Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Fairprice is one of the largest online grocery stores in Singapore. Performance is one of the core aspects to ensure our users are having a delightful user experience irrespective of their devices or network connection. We found out user-centric performance metrics to be the perfect fit for this purpose. Arijit Mondal.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 6, 2019

Therefore, user experience should always be one of the core areas that you strive to measure and improve. Defining a comprehensive user-experience metric gives rise to questions such as: How do we compare the user experience of one session to another? A single metric for user experience segmentation. Error metrics.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

The Humble `<img>` Element And Core Web Vitals. The Humble `<img>` Element And Core Web Vitals. The humble <img> element has gained some superpowers over the years. You can of course also do this manually just using the <img> element directly. Addy Osmani. 2021-04-29T12:15:00+00:00.

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Tasktop

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

However, if you accelerate your software delivery via these investments, even in small increments, those benefits compound over time and lead to the large chasm between innovative companies and others (Chart 2b). If you could regularly address more features or debt work, for example, then this benefit begins to compound over time.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. In this post, I’m going to attempt to explain a bit more about what’s going on here and explain some of the nuances and misunderstandings of these tools.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

I work at a small digital agency, and my team mostly works on big corporate websites and stores — page speed comes into the discussion at some point, but usually by that time the answer is that a huge rewrite would be needed to truly achieve anything, an unfortunate side effect of size and project structure in corporations.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. That’s one example and a common one at that. Elements are rendered.

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Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

Reading Time: 8 minutes Whether your ecommerce business is 100% online or you supplement with bricks and mortar, your website is a critical revenue driver. Additionally, teams are measuring and tracking key business metrics – conversion rates, cart abandonment rates, customer lifetime value, revenue by traffic source, and so on.

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Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Projects built using JavaScript-based frameworks often ship large bundles of JavaScript that take time to download, parse and execute, blocking page render and user input in the process. This problem is more apparent on unreliable and slow networks and lower-end devices. Estimated load times for a makeshift JavaScript application.

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Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

These unexpected failures can lead to huge revenue losses, customer trust and depending on the industry, maybe fines. Fortunately, SRE incident management is one of the core practices used to limit the disruption caused by unexpected issues. If every issue were classified as urgent, no one would get any resolution.

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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

It’s one of the most frequently asked questions I see asked, “I’ve tested my site speed, so now what do these metrics mean?” Here we’ll explain what each of the common web performance metrics mean, and how can you use that data to optimize your site and make it faster. Standard Website Speed Metrics.

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Speed Metrics Website Cache 56

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

The challenge at the time was to manage containers at scale in real-world production environments. This frees you from having to tell it what to do or how to do it (the imperative way), so you can spend your time doing other things. Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) adjusts the number of instances or replicas based on observed metrics.

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The size of the release was expected in some corners, owing to the torrent of WebKit blog posts over the last few weeks: Jan. Two releases per year meant that, for a decade, progress on WebKit bugs was a roulette that developers lost by default. Apple might not be able to ring-fence browser choice in one or a few geographies.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. DOM complete, time to first byte, first input delay, client CPU and memory usage. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics Performance culture, Core Web Vitals, performance profiles, CrUX, Lighthouse, FID, TTI, CLS, devices. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Table Of Contents.

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Tasktop

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

However, if you accelerate your software delivery via these investments, even in small increments, those benefits compound over time and lead to the large chasm between innovative companies and others (Chart 2b). If you could regularly address more features or debt work, for example, then this benefit begins to compound over time.

Innovation 52

Innovation Cloud Government Efficiency 52

CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 10, 2019

I often use Netlify for hosting my sites (including my personal blog ), and most of the time I spend in the application is on authenticated pages, like the dashboard listing all my websites. As I have faced these problems on several projects, I have come up with a range of tips and techniques to counter them.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! Apple's trying, they just added <long awaited feature> These points can be simultaneously true and immaterial to the web's fitness as a competent alternative to native app development on iOS. that feature is in Tech Preview. The Compatibility Tax.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

As web developers, it’s understandable to feel that this is not an issue over which we have any influence, but this isn’t true. Many efforts are afoot to improve the situation on the web. Since 2009, Greenpeace has been putting pressure on big Internet companies to clean up their energy mix by way of their Clicking Clean campaign.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

MachMetrics

MAY 31, 2019

From speed testing to usability testing, use these ten strategies to ensure your website is always running on all cylinders. Keep a Constant Eye on Speed. As any good web developer will tell you, load speed is a vital metric to consider as part of your front-end load testing efforts, as it directly affects user experience.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

We deployed these enhancements gradually over time to ensure that our users didn’t experience any disruptions, but instead only a consistent improvement of their site speed. Since implementing these changes, we have seen a dramatic improvement in the performance of websites built and hosted on our platform. Customer expectations.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. This time, I browsed the web for a day on a 50 MB budget. Many of us are lucky enough to be on mobile plans which allow several gigabytes of data transfer per month. Zimbabwe is by no means a one-off. For reference, the metric is $1.19

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Latency can be roughly defined as the time it takes to send a packet from point A (say, the client) to point B (the server). However, this is only one way: Responses to the packets also need to come back. Two-way latency is often called round-trip time (RTT). Congestion Control. Did You Know?

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