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The #1 Easiest Way to Speed Up a Slow Website

MachMetrics

Many people reach out to us asking what is the #1 most important bang-for-your-buck tip on optimizing your website’s speed. The most important thing you can do to speed up your site is: Optimize your images! In addition, nearly 60% of web traffic in 2018 came from mobile devices. Sounds simple, right?

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

Speed Curve

Evaluate CDN performance by exploring the impact of time-of-day traffic patterns. Fixing high-traffic but poor-performing areas of your site will help lift your overall metrics. Expanded Industry Speed Benchmarks. RUM update: Page labels. These let you quickly spot which page labels or paths are outliers. Lots of new videos!

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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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From AVIF to WebP: A New Smashing Book By Addy Osmani

Smashing Magazine

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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How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience

Smashing Magazine

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Meet Image Optimization, A New Smashing Book By Addy Osmani

Smashing Magazine

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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