Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast. If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. Which metrics should you start with? Let's get started!

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MachMetrics

JANUARY 16, 2020

Optimizing your images is often the very first suggestion that any performance writer or consultant will make when it comes to optimizing a website. 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.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

At the same time, they open a door to lots of concepts that might be overwhelming: PRPL, RAIL, Paint Timing API, TTI, HTTP/2, Speed Index, Priority Hints and more … Why Performance doesn’t get Prioritized Web performance at organizations is a real challenge. One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. Well, not so fast.

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CSS Wizardry

APRIL 22, 2020

One of the more fundamental rules of building fast websites is to optimise your assets, and where text content such as HTML, CSS, and JS are concerned, we’re talking about compression. I started off this whole train of thought because I wanted to see, realistically, what impact Brotli might have for real websites. Okay, yeah.

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Fight regressions and stay fast It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast. Fighting regressions should be the top priority of anyone who cares about the speed of their site. The best way to fight regressions is to create performance budgets on key metrics, and get alerted when they go out of bounds.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. Making A Case For Business. However, there are quite a few high-profile case studies exploring the impact of mobile optimization on key business metrics. Driving Business Metrics. Improving Search Engine Visibility.

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Speed Curve

JULY 10, 2023

Demonstrating the impact of performance on your users – and on your business – is one of the best ways to get your company to care about the speed of your site. This study and a number of other case studies tracked over the years can be found at WPOstats.) This post covers: What is a conversion?

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CSS - Tricks

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

People say JAMstack sites are fast — let’s find out why by looking at real performance metrics! We’ll cover common metrics, like Time to First Byte ( TTFB ) among others, then compare data across a wide section of sites to see how different ways to slice those sites up compare. TTFB mobile speed distribution (CrUX, July 2019).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

This commitment involves prioritizing websites that offer not only relevant content but also an excellent user experience. Google’s Core Web Vitals is a set of performance metrics that site owners can use to evaluate performance and diagnose performance issues. Core Web Vital metrics definitions. One of the key Next.js

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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. While these metrics can be very helpful it is also important to keep this data in perspective. Why Care About Page Speed?

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Web pages are unbelievably complex, and there are hundreds of different metrics available to track. A performance budget is a threshold that you apply to the metrics you care about the most. This is when you run into three important questions: Which metrics should you focus on? Which metrics should you focus on?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Get a free trial of LogRocket today.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

At the same time, they open a door to lots of concepts that might be overwhelming: PRPL, RAIL, Paint Timing API, TTI, HTTP/2, Speed Index, Priority Hints and more …. I use a Macbook Pro to develop websites. Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

Unquestionably, media enlivens websites, adding appeal, excitement, and intrigue, let alone enticements to stay on a page and frequently revisit it. A case in point: a page-load slowdown of a mere second could cost Amazon $1.6 Of the many factors that affect page-load speed, media is a significant one. Akshay Ranganath.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

It has never been easier to build a personalized website, digitalize a product and start seeing results. Case Study: Image Component In A Jamstack Site. 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. Alba Silvente.

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MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Unfortunately, Target.com is not a fast website. And this is shocking since we all know that page load speed is directly correlated to site revenue (you’re aware that faster websites lead to increased conversion and sales, right?). ” This is because Target.com does an excellent job of improving user-perceived speed.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

So noticeable, in fact, that Core Web Vitals has a metric all about it called Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). This metric measures the time it takes, in seconds, to render the largest image or text block that is visible on the initial load. In case you’re wondering, 2.4 Homepage of a default Drupal site using the Umami theme.

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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. Keep reading to learn how you can apply these best practices to your own site and give your pages a speed boost.

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Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Delivering a fast, consistent online experience has been proven to measurably increase every metric retailers care about – from conversions and revenue to retention and brand perception. (In What you can do: Monitor the speed of your third parties. In 2010, only 1% of the top 1,000 websites used custom fonts. Stylesheets.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. The Smashing team has done a lot to make a fast website, so even a fresh load (though this experiment may not be a completely fresh load if you came to this article from the home page). Here’s an experiment for you.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Table Of Contents. Quick Wins.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Table Of Contents. Quick Wins.

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 29, 2019

New metric! The goal of making websites faster is to make users happier. Since user happiness can't be measured directly, we've developed the User Happiness metric. It's a combination of multiple performance metrics that are closely tied to delivering a joyous user experience. Another new metric! Video here.)??.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Guy Podjarny’s recent research shows that only one in eight websites is responsive. Case study: the new responsive Guardian site. A great example using the above techniques is the new Guardian newspaper website, currently in alpha. Comparison of page size and assets types across different responsive widths.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

However, at the end of 2020, about 1% of websites included a Service Worker, and 2.2% 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. had an installable Web App Manifest file. What Does This Mean? Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

It always starts with the long-awaited website overhaul. Image source: Lighthouse Metrics ) ( Large preview ). We chose to focus specifically on slow mobile devices — with slow 3G, 400ms RTT and 400kbps transfer speed, just to be on the pessimistic side of things. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. Vitaly Friedman.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Only a few years ago, the sports brand had only a basic website and no real app that was tied to business goals. Likening data sharing to a baton in a relay race, Cornago underlined that it’s about the speed with which data flows but how smoothly the handoff is. Back then, we only had a few engineers,” continued Cornago.

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