Speed Curve

MAY 9, 2023

Today at Google I/O 2023, it was announced that Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is no longer an experimental metric. It's been hugely helpful to have a simple set of three metrics – focused on loading, interactivity, and responsiveness – that everyone can understand and focus on. How does INP compare to FID?

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Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Whilst web page load time is an important metric to measure, it doesn't tell the whole picture. As I started to learn more about web page performance, I started to experiment with webpagetest.org and discovered the different metrics that it uses. The total is your Speed Index score!" speedindex-test.

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Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Whilst web page load time is an important metric to measure, it doesn't tell the whole picture. As I started to learn more about web page performance, I started to experiment with webpagetest.org and discovered the different metrics that it uses. The total is your Speed Index score!" speedindex-test.

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Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Whilst web page load time is an important metric to measure, it doesn't tell the whole picture. As I started to learn more about web page performance, I started to experiment with webpagetest.org and discovered the different metrics that it uses. The total is your Speed Index score!" speedindex-test.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

There are many key performance indicators (KPI) that measure different points during the lifecycle of the web page (such as TTFB, domInteractive and onload ), but these metrics don’t reflect how the end-user experiences the page. We found out user-centric performance metrics to be the perfect fit for this purpose. More after jump!

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Speed Curve

MAY 11, 2020

Google recently announced an initiative called 'Web Vitals', which focuses on three performance metrics they consider essential for improving the user experience: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). With the exception of FID, all of these metrics are available in both LUX (our RUM tool) and Synthetic. First Input Delay (FID).

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Session replay is an IT technology that creates anonymized video-like recordings of actions taken by users interacting with your website or mobile application. The result is a complete recreation of the user experience in a video-like format. This step is critical because the metrics needed to achieve these goals differ.

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Speed Curve

JULY 26, 2022

Fixing high-traffic but poorly performing areas of your site will improve your overall metrics – and create a faster, better experience for more of your users. You can then prioritize and focus on these areas to improve important metrics like Largest Contentful Paint. Change summary metrics on your charts. Suggestions?

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Speed Curve

JUNE 30, 2020

Keep reading to find out what this means and how it may affect your performance metrics. Google has been on a roll in 2020 with the introduction of Core Web Vitals and this latest update , and we are thrilled to offer support for both. Visual metrics like Start Render and Hero Element Render might stay roughly the same.

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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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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. Remember, speed is key to the user experience. Optimize Your Pages.

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Fighting regressions should be the top priority of anyone who cares about the speed of their site. The best way to fight regressions is to create performance budgets on key metrics, and get alerted when they go out of bounds. Make sure you're tracking the right metrics There are a lot of performance metrics out there!

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Speed Curve

JUNE 12, 2022

This makes your Vitals dashboard a powerful tool for not only seeing how your metrics perform relative to Google's thresholds, but also diagnose your biggest pain points and get prioritized solutions. LUX.getDebug() now includes events that help to debug some metrics including LCP, CLS, element timing, and long tasks.?

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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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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The AOI will determine what areas you will calculate metrics for. The metrics and how they will be shown depending on the eye-tracking tool you choose. By visualizing the gaze path on video recordings or heatmaps, you can see where the person is looking, for how long, and get actionable data.

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Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

Keep reading to learn how you can apply these best practices to your own site and give your pages a speed boost. That's why it's a good idea to not just focus on metrics like Start Render – you should also investigate Hero Rendering metrics , which track when the most meaningful content on your pages (e.g.,

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

LCP measures when the largest visual element in the viewport – typically a hero image or video – finishes rendering. According to Google's thresholds, an LCP time of 3.96 It shows how key metrics align with the rendering timeline (the filmstrip view at the top of the chart). seconds, LCP lags at 3.96

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Certain SLOs can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. As organizations digitally transform, they’re also accelerating the speed of software delivery. for the workout video playback feature. Fitness app : The fitness app should maintain a success rate of 98% for workout video playback.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Certain service-level objective examples can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. Measuring application performance is increasingly important because as organizations digitally transform, they’re also accelerating the speed of software delivery. for the workout video playback feature.

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Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The story was about a fast food chain that determined customer service was an important metric that they needed to track in some way. If you want to load resources such as images, videos or analytics tracking, you use the provided web components (branded as AMP Components). The result is pretty impactful.

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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 ).

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Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

One of the great things about Google's Core Web Vitals is that they provide a standard way to measure our visitors’ experience. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) measures when the largest visual element (image or video) finishes rendering. video element's poster image. How much did the content move around as it loads?

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Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. A performance budget is a threshold that you apply to the metrics you care about the most. Let's get started! Background: How performance budgets work 1.

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Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Reading time 11 min As companies become more aware of the importance of web performance, internal teams begin to research tools they can use to use to track their metrics and improve the user experience of their websites and applications. Where Google Lighthouse Shines Bright. Google Lighthouse has a lot going for it.

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Speed Curve

JULY 6, 2021

After Google's announcement about Lighthouse 8 this past month, we have updated our test agents. We've gotten a lot of questions about what has changed and the impact on your performance metrics, so here's a summary. In case you missed it, Lighthouse is a speed tool created by the Chrome Developer team at Google.

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MachMetrics

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

When most people test their site speed, they test a single, static page. If your site utilizes a log in, a simple test may only give you a speed audit on how fast your site loads it’s log in form. Testing the speed of a checkout process. Or a page that’s protected behind a login? Now for the bad news.

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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. Video – For the first time in the many years that I've been covering the topic of page growth, I'm going to focus on the volume of video that pages contain. More on that later.)

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Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? A Google machine-learning study I participated in a few years ago found that the total number of page elements was the single greatest predictor of conversions. I intentionally left out the numbers for video, because they seemed inconsistent.

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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. Core Web Vital metrics definitions. SEO is key to our success.

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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. What do the different metrics mean? Let's get started.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Google's Core Web Vitals have been a huge topic this year. We've been tracking these as individual metrics – Largest Contentful Paint, First Input Delay, and Cumulative Layout Shift – since before Google branded them as a set. Watch a video walkthrough of the Vitals dashboard.). RUM Live dashboard.

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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%. However, it’s not always easy to maintain high performance in websites. The JavaScript Tax.

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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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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 For reference, the metric is $1.19

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2022

The Dynatrace documentation and video tutorials give a good overview of integrating any HTTP-based testing tool with Dynatrace. While the test step, use case, and thread group name context are helpful we also want to speed up the analysis of individual requests that fail. The white box load testing project setup.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

Also, there was a 65% increase in video consumption on mobile devices in 2020. According to Tim Kadlec (video), that’s an Android device that’s couple of years old, and costs around $200. However, there are quite a few high-profile case studies exploring the impact of mobile optimization on key business metrics. Large preview ).

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 13, 2020

Compression efficiency and performance Encoder performance SVT-AV1 reaches similar compression efficiency as libaom at the slowest speed settings. In the plot, the Y-axis shows the additional bitrate in percent needed to achieve similar quality as libaom encoder according to three metrics. A single-threaded compression mode is used.

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