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The Fastest Google Fonts

CSS Wizardry

MAY 19, 2020

It’s widely accepted that self-hosted fonts are the fastest option: same origin means reduced network negotiation, predictable URLs mean we can preload , self-hosted means we can set our own cache-control. That said, the convenience of a service like Google Fonts cannot be overstated. What else could I do to make Google Fonts fast ?

Google

Google Media Latency Metrics

What is? OpenTelemetry??An open-source standard for logs, metrics, and traces

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Loosely defined, observability is the ability to understand what’s happening inside a system from the knowledge of the external data it produces, which are usually logs, metrics, and traces. Logs, metrics, and traces make up the bulk of all telemetry data. This occurs once data is safely stored within a local cache.

Open Source

Open Source Metrics Cloud Transportation

Dynatrace accelerates business transformation with new AI observability solution

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

For example, a Stanford University and UC Berkeley team noted in a research study that ChatGPT behavior deteriorates over time. Using the example of a chatbot, once the user submits a natural language prompt, RAG summarizes that prompt using semantic data. Consequently, AI model drift and hallucinations emerge as primary concerns.

Cache

Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring

Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. With that caveat out of the way, let’s get to the guts of the article: What is the Back/Forward Cache and why does it matter so much? Didn’t The HTTP Cache Do All That Anyway? Barry Pollard.

Cache

Cache Games Performance Website

Implementing AWS well-architected pillars with automated workflows

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

And how can you verify this performance consistently across a multicloud environment that also uses Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform frameworks? For example, optimizing resource utilization for greater scale and lower cost and driving insights to increase adoption of cloud-native serverless services.

AWS

AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud

How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

However, that pesky 20% on the back end can have a big impact on downstream metrics like First Contentful Paint (FCP), Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), and any other 'loading' metric you can think of. Google recommends that TTFB be 800ms at the 75th percentile. That performance golden rule still holds true today.

Servers

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking

How Google PageSpeed Works: Improve Your Score and Search Engine Ranking

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Last year, Google made two significant changes to their search indexing and ranking algorithms : In March, indexing became based on the mobile version of a page , rather than desktop. Cache-Headers missing?

Google

Google Engineering Speed Mobile

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

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

If you’re not a developer/designer, you may not be familiar with the Chrome DevTools and the extremely powerful Google Lighthouse Audits that can be found inside. However, you have likely used the Web UI that Google uses to allow you to test websites for speed – Google PageSpeed Insights. Performance. Accessibility.

Google

Google Speed Testing Tools Testing

The Performance Golden Rule Revisited

Tim Kadlec

APRIL 10, 2023

10% 90% Google 25% 75% MySpace 9% 91% MSN 5% 95% ebay 5% 95% Amazon 38% 62% YouTube 9% 91% CNN 15% 85% When Steve Souders repeated it in 2012 , he found much the same. I’ve seen a lot of sites suffering from extremely volatile TTFB metrics that vary dramatically based on geography or whether or not there’s a cache hit or miss.

Performance

Performance Servers Mobile Metrics

What is session replay? Discover user pain points with session recordings

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 20, 2021

For example, the <body> element of your page exists on one branch of this tree structure, with any <img> assets branching off. Consider the example of “rage clicks,” which are rapid clicks (or taps) on the same spot when a feature is unresponsive. For example, are all user bounces caused by the same issue?

Mobile

Mobile Website Analytics Cache

Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites. One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0, Well, not so fast.

Performance

Performance Speed Google Media

Core Web Vital Tooling

CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 26, 2020

I still think the Google-devised Core Web Vitals are smart. cache things! That’s not just annoying, but a real ding to performance metrics and, ultimately, SEO. in a headless browser, especially for performance tooling) and with real users on your real site (which is called RUM , or Real User Metrics).

Cache

Cache Metrics Google Performance Testing

How to Optimize Websites for Ad Publishers

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

However, for example, if your site loads any external JavaScript or external CSS files, the DOM creation stops until those specific files are downloaded and parsed. Browser Caching: Although it may seem commonplace, caching is sometimes overlooked. These render-blocking elements can dramatically reduce page speed time.

Website

Website Speed Cache Traffic

Cache and Prizes

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Browsers will cache tools popular among vocal, leading-edge developers. There's plenty of space for caching most popular frameworks. The best available proxy data also suggests that shared caches would have a minimal positive effect on performance. Browsers now understand the classic shared HTTP cache behaviour as a privacy bug.

Cache

Cache Government Traffic Network

How To Boost Resource Loading With The New Priority Hint `fetchpriority`

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

Loading experience is crucial to the user’s first impression and overall usability, so Google defined Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric to measure how quickly the main content loads and is displayed to the user. For example, let’s say that we are loading two render-blocking stylesheets. Examples And Use Cases.

Media

Media Tuning Metrics Google

How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks

Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks. How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks. For example, it could be because certain frameworks are more commonly used for building heavier websites. Dan Shappir. 2022-05-12T09:30:00+00:00. Large preview ).

Google

Google Performance Website Mobile

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. The key metric for measuring the sustainability of a digital product is its energy usage. You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure”.

Website Performance

Website Performance Website Energy Performance

Optimizing Your Images Didn’t Improve Your Load Time? Here’s Why

MachMetrics

JANUARY 16, 2020

This is great for performance because if the user doesn’t end up scrolling down that far, the image doesn’t load at all, shaving valuable time from our loading metrics. This allows you to see metrics such as First Contentful Paint, frame by frame. Plugins may be congesting your site. Further analysis.

Speed

Speed Website Metrics Cache

Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Moreover, Garten-und-Freizeit, a German e-commerce store that sells furniture, saw an amazing improvement in their metrics after getting a PWA. Hence, they can’t be promoted separately or found by users who’ve input a search query in Google. Below is an example of the Netatmo PWA. Image credit: Garten-und-Freizeit.

Code

Code Cache Retail Mobile

Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ). One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. This is difficult to prove because developers will say that “the experience” is what they are seeing on their computers using, for example, Google Chrome.

Performance

Performance Speed Google Media

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Google search ranking. Better tooling and metrics standardization.

Website

Website Performance Google Media

How to Optimize CSS for Speed

MachMetrics

JULY 15, 2020

As we saw in our example site above, the browser has to work through 21 requests just to collect all the styling information needed to properly display our website. If you’re using WordPress or any other content management system, many caching plugins will also combine your CSS files with the click of a button.

Speed

Speed Website Cache Google

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

But do you know how Lighthouse calculates performance metrics like First Contentful Paint (FCP), Total Blocking Time (TBT), and Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)? Still, there’s nothing in there to tell us about the data Lighthouse is using to evaluate metrics. But it comes with caveats.

Speed

Speed Google Website Metrics

Reporting Core Web Vitals With The Performance API

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

If you haven’t heard, INP is replacing the First Input Delay (FID) metric, something you can read all about here on Smashing Magazine as a guide to prepare for the change. We can use it to report the load time of elements on the page, even going so far as to report on Core Web Vitals metrics in real time.

Performance

Performance Metrics Monitoring Google

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. Core Web Vital metrics definitions. SEO is key to our success.

Performance

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics

Google PageSpeed Insights - Scoring 100/100 with WordPress

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. Take the example below for instance.

Google

Google Cache Speed Analytics

Fixing a slow site iteratively

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Lighthouse.

Cache

Cache Social Media Media Network

How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Last year, Google started emphasizing the importance of Core Web Vitals and how they reflect a person’s real experience when visiting sites around the web. It wasn’t long before a sea of red “poor” and yellow “needs improvement” notices in our Google Search Console needed our attention. How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study).

Google

Google Analytics Serverless Metrics

The 10 Must-Track Web Performance Metrics

MachMetrics

MARCH 21, 2019

Web performance metrics track the efficiency (or lack thereof) of any individual aspect of your website’s performance. Once you have started collecting some of these must-track web performance metrics for your website, inefficiencies will become clearer. Top 10 Web Perf Metrics to Track. Time to First Byte.

Metrics

Metrics Social Media Performance Speed

Refactoring CSS: Optimizing Size And Performance (Part 3)

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Even in this basic example, we’ve managed to reduce the overall file size from 76 bytes to 55 bytes, resulting in a 23% reduction. Let’s consider the following example of an unoptimized CSS codebase.page { display: grid; grid-gap: 16px; } @media (min-width: 768px) {.page . /* Before - optimized code with formatting */.container

Media

Media Performance Cache Strategy

Average Page Load Time in 2021

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

With the latest introduction of the Core Web Vital section on GSC + upcoming Google’s core web vital update, site owners are forced to take note of their website speed and web vitals. Importance of page loading speed – Google checks your website load time and they like it as fast with a better user experience.

Cache

Cache Speed Google Website

How to Optimize Digital Experience and Operations with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

A well-established metric we provide is APDEX , which tell us how users are perceiving page load times (time to the first byte, page speed, speed index), errors (JavaScript errors, crashes,) and also factors in the overall user journey (each user interaction) including their environment (browser, geolocation, bandwidth).

Cache

Cache Architecture Database Government

Optimizing The Image Element LCP

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. All the explanations will be illustrated by an example that we will iterate on. For simplicity, we will only use the <img> tag in our examples.

Media

Media Mobile Website Metrics

How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

The average user doesn’t spend much time waiting for a web page to load or to interact with the page: According to Google, if a page’s load time goes up from 1 second to 3 seconds, the probability of the user bouncing increases by 32%. Consider Google Analytics, which collects and sends tracking data using navigator.sendBeacon().

Website

Website Google Open Source Mobile

I Used The Web For A Day On A 50 MB Budget

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

This metric is a little difficult to comprehend, so here’s an example: if the average cost of broadband packages in a country is $22, and the average download speed offered by the packages is 10 Mbps, then the cost ‘per megabit per month’ would be $2.20. For reference, the metric is $1.19 Google Homepage — DOM.

Cache

Cache Google Mobile Network

Signals For Customizing Website User Experience

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

Approximately two-thirds of Indian mobile Chrome users of Smashing Magazine have this setting turned on, for example. For example, in the response to the initial request, we could include this HTTP Header: accept-ch: ect, rtt, downlink. Example Output. Data Saver. Philippines. JavaScript API. Client Hint. Number of processors.

Website

Website Media Mobile Network

A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Images are crucial elements for performance and UX, and data extracted from Core Web Vitals metrics such as Largest Contentful Paint , which attempts to identify the most important piece of the above-the-fold content on a given page, proves this. A visual example of responsive images in 3 different viewports: desktop, tablet, and mobile.

Media

Media Cache Website Mobile

Debugging Interaction to Next Paint (INP)

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

In this post I'm going to walk through: How I help people identify the causes of poor INP times Examples of some of the most common issues Approaches I've used to help sites improve their INP Identifying Interactions The Chrome UX Report (CrUX) can provide a high-level view of INP.

Analytics

Analytics Processing Google Mobile

How Fast Is Amp Really?

Tim Kadlec

MARCH 19, 2018

You have to consider at least four different contexts: How well does AMP perform in the context of Google search? How well does AMP perform when the library is served using the AMP cache? How well does AMP perform in the context of Google search? In the context of Google search, then, AMP performs remarkably well.

Cache

Cache Google Speed Metrics

Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Another window into this question is provided by the Web Confluence Metrics project. It's possible that Amazon Luna , NVIDIA GeForce Go , Google Stadia , and Microsoft xCloud could have been built years earlier. A standard version of an approach demonstrated in Google's web applications to dramatically improve security.

Media

Media Games Education Engineering

WebPageTest API

CSS - Tricks

MAY 3, 2021

google-analytics.com", "sanList":[ "*.google-analytics.com", google-analytics.com", "*.fps.goog", Catchpoint is very likely to do more with WebPageTest over time, and it will be driven by these same APIs. I think that’s important to know. Linux; Android 6.0.1; Moto G (4)) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.85

Transportation

Transportation Cache Google Mobile

AMP and the Web

Tim Kadlec

MARCH 7, 2017

The first day of the first ever Google AMP conference was today in New York. I would have loved to have been able to participate, but I had to settle for listening to bits and pieces from afar (thanks to Google for always doing such a good job of live streaming all of their events). And AMP does all those things.

Cache

Cache Google Performance Metrics

Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

For example, users can install browser plugins to suggest coupon codes when they are shopping, to scan web pages for malware, to play games or message friends, or do any number of other things. With detailed code walkthroughs , hands-on examples and common gotchas — all broken down into short, manageable lessons. More after jump!

Website

Website Design Network Best Practices

The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The scale of the effect can be deeply situational or hard to suss out without solid metrics. A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. The Moto G4 , for example. Don't pay a lot for an Android-shaped muffler.

Performance

Performance Network Cache Metrics

The Fastest Google Fonts

What is? OpenTelemetry??An open-source standard for logs, metrics, and traces

Trending Sources

Dynatrace accelerates business transformation with new AI observability solution

Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache

Implementing AWS well-architected pillars with automated workflows

How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

How Google PageSpeed Works: Improve Your Score and Search Engine Ranking

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

The Performance Golden Rule Revisited

What is session replay? Discover user pain points with session recordings

Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Core Web Vital Tooling

How to Optimize Websites for Ad Publishers

Cache and Prizes

How To Boost Resource Loading With The New Priority Hint `fetchpriority`

How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Optimizing Your Images Didn’t Improve Your Load Time? Here’s Why

Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch

Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

How to Optimize CSS for Speed

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports

Reporting Core Web Vitals With The Performance API

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience

Google PageSpeed Insights - Scoring 100/100 with WordPress

Fixing a slow site iteratively

How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study)

The 10 Must-Track Web Performance Metrics

Refactoring CSS: Optimizing Size And Performance (Part 3)

Average Page Load Time in 2021

How to Optimize Digital Experience and Operations with Dynatrace

Optimizing The Image Element LCP

How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps

I Used The Web For A Day On A 50 MB Budget

Signals For Customizing Website User Experience

A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites

Debugging Interaction to Next Paint (INP)

How Fast Is Amp Really?

Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

WebPageTest API

AMP and the Web

Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties

The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

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