Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

One of the metrics produced when you run a test using webpagetest.org is called Speed Index and it changed the way I thought about web performance. Speed Index is important because it goes a step further and measures how much of the "above-the-fold" content is visually complete until the web page has finished loading.

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Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

One of the metrics produced when you run a test using webpagetest.org is called Speed Index and it changed the way I thought about web performance. Speed Index is important because it goes a step further and measures how much of the "above-the-fold" content is visually complete until the web page has finished loading.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. 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).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

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? Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!),

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Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast. If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. It's only tracked on certain elements, e.g., IMG and VIDEO.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The project is available in twenty languages, and encourages all kinds of contributions to open-source projects — including non-pull-request contributions. If you’re already familiar with the HTMHell website, then you can guess how interesting its advent calendar is going to get! 24 Pull Requests. HTMHell Advent Calendar.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. 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. Here is our (ever-growing!) Rachel Andrew.

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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. LCP is particularly vital for landing pages , which are predominantly content and often the first touch-point a visitor has with a website. This could be an image, a block of text, or even an embedded video.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Tracking critical content such as images and videos is a good place to start. > It's only tracked on certain elements, e.g., IMG and VIDEO (learn more here ). Google Lighthouse is an open-source tool that checks your page against rules for Performance, PWA, Accessibility, Best Practice, and SEO.

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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). We deployed these enhancements gradually over time to ensure that our users didn’t experience any disruptions, but instead only a consistent improvement of their site speed. Dan Shappir. 2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00.

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Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Nefarious websites have analysed other web browser engines and found flaws that have not been disclosed, and exploit those flaws when a user goes to a particular website to silently violate user privacy or security. WebKit is an open-source web engine that allows Apple to enable improvements contributed by third parties.

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Testsigma

APRIL 16, 2021

Imagine having an end product with a missing icon or faulty navigation or other common issues like font sizing, websites only optimized for desktop screen size, breakage of layout styles for different screen sizes, and the incompatibility of JS scripts across specific browsers. What matters to them is a seamless interface.

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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.

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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? Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

Lazy loading is a way to improve the performance of a website or web application by maximizing the rendering speed of the above-the-fold images and iframes (and sometimes videos) by deferring the loading of below-the-fold content. Let’s start with a comparison between native lazy loading and the good ol’ JavaScript-driven one.

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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? dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

World-class experts in graphics, networking, cryptography, databases, language design, VM implementation, security, usability (particularly usable security), power management, compilers, fonts, high-performance layout, codecs, real-time media, audio and video pipelines, and per- OS specialisation are required. How much does all of this cost?

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Testsigma

JULY 24, 2021

Owing to the abundance of apps and websites in the market, an average user has several choices, and to ensure the user consumes your product, you’ll have to craft products that are compatible with their devices that run on various operating systems. Also, Sauce Labs offers its tool at no cost for open-source projects.

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Dean Hume

JULY 5, 2016

There’s a good chance that your website relies on 3rd party libraries to provide you with extra functionality. When you view the video for this site, you'll notice that you've simulated a SPOF and the site should take significantly longer to load. The Speed Index metric was invented by WebPagetest. True story!

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Dean Hume

JULY 5, 2016

There’s a good chance that your website relies on 3rd party libraries to provide you with extra functionality. When you view the video for this site, you'll notice that you've simulated a SPOF and the site should take significantly longer to load. The Speed Index metric was invented by WebPagetest. True story!

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Website Metrics Speed Testing 40

Dean Hume

JULY 5, 2016

There’s a good chance that your website relies on 3rd party libraries to provide you with extra functionality. When you view the video for this site, you'll notice that you've simulated a SPOF and the site should take significantly longer to load. The Speed Index metric was invented by WebPagetest. True story!

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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. But that is the assumption that Lighthouse makes.

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Your users don't care how your website is constructed. These two sets of metrics can paint very different pictures and it’s the reason SpeedCurve is built on WebPageTest the leading open source performance tool. While start render and speed index are great, ultimately the best metric is the one you define yourself.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

16% of respondents working with AI are using open source models. ChatGPT was opened to the public on November 30, 2022, roughly a year ago; the art generators, such as Stable Diffusion and DALL-E, are somewhat older. But 18% already have applications in production. Certainly not two-thirds of them.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

The world’s first website was made from static HTML files created in a text editor. Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. Mike Neumegen. released 1998.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Web pages, such as the one you’re reading now, have text, images, videos and other assets to bring information to you. When it comes to a Traditional CMS, the CMS and the resulting front-end website are built on a monolithic architecture. there was a separate subdomain for a mobile website). How To Choose A Headless CMS.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”. It is physically limited by the speed of light or, practically, how fast signals can travel in wires or in the open air. What Does It All Mean? 0-RTT Connection Set-Up.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

You can take a closer look at the thorough guide and video about the plugin to get started. You can watch a thorough walkthrough video on how to use it. Still, the plugin is open-source, has a large community around it, and the creators are actively maintaining it. 3D perspectives in all kinds and shapes.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If you’re optimizing for the Web Vitals , you might be interested to hear that images account for ~ 42% of the Largest Contentful Paint element for websites. Assuming encode/decode speeds meet your needs. Encode/Decode Speed. However, you should ideally replace such images with videos.

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