Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. But as it stands, websites are growing ever more obese, which means that the energy demand of the Internet is continuing to grow exponentially. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Guidelines for improvement are suggested based on how specific metrics score. What is Google Lighthouse?

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Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. In fact, most (if not all) of those terms are present on any technology website you visit. The answer is in the data collection, and more specifically, how the logs, metrics, traces are collected.

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Open Source Metrics Google Java 179

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch. Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch. However, at the end of 2020, about 1% of websites included a Service Worker, and 2.2% One of the reasons for that is because a PWA has the same code base. Alex Husar. What Does This Mean?

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Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

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. The best way to fight regressions is to create performance budgets on key metrics, and get alerted when they go out of bounds. Imagine that your website is a vault containing billions of dollars in jewels.

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Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

There was something gratifying in taking a code that takes minutes to run and make it run in a handful seconds. 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.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Session replay is an IT technology that creates anonymized video-like recordings of actions taken by users interacting with your website or mobile application. What users see in their browser window and the underlying HTML code are both governed by the DOM, which creates a tree-like structure for all HTML elements. Quicker response.

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Mobile Website Analytics Cache 243

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

This gives us a relatively unique opportunity to analyse and aggregate performance metrics to gain some interesting insights. In this post, I'm going to analyse some browser-based paint timing metrics: First Paint & First Contentful Paint (defined in the Paint Timing spec and implemented in Chromium). What are paint timing metrics?

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Metrics Performance Testing Testing Internet 49

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Since implementing these changes, we have seen a dramatic improvement in the performance of websites built and hosted on our platform. Dan Shappir. 2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-22T11:06:56+00:00. Large preview ).

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Website Performance Google Media 126

Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks. How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks. These days it is fairly uncommon to encounter a new website or web app that doesn’t rely on some framework, or a platform such as a CMS. Dan Shappir. Large preview ).

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Google Performance Website Mobile 127

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Jake is a frequent speaker at many popular conferences and events, such as 100 Days of Google Dev , JAMstakConf , JSConf , SmashingConf , and dozens of others.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

If you are designing an app or a website, you can test how easy and intuitive it is to complete a specific task, fill out a form, find certain information, or buy a product. They used eye-tracking to measure visual attention on banners, animated graphics, and navigational tools in websites. This is a click heatmap of a website.

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Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 111

MachMetrics

MARCH 21, 2020

Chrome’s DevTools suite contains some of the most powerful tools available to help you analyze and improve the speed of your website (or web app). Interpreting this information is a powerful tool, and allows you to use it in the way Google intended. They can also be the most overwhelming. To improve your site!

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Speed Performance Google Mobile 99

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

My kids love LEGO, too, which means that every year I find myself spending a fair bit of time on the LEGO website during the holidays. According to Google's thresholds, an LCP time of 3.96 It shows how key metrics align with the rendering timeline (the filmstrip view at the top of the chart). Use code splitting judiciously.

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Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 67

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. This is great for performance because if the user doesn’t end up scrolling down that far, the image doesn’t load at all, shaving valuable time from our loading metrics.

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Speed Website Metrics Cache 89

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

There was something gratifying in taking a code that takes minutes to run and make it run in a handful seconds. Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ). I use a Macbook Pro to develop websites. A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0,

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

those resources now belong to cloud providers, such as AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and others. Again, the benefit being that the code within your containers or virtual machines is managed by the cloud provider. The primary challenge being not able to access the underlying infrastructure metrics.

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Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency 57

Tasktop

JUNE 20, 2022

John Doerr, who had worked at Intel, brought OKRs to Google in 1999, where they helped fuel massive growth and raise employee morale. In these examples, the product value streams incorporate Flow Metrics into their key results to drive agility and a value focus. Achieve feature parity between mobile app and website.

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Software Software Healthcare Mobile 96

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance. High Performance Websites. Even Faster Websites. Want your web site to display more quickly?

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Similarly from cross-site navigation — think Google search results or the like and then clicking back. Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. All those navigations can benefit from the Back/Forward Cache to instantly restore the page. More after jump!

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Cache Games Performance Website 91

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

Signals For Customizing Website User Experience. Signals For Customizing Website User Experience. In this article, I want to spend a bit more time on this, and also look at other signals we can similarly use to help us make decisions on what to load on our websites. Barry Pollard. 2022-03-07T10:30:00+00:00. save the user’s data!

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Website Media Mobile Network 103

Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Whilst web page load time is an important metric to measure, it doesn't tell the whole picture. As I started to learn more about web page performance, I started to experiment with webpagetest.org and discovered the different metrics that it uses. The excitement of seeing a web page load in an instant kept me coming back for more.

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Speed Analytics Google Retail 40

Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Whilst web page load time is an important metric to measure, it doesn't tell the whole picture. As I started to learn more about web page performance, I started to experiment with webpagetest.org and discovered the different metrics that it uses. The excitement of seeing a web page load in an instant kept me coming back for more.

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Speed Analytics Google Retail 40

Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Whilst web page load time is an important metric to measure, it doesn't tell the whole picture. As I started to learn more about web page performance, I started to experiment with webpagetest.org and discovered the different metrics that it uses. The excitement of seeing a web page load in an instant kept me coming back for more.

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Speed Analytics Google Retail 40

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

JavaScript, CSS, images, iframes, and other resources impact how quickly website loads, renders and becomes usable to the user. Loading experience is crucial to the user’s first impression and overall usability, so Google defined Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric to measure how quickly the main content loads and is displayed to the user.

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Media Tuning Metrics Google 69

Testsigma

JANUARY 18, 2021

Web Developers frequently come across issues where the developed website or web application does not work as expected on certain combinations of browsers and operating systems. When it comes to web applications (or websites), cross browser testing should be a high-priority item on the automation testing checklist.

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Testing Operating System Website Internet 55

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps. How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps. However, it’s not always easy to maintain high performance in websites. Even if your website is designed with usability in mind, these factors impede users from fully benefiting from the website’s features.

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Website Google Open Source Mobile 80

Testsigma

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Since the beginning of the internet era, browsers and websites have lived co-dependently. To ease out the web development, developers think of new ways to have a dedicated and organised system of sustainable websites such as subgrids. Cross-browser testing might sound like an easy process of running your website on different browsers.

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Testing Operating System Website Latency 53

MachMetrics

JULY 15, 2020

When a user requests a website, the browser must process all the information available to determine the layout and style. If your website is built more like this… Pro Tip: Don’t have 21 external stylesheets. This is a roundtrip that the browser has to make before it renders the website. Perform an Audit of Your Site.

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Speed Website Cache Google 78

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

The critical rendering path is the set of steps browsers must take to convert HTML, CSS and JavaScript into living, breathing websites. That's why it's a good idea to not just focus on metrics like Start Render – you should also investigate Hero Rendering metrics , which track when the most meaningful content on your pages (e.g.,

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 78

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. What is Google Lighthouse? Google Lighthouse is one of the best-automated tools available on a web developer's utility belt.

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Google Latency Website Metrics 82

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Certain SLOs can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. More than half of CIOs confirmed that they often make tradeoffs among code quality, security, and reliability to meet the need for rapid software delivery. E-commerce website : The e-commerce website should be available 99.9%

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Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 174

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Certain service-level objective examples can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. More than half of CIOs confirmed that they often make tradeoffs among code quality, security, and reliability to meet the need for rapid software delivery. or 99.99% of the time.

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Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

Speed Curve

JULY 2, 2013

Uptime services like Pingdom and Uptime Robot ping your website with an HTTP request every couple of minutes to check that it's online and available. These services often check from various geographic locations to keep an eye on network routes to your server and will send you alerts via email and txt if your website is down.

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Benchmarking Performance Website Analytics 40

Dynatrace

AUGUST 14, 2023

Behavior analytics is a form of business analytics that tracks and evaluates a user’s complete journey through a website or mobile application. These sources can include the website or app itself, a data warehouse or a customer data platform (CDP), or social media monitoring tools. What is behavior analytics?

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Analytics Social Media Website IoT 226

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. Your website may be using more third-party services than you realize. Ken Harker.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Reading time 11 min As companies become more aware of the importance of web performance, internal teams begin to research tools they can use to use to track their metrics and improve the user experience of their websites and applications. Where Google Lighthouse Shines Bright. Google Lighthouse has a lot going for it.

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Google Best Practices Energy Website 51