Speed Curve

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Our purpose in building this integration is to lower the barrier for getting web performance feedback for your code changes, directly in the environment you are working in. Follow along below for an example of how you can use this integration in practice to fight web performance regressions and keep your pages fast.

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Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2021

We have seen users who joined our preview program “speed up their release validation by 90%”. Many of our users are performance engineers using Cloud Automation Quality Gates to automate the analysis of their performance and load tests – saving hours of analysis time for each test they run. 03:24 – Pre-Requisites.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

So I thought it would be fun to spend some time poking around behind the scenes and give the site a holiday performance audit. Background For this performance audit, I looked at this synthetic test for the LEGO.com home page. (We The performance team is clearly doing a good job of fighting page bloat. Are images optimized?

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Speed Curve

JULY 26, 2022

RUM: Performance heat maps. Fixing high-traffic but poorly performing areas of your site will improve your overall metrics – and create a faster, better experience for more of your users. You can then prioritize and focus on these areas to improve important metrics like Largest Contentful Paint. Suggestions?

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

An example of this is Netflix’s video player or the TV UI javascript package. Application version adoption over time for a staged rollout This chart represents a counter metric, which exhibits version adoption over the duration of a staged rollout. Client Applications We deal with two classes of client application updates.

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CSS - Tricks

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

In this week's roundup: fighting shifty layouts, some videos might be a bit stalled, and a new way to take screenshots in Firefox. Paste the following snippet into the “Custom Metrics” on webpagetest.org in field in the Custom tab (under Advanced Settings ) and make sure that a Chrome browser is selected. Let's get into the news!

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Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Earlier this year, Google announced that Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is no longer an experimental metric. Now that INP has arrived to dethrone FID as the responsiveness metric in Core Web Vitals, we've turned our eye to scrutinizing its effectiveness. When it comes to new performance metrics, it's easy to jump on bandwagons.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

we also: Launched a series of new and improved dashboards to help you identify and fix your performance issues more quickly and efficiently (More on those below.). Your Home dashboard brings together your Synthetic and RUM data to provide an easy-to-digest – and easy-to-share – snapshot of how your site is performing.

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Speed Curve

APRIL 9, 2023

There is a lot of excitement in the world of web performance these days, and April has been no exception! Here's how the update to Lighthouse 10 may affect your metrics. Metrics and scoring weights include the deprecation of Time to Interactive (TTI) and the increase in weight for Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS).

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Speed Curve

JUNE 12, 2022

Performance recommendations on your Vitals dashboard. On your Vitals dashboard , you now get performance recommendations that are specific to each of the Vitals you're tracking – Largest Contentful Paint, First Input Delay, Total Blocking Time, and Cumulative Layout Shift. Vitals badges on Lighthouse performance audits.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Getting up to speed on Core Web Vitals seems to be at the top of everyone's to-do list these days. We love to visualize performance data (in case you haven't heard). Each vital metric is represented in its own section of the dashboard, with a current view of where you stand relative to the recommended thresholds.

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Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

Create performance budgets and fight regression. Build a performance culture that embraces collaboration between design and dev. Keep reading to learn how you can apply these best practices to your own site and give your pages a speed boost. What's blocking the user experience? which can block the critical rendering path.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rachel Andrew.

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Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Here at SpeedCurve, we are continually gathering detailed performance data from tens of thousands of web pages. This gives us a relatively unique opportunity to analyse and aggregate performance metrics to gain some interesting insights. What are paint timing metrics? What makes a metric useful?

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Fighting regressions should be the top priority of anyone who cares about the speed of their site. The best way to fight regressions is to create performance budgets on key metrics, and get alerted when they go out of bounds. READ: A Complete Guide to Performance Budgets ––––– 2.

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Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

When I first started learning about web page performance, I always use to focus solely on the time that it took a page to load. Whilst web page load time is an important metric to measure, it doesn't tell the whole picture. The Eggplant website does a great job of explaining clearly how Speed Index is calculated. "Each

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Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

When I first started learning about web page performance, I always use to focus solely on the time that it took a page to load. Whilst web page load time is an important metric to measure, it doesn't tell the whole picture. The Eggplant website does a great job of explaining clearly how Speed Index is calculated. "Each

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Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

When I first started learning about web page performance, I always use to focus solely on the time that it took a page to load. Whilst web page load time is an important metric to measure, it doesn't tell the whole picture. The NCC group website does a great job of explaining clearly how Speed Index is calculated. "Each

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Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

Page speed has been a key factor in Google’s ranking algorithm since 2010 , so it is essential to understand the various ways you can optimize your pages and why implementing synthetic monitoring can ensure your pages perform flawlessly and revenue isn’t lost. Find Your Performance Baseline. Optimize Your Pages.

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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. Listen in as they talk about current trends, challenges, and lessons that impact the APM and performance space today. Mythbusting. Lessons learned.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Performance is one of the core aspects to ensure our users are having a delightful user experience irrespective of their devices or network connection. We found out user-centric performance metrics to be the perfect fit for this purpose. Barry Pollard has written an excellent in-depth article about CLS. More after jump!

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Speed Curve

MAY 9, 2023

Today at Google I/O 2023, it was announced that Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is no longer an experimental metric. In that time, we've seen people's interest in performance dramatically increase, especially in the world of SEO. During this time, SpeedCurve has stayed objective when looking at the CWV metrics. have occurred.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Session replay is an IT technology that creates anonymized video-like recordings of actions taken by users interacting with your website or mobile application. The result is a complete recreation of the user experience in a video-like format. This step is critical because the metrics needed to achieve these goals differ.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

by Zhi Li, Kyle Swanson, Christos Bampis, Lukáš Krasula and Anne Aaron Over the past few years, we have been striving to make VMAF a more usable tool not just for Netflix, but for the video community at large. VMAF is a video quality metric that Netflix jointly developed with a number of university collaborators and open-sourced on Github.

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Rigor

JUNE 20, 2019

“ The Best in Performance ” video series from Rigor gives you the chance to listen in on conversations with web performance industry experts, thought leaders, and technologists as they discuss current trends, challenges, and lessons that impact the APM and performance space today. Identifying key metrics.

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Speed Curve

MAY 11, 2020

Google recently announced an initiative called 'Web Vitals', which focuses on three performance metrics they consider essential for improving the user experience: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). With the exception of FID, all of these metrics are available in both LUX (our RUM tool) and Synthetic. First Input Delay (FID).

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Speed Curve

JUNE 30, 2020

Keep reading to find out what this means and how it may affect your performance metrics. The changes to performance scoring and default Lighthouse settings are fairly significant and may have a noticeable impact on your existing budgets from Lighthouse v5.6. Lighthouse performance scores for desktop tests should be much higher.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 12, 2023

Pages - This detailed view gives you trended information for all the metrics you know and love. Easily identify areas of opportunity and how things are performing over time for specific pages you are monitoring. Otherwise, the metrics reflected will be from your synthetic data. What pages have the slowest LCP?

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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. It is a huge industry, with its own publications, thought leaders, podcasts, video series, and more. So do people.

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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.

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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.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

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. By visualizing the gaze path on video recordings or heatmaps, you can see where the person is looking, for how long, and get actionable data.

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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. Spot any new or unique requests – such as JavaScript and images – and see their impact on performance. Exciting stuff, right? But wait, there's more!

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Tasktop

AUGUST 26, 2020

Video consultancy brings flexibility for patients who can’t visit a medical facility for whatever reason — be it their job, childcare or they’re too sick to travel. The right set of metrics into the health of the software delivery organization can help leadership quickly identify what’s working — and what’s not.

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Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The data we get from real user monitoring (RUM) is extremely useful when trying to get a grasp on performance. Not only does it serve as the source of truth for your most important budgets and KPIs, it help us understand that performance is a broad distribution that encompasses many different cohorts of users. Investigate anomalies.

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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). It was at this point that we realized we needed to make a significant change in our approach towards performance, and that we must embrace performance as part of our culture. Dan Shappir. Large preview ).

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Rigor

MAY 29, 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. Listen in as they talk about current trends, challenges, and lessons that impact the APM and performance space today. room service!)

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