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The Fight For The Main Thread

Smashing Magazine

All of that is dumped on any given page in one fell swoop courtesy of Google Tag Manager (GTM), which allows us to deploy and run scripts without having to go through the pain of re-deploying the entire site. Each resource on a page is a contender vying for a spot on the thread and wants to run first. Large preview ) I love this stuff!

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The Humble ` ` Element And Core Web Vitals

Smashing Magazine

Some tips to get us started: For a fast Largest Contentful Paint : Request your key hero image early. Lazy-load offscreen images (reduce network contention for key resources). For low impact to First Input Delay : Avoid images causing network contention with other critical resources like CSS and JS.

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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

In our previous blog post we introduced Edgar, our troubleshooting tool for streaming sessions. Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices.

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10 things I love about SpeedCurve (that I think you'll love, too)

Speed Curve

In this correlation chart, you can see that conversion rate peaks at just over 6% for sessions with Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) times of 1.1 Third parties add tons of value by increasing conversions (via targeting beacons) and helping you understand your users in unprecedented ways (via analytics tags).

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How Target.com Could Make Their Site 3.1s Faster

MachMetrics

Let’s add in some metrics ( click here if you need a refresher on these ): Time to First Byte (TTFB): 0.47s First Contentful Paint: 0.7s You’ll see that the TTFB and the First Contentful Paint are both very fast, which feels very snappy to visitors coming to the site.

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Google Lighthouse Audits – How to use Chrome’s built-in speed testing tool

MachMetrics

Here you’ll find the usual page speed metrics such as Speed Index, First Contentful Paint, Time to Interactive, etc. These are typically a measure of how fast the site gets content up on the screen. They offer suggestions on the legibility of your content, such as the contrast and how easy it is to read the text.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

DOM complete, time to first byte, first input delay, client CPU and memory usage. Table Of Contents. To get accurate results and goals though, make sure to first get a thorough picture of your users' experience by studying your analytics. Rendering metrics provide an estimate of how fast content renders (e.g.