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

Speed Curve

And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. 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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Element Timing: One true metric to rule them all?

Speed Curve

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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2021 in review: It was a big year!

Speed Curve

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.). Web Performance for Retailers.

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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? And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. Image size is another issue, as excessive image weight hurts your SEO ranking in Google Image Search. More on that later.).

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An Opinionated Guide to Performance Budgets

Speed Curve

You can then configure your monitoring tools to send you alerts – or even break the build, if you're testing in your staging environment – when your budgets are violated. For each of these metrics, I've included what type of tool you can use to track them: synthetic and/or real user monitoring (RUM). > Can I use it?

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A Complete Guide to Performance Budgets

Speed Curve

You can then configure your monitoring tools to send you alerts – or even break the build, if you're testing in your staging environment – when your budgets are violated. seconds or less, which is Google's recommendation for page experience and SEO. It's only tracked on certain elements, e.g., IMG and VIDEO.

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A simple, client-side approach to measuring Speed Index

Dean Hume

" Until now, it's only really been possible to calculate the Speed Index metric by comparing the frames in a video using webpagetest.org. In this article, I am going to show you how to get started using the Speed Index library and how you can start collecting this data using Google Analytics. speedindex-test. Collecting the data.

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