Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed.

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MachMetrics

JANUARY 23, 2020

You run a speed test on a website, and the results don’t match what you personally experience. Perhaps you feel like your site loads fairly quickly, but the speed test results are sub-optimal. It’s one of the most common (and frustrating) scenarios in web performance testing.

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score. It’s no secret that speed has become a crucial factor in increasing revenue and lowering abandonment rates. Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. PageSpeed 5.0

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. Many people often confuse site speed with page speed grades of performance testing tools, which are actually calculated based on multiple factors of a page including its loading speed. Daniel An, Google, 2017.

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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? Storing frequently accessed data in faster storage, usually in-memory caching, improves data retrieval speed and overall system performance. Beyond

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MachMetrics

JULY 15, 2020

However, if utilized carelessly, CSS can greatly affect our page speed. That’s good to know, but I know you’re looking for a css speed test, or techniques for optimizing your css for speed. First things first, we need to test our website. Did your test reveal some issues? Combine Your CSS Files.

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ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

When I worked at Google, fleet-wide profiling revealed that 25-35% of all CPU time was spent just moving bytes around: memcpy, strcmp, copying between user and kernel buffers in network and disk I/O, hidden copy-on-write in soft page faults, checksumming, compressing, decrypting, assembling/disassembling packets and HTML pages, etc.

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Speed Curve

APRIL 9, 2023

Weighting adjustments are highlighted in bold below: First Contentful Paint (FCP): 15 Speed Index: 10 Largest Contentful Paint (LCP): 25 Time To Interactive (TTI): 15 Total Blocking Time (TBT): 30 Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS): 15 -> 25 What impact will this have on my score? “ According to us: "It depends."

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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Using Google’s Font API. Google Font API is a web service that supports open source font files that can be used for your web designs. If the sections above were overwhelming, Google’s API is a great resource, as it handles a lot of the grunt work for you. They’re all different and you should test both options.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. PageSpeed Compare is a page speed evaluation and benchmarking tool. It measures the web performance of a single page using Google PageSpeed Insights. It also lists cached resources and identifies unused Javascript. PageSpeed Compare.

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Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

Page speed has been a key factor in Google’s ranking algorithm since 2010 , so it is essential to understand the various ways you can optimize your pages and why implementing synthetic monitoring can ensure your pages perform flawlessly and revenue isn’t lost. Remember, speed is key to the user experience. Optimize Your Pages.

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KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

For example, while the average mobile download speed on 4G in Switzerland is fast at 35.2 Mbps, countries with a growing Internet users like India is only at an average mobile download speed of 6.8 This means we need to always be testing for different devices and connections. Mbps ( Opensignal ). For example, the query string ?width=600&quality=70

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KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

We will also discuss how you can speed up your slow WordPress site. Many factors affect the speed of your WordPress website; some of them are: Your web host Server-side optimizations (PHP version, compression, caching, etc.) Several website speed testing tools available could be used for this purpose.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

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. By analyzing the data from Backlinko.com and their Page Speed Stats article, we’ll look to answer these questions: What size should be a website be?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Testing And Monitoring Auditing workflow, proxy browsers, 404 page, GDPR cookie consent prompts, performance diagnostics CSS, accessibility. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. In this article, I’ll highlight some of the work we did and how we were able to achieve our speed. And while you can usually cache the full page of an article, the same is not true of many shop pages and elements.

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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. And don’t forget about covering your back with tests. Testing : Well, we should write some tests, right?

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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

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

How to measure performance The Website Speed Test is the ideal tool for measuring the performance of your website. WebP is the way to go WebP was first developed by Google back in 2010 and has now become the successor of JPEG. WebP delivery doesn't require any change on the origin server with the WebP caching feature.

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Randon ASCII

JULY 11, 2022

A bug had been filed suggesting that Chrome download speeds (such as those measured by speedtest.net ) seemed to be affected by some anti-virus software. Downloads go through the cache, the cache is saved to disk, and saves to disk are slowed by (some) anti-virus software. I then did one final test. Case closed.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. Perhaps surprisingly, users experience faster speeds over a mobile network than WiFi in at least 30 countries worldwide, including Australia and France. South Korea has the fastest mobile download speed , averaging 52.4 Google Homepage — DOM.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. KeyCDN’s Cache Enabler plugin is fully compatible the HTML attributes that make images responsive. In fact they even use WebP themselves on websites like YouTube.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Testing And Monitoring. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Quick Wins.

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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().

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MachMetrics

JANUARY 16, 2020

By checking out the site’s filmstrip on the site speed audit, he saw that the ‘start render’ time was stuck at 1.5 After looking through the site’s plugins, it turned out that an A/B testing plugin was delaying the render. Most importantly, use a speed monitoring service that monitors at regular intervals.

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Speed Website Metrics Cache 89

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 106

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

If the DNS caches are manipulated to contain wrong IP addresses, it’s called DNS poisoning. If you run ads from Google Adsense, or any other blocked companies, along with banned advertisements in China, they won’t appear on your page and your websites or applications may also face access restrictions. Blocking IP Access.

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CSS - Tricks

MAY 3, 2021

Everything is there that always was, but more (like… Chrome User Experience Data pulled right into your Chrome test results so you can see how closely your test matches what Chrome is seeing, and Core Web visualizations right in the waterfall). google-analytics.com", "sanList":[ "*.google-analytics.com", Mobile Safari/537.36

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Transportation Cache Google Mobile 86

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

If you want to use the Google UI toolkit to build natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase?, Test Flutter monitoring with our demo app. To get you up to speed quickly and to test Dynatrace easily, we provide a small Flutter demo app. Dynatrace news. What’s next.

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 15, 2020

We will use continuous performance testing and Google Lighthouse to audit every change. This will highlight the importance of testing every code change. We are going to use Gatsby for our test site. We can use Vercel to host the site, giving Lighthouse a way to runs its tests. Let’s get started! src/html.js.

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MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

As we discussed in our article on how to test your page weight , compression is pretty much standard practice in web performance now, so you absolutely want to make sure you’re taking advantage of it. After you’ve got everything set up, there are many ways that you can test to make sure your site is being compressed.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Testing And Monitoring. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Now you have something measurable to test against.

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MachMetrics

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Looking again at the websites above, you’ll see that Google uses one image (their logo), Craigslist uses 0(!), However, you can follow all of the tips above to ensure that your images have a minimal impact on your site speed. If you’re implementing all of these site speed measures, you’ll be way ahead of the curve.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 93

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. Fixes To Common Problems. The Benefits Of Using An Image Service CDN. Case Study: Image Component In A Jamstack Site. Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

In addition to MVC separation, we can (for security reasons or speed improvements) place the JS App on a separate server like in the schema below: Decoupled WordPress diagram. I’m working on Varying Vagrant Vagrants , and have set up a test site with an URL [link]. Let’s create a small test plugin. Large preview ).

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CSS - Tricks

JUNE 5, 2020

In the show, Google is portrayed by the fictional company Hooli, which is after Pied Piper’s intellectual property. The funny thing is that, while being far from a startup, Google does indeed have a powerful compression engine in real life called Brotli. I had several tricks that could significantly speed up websites.

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