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

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. This optimization is quite complex in nature though.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. It’s “single-threaded,” which is how we get the one-way street comparison. There are self-hosted alternatives to Google Analytics, after all.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 90

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. 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.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

This is high-quality data from actual website visitors, for example based on Google’s Chrome User Experience (CrUX) Report. For example, the data is limited to Chrome users who are logged into their Google account, so it’s not completely representative of all users. A second type of data is called real-user data.

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Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

For comparison, the same amount of data costs $6.66 For comparison, $3.67 I wanted to simulate a slow connection like those experienced by users in Uzbekistan, to see what kind of experience websites would give me. I installed ModHeader and set the ‘Save-Data’ header to let websites know I want to minimise my data usage.

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Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

Angular vs React – The Complete Comparison. JavaScript Developers prefer to use Angular to develop large-scale web applications like e-commerce, Progressive Web Apps, and reservation platforms, allowing a website to perform like a smartphone app. Angular vs React – The Complete Comparison. Quick Links. What is React?

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Development Google Open Source Servers 52

Enprowess

MAY 24, 2022

Reactjs has the capability of server-side rendering, which offers a power boost to the SEO of a web page or an application and helps in fetching more organic traffic. It can reduce the page time if Google directly indexes the content from the server-side. React vs React Native: Head to Head Comparison. What is React Native?

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Mobile Open Source Virtualization Speed 52

Rigor

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Of course, since websites change daily (in some cases) and scripts can stop working, it is also important to evaluate a tool based on its troubleshooting capabilities, such as: Can you test the script? For example, here is what a comparison report looks like in Rigor. Visually Complete got better by 400ms, which is 24%).

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Monitoring Benchmarking Mobile Traffic 59

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 ). For example, if the device is a firewall, it might be configured to block all traffic containing (unknown) extensions. TLS, TCP, and QUIC handshake durations ( Large preview ).

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

mvfst (Facebook), MsQuic , (Microsoft), (Google), ngtcp2 , LSQUIC (Litespeed), picoquic , quicly (Fastly). Note that there is an Apache Traffic Server implementation, though.). Traffic for one connection must, of course, always be routed to the same back-end server (the others wouldn’t know what to do with it!). Implementation.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 104

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This means that it will not magically download your website resources much more quickly than TCP. Some examples of the latter are heavily cached websites, as well as single-page apps that periodically fetch small updates via APIs and other protocols such as DNS-over-QUIC. What Does It All Mean? 0-RTT Connection Set-Up.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 105

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

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? Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ).

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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? Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to. Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

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? Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor. Image source ). Large preview ).

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