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. Prioritizing Metrics Online metrics are almost limitless. Win, win, win.

Engineering 130

Engineering Google Website Analytics 130

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database uptime and availability Monitoring database uptime and availability is crucial as it directly impacts the availability of critical data and the performance of applications or websites that rely on the MySQL database. Monitoring these metrics helps ensure data protection, minimize downtime, and ensure business continuity.

Performance 106

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 106

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Web pages are unbelievably complex, and there are hundreds of different metrics available to track. A performance budget is a threshold that you apply to the metrics you care about the most. This is when you run into three important questions: Which metrics should you focus on? Which metrics should you focus on?

Performance 134

Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 134

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

You can see at a glance: Key metrics like Core Web Vitals and your User Happiness score. Here you can still find time series charts that show how performance is trending over time across a number of key metrics, including Core Web Vitals. Fixing high-traffic but poor-performing areas of your site will help lift your overall metrics.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

RUM gathers information on a variety of performance metrics. Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed).

Best Practices 172

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 172

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?). ” This is because Target.com does an excellent job of improving user-perceived speed.

Retail 82

Retail Speed Website Google 82

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. Enhanced User Experience Whether you operate an e-commerce platform, a content management system, or any other application reliant on MySQL, users will notice and appreciate the improved speed and responsiveness.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

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.

Performance 78

Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 78

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? How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance. High Performance Websites. Even Faster Websites. Want your web site to display more quickly?

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Rigor

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

According to Tim Kadlec : A performance budget is a clearly defined limit on one or more performance metrics that the team agrees not to exceed and that is used to guide design and development. A website’s speed makes the difference in whether users visit a site or not, so performance matters a great deal.

Performance 45

Performance Metrics Website Speed 45

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

So noticeable, in fact, that Core Web Vitals has a metric all about it called Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). This metric measures the time it takes, in seconds, to render the largest image or text block that is visible on the initial load. That’s practically an eternity when talking about page speed performance.

Media 73

Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 73

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. The Smashing team has done a lot to make a fast website, so even a fresh load (though this experiment may not be a completely fresh load if you came to this article from the home page). Here’s an experiment for you.

Cache 91

Cache Games Performance Website 91

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. It shows how key metrics align with the rendering timeline (the filmstrip view at the top of the chart). I love LEGO. This is a high-level waterfall for the LEGO.com home page.

Performance 67

Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 67

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Certain SLOs can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. As organizations digitally transform, they’re also accelerating the speed of software delivery. E-commerce websites are a great way to explain how IT teams can apply SLOs to any use case or application. or 99.99% of the time.

Latency 174

Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 174

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Certain service-level objective examples can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. Measuring application performance is increasingly important because as organizations digitally transform, they’re also accelerating the speed of software delivery. or 99.99% of the time.

Traffic 173

Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

CSS - Tricks

JANUARY 31, 2020

From 2016 (PDF warning) to 2019 , the average mobile download speed in the U.S. In Brazil and India, average mobile download speeds increased by 75% and 28%, respectively, in that same period of time. This is the time at which you develop and roll out training, documentation, best practices, and standards the organization can embrace.

Innovation 50

Innovation Mobile Best Practices Speed 50

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Additionally, end users can access your site or applications from anywhere in the world using different browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, all with varying connection speeds. LoadView – Best Practices and Process. UserView replicates a user’s browser interactions with a website or an application.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Given the momentum of DevOps and SRE, digital transformation goals can be achieved when automation enables organizations to apply best practices rapidly and to keep pace with the scale of the organization and applications. Additionally, you can easily use any previously defined metrics and SLOs from your environments.

DevOps 215

DevOps Latency Traffic Best Practices 215

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. Your website may be using more third-party services than you realize. Ken Harker.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Speed Curve

APRIL 14, 2024

On websites, CMPs handle cookie popups. This can have an impact on most metrics – such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint – downstream. If you were just looking at metrics, the event timeline comparison below may be a bit of a head-scratcher. It's common to see the consent scripts blocking by design.

Performance 127

Performance Best Practices Metrics Internet 127

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Web-performance testing Web-performance testing evaluates metrics including page loading speed, the performance of specific page elements, and the occurrence rate of site errors. HTTP monitors use simple HTTP requests to ensure that specific application programming interface (API) endpoints and website resources are available.

Testing 204

Testing Best Practices Testing Tools Monitoring 204

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast. If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. Which metrics should you start with? Let's get started!

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Media Google 98

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

As the world’s leading search engine, Google is committed to delivering the best possible search results to its users. This commitment involves prioritizing websites that offer not only relevant content but also an excellent user experience. Core Web Vital metrics definitions. One of the key Next.js

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

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. Google Lighthouse is one of the best-automated tools available on a web developer's utility belt. website if you prefer.

Google 82

Google Latency Website Metrics 82

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

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. Relaunched website. RUM Live dashboard. Time period.

Retail 52

Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 52

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.

Media 104

Media Mobile Website Metrics 104

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? Google's Core Web Vitals are a set of metrics that are intended to focus on measuring performance from a user-experience perspective. 62 requests before the Largest Layout Shift (a CLS-related metric that SpeedCurve captures). Cumulative Layout Shift.

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Easier to fight regressions Integrating SpeedCurve into your development pipeline – so you can take advantage of performance budgets and alerts to catch issues before (or right after) they go into production – has been a popular practice over the last several years. This is where Element Timing comes in. Learn more here.

Performance 57

Performance Metrics Speed Google 57

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Having a slow site might leave you on page 452 of search results, regardless of any other metric. billion if the site slowed down by just one second. It gets redirected.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

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.

Metrics 40

Metrics Website Best Practices Media 40

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JULY 7, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Total Blocking Time One thing I know would be more helpful than a set of Core Web Vitals scores from Lighthouse is knowing the time it takes to go from the First Contentful Paint (FCP) to the Time to Interactive (TTI), a metric known as the Total Blocking Time (TBT). You can see that Lighthouse does indeed provide that metric.

Google 90

Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 90

KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

Running speed tests with tools like Google PageSpeed Insights , WebPageTest , or KeyCDN’s Website Speed Test are always a good way to help gauge your website’s performance. While these metrics can be very helpful it is also important to keep this data in perspective. Why Care About Page Speed?

Google 103

Google Cache Speed Analytics 103

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. Not everyone uses Chrome to access your website.

Google 51

Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

For more than ten years, I've been writing about page bloat, its impact on site speed, and ultimately how it affects your users and your business. Given that Google continues to dominate search usage, you should care about Vitals alongside the other metrics you should be tracking. More on that below.)

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52