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

MachMetrics

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.

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Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache

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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.

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Why is Wordpress Slow?

KeyCDN

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. We test the home page of a WordPress website using the Website Speed Test.

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Why Page Speed Scores can be Dangerous

MachMetrics

All of the popular speed testing tools typically provide a page speed score along with their objective results. Google PageSpeed Insights has a their “Speed Score.” Who is your website’s users – Google, or your real customers? Yes, Google is marking us down for using their own analytics tools.

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Increase the Performance of your Site with Lazy-Loading and Code-Splitting

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Or loading a 3rd party component like a Google Map, with all its additional assets needed to render the thing? A code coverage report, like the one Google Chrome provides won’t help us much. Code coverage tab on Google Chrome ( source ). When it comes to SEO, you might have issues indexing lazy-loaded content on Google.

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Google PageSpeed Insights - Scoring 100/100 with WordPress

KeyCDN

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. With that being said, see how we easily achieved a 100/100 score with WordPress and Google PageSpeed Insights.

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Average Page Load Time in 2021

MachMetrics

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. 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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