Speed Curve

APRIL 3, 2022

Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive dashboard that lets you explore and compare web performance data for leading websites across several industries – from retail to media – over the past year. Largest Contentful Paint – When the largest element – usually image or video – in the viewport is rendered.

Benchmarking 54

Benchmarking Speed Retail Media 54

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. And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. Core Web Vitals are a Google search ranking factor.

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

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?

Metrics 141

Metrics Retail Mobile Analytics 141

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.). Web Performance for Retailers.

Retail 52

Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 52

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Tracking critical content such as images and videos is a good place to start. > Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is one of Google's Core Web Vitals , so it's been getting a lot of attention lately. It's only tracked on certain elements, e.g., IMG and VIDEO (learn more here ). > Largest Contentful Paint (Synthetic and RUM).

Performance 134

Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 134

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

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.).

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

One of the metrics produced when you run a test using webpagetest.org is called Speed Index and it changed the way I thought about web performance. Speed Index is important because it goes a step further and measures how much of the "above-the-fold" content is visually complete until the web page has finished loading.

Speed 40

Speed Analytics Google Retail 40