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Site-Speed Topography

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When first working on a new site-speed engagement, you need to work out quickly where the slowdowns, blindspots, and inefficiencies lie. Google Analytics can show us individual slow pages, but doesn’t necessarily help us build a bigger picture of the site as a whole. See entry 6. I think the PDP has something different about it.

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

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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 speedGoogle PageSpeed Insights. Performance.

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The DevTools Performance Tab – Using Chrome’s Profiler to Optimize Your Page Speed

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Chrome’s DevTools suite contains some of the most powerful tools available to help you analyze and improve the speed of your website (or web app). Interpreting this information is a powerful tool, and allows you to use it in the way Google intended. They can also be the most overwhelming. To improve your site!

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Best Web Performance Books to Learn Site Speed Optimization

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If you’re looking to read optimization ideas from one of the greatest minds in speed performance, look no further. and the Head Performance Engineer at Google. If these rules can be applied to improving speeds at Yahoo! and Google, they’ll do wonders for your website! Source: Amazon.

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PageSpeed Module: Dramatically Increase the Speed of Your Website Automatically

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The way a website is constructed can have a major impact on website speed performance, but developers often have a hard time keeping track of factors that cause slow page loads and other speed-related issues. The PageSpeed Module is one of several free Google tools designed to help assess and improve page load speed times.

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Understanding the performance impact of anti-flicker snippets

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Experimentation tools that use asynchronous scripts – such as Google Optimize, Adobe Target, and Visual Web Optimizer – recommend using an anti-flicker snippet to hide the page until they've finished executing. Google Optimize) has finished applying its experiments. In Google Optimize's default case is the whole document.

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Web Font Performance – How Your Fonts Affect Page Speed

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Beyond that, there is a reason that these fonts are used for billions of words in books and documents – their readability and quality. Using Google’s Font API. Google Font API is a web service that supports open source font files that can be used for your web designs. Web Safe Fonts (System Fonts). Source: [link].

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