Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2023

It's been hugely helpful to have a simple set of three UX-oriented metrics – focused on loading, interactivity, and responsiveness – that everyone can understand and focus on. And we've discovered that INP for mobile has an even stronger correlation with user engagement metrics than INP for desktop.

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MachMetrics

OCTOBER 31, 2020

WebPageTest is one of the best website speed auditing services for any designer or developer concerned with site speed (which should be all of them). Visual Comparison. Who are your competitors in your website’s niche? WebPageTest allows you to compare your site directly to a competitors with their Visual Comparison tool!

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. However, there are quite a few high-profile case studies exploring the impact of mobile optimization on key business metrics. Driving Business Metrics. One of the famous examples is Flipkart , India’s largest e-commerce website.

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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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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?). Look again at the metrics above. Time to Interactive (TTI): 6.2s Total Blocking Time: 2.2s

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Eye-tracking provides information on how people navigate on a page and how attracted they are to visual elements on the screen, like in this study conducted by Nielsen Norman Group which shows the pattern that people use to scan comparison tables. The AOI will determine what areas you will calculate metrics for. Eye-Tracking Evolution.

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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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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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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

In fact, there’s great tooling right under the hood of most browsers in DevTools that can do many things that a tried-and-true service like WebPageTest offers, complete with recommendations for improving specific metrics. Certain tools are designed for certain metrics with certain assumptions that produce certain results.

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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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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

For comparison, the same amount of data costs $6.66 This metric is a little difficult to comprehend, so here’s an example: if the average cost of broadband packages in a country is $22, and the average download speed offered by the packages is 10 Mbps, then the cost ‘per megabit per month’ would be $2.20. For comparison, $3.67

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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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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Google's Search App and Facebook's various apps for Android undermine these choices in slightly different ways. [3] Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. This reduces friction and commensurately increases "engagement" metrics. [6].

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CSS - Tricks

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Lighthouse is a free and open-source tool for assessing your website’s performance, accessibility, progressive web app metrics, SEO, and more. It’s offers a great way to enforce performance budgets, and also helps you keep track of each reported metric so you can see how they have changed over time. touch lighthouserc.js.

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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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Rigor

JULY 25, 2019

You’ll typically want to find a way to make a connection between a performance metric (such as First Meaningful Paint ) and a business metric (Conversion Rate). We’ve made your life easier by starting the comparison for you. The Simpsons Family = Web Performance Metrics. Google Lighthouse Score. Maggie Simpson.

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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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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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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Guy Podjarny’s recent research shows that only one in eight websites is responsive. Recently Grigorik has been championing this approach and the Google Pagespeed Insight rules have been updated to reflect this best practice with recommendations on how to reduce the size of "above the fold" content. Source: SpeedCurve.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

For web-page loading, this slow-start approach can also affect metrics such as the first contentful paint, because only a small amount of data (tens of to a few hundred KB) can be transferred in the first few round trips. This means that it will not magically download your website resources much more quickly than TCP.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Websites would magically become 50% faster with the flip of a switch! HTTP/2 versus HTTP/3 protocol stack comparison ( Large preview ). While the first Google-specific versions of QUIC used a custom set-up for this, standardized QUIC uses the existing TLS 1.3 IETF’s QUIC is technically very different from Google’s QUIC.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

mvfst (Facebook), MsQuic , (Microsoft), (Google), ngtcp2 , LSQUIC (Litespeed), picoquic , quicly (Fastly). Google Chrome (version 91+) : Enabled by default. Your user has requested that you navigate to example.com (a website you’ve never visited before), and you’ve used DNS to resolve that to an IP. Google Lighthouse.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If you’re optimizing for the Web Vitals , you might be interested to hear that images account for ~ 42% of the Largest Contentful Paint element for websites. Key user-centric metrics often depend on the size, number, layout, and loading priority of images on the page. See the Pen [Image format comparison 2]([link] by Addy Osmani.

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