Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. But it comes with caveats.

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Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

This gives us a relatively unique opportunity to analyse and aggregate performance metrics to gain some interesting insights. In this post, I'm going to analyse some browser-based paint timing metrics: First Paint & First Contentful Paint (defined in the Paint Timing spec and implemented in Chromium). What are paint timing metrics?

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ). 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 …. A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0,

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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.

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CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative was launched in May of 2020 and, since then, its role in Search has morphed and evolved as roll-outs have been made and feedback has been received. However, to this day, messaging from Google can seem somewhat unclear and, in places, even contradictory. Don’t have time to read 5,500+ words?

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Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance. Site speed & SEO go hand in hand. Time is Money.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In the late 1990s, marketing and advertising agencies saw the potential of eye-tracking for the Internet and started using the technology to analyze how people consume content online. For instance, Nielsen’s research conducted in 2006 showed that people read content on the Internet in an F-shaped pattern.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 18, 2021

Consider a scenario where the end-users are using Internet Explorer browser to reach your website but you have not considered ‘testing on IE’ a part of your testing process! Key Metrics to consider for Cross Browser Testing. Shown below is sample test environments for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Internet Explorer (IE).

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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. I’m hopeful this can serve as a good introduction for any developer interested in learning about how to work with Google Lighthouse programmatically.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Moreover, Garten-und-Freizeit, a German e-commerce store that sells furniture, saw an amazing improvement in their metrics after getting a PWA. 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. Image credit: Garten-und-Freizeit.

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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.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

One, by researching on the Internet; Two, by developing small programs and benchmarking. There were languages I briefly read about, including other performance comparisons on the internet. Considering all aspects and needs of current enterprise development, it is C++ and Java which outscore the other in terms of speed.

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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. Daniel An, Google, 2017.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

The average user doesn’t spend much time waiting for a web page to load or to interact with the page: According to Google, if a page’s load time goes up from 1 second to 3 seconds, the probability of the user bouncing increases by 32%. Consider Google Analytics, which collects and sends tracking data using navigator.sendBeacon().

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Rigor

JUNE 4, 2019

With so many different metrics available to measure dozens of different aspects of a web page, it can be a struggle to know how best to quantify that page’s overall web performance. Metrics – Thick as Pea Soup. In the early days of performance monitoring, there were far fewer metrics than we have today.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What do the different metrics mean? While the focus in most cases tends to be directed toward front-end developers, it's important to remember the back-end as well if you see higher than normal start render times or increases in more basic metrics like time to first byte. The internet. What do the different metrics mean?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Largest Contentful Paint (or LCP) is one of three metrics of the Core Web Vitals. These metrics are used by Google to evaluate the quality of user experience. The images used in the article’s Codepen demonstrations will be integrated with TwicPics to save time in their creation and speed up the optimization of the LCP metric.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Cloud-native architecture is a structural approach to planning and implementing an environment for software development and deployment that uses resources and processes common with public clouds like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Stateless whenever possible. The time to productivity is faster. Trust nothing.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. 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. For reference, the metric is $1.19

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MachMetrics

MAY 26, 2021

On June 30th, 2021, our speed monitoring service will be retired. Speed tests will stop running, and all accounts will be closed. MachMetrics started out as a passion project, and while I worked hard to deliver robust and reliable speed monitoring, the industry is changing too fast for me to keep up. Every metric imaginable.

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MachMetrics

OCTOBER 31, 2020

WebPageTest is one of the best website speed auditing services for any designer or developer concerned with site speed (which should be all of them). We won’t get too deep into search engine optimization, but speed optimization is a huge part of what sets your site apart from others. Capture Lighthouse Report.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites. Alba Silvente. 2022-11-17T10:00:00+00:00. 2022-11-17T14:33:01+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is because HTTP/3 and QUIC mainly help deal with the somewhat uncommon yet potentially high-impact problems that can arise on today’s Internet. A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Note : Another timely note here is that Internet Explorer will reach end of life officially on June 15, 2022 ). Speaking of layers — speeding through the spec process is another new feature that was designed specifically to assist in orchestrating the cascade and alleviating clashes. Cumulative Layout Shift.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Every major website on the Internet today relies — to some degree — on third-party services. The HTTP Archive tracks third-party usage across a large swath of all active websites on the Internet today. Configuring WebPageTest to run a test measurement that simulates a failure of the Google Fonts third-party service.

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Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2022

Another research supported this conclusion by providing data that depicts 90% of the total internet time of the users is spent on mobile apps. After security, the next scenario that is critical for our mobile testing journey is the performance metric. In January 2022, BBC reported that 1/3rd of people’s waking time, around 4.8

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Testsigma

JANUARY 22, 2021

Testsigma provides real devices to be used for native applications and since the end-user will also be on a real device, this method provides precise performance and metrics for your application under test. Consider a scenario where we are using Google Chrome 86 as the latest version.

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MachMetrics

JANUARY 23, 2020

You run a speed test on a website, and the results don’t match what you personally experience. Perhaps you feel like your site loads fairly quickly, but the speed test results are sub-optimal. Outside factors may be affecting your speed test results. Google Pagespeed Insights is a notable example of this.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics Performance culture, Core Web Vitals, performance profiles, CrUX, Lighthouse, FID, TTI, CLS, devices. Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Table Of Contents.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Table Of Contents.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Table Of Contents. Setting Realistic Goals. Defining The Environment.

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