

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Delivering Light Media Experiences with Data Saver. +. Get the eBook.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 93

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is a Core Web Vitals metric that measures when the largest contentful element (images, text) in a user’s viewport, such as one of these images, becomes visible. Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS, a Core Web Vitals metric) measures the instability of content. Lighthouse. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

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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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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

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. It was released in February 2019 by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia).

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