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Core Web Vitals: Practical metrics for optimal user experiences

Dynatrace

Metrics that offer measurable, repeatable insight into the user experience from the moment they arrive on a website from a mobile or desktop device. Great user experiences start with Core Web Vitals (CWVs) — a set of metrics defined by Google to help measure user experience at scale. When do these metrics matter?

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New web performance insights with additional metrics and enhanced Visually complete for synthetic monitors

Dynatrace

Recently introduced improvements to Visually complete and new web performance metrics for Real User Monitoring are now available for Synthetic Monitoring as well. Ensure better user experience with paint-focused performance metrics. These metrics are tightly connected to the perceived load speed of your application.

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

MachMetrics

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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In Defence of DOM­Content­Loaded

CSS Wizardry

I never thought I’d write an article in defence of DOMContentLoaded , but here it is… For many, many years now, performance engineers have been making a concerted effort to move away from technical metrics such as Load , and toward more user-facing, UX metrics such as Speed Index or Largest Contentful Paint. Or are they…?

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Beyond Speed: Why You Should Be Tracking Interactive Metrics

Rigor

In the past, the answer would be based on the load time of a page, but over the years, we have evolved our approach to site speed to incorporate new metrics, alone or in combination with existing metrics. The next evolution of performance brought in paint metrics. This is where so-called interactivity metrics come in.

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Page Experience and Core Web Vitals: a new SEO factor focusing on website speed

Dareboost

The Speed Report in the Google Search Console (recently renamed “Core Web Vitals”) is offering two new performance metrics: Cumulative Layout Shift and Largest Contentful Paint additionally to the First Input Delay. Core Web Vitals have also been deployed in tools such as Page Speed Insights or Lighthouse.

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Flow Metrics: Three Anti-Patterns to Avoid

Tasktop

Flow Metrics are a major pillar of how we measure improvement in value streams. . As organizations begin to adopt Flow Metrics , our natural tendencies emerge to massage the newfound visibility to make the metrics “look good”. Flow Metrics anti-pattern: Excluding part of the value stream. Chop up the value stream.

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