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.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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MachMetrics

JULY 15, 2020

However, if utilized carelessly, CSS can greatly affect our page speed. That’s good to know, but I know you’re looking for a css speed test, or techniques for optimizing your css for speed. Perform an Audit of Your Site. If these aren’t being downloaded asynchronously (see below), that’s a problem.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

So I thought it would be fun to spend some time poking around behind the scenes and give the site a holiday performance audit. Background For this performance audit, I looked at this synthetic test for the LEGO.com home page. (We According to Google's thresholds, an LCP time of 3.96 seconds, LCP lags at 3.96

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

With so many of their transactions occurring online, customers are becoming more demanding, expecting websites and applications to always perform perfectly. Microservices-based architectures and software containers enable organizations to deploy and modify applications with unprecedented speed.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. When it comes to performance, you shouldn’t be stingy. There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. Agustinus Theodorus.

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score. It’s no secret that speed has become a crucial factor in increasing revenue and lowering abandonment rates. Recommended! PageSpeed 5.0

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Jennifer Brehm. 2021-06-02T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-06-02T13:32:39+00:00. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. But not everything about performance happens directly at the code level, right?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 2, 2021

Think of the KPIs that measure your team’s performance, your SRE SLOs, or how Google Search rankings are influenced by Core Web Vitals ; these measurements are derived from multiple raw metrics, processed into actionable insights. You can assign a dollar value to any conversion goal—registrations, downloads, quote requests, etc.—and

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KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

Image Optimization Importance We have been talking a lot about website optimization lately and have interviewed many web performance experts to get their recommendations and advice. Here are just a few of their responses: A big focus for our performance team is (and will continue to be) optimizing images. You guessed it, images.

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MachMetrics

MARCH 21, 2019

Web performance metrics track the efficiency (or lack thereof) of any individual aspect of your website’s performance. Once you have started collecting some of these must-track web performance metrics for your website, inefficiencies will become clearer. The first step in improving your website is measuring it.

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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.

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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. What is Google Lighthouse? Google Lighthouse is one of the best-automated tools available on a web developer's utility belt.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This demand creates an increasing need for DevOps teams to maintain the performance and reliability of critical business applications. Setting a stringent SLO for an application that’s not business-critical can lead to wasted time and resources when it comes to remediating issues or performing tasks to ensure uptime.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The limited number access points, compounded with the fact that traffic is controlled by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, creates performance bottlenecks for all users in China when trying to access websites from inside and outside of the country. These updates will disable access of Google apps downloader, for example.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rachel Andrew.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

However, getting reliable answers from observability data so teams can automate more processes to ensure speed, quality, and reliability can be challenging. This drive for speed has a cost: 22% of leaders admit they’re under so much pressure to innovate faster that they must sacrifice code quality.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Similarly from cross-site navigation — think Google search results or the like and then clicking back. Using the HTTP Cache can avoid the need to download the same resources over and over again. Barry Pollard.

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MachMetrics

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

We’re happy to announce two new features that many of you have been asking for: custom dashboards and the ability to specify connection speed for your tests. If you’re monitoring the speed of a few urls, the default “All Urls” dashboard works just great. Connection Speed. Custom Dashboards. 0.384 Mbps).

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Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

Page speed has been a key factor in Google’s ranking algorithm since 2010 , so it is essential to understand the various ways you can optimize your pages and why implementing synthetic monitoring can ensure your pages perform flawlessly and revenue isn’t lost. Find Your Performance Baseline. Optimize Your Pages.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. However, just as out-of-control spending bodes ill in the long run, so does unbudgeted digital media decimate site performance. Of the many factors that affect page-load speed, media is a significant one. Performance Budgets. “A

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Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

If you've been working in the performance space for a while and you hear me start to talk about page growth, I'd forgive you if you started running away. ;). How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? Image size is another issue, as excessive image weight hurts your SEO ranking in Google Image Search.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. The better the performance, the better chance that users stay on a page, read content, make purchases, or just about whatever they need to do. Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates.

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Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

As the amount of data grows, the need for efficient data compression becomes increasingly important to save storage space, reduce I/O overhead, and improve query performance. Block compression can improve performance by allowing data to be read and written in smaller chunks. Snappy is a compression library developed by Google.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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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). Note : You can also just download the checklist (PDF, 158 KB). With Google Search Console you can see exactly where your pages are (or aren’t) ranking for different keywords. Google Trends.

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Randon ASCII

JULY 11, 2022

While investigating some performance mysteries in Chrome I discovered that Microsoft had parallelized how they zero memory, and in some cases this was making it a lot slower. A bug had been filed suggesting that Chrome download speeds (such as those measured by speedtest.net ) seemed to be affected by some anti-virus software.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Sometimes it’s easy enough to find the answer to that question and the site just needs to invest in performance. Sometimes though, it’s a little trickier and, despite thinking your site was great on the performance for some reason it still fails. Many developers have been asking themselves that question lately.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. High performance, query optimization, open source and polymorphic data storage are the major Greenplum advantages. Here are some of the key Greenplum advantages that can help you improve your database performance: High Performance.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. Perhaps surprisingly, users experience faster speeds over a mobile network than WiFi in at least 30 countries worldwide, including Australia and France. South Korea has the fastest mobile download speed , averaging 52.4 Mbps download and 0.7

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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

They get even MORE impatient when it comes to website speed. ” Look put these stats on some numbers: Effect on Sale: 79% of customers who report dissatisfaction with website performance are less likely to buy from that same site again. “ The results were clear—speed matters! . Want proof? Growing use of mobile.

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MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

And this is shocking since we all know that page load speed is directly correlated to site revenue (you’re aware that faster websites lead to increased conversion and sales, right?). ” This is because Target.com does an excellent job of improving user-perceived speed. Unfortunately, Target.com is not a fast website.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome who was working all around web performance for decades. Jump to the details ↓ Download a free PDF sample (12MB). Download PDF , ePUB , Kindle. Image Decoding Performance. +.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. We normally focus solely on the performance aspect, but today we want to dive into additional ways you can optimize images for the web.

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