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Google Lighthouse Audits – How to use Chrome’s built-in speed testing tool

MachMetrics

If you’re not a developer/designer, you may not be familiar with the Chrome DevTools and the extremely powerful Google Lighthouse Audits that can be found inside. However, you have likely used the Web UI that Google uses to allow you to test websites for speed – Google PageSpeed Insights. Performance.

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Are Times still Good for Load Testing?

Alex Podelko

It is difficult to believe that 5 years passed… Are times still good for load testing? If we speak about commercial load testing tools, we see rather a shrinking market and not too much innovation recently. Oracle Applications Testing Suite (OATS) entered sustainability mode stage. Well, yes and no. Open Source.

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Master Apache JMeter. From Load Testing to DevOps

Alex Podelko

It appears that Apache JMeter became the most popular load testing tool. In 2014, I was preparing a presentation about load testing tools and criteria for their selection. In particular, JMeter has many integrations with other popular tools and a large number of plugins.

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Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF)

Smashing Magazine

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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Understanding the True Cost of Client-Side A/B Testing

Tim Kadlec

The other reason that I mentioned for why folks use client-side A/B testing is cost. In some cases, like Google Optimize, it’s even free. While not perfect, Google’s Impact Calculator is a decent way to guess-timate potential improvements in revenue based on performance. That puts annual revenue at $1.44

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An In-Depth Guide To Measuring Core Web Vitals

Smashing Magazine

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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What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites

Smashing Magazine

One tool that’s particularly helpful is called Lighthouse. Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google. Source: Test My Site ) ( Large preview ).

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