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Site-Speed Topography

CSS Wizardry

This is basically how many render blocking resources each page has. Now here’s where it gets really interesting: If all of our TTFBs are pretty identical, then any erroneous FPs are indicative of a different amount of render blocking resources. Is it simply an additional render-blocking resource or two?

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Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties

Smashing Magazine

Pages loaded up with dozens or hundreds of third-party calls can take longer to render or longer to become interactive. Maciej Kocemba published research findings from Opera that showed that a typical website with ads could be rendered 51% faster if the ads were blocked. A third-party font request could cause render-blocking.

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The Fight For The Main Thread

Smashing Magazine

All of that is dumped on any given page in one fell swoop courtesy of Google Tag Manager (GTM), which allows us to deploy and run scripts without having to go through the pain of re-deploying the entire site. Elements are rendered. As a result, adding and executing scripts is a fairly trivial task. The HTML is parsed.

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Optimizing The Image Element LCP

Smashing Magazine

I’ll cover the following: How to improve the LCP Resource load time subpart with the help of the <img> tag and a focus on proper LCP image sizing. Some explanations on the browsers’ behavior for this <img> tag and its attributes, so you can really understand and integrate your LCP image correctly. Large preview ).

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Understanding the performance impact of anti-flicker snippets

Speed Curve

Normally web pages are rendered progressively. As browsers start to receive content, they can layout and render page elements and display the content bit by bit. Managing the performance of third-party tags is a key aspect of delivering great web experiences. Hiding the page contents. Measuring how long the page is hidden.

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A Complete Guide to Performance Budgets

Speed Curve

Your site has a number of people contributing content, such as unoptimized images and third-party tags that have the potential to seriously hurt the speed of your pages. People don't talk much about Start Render these days, perhaps because newer, shinier metrics have emerged. Even if you're not responsible for backend time (e.g.,

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Measure What You Impact, Not What You Influence

CSS Wizardry

We might hypothesise that reducing the amount of render-blocking CSS should help improve LCP—and that’s a sensible hypothesis!—but As your head is completely render blocking 3 , you could proxy your head time from your First Paint time. but this is where my first point about atomicity comes in. Like, obsessed.