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Optimizing Video For Size And Quality

Smashing Magazine

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. Once the page is loaded, we can move to the Network tab, and filter by “media” to see all the video files: Filtering resources by 'Media' in DevTools. There is a solution though!

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Joined OrionX to do some analyst and advisory work

Adrian Cockcroft

Having worked with something like 70 large and small companies over the past decade, the business processes and best practices have been tested and work well. So right from the beginning, I’m happy to spend some time getting back up to speed and developing some of my ideas around new hardware capabilities.

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Modern Methods For Improving Drupal’s Largest Contentful Paint Core Web Vital

Smashing Magazine

That’s practically an eternity when talking about page speed performance. 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. WebPageTest waterfall timeline report. In case you’re wondering, 2.4 seconds is not great. Here’s how we are approaching it.

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Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF)

Smashing Magazine

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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2022 in review: New dashboards, Core Web Vitals enhancements, third-party tracking & more!

Speed Curve

Expanded Industry Speed Benchmarks. Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive dashboard that lets you explore and compare web performance data for leading websites across several industries – from retail to media – over the past year. Lots of new videos! You can find them in our Support Hub.

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An Opinionated Guide to Performance Budgets

Speed Curve

Google Lighthouse is an open-source tool that checks your page against rules for Performance, PWA, Accessibility, Best Practice, and SEO. Media sites are particularly guilty of this. > Speed Index (Synthetic). Speed Index was an important metric when it first came out several years ago.

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Getting started with web performance? Here's what you need to focus on.

Speed Curve

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. Speed Index (synthetic only): 4 seconds recommended. What's blocking the user experience?