Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

Signals For Customizing Website User Experience. Signals For Customizing Website User Experience. In my last article , I suggested using the SaveData API to deliver a different, more performant, experience to users that expressed that desire. This is a bit of a shame, as I believe they are useful for websites.

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Website Media Mobile Network 105

CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Google has a pretty tight grip on the tech industry: it makes by far the most popular browser with the best DevTools, and the most popular search engine, which means that web developers spend most of their time in Chrome, most of their visitors are in Chrome, and a lot of their search traffic will be coming from Google. It’s vital.

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Network Mobile Performance Traffic 225

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps. How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps. However, it’s not always easy to maintain high performance in websites. This is why performance is crucial when building websites. Steve Sewell. 2022-04-29T10:30:00+00:00.

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Website Google Open Source Mobile 82

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

Globally, consumers are preferring their mobile phones for performing activities (e.g. This essentially means that your website should not only be mobile-friendly but it should also have a Responsive Web Design so that your target customers can access your products (or services) with ultra-ease on their hand-held devices.

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Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

With performance at the forefront of my mind, I decided to head over to MDN for a fresh look at the Performance API. The Performance API is huge in that it contains a lot of different interfaces, properties, and methods. The element performance metric type doesn’t work with the performance.getEntries() method anyway.

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Performance Metrics Monitoring Google 98

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2020

Using Google Fonts is often one of the first steps people take to give their website a unique look. But if you’ve ever brought over that amazing font and ran a speed test, you might be asking – “Does Google Fonts slow down my site?” Use that awesome font from Google and live with the performance hit.

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Google Speed Cache Website 57

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. SLOs are a valuable tool for organizations to ensure the health and performance of their applications. E-commerce website : The e-commerce website should be available 99.9%

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Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 168

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Are Imposter Domains Re-Publishing Your Website? Are Imposter Domains Re-Publishing Your Website? We explore how you can use web analytics or real user measurement data on your website to get insight into any imposter domains re-publishing your work. Ken Harker. 2021-09-20T11:30:00+00:00. 2021-09-20T14:12:33+00:00.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. Teams can build on these SLO examples to improve application performance and reliability. E-commerce website : The e-commerce website should be available 99.9%

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Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

A lot of the focus goes into the practice and processes of driving traffic to your site from an SEO perspective, but what if when visitors get to your site, they have a less than ideal experience? Find Your Performance Baseline. In order to begin optimizing your pages, you’ll need to see how your pages are currently performing.

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Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. This is not a post explaining why web performance is important.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. But as it stands, websites are growing ever more obese, which means that the energy demand of the Internet is continuing to grow exponentially. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 74

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. Large preview ) We’ve known for a long time that fast page performance influences search engine rankings.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed. Developers are already optimizing front end performance with: Fast web hosting. Suzanne Scacca.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast. 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. Background: How performance budgets work 1. What is a performance budget?

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Performance Metrics Media Google 98

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2021

User experience now defines website success. Ben Rushlo, Dynatrace Vice President of DEM Services, puts it this way: “As performance degrades, user experience degrades, engagement degrades, and business outcomes degrade.” ” The solution? If page load times increase from 1 to 3 seconds, bounce rates increase by 32%.

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Metrics Google Website Speed 133

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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Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Spend enough time running websites through PageSpeed Insights and you’ll notice that Google has a major beef with traditional image formats like JPG, PNG and even GIF. Google developed WebP back in 2010 after acquiring a company called On2 Technologies.

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Website Speed Cache Google 72

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Automating Website Deployments Through Buddy. Automating Website Deployments Through Buddy. Managing the deployment of a website used to be easy: It simply involved uploading files to the server through FTP and you were pretty much done. All this process sounds like a bit too much, right? Leonardo Losoviz.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

With so many of their transactions occurring online, customers are becoming more demanding, expecting websites and applications to always perform perfectly. Website load times have been found to have a direct correlation with conversion rates. That’s why good communication between SREs and DevOps teams is important.

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Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 212

Testsigma

JUNE 17, 2021

A few years back, I gave my friend a keyword to search on Google and asked him to open the third link that pops up in the results. After five minutes of confusion, I realized we are not talking about the same website and even though the keyword was the same, the results appeared in a different order. Geolocation Influence.

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Website Testing Google Ecommerce 52

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

The usual caveats also apply: Performance is a deep and nuanced domain, and much can go wrong beyond content size and composition. How sites manage resources after-load can have a big impact on perceived performance. Until and unless teams have better data about their performance, the global baseline budget should be enforced.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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. What is Google Lighthouse? Google Lighthouse is one of the best-automated tools available on a web developer's utility belt.

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Google Latency Website Metrics 82

Rigor

JANUARY 8, 2020

Without a set plan in place, any new script can damage performance, affecting user experience, and, therefore, business KPIs. We noticed a few common misperceptions about web performance budgets that can impact their adoption and setting that we would like to address. Five Common Myths About Web Performance Budgets.

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Performance Mobile Metrics Speed 122

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Performance budgets are one of those ideas that everyone gets behind conceptually, but then are challenged to put into practice – and for very good reason. If you're just getting started with performance budgets – or if you've been using them for a while and want to validate your work – this post is for you.

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Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 133

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Jake Archibald.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Like PageSpeed, Lighthouse also has a performance score. What is Google Lighthouse?

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Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. When it comes to performance, you shouldn’t be stingy. There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. Agustinus Theodorus.

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Performance Cache Servers Social Media 127

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

Luckily we’ve recommended some of the best web performance books to read while stuck at home. High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge For Front-End Engineers. If you’re looking to read optimization ideas from one of the greatest minds in speed performance, look no further. Need a good distraction?

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Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

MachMetrics

JANUARY 4, 2019

The way a website is constructed can have a major impact on website speed performance, but developers often have a hard time keeping track of factors that cause slow page loads and other speed-related issues. The PageSpeed Module is one of several free Google tools designed to help assess and improve page load speed times.

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

In the fourteen years that I've been working in the web performance industry, I've done a LOT of research, writing, and speaking about the psychology of page speed – in other words, why we crave fast, seamless online experiences. The average person believes they spend 9 minutes per day waiting for slow websites.

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Speed Website Mobile Cloud 133

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The limited number access points, compounded with the fact that traffic is controlled by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, creates performance bottlenecks for all users in China when trying to access websites from inside and outside of the country. IP Blocking. HTTP/S Certificate Filtering.

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Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. These days we have more and better tools to audit our performance.

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

MachMetrics

MARCH 21, 2020

Chrome’s DevTools suite contains some of the most powerful tools available to help you analyze and improve the speed of your website (or web app). However, we often get asked about another area of the DevTools – the ‘Performance’ tab. Accessing the DevTools Performance Tab. Recording Runtime Performance.

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Speed Performance Google Mobile 99

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"How can I demonstrate the business value of performance to people in my organization?" If you've ever asked yourself any of these questions, then you could find the answers in identifying and understanding the performance poverty line for your site. What is the "performance poverty line"?

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Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 118

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

If you’re reading this before March 2024 and fire up your favorite performance monitoring tool, you’re going to to get a Core Web Vitals report like this one pulled from PageSpeed Insights: ( Large preview ) You’re likely used to seeing most of these metrics. INP will officially replace FID when it becomes an official Core Web Vital metric.

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Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 97