Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

However, that pesky 20% on the back end can have a big impact on downstream metrics like First Contentful Paint (FCP), Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), and any other 'loading' metric you can think of. That performance golden rule still holds true today. Google recommends that TTFB be 800ms at the 75th percentile.

Servers 57

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

The Morning Paper

JUNE 18, 2019

Nines are not enough: meaningful metrics for clouds Mogul & Wilkes, HotOS’19. Control loop SLOs express the active management actions a provider will take, e.g. shedding of low-priority load will occur on over-utilised network links. Why are SLOs so hard to define? Creating an SLA seems simple: de?

Metrics 79

Metrics Cloud Google Network 79

Speed Curve

APRIL 27, 2022

But as you can see in these filmstrips of Wiggle, a UK cycling retailer, hiding the page can have a dramatic impact on a visitor's experience: Comparison of a site loading with (top) and without (bottom) the anti-flicker snippet enabled. To summarize: On one hand, anti-flicker snippets make metrics such as FCP (and possibly LCP) worse.

Performance 145

Performance C++ Google Retail 145

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We track LEGO.com, along with a handful of other leading ecommerce sites, in our public-facing Retail Benchmarks dashboard , which I encourage you to check out. Are you using a content delivery network (CDN) to bring elements like images closer to your users, so that delivery times are faster? Are images optimized?

Performance 66

Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 66

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

But pages keep getting bigger and more complex year over year – and this increasing size and complexity is not fully mitigated by faster devices and networks, or by our hard-working browsers. How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? Clearly we need to keep talking about it. More on that later.).

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

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.

Retail 80

Retail Benchmarking Google Metrics 80

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

These algorithms save everyone time and money: by helping users navigate through thousands of products to find the ones with the highest quality and the lowest price, and by expanding the market reach of suppliers through Amazon’s delivery infrastructure and immense customer network.

Social Media 91

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 91

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. Given that Google continues to dominate search usage, you should care about Vitals alongside the other metrics you should be tracking. It's not enough to look at crude metrics like total requests and size.

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

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?

Benchmarking 134

Benchmarking Speed Performance Media 134

Apica

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Along with that primary workflow of on-screen requests and responses, the journey also includes metrics that are directly experienced by users, such as response times, the frequency of interruptions, visual consistency, and accurate results. Metrics and observability data hoarding.

Retail 52

Retail Website Infrastructure Software Architecture 52

Rigor

MARCH 20, 2018

I recently was asked the following question by an online retailer: “Why should I invest in monitoring the user experience when I already have monitoring for our database, infrastructure, app server, and network?”. Instead of asking that question, I asked them this: “Are you a network or hosting provider?

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Retail Ecommerce Infrastructure 40

Edge Perspectives

JANUARY 21, 2019

Let me start by clarifying that the transformation I’m focused on isn’t the transformation involved in moving from one business to another (let’s say, moving from being a retailer to becoming a clothing manufacturer). Performance metrics: Shift from financial results to addressing unmet needs.

Innovation 104

Innovation Scalability Efficiency Mobile 104

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

determining a business's value to its clients, the level of service it provides is often a key metric. Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. In 2013, Amazon experienced a brief outage that lasted approximately 30 minutes.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

determining a business's value to its clients, the level of service it provides is often a key metric. Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. In 2013, Amazon experienced a brief outage that lasted approximately 30 minutes.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Some of the names include Amazon’s Luna, TikTok, Tinder, among many online retailers. Moreover, Garten-und-Freizeit, a German e-commerce store that sells furniture, saw an amazing improvement in their metrics after getting a PWA. And frankly, the feature set of progressive web applications for online retail continuously expands.

Code 75

Code Cache Retail Mobile 75

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Developers representing hundreds of companies work together at these meetups to become masters in performance metrics and the latest trends in measuring site speed.) And, of course, you should follow him on Twitter @ igrigorik for in-depth insights on web performance metrics, user experience, and industry news. Maximiliano Firtman.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Certain parts of our architecture used to run on relational databases but we just couldn’t scale them fast enough to meet the demands of our fast growing online retail business, particularly during the holiday shopping seasons. As the amount of data stored increases constantly, the amount of memory needed also goes up.

Cache 129

Cache Cloud Performance Retail 129

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As a trend, it’s not performing well on Google; it shows little long-term growth, if any, and gets nowhere near as many searches as terms like “Observability” and “Generative Adversarial Networks.” The data available to our retail business is much more limited. As a result, your relationship to many important financial metrics changes.

Games 120

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 120