Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Fight regressions and stay fast It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast. Fighting regressions should be the top priority of anyone who cares about the speed of their site. The best way to fight regressions is to create performance budgets on key metrics, and get alerted when they go out of bounds.

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Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

At the same time, they open a door to lots of concepts that might be overwhelming: PRPL, RAIL, Paint Timing API, TTI, HTTP/2, Speed Index, Priority Hints and more … Why Performance doesn’t get Prioritized Web performance at organizations is a real challenge. One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. Well, not so fast.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

If you are designing an app or a website, you can test how easy and intuitive it is to complete a specific task, fill out a form, find certain information, or buy a product. They used eye-tracking to measure visual attention on banners, animated graphics, and navigational tools in websites. Eye-Tracking Evolution.

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Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 115

Dynatrace

MARCH 10, 2021

The designation reflects AWS’ recognition that Dynatrace has demonstrated deep experience and proven customer success building AI-powered solutions on AWS. They collect metrics and raise alerts, but they provide few answers as to what went wrong in the first place. Visit the AWS website to learn more about the AWS Competency Program.

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AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence Innovation 144

MachMetrics

JANUARY 16, 2020

Optimizing your images is often the very first suggestion that any performance writer or consultant will make when it comes to optimizing a website. Make no mistake, this is a key step to take and should absolutely be a part of your web design/development routine. We’re no exception. Plugins may be congesting your site.

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Speed Website Metrics Cache 89

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Session replay is an IT technology that creates anonymized video-like recordings of actions taken by users interacting with your website or mobile application. Replay software also captures web assets such as CSS so it can create accurate recordings even if your website changes. What is session replay? How does session replay work?

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Mobile Website Analytics Cache 247

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance. High Performance Websites. Even Faster Websites. Designing for Performance.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 27, 2019

While it’s important to check various speed metrics , the Web Almanac uses data from the Chome UX Report which focuses on how Chrome users actually experience the web. The first metric that analyzed was First Contenful Paint (FCP). Conversely, ‘slow’ websites are consistently slower that 3 seconds.

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Performance Speed Website Mobile 52

Rigor

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

According to Tim Kadlec : A performance budget is a clearly defined limit on one or more performance metrics that the team agrees not to exceed and that is used to guide design and development. A website’s speed makes the difference in whether users visit a site or not, so performance matters a great deal.

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Performance Metrics Website Speed 45

Tasktop

JUNE 20, 2022

OKRs should be designed so that every team’s activities can be traced up to the company’s vision. This is easier said than done, so we’ve designed three sets of OKRs examples for software companies to show how it’s possible. Get the ebook on designing flow-based OKRs. Adopt a security by design approach.

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Software Software Healthcare Mobile 96

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Previous metrics measured variations of the first paint to screen (often this was a header or background color); incidentally content that isn’t really what the user actually wants to get out of the page. And the “contentful” part of the name shows this metric is intended to ignore (e.g. More after jump! Your (smashing) email.

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Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). We deployed these enhancements gradually over time to ensure that our users didn’t experience any disruptions, but instead only a consistent improvement of their site speed. Dan Shappir. 2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00.

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Website Performance Google Media 129

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. If you want to vastly improve the startup and load performance of your website, you cannot miss the impactful observations and insights that Jake posts on jakearchibald.com/ and shares on Twitter @ jaffathecake. Here is our (ever-growing!) Rachel Andrew.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

At the same time, they open a door to lots of concepts that might be overwhelming: PRPL, RAIL, Paint Timing API, TTI, HTTP/2, Speed Index, Priority Hints and more …. UI/UX : There is usually a designer and/or UX person that sets the look & feel and information architecture. I use a Macbook Pro to develop websites.

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

Build a performance culture that embraces collaboration between design and dev. Keep reading to learn how you can apply these best practices to your own site and give your pages a speed boost. The critical rendering path is the set of steps browsers must take to convert HTML, CSS and JavaScript into living, breathing websites.

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 77

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. The Smashing team has done a lot to make a fast website, so even a fresh load (though this experiment may not be a completely fresh load if you came to this article from the home page). Here’s an experiment for you.

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Cache Games Performance Website 93

Speed Curve

MAY 2, 2016

SpeedCurve’s sweet spot is the intersection of design and performance - where the user experience lives. SpeedCurve helps you do this by focusing on metrics that reflect what the user actually experiences. The rendering chart includes metrics for Start Render, Speed Index, and Visually Complete.

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Metrics Speed Website Network 58

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

So noticeable, in fact, that Core Web Vitals has a metric all about it called Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). This metric measures the time it takes, in seconds, to render the largest image or text block that is visible on the initial load. That’s practically an eternity when talking about page speed performance.

Media 74

Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 74

Rigor

JUNE 12, 2019

Alla Gringaus has worked with a multitude of well-established technology and media brands, including TIME , People , The Economist , and the American Kennel Club, carrying hands-on and leading roles in front-end development and UX, all driven by user-centered design. I used my expertise to educate people about metrics,” says Gringaus.

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Performance Social Media Internet Internet 72

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. Enhanced User Experience Whether you operate an e-commerce platform, a content management system, or any other application reliant on MySQL, users will notice and appreciate the improved speed and responsiveness.

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Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Speed Curve

JUNE 10, 2015

Many speakers and attendees have started to change their language and describe the experience of their websites and apps from the user’s perspective. Design + performance. The key is ensuring that the design and development process keeps the user and their experience of a product as a constant focus.

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Metrics Design DevOps Website 40

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

The surest way to ignore such misalignment is by focusing exclusively on technical questions about AI model capabilities, divorced from the socio-economic environment in which these models will operate and be designed for profit.

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Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 91

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Delivering a fast, consistent online experience has been proven to measurably increase every metric retailers care about – from conversions and revenue to retention and brand perception. (In What you can do: Monitor the speed of your third parties. Without stylesheets, we wouldn’t have great things like responsive design.

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Retail Performance Metrics Analytics 40

Testsigma

JANUARY 18, 2021

Web Developers frequently come across issues where the developed website or web application does not work as expected on certain combinations of browsers and operating systems. When it comes to web applications (or websites), cross browser testing should be a high-priority item on the automation testing checklist. UTC, EST. MST, etc.).

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Testing Operating System Website Internet 55

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 82

Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

And for many internet-era companies, developing quality products at speed is necessary to gain market share and avoid being disrupted. I’ve seen DevOps working best when it is implemented using Platform-as-a-Product guided by Developer Experience metrics like: How quickly can teams spin up a new service and have it deployed to production?

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Technology Technology DevOps Energy 59

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

However, at the end of 2020, about 1% of websites included a Service Worker, and 2.2% Application leaders for digital commerce technologies must plan for PWAs when designing digital commerce experiences”. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web.

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Code Cache Retail Mobile 76

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps. How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps. However, it’s not always easy to maintain high performance in websites. Even if your website is designed with usability in mind, these factors impede users from fully benefiting from the website’s features.

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Website Google Open Source Mobile 83

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google do strongly encourage you to focus on site speed for better performance in Search, but, if you don’t pass all relevant Core Web Vitals (and the applicable factors from the Page Experience report) they will not push you down the rankings. While Core Web Vitals can help with SEO, there’s so much more to site-speed than that.

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Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Given that 66% of all websites (and 77% of all requests ) are running HTTP/2, I will not discuss concatenation strategies for HTTP/1.1 Connection One thing we haven’t looked at is the impact of network speeds on these outcomes. Larger files compress much more effectively and thus download faster at all connection speeds.

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Cache Latency Strategy Speed 291

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. You’ve agonized over design patterns and usability. Ken Harker. 2022-06-01T10:00:00+00:00.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 133

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Additionally, end users can access your site or applications from anywhere in the world using different browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, all with varying connection speeds. Use baseline metrics to identify performance degradation by reviewing elements provided by waterfall charts.

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Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 16, 2019

By any metric, images are a major slice of the resources on websites, and we're notoriously bad at optimizing them and doing all the things we could to lower the performance hit from them. CDNs are vital for speed. ImageEngine. Akami Image Manager. KeyCDN Image Processing. CloudImage. ImageOptim API. That's a very good thing.

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Media Servers Database Design 44

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. This commitment involves prioritizing websites that offer not only relevant content but also an excellent user experience.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 75

Speed Curve

APRIL 14, 2024

On websites, CMPs handle cookie popups. It's common to see the consent scripts blocking by design. This can have an impact on most metrics – such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint – downstream. If you were just looking at metrics, the event timeline comparison below may be a bit of a head-scratcher.

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Internet 126

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Web-performance testing Web-performance testing evaluates metrics including page loading speed, the performance of specific page elements, and the occurrence rate of site errors. Consider a synthetic test designed to evaluate an e-commerce shopping application. First is a test of the home screen. HTTP monitors.

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Testing Best Practices Testing Tools Monitoring 209

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.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78