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How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals

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There are three web vitals metrics Google uses to measure different aspects of website performance: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), Interaction to Next Paint (INP). Real User Monitoring (RUM) This data tells you how fast your website is for your actual visitors. What Are Core Web Vitals?

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Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties

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You may have a lean, agile, responsive site design only to find it gradually loaded down with more and more “extras” that are often put onto the site by marketing departments or business leaders who are not always thinking about website performance. And JavaScript can certainly make requests for additional network resources.

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Refactoring CSS: Optimizing Size And Performance (Part 3)

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Regardless of how much the CSS codebase has been improved during the refactoring process and how much more maintainable and extendable it is, the final stylesheet needs to be optimized for the best possible performance and least possible file size. After all, users won’t wait around forever for the website to load. CDN Or Self-hosting?

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

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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 project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. Large preview ).

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An In-Depth Guide To Measuring Core Web Vitals

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The fact that RUM data is used, is an important distinction because some of these metrics (FID excepted) are available in synthetic or “lab-based” web performance tools like Lighthouse that have been the staple of web performance monitoring for many in the past.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

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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? If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

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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? If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g.