Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

Unquestionably, media enlivens websites, adding appeal, excitement, and intrigue, let alone enticements to stay on a page and frequently revisit it. For example, a budget can help them decide if a page should contain five images — or three images and one video — and still remain within the planned limits. Akshay Ranganath.

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Dotcom-Montior

JULY 7, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. With the networks all around the world, theoretically, you can do business boundlessly. To investigate this topic, let’s first check how important your website performance is to your online business.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. With the networks all around the world, theoretically, you can do business boundlessly. To investigate this topic, let’s first check how important your website performance is to your online business.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. 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? DOM complete, time to first byte, first input delay, client CPU and memory usage.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. Also, there was a 65% increase in video consumption on mobile devices in 2020. According to Tim Kadlec (video), that’s an Android device that’s couple of years old, and costs around $200. Driving Business Metrics. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

This commitment involves prioritizing websites that offer not only relevant content but also an excellent user experience. Google’s Core Web Vitals is a set of performance metrics that site owners can use to evaluate performance and diagnose performance issues. Core Web Vital metrics definitions.

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Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

Video – For the first time in the many years that I've been covering the topic of page growth, I'm going to focus on the volume of video that pages contain. Given that Google continues to dominate search usage, you should care about Vitals alongside the other metrics you should be tracking. More on that later.)

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Speed Curve

MARCH 12, 2023

Coming off of the back of our latest RUM Compare dashboard release, we are super excited to launch four new dashboards to make your life better, your work easier, and your websites faster. Pages - This detailed view gives you trended information for all the metrics you know and love. Home - Well, now you have one.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Video files? This article is the first of a brief two-part series where we will look specifically at the media you are most likely to use: images, video, and audio. FCP is a metric that measures the time between the point when a page starts loading to when the first bytes of content are rendered. You get the idea.

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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. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Table Of Contents. Quick Wins.

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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.

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Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Website and web application technologies have grown tremendously over the years. Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. Website and Web Application Monitoring. Network or connection error. Network latency. Network Latency. DNS resolving error.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. As for mobile network connection type, 84.7% For reference, the metric is $1.19 Mbps upload.

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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. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Table Of Contents. Quick Wins.

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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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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Looking briefly at the other two Core Web Vitals, Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) does exactly as its name suggests and is more of a twist on previous loading metrics that measures how quickly the page loads. That’s not to say solving issues with these two metrics are easy, but they are reasonably well-understood problems.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Since implementing these changes, we have seen a dramatic improvement in the performance of websites built and hosted on our platform. Dan Shappir. 2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-22T11:06:56+00:00.

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Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2022

Websites devoting their spaces to sections especially to download their mobile apps denotes how important mobile applications are for businesses. After security, the next scenario that is critical for our mobile testing journey is the performance metric. Network related scenarios in mobile testing. should work.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

It has never been easier to build a personalized website, digitalize a product and start seeing results. 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. Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. Alba Silvente.

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Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2018

When looking to improve the performance and user experience of our sites we often start by looking at the network: What's the time to first byte? When creating great user experiences, managing CPU usage is now just as important as fast networks. First Input Delay is a RUM metric that we recently added to LUX.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

My kids love LEGO, too, which means that every year I find myself spending a fair bit of time on the LEGO website during the holidays. LCP measures when the largest visual element in the viewport – typically a hero image or video – finishes rendering. I love LEGO. Are non-essential or lesser resources deferred?

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Real-life performance for your users and how the website “feels” when you’re using it should not be discounted, even if it costs you a point or two in Page Speed (otherwise, we would all just have a search bar and unstyled text). Today, the website is much faster and ranks highly in various showcases and benchmarks. Large preview ).

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Rigor

JUNE 12, 2019

“The Best in Performance” video series from Rigor gives you the chance to eavesdrop on conversations with web performance industry experts, thought leaders, and technologists. When talking to an executive, she explains, you have to bear in mind that they may not understand the language of performance metrics.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This problem is more apparent on unreliable and slow networks and lower-end devices. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. Notice the difference in loading times between mobile and cable networks.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 9, 2020

This avoids a layout shift as the image is downloaded — something Chrome has recently started measuring in the new Cumulative Layout Shift metric. As you can see, the impact is considerable — especially on lower-end devices and slow network speed, where images are coming in separately. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

It always starts with the long-awaited website overhaul. Image source: Lighthouse Metrics ) ( Large preview ). The reasons for it are numerous, but the most important one is a huge difference in network conditions and device hardware across the world. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. Vitaly Friedman. Large preview ).

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

If you want to vastly improve the startup and load performance of your website, you cannot miss the impactful observations and insights that Jake posts on jakearchibald.com/ and shares on Twitter @ jaffathecake. Check out his how-to videos on his YouTube channel as well as his performance related dispatches on Twitter @ paulcalvano.

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Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Reading time 11 min As companies become more aware of the importance of web performance, internal teams begin to research tools they can use to use to track their metrics and improve the user experience of their websites and applications. Not everyone uses Chrome to access your website.

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 29, 2021

To make the most of these options, I usually set the “Slow 3G” preset under the “Network” tab. I sometimes record my screen and then slow down the video to find the layout shifts. The most interesting metrics to me are First Paint, First Contentful Paint, Layout Shifts, and Largest Contentful Paint. Layout Shift Regions ?—?shows

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

I presented this analysis of response time distributions talk in 2016 — at Microxchg in Berlin ( video ). What Is the Expected Distribution of Website Response Times? This seems reasonable overhead for a real time algorithm that could be applied to histogram data as part of a metric collection pipeline. >

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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. Single Page Applications ( SPA s) radically changed the way websites work. As you might have noticed in the video above, the URL of the page does not change as I type my search terms.

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Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Like Slack, Microsoft is a real-time communication application that offers features like online messaging, video chat, and document sharing. OpsGenie also provides features like reporting and analytics so teams can view and track incident response metrics and efficiencies.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. Video Transcoding. We already use the public cloud to autoscale some async processing like Video Transcoding, text extraction, data migration, Search, etc. Document store.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Deploying the refactored codebase shouldn’t result in worse website performance and worse user experience. After all, users won’t wait around forever for the website to load. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) has become an important metric in the last few months. More after jump! On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Critical CSS.

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Media Performance Cache Strategy 108

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. Within a fixed layout set to 100vh , the bottom part of the website content is stuck behind the browser chrome, making it inaccessible when scrolling is prevented.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

CSS is a simple stylesheet language for defining a website or document’s presentation. This CSS is usually render-blocking , so the browser won’t even render the website content until it has finished downloading and parsing the CSS file, resulting in a poor UX and performance on slower or unreliable networks. Adrian Bece.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. If your average visitor is on a fast cabled or cellular network, they probably won’t benefit from the new protocols all that much. An often used metaphor is that of a pipe used to transport water. Congestion Control.

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