Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

It can be measured based on real data from users visiting your sites ( field metric ) or in a lab environment ( lab metric ). In fact, several user-centric metrics are used to quantify web vitals. While most of the tools covered below only rely on field metrics, others use a mix of both field and lab metrics.

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Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 130

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

But do you know how Lighthouse calculates performance metrics like First Contentful Paint (FCP), Total Blocking Time (TBT), and Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)? There’s a handy calculator linked up in the report summary that lets you adjust performance values to see how they impact the overall score. But it comes with caveats.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Note : If you’re looking for a complete overview of best practices and tools, have a look at the Frontend performance checklist. Waterfaller: A Tool Focusing On Network Waterfalls. Contrary to Lighthouse or WebPage Test, Waterfaller focuses on one thing alone — issues in the network waterfall.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. He has also hosted the NY Web Performance Meetup, which boasts over 5,000 members, since 2009. Vitaly is a co-founder of the Smashing Magazine brand. (Plus, at the end, a few bonus Twitter handles to round things out.).

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. The Relation Between Images And Web Performance. This data makes it clear that there will be no good performance without well-optimized images. This is why a lot of our guidance on performance talks about image optimization. Large preview ).

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Media Cache Website Mobile 106

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Testing And Monitoring. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Testing And Monitoring. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics.

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