Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Total Blocking Time (TBT) is a good proxy for FID when using a testing tool without any direct user interaction, but also keep an eye on Time to Interactive (TTI) when looking at FID. This is applicable to pages that receive little to no traffic, so small sites without field data don’t need to be worried. CrUX is Chrome only.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Keep in mind that a good performance picture covers a set of performance metrics, lab data and field data : Synthetic testing tools collect lab data in a reproducible environment with predefined device and network settings (e.g. Real User Monitoring ( RUM ) tools evaluate user interactions continuously and collect field data (e.g.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. But account for the different types and usage behaviors of your customers (which Tobias Baldauf called cadence and cohorts ), along with bot traffic and seasonality effects. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Keep in mind that a good performance picture covers a set of performance metrics, lab data and field data : Synthetic testing tools collect lab data in a reproducible environment with predefined device and network settings (e.g. Real User Monitoring ( RUM ) tools evaluate user interactions continuously and collect field data (e.g.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145