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.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

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. So why use lab data at all?

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Speed Google Website Metrics 97

Tim Kadlec

APRIL 10, 2023

There was a comment on Twitter today from Rafael Gonzaga expressing disappointment in what he sees as a tendency to focus on the frontend solely in performance discussions, while neglecting the server-side aspect. Performance conversations were dominated by discussions around the server-side aspects of performance.

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Performance Servers Mobile Metrics 111

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics Performance culture, Core Web Vitals, performance profiles, CrUX, Lighthouse, FID, TTI, CLS, devices. Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Table Of Contents.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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.

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Metrics Social Media Performance Speed 74

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.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. It can be measured based on real data from users visiting your sites ( field metric ) or in a lab environment ( lab metric ). In fact, several user-centric metrics are used to quantify web vitals. PageSpeed Compare. Large preview ).

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Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 130

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).

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Google Analytics Serverless Metrics 93

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).

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Cache Architecture Database Government 195

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Table Of Contents. Quick Wins.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Similar to our article Average Page Load Times for 2018 , we’ll go over the averages for metrics and help you determine if your site is faster or slower than average. As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is.

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Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

CSS - Tricks

MAY 3, 2021

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Transportation 86

Transportation Cache Google Mobile 86

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 2, 2022

Performant A/B Testing with Cloudflare Workers — Philip Walton covers how A/B testing is a little trickier on static sites than server-backed sites, but you can pull it off (performantly) thanks to Cloudflare Workers which can manipulate HTML before it hits the browser, much like a Service Worker except at the edge rather than at the client.

Performance 68

Performance Cache Best Practices Strategy 68

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 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Tim Kadlec

JUNE 21, 2022

HTTP/3 work started in 2012 with Google working on QUIC, adopted by IETF in 2017, RFC’s published in June 2022. No server push! The RSVP problem: HTTP/3 might be blocked on the network or may not be enabled on the server. So the browser will only try HTTP/3 if it’s certain the server supports it. What and Why?

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Network Mobile Google Cache 64

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.

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Cache Google Mobile Network 96

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.

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Cache Google Speed Metrics 79

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Table Of Contents. Quick Wins.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

Browser Caching: Although it may seem commonplace, caching is sometimes overlooked. Depending on how often you change content, you may want to set a long expiration time for your cache. Caching can ensure your browser doesn’t have to load all those elements if a visitor returns to your pages.

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Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

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 80

Website Google Open Source Mobile 80

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. And while you can usually cache the full page of an article, the same is not true of many shop pages and elements. Additionally, page speed is a ranking factor for search and also for your Google Ads. Jennifer Brehm.

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 115

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.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Linux: Google Container-Optimized OS 77 LTS. Windows: Windows Server 1903. Resolved IIS crash on RUM activity interactions (user caching is now disabled if UEM is enabled). Container metrics are reported for Amazon ECS containers on hosts with Amazon Linux (v1). x86 (64bit-only). Vendor announcement. x86 (64bit-only).

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Operating System Java Mobile Cache 107

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Anchored in the primary use case of supporting Google’s YouTube business, what we’re looking at here could well be the future of data processing at Google. Google already has Dremel , Mesa , Photon , F1 , PowerDrill , and Spanner , so why did they need yet another data processing system? Cache all the things.

Analytics 75

Analytics Latency Cache Google 75

MachMetrics

JANUARY 23, 2020

Every single visitor will be a different distance from the server. The website hasn’t had any changes made to it, (it’s a personal site I haven’t updated in some time), and you can see how each individual metric varies. There are also many different types of measurements, from server response to completely rendered.

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Speed Testing Website Cache 62

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 27, 2019

While it’s important to check various speed metrics , the Web Almanac uses data from the Chome UX Report which focuses on how Chrome users actually experience the web. The first metric that analyzed was First Contenful Paint (FCP). It can also be described as server delay. It’s still a useful metric to study however.

Performance 52

Performance Speed Website Mobile 52

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.

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Cache Google Performance Metrics 72

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. So, apart from powering servers with renewable energy, what else can web developers do about climate change? You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure”.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

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.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

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. Cache Your Images. Large preview ). — Addy Osmani.

Media 105

Media Cache Website Mobile 105

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. As shown on the screenshots below, the product page of the store can be found via Google.

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Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

These services use requests to external hosts (not servers you control) to deliver JavaScript framework libraries, custom fonts, advertising content, marketing analytics trackers, and more. The most popular, by far, is the Google Lighthouse report (available in Chrome Developer Tools) and Google’s Page Speed Insights.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Note that AnyLog also differs from projects such as DeepDive or Google’s Knowledge Graph. Coordinators are servers that receive queries and return results (search engines). Caching of query results on the other hand, looks like a good business model, at large enough scale these might amount to pretty much the same thing).

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Blockchain Internet Internet IoT 94

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

REDIS for caching. Having Dynatrace also looking at key EFS metrics gives them additional root cause information in case something goes wrong. If you’re an IT or cloud administrator, make sure to check out Dynatrace’s capabilities on monitoring k8s clusters , AWS , VMWare , OpenStack , Azure , Google GCP , OpenShift , CloudFoundry.

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AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 127

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 130

Performance Speed Google Media 130

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The story was about a fast food chain that determined customer service was an important metric that they needed to track in some way. They had a timer visible to both the customer and the server. One of the most absurd happened when a customer informed the server that part of their order was missing.

Cache 75

Cache Google Mobile Open Source 75

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

In the past, Chrome used to perform changes to the website by proxying requests via their servers (similar to how Opera Mini works), but doing that is usually frowned upon these days. This could be as simple as logging the values for these options in a Google Analytics Custom Dimension. How To Act Upon Save Data. Conclusion.

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Website Media Mobile Network 103