Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

So noticeable, in fact, that Core Web Vitals has a metric all about it called Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). This metric measures the time it takes, in seconds, to render the largest image or text block that is visible on the initial load. That’s practically an eternity when talking about page speed performance.

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Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 73

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

You can see at a glance: Key metrics like Core Web Vitals and your User Happiness score. Here you can still find time series charts that show how performance is trending over time across a number of key metrics, including Core Web Vitals. Fixing high-traffic but poor-performing areas of your site will help lift your overall metrics.

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Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2021

Recently, after an unusual year for most, Dynatrace was joined by Grant Hedley, from Laithwaite’s, and a range of customers and prospects from the financial services and media industries for a return to normality – Drinking wine. Dynatrace news. The primary theme of the event was transforming faster with automation and AI.

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Speed Media Monitoring Engineering 163

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

The problems fostered by social media, search, and recommendation algorithms was never an engineering issue, but one of financial incentives (of profit growth) not aligning with algorithms’ safe, effective, and equitable deployment. User preferences were downgraded in algorithmic importance in favour of more profitable content.

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Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 89

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

At the same time, they open a door to lots of concepts that might be overwhelming: PRPL, RAIL, Paint Timing API, TTI, HTTP/2, Speed Index, Priority Hints and more …. Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. One could argue this is a metric-driven decision.

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

Speed Curve

APRIL 3, 2018

We're excited to announce that we've launched Last Painted Hero as an official metric. Last Painted Hero is a synthetic metric that shows you when the last piece of critical content is painted. When choosing the right performance metric, my soapbox for the last few years has been "not every pixel has the same value".

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Prioritizing Metrics Online metrics are almost limitless. Setting Realistic Goals. Like, literally.

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Engineering Google Website Analytics 131

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Here are some common questions I’m asked when I talk with people about performance: Which metrics should I care about? 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. How fast should I be?

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Benchmarking Speed Performance Media 134

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Previous metrics measured variations of the first paint to screen (often this was a header or background color); incidentally content that isn’t really what the user actually wants to get out of the page. And the “contentful” part of the name shows this metric is intended to ignore (e.g. Digging A Little Deeper Into The Metrics.

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Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

Speed Curve

AUGUST 8, 2017

Because the average page is now 3MB in size, and this seems like a good time to pause, check our assumptions, and ask ourselves: Is there any reason to care about page size as a performance metric? And if we don't consider page size a meaningful metric, then what should we care about? seconds) for pages in the 20MB cohort. seconds.

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Metrics Website Speed Benchmarking 80

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

Keep reading to learn how you can apply these best practices to your own site and give your pages a speed boost. That's why it's a good idea to not just focus on metrics like Start Render – you should also investigate Hero Rendering metrics , which track when the most meaningful content on your pages (e.g.,

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 77

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

When it comes to web content, you can easily find what you need through many different paths, from search engines and social media to playlists and blogs, jumping from one source to another with just a tap of a finger. How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance. Site speed & SEO go hand in hand.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The newcomer to the scene was Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), and, not surprisingly, it's the metric that's gotten the most questions. Does it correlate to user behaviour or business metrics in any measurable way? While I understand why score-based metrics add value, I'm a visual person. How is it calculated? is considered poor.

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Retail Benchmarking Google Metrics 80

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Before those studies, web pages were designed as printed media, with columns and big blocks of text. The AOI will determine what areas you will calculate metrics for. The metrics and how they will be shown depending on the eye-tracking tool you choose. The metrics available in eye-tracking can vary from tool to tool.

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Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 112

Rigor

JUNE 12, 2019

Alla Gringaus has worked with a multitude of well-established technology and media brands, including TIME , People , The Economist , and the American Kennel Club, carrying hands-on and leading roles in front-end development and UX, all driven by user-centered design. I used my expertise to educate people about metrics,” says Gringaus.

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Performance Social Media Internet Internet 72

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 11, 2019

This helps us do things like: correlate various performance metrics with user behavior, understand the user journey and popular pages so you can better model your synthetic testing, and. A lot of performance users really love that they can track business metrics specific to a session alongside their performance data.

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Retail Traffic Media Metrics 59

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Start by asking yourself what’s there, whether it’s logs, metrics, or traces. Once you double down on the type, you want to figure out, or browse, which metric is relevant. Then when you have the metric, you want to explore it—what splits are available, how can I break it down, how can I aggregate it, and so on.”

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Analytics Metrics Media Monitoring 210

Speed Curve

MAY 31, 2020

One of the huge benefits of tracking web performance over time is the ability to see trends and compare metrics. Understand which metrics got better or worse. In this demo account, we track a number of leading retail, travel, and media sites. Hovering over any metric in the waterfall chart shows you the metric for both tests.

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Metrics Retail Benchmarking Testing 61

Rigor

JUNE 20, 2019

Identifying key metrics. Discussing metrics with business teams. Q: How can RUM data, combined with technical data, help identify key metrics? Today, there are more trackable metrics than ever before, says Brewer, which can lead to the question of “which ones should I optimize?” Breaking down silos. Lessons learned.

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Performance Social Media Metrics Monitoring 45

CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 16, 2019

By any metric, images are a major slice of the resources on websites, and we're notoriously bad at optimizing them and doing all the things we could to lower the performance hit from them. I want to use the media management in my own CMS. I can drag and drop images into the media library and posts very easily. Cloudinary.

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Media Servers Database Design 44

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

We deployed these enhancements gradually over time to ensure that our users didn’t experience any disruptions, but instead only a consistent improvement of their site speed. While some noticeable progress was made, it was challenging to implement significant changes just for the sake of speed. Creating A Performance Culture.

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Website Performance Google Media 126

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. Developers representing hundreds of companies work together at these meetups to become masters in performance metrics and the latest trends in measuring site speed.) We at Rigor respect many web performance leaders around the world. Rachel Andrew.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. Unquestionably, media enlivens websites, adding appeal, excitement, and intrigue, let alone enticements to stay on a page and frequently revisit it. Of the many factors that affect page-load speed, media is a significant one.

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Media Performance Mobile Latency 118

Speed Curve

APRIL 30, 2019

To help focus our attention on CPU, several new performance metrics have been defined and evangelized over the last year or three. A media site might have a high First Interaction Time because users start reading content (headlines, stories) before interacting with the page. Here's a figure to help visualize these metrics.

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Metrics Media Network Website 53

Dynatrace

APRIL 3, 2024

Telemetry data — such as metrics, logs, and traces — gives IT teams crucial context to understand how all entities are connected. Without appropriate context, the so-called pillars of observability — metrics, logs, and traces — are simply sources of data, not insights. These are not only numerous but also dynamic.

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Government Social Media Metrics Infrastructure 159

MachMetrics

MARCH 21, 2019

Web performance metrics track the efficiency (or lack thereof) of any individual aspect of your website’s performance. Once you have started collecting some of these must-track web performance metrics for your website, inefficiencies will become clearer. Top 10 Web Perf Metrics to Track. Time to First Byte.

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Metrics Social Media Performance Speed 74

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Finally, we ignore stylesheets with a "print" media type. If your site uses any of these techniques, then your "Blocking CSS" SpeedCurve metric will decrease. This change may decrease your "Blocking JS" SpeedCurve metric if you have synchronous scripts in the body of the page. So our Blocking JS metric dropped from 4 to 0!

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Metrics Media Code Performance 40

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"I made my pages faster, but my business and user engagement metrics didn't change. The performance poverty line is the plateau at which changes to your website’s rendering metrics (such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint) cease to matter because you’ve bottomed out in terms of business and user engagement metrics.

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Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 118

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Moreover, Garten-und-Freizeit, a German e-commerce store that sells furniture, saw an amazing improvement in their metrics after getting a PWA. This also implies that you don’t have to spend additional time and money on creating a PWA to suit various devices, greatly speeding up time-to-market. Image credit: Garten-und-Freizeit.

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Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

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. A performance budget is a threshold that you apply to the metrics you care about the most. Which metrics should you start with? Let's get started!

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Performance Metrics Media Google 98

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Service-level objectives (SLOs) are a great tool to align business goals with the technical goals that drive DevOps (Speed of Delivery) and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) (Ensuring Production Resiliency). In the workshop, I also answered the question: How can we measure those metrics (=SLIs) that are behind our objectives?

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DevOps Social Media Mobile Metrics 204

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

To speed up release frequency, they’re investing in delivery-pipeline automation. The flip side of speeding up delivery, however, is that each software release comes with the risk of impacting your goals of availability, performance, or any business KPIs. Which metrics are relevant for your business, anyway?

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Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 151

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Largest Contentful Paint (or LCP) is one of three metrics of the Core Web Vitals. These metrics are used by Google to evaluate the quality of user experience. The images used in the article’s Codepen demonstrations will be integrated with TwicPics to save time in their creation and speed up the optimization of the LCP metric.

Media 105

Media Mobile Website Metrics 105

Rigor

JUNE 4, 2019

With so many different metrics available to measure dozens of different aspects of a web page, it can be a struggle to know how best to quantify that page’s overall web performance. Metrics – Thick as Pea Soup. In the early days of performance monitoring, there were far fewer metrics than we have today.

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Metrics Performance Media Google 89

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Optimizing Media Queries. When we write media queries in CSS, especially when using multiple files (PostCSS or Sass), we usually don’t nest the code under a single media query for an entire project. products-grid { display: grid; grid-template-columns: repeat(2, 1fr); grid-gap: 16px; } @media (min-width: 768px) {.products-grid

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Media Performance Cache Strategy 109

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"I made my pages faster, but my business and user engagement metrics didn't change. The performance plateau is the point at which changes to your website’s rendering metrics (such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint) cease to matter because you’ve bottomed out in terms of business and user engagement metrics.

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Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 52

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. — Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter. Mobile image transfer size by year graphic from Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter. Fixes To Common Problems. Conclusion.

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