Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. In this post, I’m going to attempt to explain a bit more about what’s going on here and explain some of the nuances and misunderstandings of these tools.

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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. Testing And Monitoring. Prioritizing Metrics Online metrics are almost limitless. Quick Wins.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

According to Rich Howard, CEO of Optimal, a business dedicated to optimizing websites and mobile apps , there are ten steps your business can take now to start preparing your website or web application for the upcoming holiday season. STEP 1: Invest in the Right Tooling and Get Everyone On Board. Are they set up sufficiently?

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Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

This gives us a relatively unique opportunity to analyse and aggregate performance metrics to gain some interesting insights. In this post, I'm going to analyse some browser-based paint timing metrics: First Paint & First Contentful Paint (defined in the Paint Timing spec and implemented in Chromium). What are paint timing metrics?

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Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

seconds at e-commerce websites increases the average size of shopping carts by as much as 9.2%. These practices shift testing toward earlier stages where BizDevOps teams can fix issues in development before they can progress undetected into production environments. For example, improving latency by as little as 0.1

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

If you are designing an app or a website, you can test how easy and intuitive it is to complete a specific task, fill out a form, find certain information, or buy a product. They used eye-tracking to measure visual attention on banners, animated graphics, and navigational tools in websites. Eye-Tracking Evolution.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Web pages are unbelievably complex, and there are hundreds of different metrics available to track. A performance budget is a threshold that you apply to the metrics you care about the most. This is when you run into three important questions: Which metrics should you focus on? Which metrics should you focus on?

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MachMetrics

JANUARY 23, 2020

You run a speed test on a website, and the results don’t match what you personally experience. Perhaps you feel like your site loads fairly quickly, but the speed test results are sub-optimal. Page speed test results will even vary slightly when the factors are unchanged. Is your website getting slower?

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. The Smashing team has done a lot to make a fast website, so even a fresh load (though this experiment may not be a completely fresh load if you came to this article from the home page). Here’s an experiment for you.

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Testlodge

JULY 4, 2018

Many users are accessing a website, hosted on a server, while a virus scan is initiated on the server at the same time. Metrics to Monitor in Stress Testing. There is certain information that you need to ascertain from stress testing results. Stress Testing Tools. Conclusion. under various conditions.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Vitaly Friedman. 2021-01-11T15:30:13+00:00.

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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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Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 18, 2016

LoadView is a powerful cloud-based load testing tool that can run in real browsers as well as headless http tasks to load test your website or web application. Over the course of a single load test you can generate millions of site visits, simulating peak load times on your website. Real Browser Page Load.

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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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CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 10, 2019

WebPageTest is an online tool and an Open Source project to help developers audit the performance of their websites. The problem with testing Single Page Applications. Single Page Applications ( SPA s) radically changed the way websites work. As a Web Performance Evangelist at Theodo , I use it every single day.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

With this article, you will enhance your testing workflows by covering all the important aspects, and saving time and stress with suitable email testing methods and tools. Are You Keeping On Top Of Your Email Metrics? With any type of email you send, you need to track at least these metrics: Open rate.

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