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. From an SEO perspective, it doesn’t really matter what other tools tell you, GSC is what Google Search sees. The issue was that LCP was too slow on mobile.

Google 143

Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The most obvious change 5G might bring about isn’t to cell phones but to local networks, whether at home or in the office. High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting. Those waits can be significant, even if you’re on a corporate network. Let’s get back to home networking.

Wireless 53

Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

According to Google's thresholds, an LCP time of 3.96 Are you using a content delivery network (CDN) to bring elements like images closer to your users, so that delivery times are faster? Even though the hero image – which in and of itself is a fairly well optimized image – has downloaded at around the 2.9

Performance 66

Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 66

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

Applications that do not require to be downloaded and can be accessed via hitting the URL on a mobile browser are known as mobile web applications. The applications which are required to be downloaded on your smartphone before you start using them are known as Native applications. What are Mobile Web Applications? Signup Now.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

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.

Google 106

Google Monitoring Website Speed 106

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. We at Rigor respect many web performance leaders around the world. Rachel Andrew.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Testsigma

AUGUST 12, 2021

There’s no need to download or install a web app; besides, they update automatically and take up very little space on our devices. As per StatCounter , there are more than ten browsers in use with Google Chrome leading the way. We’ll talk more about them in the following sections. Source: Dave Black/imgflip.

Testing 102

Testing Testing Tools Mobile Cloud 102

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

PWAs have been around for over five years, yet native applications outnumber them both in the quantity ratio and how many times users download them. This also implies that you don’t have to spend additional time and money on creating a PWA to suit various devices, greatly speeding up time-to-market. Why is that? Read point 2.

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

Tim Kadlec

MAY 11, 2010

Like it’s older brother YSlow, Page Speed , released by Google in in mid-2009, is primarily a tool to audit and analyze the performance of your site. However a closer looks shows that there is in fact a lot more that Page Speed can do. that Google has documented. Parallelize downloads across hostnames.

Speed 40

Speed Performance Open Source Cache 40

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Similarly from cross-site navigation — think Google search results or the like and then clicking back. Browsers have lots of caches , the most well-known of which is the HTTP Cache that stores copies of downloaded resources on a local drive for later reuse. Didn’t The HTTP Cache Do All That Anyway?

Cache 91

Cache Games Performance Website 91

Tim Kadlec

MARCH 14, 2019

Google formally announced Lite Pages the other day and the response has been… let’s say mixed. But in this case, the announcement has to deal with Google making changes to HTTPS content which, as you would expect, makes folks a little more nervous. Understandably so. Sometimes that’s fine. What We Know.

Google 63

Google Traffic Cache Servers 63

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Source: HTTP Archive's Core Web Vitals Technology Report. Large preview ).

Website 126

Website Performance Google Media 126

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 19, 2018

What we see is that the HTML parser stops when it encounters a SCRIPT tag until that script is downloaded, parsed, and executed. Because the HTML parser stopped, all network traffic also stopped (because no other HTML tags were parsed to initiate HTTP requests). The second script, jquery.js , takes a long time to download.

Internet 53

Internet Internet Website Traffic 53

Rigor

JULY 2, 2019

Because of the redirection, our total HTML request, download, and render time took an additional 156 ms – for a total of 521 ms. Time spent on redirect is most noticeable on mobile devices, especially since they tend to use slower networks. The first call was for the resource that we thought was located at [link].

Mobile 60

Mobile Traffic Google Latency 60

Testsigma

JANUARY 18, 2021

Network Throttling – If your app is built for a global audience, it is important to test the app features in varied network conditions (e.g. Along with testing on different network conditions, you should also check the app’s behaviour with different UL (Upload) and Download (DL) speeds.

Testing 55

Testing Operating System Website Internet 55

Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

The Time to First Byte (TTFB) metric (also known as First Byte) measures the speed with which your server delivers content to the user. Basically, TTFB is a measure of back-end and network performance. First Meaningful Paint (FMP) is defined by Google developers as the metric that answers the question, “Is it useful?”

Ecommerce 87

Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Nobody frames it precisely this way; instead they'll say, if WebKit weren't mandated, Chromium would take over , or Google would dominate the web if not for the WebKit restriction. The New York Times reported in late 2020 that Google now pays Apple between $8-12 billion per year , up from $1 billion in 2014. And that's a choice. "WebKit

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

TLS stands for Transport Layer Security which is a cryptographic protocol used to increase security over computer networks. It allows for even faster speeds due to 1 less round trip required. You can, however, download a beta version of Firefox or Chrome which does use the final version of TLS 1.3. via a browser.

Transportation 67

Transportation C++ Network Google 67

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

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!

Speed 85

Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

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. seconds faster on average and it drove 60 million more Firefox downloads per year. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2 Lighthouse.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

In this blog, we will discuss both data and network-level compression offered in MongoDB. We will discuss snappy and zstd for data block and zstd compression in a network. By default, MongoDB provides a snappy block compression method for storage and network communication. Snappy is a compression library developed by Google.

Storage 110

Storage Network Open Source Latency 110

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. Download Time of HTML This is the time it takes to download the page’s HTML file.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

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. Large preview ) That’s a nice big view and is a good illustration of TBT’s impact on page speed. Analytics is a good example. It’s worth asking.

Google 91

Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 91

Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Smaller HTML means less time for Google to download and process those long strings of text. Both for Google bots (SEO) and to actual clients. But first, let’s talk about the importance of speed improvement. Why Is Speed Improvement Necessary To Our SEO Efforts? The main goal is to have a small LCP as possible.

Google 111

Google Architecture Servers Speed 111

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed.

Website 110

Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. South Korea has the fastest mobile download speed , averaging 52.4 Mbps download and 0.7

Cache 96

Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

But pages keep getting bigger and more complex year over year – and this increasing size and complexity is not fully mitigated by faster devices and networks, or by our hard-working browsers. How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? This falls short of Google's threshold of 2.5

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

By default, CSS is a render-blocking resource , meaning that the website won’t be displayed to the user until all linked stylesheets and their dependencies (fonts, for example) have been downloaded and parsed by the browser. We know that it shouldn’t be referenced in the HTML head element when the page HTML is first downloaded.

Media 109

Media Performance Cache Strategy 109

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.

Google 140

Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

De-duplication can prevent multiple copies on disk, but we're out of luck on reducing network costs. Suppose a user has only downloaded part of the cache. One available proxy is the distribution of use from Google's hosted JS libraries. The bigger the download, the less likely users are to switch. Back of the Napkin #.

Cache 82

Cache Government Traffic Network 82

Dean Hume

JULY 30, 2018

Without fail, there is this spot along the line where my network connection drops from a clear 4G signal to a 2G signal at best. It’s worth mentioning that around the world, not everyone is lucky enough to get such good connection speeds. This is where the Network Information API aims to change things.

Network 78

Network Speed Google Mobile 78

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. If your average visitor is on a fast cabled or cellular network, they probably won’t benefit from the new protocols all that much. A Primer on Speed. Congestion Control.

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

MachMetrics

MARCH 21, 2019

While lots of these KPIs are speed metrics, content performance metrics, and behavioral metrics, don’t lose sight of your main purpose (perhaps revenue). The time to first byte (aka TTFB) is stipulated by the delivery speed from the website’s original server of origin to the viewer’s ISP. Resource Download Time.

Metrics 74

Metrics Social Media Performance Speed 74

KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

This is crucial due to mobile devices requiring additional optimizations because they typically have less powerful hardware and a slower network connection when compared to desktop devices. For example, while the average mobile download speed on 4G in Switzerland is fast at 35.2 Mbps ( Opensignal ). How Can an Image CDN Help?

Speed 52

Speed Website Mobile Latency 52

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum interconnect is the networking layer of the architecture, and manages communication between the Greenplum segments and master host network infrastructure. As mentioned throughout this post, Greenplum is an open source database so the community version is absolutely free to download and use. Greenplum Advantages.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

For more than ten years, I've been writing about page bloat, its impact on site speed, and ultimately how it affects your users and your business. Core Web Vitals are a Google search ranking factor. Given that Google continues to dominate search usage, you should care about Vitals alongside the other metrics you should be tracking.

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52