Jos

MARCH 13, 2020

Look, there are many case studies proving a correlation between loading time and business metrics!” ?-?I Using Test My Site from Think with Google : Gives you an estimation of potential revenue increase for your site when saving loading time. In this case the Rel mCvR is 40%. I would repeat over and over. Conversion rate.

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CSS Wizardry

APRIL 22, 2020

21 years later, in 2013, Google launched Brotli, a new algorithm that claims even greater improvement than Gzip! of a reasonable size (compression is more relevant) and not formed predominantly of non-compressible content (like, for example YouTube)), and/or; not all multi-billion dollar corporations (let’s use some normal case studies, too).

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study). How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study). 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. Beau Hartshorne. 2021-05-17T11:30:00+00:00. Large preview ).

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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. Lots of case studies where changes in performance led to key metric improvement.

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Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Chances are, you're here because of Google's update to its search algorithm , which affects both desktop and mobile, and which includes Core Web Vitals as a ranking factor. If you're new to Core Web Vitals , this is a Google initiative that was launched in early 2020. When Google talks, people listen.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Reducing HTML Payload With Next.js (Case Study). Reducing HTML Payload With Next.js (Case Study). Smaller HTML means less time for Google to download and process those long strings of text. Both for Google bots (SEO) and to actual clients. Liran Cohen. 2021-05-05T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-05-05T16:06:35+00:00.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

WebP is the way to go WebP was first developed by Google back in 2010 and has now become the successor of JPEG. WebP size comparison In previous case studies, we've analyzed the different image sizes against WebP. In almost each case, the size of the WebP images was smaller. decrease in image size on average.

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Processing Cache Website Servers 127

High Scalability

AUGUST 8, 2018

There are a lot of cool nuggets in Google's New Book: The Site Reliability Workbook. In addition, many engineers across Google provided their assis? As shown in Figure 11-5, when it launched, Pokémon GO used Google’s regional Network Load Balancer (NLB) to load-balance ingress traffic across a Kubernetes cluster.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Five years ago when Google published The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines it was a manifesto declaring the world of computing had changed forever. Since then the world has chosen to ride along with Google. If you like this kind of stuff, you might also like Google's New Book: The Site Reliability Workbook.

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Design Education Google Internet 54

Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Shopify Themes (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Shopify Themes (Case Study). That could be an entirely separate article, but here’s the overview: Shopify has a lot of overhead : feature detection, tracking, and payment buttons (Apple Pay, Google Pay, ShopPay). Carson Shold.

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MachMetrics

JANUARY 16, 2020

His article in the Web Performance Calendar, The ugly truth about optimizing beautiful images , explores a few case studies and offers some solutions as well. In the final case study in Michael’s article, the total image size was reduced by 95%. Images are being lazy-loaded above the fold.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Software 2.0 , in case you missed it, is a term coined by Andrej Karpathy to describe software in which key components are implemented by neural networks. The particular system discussed in this paper is Google’s email information extraction system. I.e., Google engineers don’t have access to them. But in Software 2.0

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Google recommends that TTFB be 800ms at the 75th percentile. Recent server timing case studies It's great to see server timing starting to get more use in the wild. For more years than I care to mention, I've been advising folks that their TTFB should be under 500ms. Definitely worth a read!

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Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 58

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Have a look at the Financial Times Case study: “The speed of the site negatively impacts a user’s session depth, no matter how small the delay…The data suggests, both in terms of user experience and financial impact, that there are clear and highly valued benefits in making the site even faster. Want proof? Summing up.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is one of Google's Core Web Vitals , so it's been getting a lot of attention lately. Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) is another one of Google's Core Web vitals. The three metrics above – CLS, FID, and TBT – are all part of Google's Core Web Vitals. > Long Tasks (Synthetic and RUM).

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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 ). 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. A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0,

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 4, 2018

I couldn’t let this injustice continue, so I told them to “Google for quokka selfies” Christi , who works on Bing, commented with a smile: “Or you could look it up on Bing.” I’ve mentioned in the past the mixed feelings I have about Google’s influence on the web. Not a chance.

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The Morning Paper

JULY 7, 2019

Software engineering for machine learning: a case study Amershi et al., Previously on The Morning Paper we’ve looked at the spread of machine learning through Facebook and Google and some of the lessons learned together with processes and tools to address the challenges arising. ICSE’19. Today it’s the turn of Microsoft.

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Speed Curve

JUNE 15, 2020

We've also added Total Blocking Time (TBT), which is one of Google's recommended Core Web Vitals metrics for lab/synthetic testing. That's when Sander sent through this case study. Total Blocking Time. We felt it was an important metric, but we were disappointed with the lack of usage.

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Metrics Best Practices Monitoring Google 77

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In one of my case studies, I’ll share how we used velcro and felt to have potential users explore the concept of a touch screen kiosk at a zoo exhibit. I’ve also been a part of studies where we created an ATM out of cardboard to simulate a user interacting with an ATM as part of the concept. Case Studies.

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Design Testing Education Processing 98

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

The final prompt for a more aggressive optimization was the “Core Web Vitals” dashboard in the Google Search Console. We first thought that it could be related to the cookie banner adjustments we made recently, but it turned out it was a Google Search Update that seemed to be more aggressively penalizing us for a high CLS.

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The takeaway here might be that, while tracking and optimizing LCP is important if you want to make Google happy, Hero Largest Image might be a good metric to track if you want a better understanding of what your users actually experience. For example, this case study explains how we used RUM to A/B test JSONP requests and the preloader.

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Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 64

MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Of course, any major retailer is going to have its fair share of ads and integration with Google. It’s how they’re able to better recommend products for you (think why products are recommended to you on Google when you search for them on other sites). However, it’s clear that a better balance could be struck here.

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Retail Speed Website Google 82

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

A while back, our friends at Shopify published this great case study , showing how they optimized one of their newer themes from the ground up – and how they worked to keep it fast. You may find that some of these metrics and numbers are relevant for your site, while others may be less relevant.

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 79

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Such case studies lead us to strongly believe that the batched log analytics jobs that are prevalent in production big-data clusters can benefit substantially from query-time sampling. ICDE’16 (PowerDrill is a Google internal system). For the larger more production-like query analysed in §4.2.1, Persuading users to approximate.

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Big Data Analytics Latency Azure 57

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Many surveys have indicated that uptime is number one factor when choosing a web host and although most, if not all, web hosting services “promise” 99.99% uptime, it’s not the case with our case-study. According to our latest research, the average uptime of 32 shared web hosting providers is 99.59%. MidPhase.com. Bluehost.com.

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Testing Website Servers Availability 49

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Like other front-end web development blogs, it discusses functional CSS, JavaScript and HTML5, but it also includes features on using Google Analytics, React and similar frameworks. Sidebar Sidebar curates five daily design links that include essays, data visualizations, case studies and code resources. Visit website 33.

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Development Website Design Code 75

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Similarly from cross-site navigation — think Google search results or the like and then clicking back. Though, personally, I am glad they did since it was an interesting case study. Think about the number of times you visit a home page, click on an article, then go back to the home page to view another article?

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Cache Games Performance Website 91

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Beyond training classes we also have a plethora of other resources such as user guides, videos, blogs, e-books, case studies, white papers, on-demand webinars etc. This involves checking every trainer’s availability via Google Calendar, creating Marketo and Salesforce campaigns and updating our website.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Based on the data provided by divante ’s findings on 30 PWA case studies, progressive web apps have a 36% larger mobile conversion rate than native applications. Hence, they can’t be promoted separately or found by users who’ve input a search query in Google. That wouldn’t be the case if they opted for a native application.

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Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

J. Paul Reed

JANUARY 24, 2017

Google and Mozilla are trying to evolve the web as quickly as they can to “fix” this, but for now, sometimes, you still need to compile USB device drivers and package up and ship a bunch of native C/C++.) Ongoing coverage of high profile attacks and costly losses have re-emphasized security’s importance.

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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. With that being said, see how we easily achieved a 100/100 score with WordPress and Google PageSpeed Insights. Why Care About Page Speed?

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Website Optimization

APRIL 26, 2020

Google previously provided the average ad position (1.5 Google has replaced this metric with Impressions Top and Absolute Top (see Figure 1). Derived from Google Analytics, the average session duration shows how long the average session lasts in seconds. Figure 3: Linking Google Analytics into Google Ads.

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Google Analytics Metrics Code 59

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

seconds or less, which is Google's recommendation for page experience and SEO. But I've participated in many usability studies that have found a strong, consistent correlation between Start Render time, user engagement, and business metrics. > Let's get started! Background: How performance budgets work 1.

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Performance Metrics Media Google 98

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Additionally, page speed is a ranking factor for search and also for your Google Ads.

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 115

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

However, there are quite a few high-profile case studies exploring the impact of mobile optimization on key business metrics. WPO stats collects literally hundreds of them — case studies and experiments demonstrating the impact of web performance optimization (WPO) across verticals and goals.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Self-hosted Kubernetes installations or services — such as Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, or the Google Kubernetes Engine — make it possible for enterprises to select and implement best-fit functions. It also protects your development infrastructure at scale with enterprise-grade security. What is OpenShift? The post What is OpenShift?

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Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147