Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Dynatrace

AUGUST 2, 2021

Some examples include Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. Here’s a list of some key hyperscale benefits: Speed : Hyperscale makes it easy to manage your shifting computing needs. Dynatrace is a partner with the hyperscalers you use most, with deep innovative integrations with AWS , Azure , Google , and many more.

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Azure Cloud Google AWS 264

CSS Wizardry

JUNE 30, 2023

I never thought I’d write an article in defence of DOMContentLoaded , but here it is… For many, many years now, performance engineers have been making a concerted effort to move away from technical metrics such as Load , and toward more user-facing, UX metrics such as Speed Index or Largest Contentful Paint. for the vast minority of sessions.

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Metrics Google Monitoring Analytics 326

MachMetrics

JANUARY 23, 2020

You run a speed test on a website, and the results don’t match what you personally experience. Perhaps you feel like your site loads fairly quickly, but the speed test results are sub-optimal. Of course, you still won’t see the same loading time every test , so let’s look at some of the reasons why.

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Speed Testing Website Cache 62

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Spend enough time running websites through PageSpeed Insights and you’ll notice that Google has a major beef with traditional image formats like JPG, PNG and even GIF. Google developed WebP back in 2010 after acquiring a company called On2 Technologies.

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Website Speed Cache Google 72

CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Google has a pretty tight grip on the tech industry: it makes by far the most popular browser with the best DevTools, and the most popular search engine, which means that web developers spend most of their time in Chrome, most of their visitors are in Chrome, and a lot of their search traffic will be coming from Google. You Will Need….

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Network Mobile Performance Traffic 225

Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2022

Keptn: A reference implementation of Google’s SRE principles. Software engineer Taras Tsugrii of Meta (formerly Facebook) paid Keptn a high compliment, saying it feels like a reference implementation of Google’s SRE principles , which are the search giant’s techniques for ensuring the integrity of its sites and services.

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Open Source DevOps Cloud Metrics 196

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

For this, you can use such well-known tools as Semrush and SimilarWeb and reviews from Trustpilot , Google Play , and Apple’s App Store. Computer Electronics” and “Technology” appear to be the most popular course categories among edX students. This user type doesn’t need a specific course. Take SimilarWeb.

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Education Website Google Design 84

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. PageSpeed Compare is a page speed evaluation and benchmarking tool. It measures the web performance of a single page using Google PageSpeed Insights. You can export the results as a CSV file for Excel, Google Sheets or Apple Pages.

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Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 130

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). With Google Search Console you can see exactly where your pages are (or aren’t) ranking for different keywords. Google Keyword Planner. Google Trends. Google Mobile-Friendly Test.

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Engineering Google Website Analytics 131

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. Large preview ) That’s a nice big view and is a good illustration of TBT’s impact on page speed. Analytics is a good example. It’s worth asking.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 91

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

However still far from Google ($28B) and Facebook ($13.2B). Of course, in some cases the difference to performance is small enough that one can live with it, but it’s often bad enough to be a problem. Dare Obasanjo : Amazon made $2.2B from search ads last quarter. Expect next step is for Amazon ads to start show scale.

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Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

The AOM board currently includes Amazon, Apple, ARM, Cisco, Facebook, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix, Nvidia, and Samsung, and many companies joined as promoter members. The encoder can typically be improved years after the standard has been frozen including varying speed and quality trade-offs.

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Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

LCP, or Largest Contentful Paint , is one of the three Core Web Vitals that you must “pass” to get the full search ranking boost from Google as part of their Page Experience Update. From an SEO perspective, it doesn’t really matter what other tools tell you, GSC is what Google Search sees. The issue was that LCP was too slow on mobile.

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Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

To speed up release frequency, they’re investing in delivery-pipeline automation. The flip side of speeding up delivery, however, is that each software release comes with the risk of impacting your goals of availability, performance, or any business KPIs. Watch this talk about Automated SLO Management for more information.

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Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 156

CSS Wizardry

APRIL 22, 2020

Of course, this total of 100% only measures compressible responses that actually were compressed—there are still many millions of resources that could or should have been compressed but were not. 21 years later, in 2013, Google launched Brotli, a new algorithm that claims even greater improvement than Gzip! decrease in file-size.

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Latency Servers Website Speed 269

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2022

By filing public comments with UK regulators and US legislators this week , you can change the course of mobile computing more significantly than at any other time in more than a decade. Facebook and Google, meanwhile, have undermined user agency in browser choice for fun and profit. A thread ??. [1/5Sb

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Mobile Google Games Operating System 87

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In 2021, Google relaunched CLS with a session window. By introducing a session window, Google reduced the impact of the SPA problem. After you've added conversion data, you're all ready to create lots of compelling visualizations to get your organization to care about site speed. Learn more here.

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Performance Metrics Speed Google 57

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Google Fonts. Google Sheets sync. All avatars are collected from various sources (they are always provided), and they can be filtered by age, gender and emotion, but of course you need to check the source and the license before actually using it. Google Fonts Pairings for Figma. Copy-Paste And Sync Google Sheets in Figma.

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Google Design Code Mobile 145

MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

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. Faster appeared first on MachMetrics Speed Blog.

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Retail Speed Website Google 82

MachMetrics

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

“Well of course these sites load quickly, there’s nothing there!” Looking again at the websites above, you’ll see that Google uses one image (their logo), Craigslist uses 0(!), However, you can follow all of the tips above to ensure that your images have a minimal impact on your site speed. Craigslist.

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Website Speed Google Cache 57

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. 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. We at Rigor respect many web performance leaders around the world. Rachel Andrew.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Official Blog - World Web Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The top three results in Google SERPs get 54.4% Google is the most prominent global search market player with a market share of 83%. Yes, SEO is a long-term approach, but it offers some unparalleled advantages to businesses in terms of brand recognition, visibility, reputation, and of course, web traffic and revenues.

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Google Traffic Social Media Website 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome who was working all around web performance for decades. DRM-free, of course. DRM-free, of course. Addy Osmani is an engineering manager working on Google Chrome. DRM-free, of course.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 106

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s the newest metric of the bunch and is set to formally be a ranking factor in Google search results beginning in March 2024. Of course, we’re talking about the user doing something on the page, i.e., an action such as a click or keyboard focus. Of course, this is entirely dependent on the complexity of the page.

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Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 95

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

Most page speed audit tools will send you an error letting you know if your site is not being compressed, however, we really like this tool from Varvy , as it shows you just how much page weight is being saved through compression. Created by Google in 2013, Brotli is a compression algorithm created by Google for the compression of web fonts.

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Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. Enter Google! ” That’s 4-8x the speed of evolution and feedback cycles. To get that release speed, Snap needs to be a user space solution. SOSP’19.

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Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Assuming encode/decode speeds meet your needs. Encode/Decode Speed. Degree of compression, image quality, and decoding speed are key factors to be considered when comparing image performance for the web. However, the AVIF team is working on improving encoding speeds. A tl;dr of recommendations can be found below.

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Open Source Speed Website Google 144

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome and focusing around performance for decades. DRM-free, of course. DRM-free, of course. Addy Osmani is an engineering manager working on Google Chrome. DRM-free, of course. Get Print + eBook.

Media 93

Media Cache Google Best Practices 93

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. In this article, I’ll highlight some of the work we did and how we were able to achieve our speed. There are several ways you can affect this, and the speed of your website is a big one. Jennifer Brehm.

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 116

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Google Chrome is currently one of the most popular web browsers used by developers today. According to StatCounter , as of September 2019, Google Chrome holds 63.72% browser market share across the globe. What Are the Google Chrome DevTools? This can be beneficial if you are wanting to test more accurately at a specific speed.

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Google Website Network Media 85

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. India's speed test medians are moving quickly, but variance is orders-of-magnitude wide, with 5G penetration below 25% in the most populous areas.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

A typical example of modern "microservices-inspired" Java application would function along these lines: Netflix : We observed during experimentation that RAM random read latencies were rarely higher than 1 microsecond whereas typical SSD random read speeds are between 100–500 microseconds.

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Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

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. Speeds up development. Of course, not all automation is created equal. Enhances DevOps productivity.

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Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147