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Site-Speed Topography

CSS Wizardry

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. For example, my site has a homepage, content pages (e.g.

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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

In the fourteen years that I've been working in the web performance industry, I've done a LOT of research, writing, and speaking about the psychology of page speed – in other words, why we crave fast, seamless online experiences. In fairness, that was in the early 2000s, and site speed was barely on anyone's radar.

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User-centric Metrics Matter to Ecommerce. Start with These Five.

Rigor

Reading Time: 8 minutes Whether your ecommerce business is 100% online or you supplement with bricks and mortar, your website is a critical revenue driver. But if you’re a performance expert working in ecommerce, you’re looking at the performance of your site. Why Are User-centric Metrics Essential for Ecommerce?

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6 Proven Ways to Improve Your eCommerce Conversion Rate

KeyCDN

The world of eCommerce continues to grow year by year. As consumers want to purchase items from the comfort of their own home and have them delivered in a timely manner, the opportunities in eCommerce are ever-expanding. All of these things come into play when discussing the conversion rate of any eCommerce store.

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eCommerce & Retail: There’s No Excuse to Ignore Performance

Rigor

Whether it be time, money, or technical know how, every day we talk to eCommerce and Retail teams who explain why they aren’t monitoring their site’s performance. Since our team is preparing for eTail West , there is no better time to address some of the common objections I’ve seen when talking to eCommerce and Retail teams about performance.

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Google Lighthouse vs Rigor

Rigor

One free tool has become prominent in the space – Google Lighthouse – and one question often bubbles up: “I use Google Lighthouse for one-off snapshots of my site’s performance, so why do I need a performance monitoring solution?” Where Google Lighthouse Shines Bright.

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Does Interaction to Next Paint actually correlate to user behavior?

Speed Curve

Earlier this year, Google announced that Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is no longer an experimental metric. For a more detailed explainer of INP – including a breakdown of what's in an interaction, how INP is calculated and more – see this post by Jeremy Wagner from the Google Chrome team. What is a 'good' INP number?

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