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Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports

Smashing Magazine

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.

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How Google PageSpeed Works: Improve Your Score and Search Engine Ranking

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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. What is Google Lighthouse?

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Why speed test results are different than your load times

MachMetrics

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. It’s one of the most common (and frustrating) scenarios in web performance testing.

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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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Performance Testing - Tools, Steps, and Best Practices

KeyCDN

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. What is Performance Testing? In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances.

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Ten years of page bloat: What have we learned?

Speed Curve

How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? Poorly executed stylesheets can create a host of performance problems, ranging from stylesheets taking too long to download and parse, to improperly placed stylesheets that block the rest of the page from rendering. This falls short of Google's threshold of 2.5

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What is page bloat? And how is it hurting your business, your search rank, and your users?

Speed Curve

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. Core Web Vitals are a Google search ranking factor. Given that Google continues to dominate search usage, you should care about Vitals alongside the other metrics you should be tracking.

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