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. And the “contentful” part of the name shows this metric is intended to ignore (e.g. Often this is the hero image or the title text.

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Speed Curve

APRIL 30, 2024

Our newest release continues our theme of making your RUM data even more actionable. Correlation charts showing how INP affects user engagement Element attribution We've been collecting Interaction to Next Paint data for a while. However, as a general time-based metric, INP didn't leave a lot of hints as to the source of the problem.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

OpenTelemetry for Go provides developers with an observability framework for cloud-native software, allowing them to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data for relevant services. Such additional telemetry data includes user-behavior analytics, code-level visibility, and metadata (including open-source data).

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Jos

MARCH 13, 2020

Web Performance is important for user experience and business metrics. Look, there are many case studies proving a correlation between loading time and business metrics!” ?-?I Using Test My Site from Think with Google : Gives you an estimation of potential revenue increase for your site when saving loading time.

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Last year, Google made two significant changes to their search indexing and ranking algorithms : In March, indexing became based on the mobile version of a page , rather than desktop. What is Google Lighthouse?

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Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

Due to the massive amount of data, no one knew what action to take if a number went red. This greatly reduced the number of metrics to manage and provided a more comprehensive picture of what was behind their primary reliability service-level objective. The metrics behind the four signals vary by row. So, what did they do?

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Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Chances are, you're here because of Google's update to its search algorithm , which affects both desktop and mobile, and which includes Core Web Vitals as a ranking factor. The metrics that comprise Web Vitals are still evolving. These metrics will (I think) always be in a state of evolution. When Google talks, people listen.

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Performance Google Metrics Mobile 96

Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

Additionally, teams are measuring and tracking key business metrics – conversion rates, cart abandonment rates, customer lifetime value, revenue by traffic source, and so on. Why Are User-centric Metrics Essential for Ecommerce? Which Metrics Matter for Ecommerce? ” The short answer is, “ It depends.

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Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 9, 2020

In such circumstances, it’s challenging to investigate the reasons for unexpected behavior or traffic between pods. For this example, we’ll use a simple application called “Online Boutique,” which is based on the Google microservices demo application. Network metrics for all containerized environments.

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Design Google Architecture Traffic 101

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In the webinar “ Intelligent Kubernetes observability and automation ,” Dynatrace expert Henrik Rexed and GCP experts Gari Singh and Alisha Stull provide insights into leveraging AI-powered observability and automation to gain granular insights into Kubernetes environments on Google Cloud Platform at an enterprise scale.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 12, 2021

In some cases, like Google Optimize, it’s even free. When I did that, the result was a significant improvement in the paint metrics. In practice, were you doing this to your own site, you would hopefully have some data about how performance impacts your own business metrics. That puts annual revenue at $1.44

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CSS Wizardry

MARCH 28, 2022

This genuinely surprises me, because LCP is the simplest metric to improve. The important thing to note here is that Google doesn’t care how you get to LCP, as long as you get there fast. The metrics above don’t matter in and of themselves, but it’s going to help your LCP if you can get them as low as possible. at entry 12.

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Tim Kadlec

APRIL 10, 2023

10% 90% Google 25% 75% MySpace 9% 91% MSN 5% 95% ebay 5% 95% Amazon 38% 62% YouTube 9% 91% CNN 15% 85% When Steve Souders repeated it in 2012 , he found much the same. I broke the percentages down by page rank (based on traffic to the site). For both desktop and mobile data, the 80 / 20 rule still holds strong.

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Performance Servers Mobile Metrics 111

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

However, that pesky 20% on the back end can have a big impact on downstream metrics like First Contentful Paint (FCP), Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), and any other 'loading' metric you can think of. Google recommends that TTFB be 800ms at the 75th percentile. That performance golden rule still holds true today.

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Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

We’ve been pretty vocal about Core Web Vitals since Google announced this initiative last spring. We love the idea of having a lean, shared set of metrics that we can all rally around – not to mention having a broader conversation about web performance that includes teams throughout an organization. Let's dig in!

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Speed Curve

JULY 26, 2022

Fixing high-traffic but poorly performing areas of your site will improve your overall metrics – and create a faster, better experience for more of your users. You can then prioritize and focus on these areas to improve important metrics like Largest Contentful Paint. Change summary metrics on your charts.

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Testing Performance Metrics Traffic 52

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The best way to fight regressions is to create performance budgets on key metrics, and get alerted when they go out of bounds. See the impact of performance on your business Correlation charts are a great way to communicate the business value of performance to everyone in your business – using your own data.

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Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

Tim Kadlec

JUNE 24, 2014

At Google I/O 2014 , Lara Swanson and Paul Lewis discussed performance culture. The first step is to gather data. Look at your traffic stats, load stats and render stats to better understand the shape of your site and how visitors are using it. Etsy notifies developers whenever one of the metrics exceeds a performance goal.

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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). Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. Prioritizing Metrics Online metrics are almost limitless. Google Keyword Planner.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

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. Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

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. However, when reviewing this data, it’s important not to conflate correlation and causation. Dan Shappir. 2022-05-12T09:30:00+00:00. 2022-05-12T10:16:36+00:00.

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Google Performance Website Mobile 127

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals Matt Zeunert 2024-04-16T10:00:00+00:00 2024-04-16T12:05:36+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative has increased the attention website owners need to pay to user experience.

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Tim Kadlec

JUNE 21, 2022

HTTP/3 work started in 2012 with Google working on QUIC, adopted by IETF in 2017, RFC’s published in June 2022. Scalemates.com flipped the switch to enable HTTP/3 and almost immediately HTTP/3 traffic rose to ~13% of all requests on the landing page, ~49% for all pages in total. Hypothesize first, and always confirm with data.

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Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

As an ad publisher, your revenue depends on two main factors: traffic to your site and ad optimization. A lot of the focus goes into the practice and processes of driving traffic to your site from an SEO perspective, but what if when visitors get to your site, they have a less than ideal experience?

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Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. Quantitative performance testing looks at metrics like response time while qualitative testing is concerned with scalability, stability, and interoperability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

This happens at an unprecedented scale and introduces many interesting challenges; one of the challenges is how to provide visibility of Studio data across multiple phases and systems to facilitate operational excellence and empower decision making. With the latest Data Mesh Platform, data movement in Netflix Studio reaches a new stage.

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Big Data Government Analytics Processing 253

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative was launched in May of 2020 and, since then, its role in Search has morphed and evolved as roll-outs have been made and feedback has been received. However, to this day, messaging from Google can seem somewhat unclear and, in places, even contradictory. Don’t have time to read 5,500+ words?

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Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Some vendors have just bolted on individual capabilities which often leads to six data silos. PostgreSQL & Elastic for data storage. MaaSS for Business: Data per SaaS-Tenant. The Business teams therefore built a set of dashboards that contain the data they want to see. REDIS for caching. 2 Validate Configuration.

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AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 127

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ). Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0,

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

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. We can run Lighthouse test to check the metrics and use this data for comparison. Without priority hints.

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Media Tuning Metrics Google 69

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

In fact, we had to look into various cases for the form design: What happens when no data is provided at all? What happens when we retrieve the data from localStorage and plug it automatically in the input fields, but then autofill hasn’t been activated? What happens when some values are auto-filled , but others aren’t?

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Mobile Design Cache Code 140

Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

According to the Google Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) handbook, monitoring the four golden signals is crucial in delivering high-performing software solutions. These signals ( latency, traffic, errors, and saturation ) provide a solid means of proactively monitoring operative systems via SLOs and tracking business success.

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Performance Latency Traffic Metrics 168

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Just as people use Xerox as shorthand for paper copies and say “Google” instead of internet search, Docker has become synonymous with containers. What is Docker? Networking. Observability.

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Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 294

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Certain service-level objective examples can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. Fitness app : The fitness app should offer a response time of less than 500 milliseconds for exercise tracking and data recording. This SLO enables a smooth and uninterrupted exercise-tracking experience.

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Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Certain SLOs can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. Fitness app : The fitness app should offer a response time of less than 500 milliseconds for exercise tracking and data recording. But how do you get started, and what are some service level objective examples? The Apdex score of 0.85

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Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 171

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

But do you know how Lighthouse calculates performance metrics like First Contentful Paint (FCP), Total Blocking Time (TBT), and Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)? Still, there’s nothing in there to tell us about the data Lighthouse is using to evaluate metrics. That’s what this article is about.

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Speed Google Website Metrics 97

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 16, 2023

That’s a significant amount and certainly more than is necessary relative to the traffic on most clusters. More acutely, if a traffic spike occurs and Zuul instances scale up, it exponentially increases connections open to origins. Subsetting was also top of mind after reading a recent ACM paper published by Google.

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