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? At this point, you’re probably saying, “Great.

Ecommerce 87

Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

Speed Curve

MAY 9, 2023

Today at Google I/O 2023, it was announced that Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is no longer an experimental metric. It's been hugely helpful to have a simple set of three metrics – focused on loading, interactivity, and responsiveness – that everyone can understand and focus on. How does INP compare to FID?

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Metrics Google Mobile Analytics 96

Jos

JUNE 17, 2017

In a recent post about Chrome 60 Beta , Google announced the support of the Paint Timing API to get metrics on when your page starts rendering and when the user gets content that can be consumed (more info on the definition of the events below). Yet those metrics don’t tell us the whole picture about the rendering experience.

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Google Analytics Metrics Speed 100

Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Whilst web page load time is an important metric to measure, it doesn't tell the whole picture. As I started to learn more about web page performance, I started to experiment with webpagetest.org and discovered the different metrics that it uses. The total is your Speed Index score!" speedindex-test.

Speed 40

Speed Analytics Google Retail 40

Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Whilst web page load time is an important metric to measure, it doesn't tell the whole picture. As I started to learn more about web page performance, I started to experiment with webpagetest.org and discovered the different metrics that it uses. The total is your Speed Index score!" speedindex-test.

Speed 40

Speed Analytics Google Retail 40

Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Whilst web page load time is an important metric to measure, it doesn't tell the whole picture. As I started to learn more about web page performance, I started to experiment with webpagetest.org and discovered the different metrics that it uses. The total is your Speed Index score!" speedindex-test.

Speed 40

Speed Analytics Google Retail 40

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.

Servers 57

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

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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Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Earlier this year, when Google announced that Interaction to Next Paint (INP) will replace First Input Delay (FID) as the responsiveness metric in Core Web Vitals in *gulp* March of 2024, we had a lot to say about it. TLDR: FID doesn't correlate with real user behavior, so we don't endorse it as a meaningful metric.) for mobile.

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Mobile Performance Metrics Google 54

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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Metrics Performance Testing Testing Internet 49

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Back in May, we shared that SpeedCurve supports Google's Core Web Vitals in both our synthetic monitoring and LUX real user monitoring tools. The newcomer to the scene was Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), and, not surprisingly, it's the metric that's gotten the most questions. recommended by Google. It's definitely worth a read.).

Retail 81

Retail Benchmarking Google Metrics 81

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

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Geoff Graham 2023-08-10T08:00:00+00:00 2023-08-10T12:35:05+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear There is no shortage of ways to measure the speed of a webpage. Lighthouse results.

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Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

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). There are so many characters living in the fictional city of Springfield that you can always find one who shares a persona with a web performance metric. Maggie Simpson.

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Metrics Performance Website Performance Google 19

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. I’m hopeful this can serve as a good introduction for any developer interested in learning about how to work with Google Lighthouse programmatically.

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Google Latency Website Metrics 82

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. Which metrics are relevant for your business, anyway?

Metrics 150

Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 150

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The story was about a fast food chain that determined customer service was an important metric that they needed to track in some way. To further help achieve the goal of “instant load”, Google is offering to provide caching for these AMP pages through their CDN. It’s free to use and publishers retain control of their content.

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Cache Google Mobile Open Source 75

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

How To Benchmark And Improve Web Vitals With Real User Metrics. How To Benchmark And Improve Web Vitals With Real User Metrics. Rest assured, all these definitions (and others) would be correct, provided the right context. Web performance is a broad topic with thousands of metrics that you could potentially monitor and improve.

Benchmarking 116

Benchmarking Metrics Best Practices Monitoring 116

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

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. You can see that Lighthouse does indeed provide that metric. It replaces the First Input Delay (FI D ) metric. Analytics is a good example.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 90

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? A Google machine-learning study I participated in a few years ago found that the total number of page elements was the single greatest predictor of conversions. This falls short of Google's threshold of 2.5 How does page bloat hurt your business?

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. A performance budget is a threshold that you apply to the metrics you care about the most. Let's get started! Background: How performance budgets work 1.

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Performance Metrics Media Google 98

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. Core Web Vital metrics definitions. SEO is key to our success.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

But these are definitely ruled out for enterprise applications due to the complexity in development, maintainability, need for object orientation, and interoperability. Considering all aspects and needs of current enterprise development, it is C++ and Java which outscore the other in terms of speed.

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Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 207

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. Many people often confuse site speed with page speed grades of performance testing tools, which are actually calculated based on multiple factors of a page including its loading speed. Daniel An, Google, 2017.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

If you’re reading this before March 2024 and fire up your favorite performance monitoring tool, you’re going to to get a Core Web Vitals report like this one pulled from PageSpeed Insights: ( Large preview ) You’re likely used to seeing most of these metrics. INP will officially replace FID when it becomes an official Core Web Vital metric.

Traffic 94

Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 94

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. Learn more here.

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Performance Metrics Speed Google 57

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Speed Curve

JULY 31, 2023

Google's Core Web Vitals are an attempt to help folks new to web performance focus on three key metrics. Old-school CLS In May 2020, Google introduced CLS as part of Core Web Vitals. I've always found it odd that Google left the representation of CLS as a decimal score. As we all know, naming things is hard.

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Google Metrics Testing Performance 52

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

Keptn uses SLO definitions to automatically configure Dynatrace or Prometheus alerting rules. While Google’s SRE Handbook mostly focuses on the production use case for SLIs/SLOs, Keptn is “Shifting-Left” this approach and using SLIs/SLOs to enforce Quality Gates as part of your progressive delivery process.

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Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 189

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

This makes memory a critical factor in the total cost of ownership (TCO) of large compute clusters, or as Google like to call them “Warehouse-scale computers (WSCs).” ” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016. Enter zswap!

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Software Software Google Hardware 78

Tim Kadlec

MARCH 19, 2018

You have to consider at least four different contexts: How well does AMP perform in the context of Google search? How well does AMP perform in the context of Google search? But what you don’t see is that Google gets that instantaneous loading by actively preloading AMP documents in the background. Speed Index.

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Cache Google Speed Metrics 79

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

So those tools are definitely part of the conversation, only because they’re a standardized way to meet some common goals that we’ve defined. Not everyone is Google. Stop reading posts from Netflix and Google. Jeff: Now, what are the things that we can do to speed this up? What good is the tool? No, that’s not it.

DevOps 83

DevOps Metrics Systems Design 83

Rigor

JANUARY 8, 2020

Reality: While it’s true that when there’s a web performance budget in place, teams need to keep it in mind when updating code or site design, this doesn’t have to impact the speed at which these updates happen. He recommends watching out for JavaScript, image sizes, Time to Interactive , and many other metrics.

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Performance Mobile Metrics Speed 122

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. Key user-centric metrics often depend on the size, number, layout, and loading priority of images on the page. Fixes To Common Problems. The Benefits Of Using An Image Service CDN. Conclusion.

Media 105

Media Cache Website Mobile 105

O'Reilly

JANUARY 17, 2023

There are various implementations–from the industrial-grade AWS SageMaker Autopilot and Google Cloud Vertex AI , to offerings from smaller players–but, in a nutshell, some developers spotted that same for() loop and built a slick UI on top. Only the larger shops have the bandwidth to really bring someone up to speed.

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Tuning Open Source AWS Software 130

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”. It is physically limited by the speed of light or, practically, how fast signals can travel in wires or in the open air. Congestion Control.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 105