Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. Can’t be perfect every time!

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores. Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores. The success of your website depends on the impression it leaves on its users. Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. Zara Cooper. PageSpeed Compare.

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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. Let's take a look!

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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. As a Web Performance Evangelist at Theodo , I use it every single day. How can you test the performance of your users’ flow, when most of it happens client-side and does not have a specific URL to point to?

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MachMetrics

MAY 31, 2019

These days everyone knows the importance of front-end site testing and has some basic tools in place to help them – but how do you know if your testing efforts are ideal? From speed testing to usability testing, use these ten strategies to ensure your website is always running on all cylinders.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

You’ve likely uttered the phrases “test early and often” and “shift left,” but do you always remind yourself of the importance of that phrase from the end user’s perspective? LoadView, our on-demand, cloud-based load and stress testing platform , takes an outside-in approach to performance testing.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

These are only a few questions to consider when having the goal of building a fast website. But how do you find all these things causing performance issues? Let me share three tools that will help you spot performance issues and ship high-quality and fast websites. It’s a perfect companion to build a high-quality website.

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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). Doing the analysis.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

To prove this novel approach works have a look at some of the optimization results Akamas has achieved already: The automated performance optimization has resulted in great cost savings and performance improvements. A full list of currently-released Akamas Optimization Packs can be found on our website.

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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. It’s one of the most common (and frustrating) scenarios in web performance testing. The trend is your friend.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 29, 2021

Raygun is an error and performance monitoring software for websites and mobile apps. In the case of websites, you install their JavaScript snippet onto your site, which takes 2 seconds, and now you’ve got monitoring in place. RUM is regarded as better data than the alternative, which is running synthetic tests.

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Dotcom-Montior

JANUARY 18, 2018

Retailers Still Fail to Prepare Websites for Holiday Shoppers Monitoring of Retailer’s Websites during Black Friday holiday shopping. This year I’ve spent some time for collecting meaningful metrics during Black Friday sales of our leading Retailers websites. The Setup. Real browser-based simulation with Chrome.

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 2, 2020

People use it for stuff like taking a screenshot of a website or running integration tests. not based on real-users) performance tests, like some of these new Web Core Vitals. Addy Osmani lists out a bunch of these “recipes” for measuring certain performance things in Puppeteer. Did the unit tests pass?

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Apica

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Nor is it encompassed by a website or marketing materials. A typical user journey would include all the actions in a typical human user’s session using a website or application – the screens they are presented with, what objects they click on, and what screens and data payloads are returned.

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Testlodge

JULY 4, 2018

Stress testing gives a measure of the reliability of a software system. Stress testing reveals how long a system can remain stable without crashing under a heavy, stressful load. In other words, we can say that stress testing discovers the breakpoint where a system starts to become unreliable. Why Stress Testing?

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. High-performing fast sites attract and preserve users better than low-performing ones. The screenshot below explains that page load time and lighthouse performance scores are not the same, yet they are really close to each other.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? Google's Core Web Vitals are a set of metrics that are intended to focus on measuring performance from a user-experience perspective. You can see this by looking at the synthetic test result for Sears.com (again, available via our Industry Benchmarks ).

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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). Now close the tab.

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Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

The critical rendering path is the set of steps browsers must take to convert HTML, CSS and JavaScript into living, breathing websites. To optimize for performance, you need to understand what happens in the steps between receiving the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript bytes and the processing that's required to turn them into rendered pixels.

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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. What Is Web Performance? 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. The Relation Between Images And Web Performance.

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. Lighthouse records metrics from the browser, applies a scoring model to them, and presents an overall performance score. Guidelines for improvement are suggested based on how specific metrics score. Recommended!

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

JavaScript, CSS, images, iframes, and other resources impact how quickly website loads, renders and becomes usable to the user. Loading experience is crucial to the user’s first impression and overall usability, so Google defined Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric to measure how quickly the main content loads and is displayed to the user.

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Dotcom-Montior

JANUARY 18, 2018

Why Companies Need Web Performance Monitoring Building a Successful Website Gaining success in the online world is not that simple. Most of us believe that content and popularity of websites are the only factors, which are responsible for the success of our sites. Sometimes due to technical reasons, a website may become slow.

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Dean Hume

JULY 5, 2016

Without a doubt, WebPageTest is one of my favourite web performance testing tools. It's completely free to use and is such a powerful way to test your web pages from different locations all over the world. There’s a good chance that your website relies on 3rd party libraries to provide you with extra functionality.

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Website Metrics Speed Testing 40

Dean Hume

JULY 5, 2016

Without a doubt, WebPageTest is one of my favourite web performance testing tools. It's completely free to use and is such a powerful way to test your web pages from different locations all over the world. There’s a good chance that your website relies on 3rd party libraries to provide you with extra functionality.

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Website Metrics Speed Testing 40

Dean Hume

JULY 5, 2016

Without a doubt, WebPageTest is one of my favourite web performance testing tools. It's completely free to use and is such a powerful way to test your web pages from different locations all over the world. There’s a good chance that your website relies on 3rd party libraries to provide you with extra functionality.

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Website Metrics Speed Testing 40

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

That's because video seems to have had a surge in growth, which should be a cause of concern for anyone who cares about metrics like Largest Contentful Paint, which measures the largest visual element on a page – including videos. The more scripts on your page, the greater the performance risk. More on that below.)

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Testing And Monitoring. Table Of Contents.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Testing And Monitoring. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Table Of Contents. Setting Realistic Goals.

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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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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. ” He shares information about UX issues and the latest news from Chrome, with a web performance slant.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Performance Costs. JavaScript’s effect on performance consists of download, parsing and the execution costs. Like any file referenced and used on a website, it first needs to be downloaded from a server. Website performance is not consistent across devices. Jump to online workshops ?. Large preview ).

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Code Performance Network Website 89

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Much of my testing was on Linux 4.14.11 Some older kernels have the KAISER patches for Meltdown, and so far the performance overheads look similar. Also microbenchmarks, which often stress-test the system, will suffer the largest losses. See my previous post on [working set size estimation] and the full [website].

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

This explains the challenges involved in deploying and testing HTTP/3 yourself. In our own early tests , I found seriously diminishing returns at about 40 files. Your user has requested that you navigate to example.com (a website you’ve never visited before), and you’ve used DNS to resolve that to an IP. Additional Issues.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Much of my testing was on Linux 4.14.11 Some older kernels have the KAISER patches for Meltdown, and so far the performance overheads look similar. Also microbenchmarks, which often stress-test the system, will suffer the largest losses. See my previous post on [working set size estimation] and the full [website].

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

If you develop something then you own the lifecycle of that product, which means you would work with QA, DevOps to ensure it’s tested/deployed. We use a variant of git-flow, for every ticket, we clone the repo and we run automation tests on every merge request. Do you have a standard API to your website?

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