Technology Performance Pulse

Understanding the performance impact of anti-flicker snippets

Speed Curve

APRIL 27, 2022

Experimentation tools that use asynchronous scripts – such as Google Optimize, Adobe Target, and Visual Web Optimizer – recommend using an anti-flicker snippet to hide the page until they've finished executing. Normally web pages are rendered progressively. Effects on other Web Vitals.

Performance

Performance C++ Google Retail

The right person at the right time makes all the difference: Best practices for ownership information

Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

Knowing who is responsible for specific areas and services is a vital skill that saves time and hassle. The team identifier can be set only when creating the ownership team for the first time, either through the previously explained ownership importer or manually via the web UI or API. Knowledge is power.

Best Practices

Best Practices Azure Database Code

In Defence of DOMContentLoaded

CSS Wizardry

JUNE 30, 2023

This client doesn’t have any RUM or custom monitoring in place ( yet ), so, other than Core Web Vitals, we don’t have much visibility on how the site performs in the wild. Basically, the browser is now at the tag. Based on a 12s DOMContentLoaded event, I can’t imagine it’s doing so well.

Metrics

Metrics Google Monitoring Analytics

Connect your software with the right people: Ownership drives effective collaboration

Dynatrace

MARCH 28, 2023

Especially when new security vulnerabilities are detected, collaboration with the right people—for example, the team responsible for a vulnerable service—is vital to keeping negative impact low and MTTR at a minimum. Metadata and tags can be assigned to dedicated parts of your environment, such as hosts, services, and Kubernetes objects.

Software

Software Software Monitoring Software Engineering

Modern Methods For Improving Drupal’s Largest Contentful Paint Core Web Vital

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

Modern Methods For Improving Drupal’s Largest Contentful Paint Core Web Vital Modern Methods For Improving Drupal’s Largest Contentful Paint Core Web Vital Mike Herchel 2023-08-15T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-15T13:35:08+00:00 Let’s start with a fairly common example of a hero component on the homepage of Drupal’s demo installation of the Umami theme.

Media

Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices

Revolutionize Your Web Presence: Explore The Potential Of WordPress Page Builders!

Official Blog - World Web Technology

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

These spontaneous tools revolutionize the structure of web design. You may unleash your creativity and elevate your digital identity as a web designer. SEO-Friendly Interface: Certain WordPress website builders support SEO with customizable plugin integration, meta tags, and schema markup, enhancing website rankings and visibility.

Website

Website Design Efficiency Code

Solving CLS Issues In A Next.js-Powered E-Commerce Website (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

There are many key performance indicators (KPI) that measure different points during the lifecycle of the web page (such as TTFB, domInteractive and onload ), but these metrics don’t reflect how the end-user experiences the page. We also use the web-vitals library to measure CLS for real users.

Website

Website Google Metrics Testing Tools

10 things I love about SpeedCurve (that I think you'll love, too)

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Third parties add tons of value by increasing conversions (via targeting beacons) and helping you understand your users in unprecedented ways (via analytics tags). Core Web Vitals have gotten a lot of attention over the past few years. But Vitals have some limitations, such as: They're only available in Chromium-based browsers.

Benchmarking

Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring

Jetpack Boost Handles Critical CSS For You

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 1, 2021

It means to put only the CSS required to render things immediately visible in a <style> tag in the <head> so it comes across in the first network request, then load the rest asynchronously , which will help the page load faster. Critical CSS is one of those things I see in my performance reports but always seem to ignore.

Google

Google Network Performance Processing

An Opinionated Guide to Performance Budgets

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Web pages are unbelievably complex, and there are hundreds of different metrics available to track. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is one of Google's Core Web Vitals , so it's been getting a lot of attention lately. Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) is another one of Google's Core Web vitals. click, key, tap).

Performance

Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google

Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial. Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial. A lot of web design talk concerns itself with what goes on around content. In this third edition of our web design done well series, we’re honing in on the beating heart of many websites: content. Why not web page adaptations?

Design

Design Internet Internet Mobile

Industry page speed benchmarks (March 2022)

Speed Curve

APRIL 3, 2022

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 – over the past year. LCP is one of Google's Core Web Vitals , so it should be on your radar, especially if you care about SEO.

Benchmarking

Benchmarking Speed Retail Media

Automatically Transforming And Optimizing Images And Videos On Your WordPress Website

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

However, then the style will not be present when referencing the image directly (such as the image shared in social media via the <meta property="og:image" content="{image-url}"> tag), making the image devoid of personality. The images embedded in social media when sharing our content are of particular interest.

Website

Website Social Media Media Design

9 Tips To Avoid Cross-Browser Compatibility Issues from the start

Testsigma

JANUARY 4, 2021

It is vital for any business or software to provide a great user experience to a broader user base. It is quite expected that developers may omit certain ‘closing tag’ or ‘semicolon’ in the syntax while writing code. Check DOCTYPE tag. Older versions of Internet Explorer check for the DOCTYPE tag at the beginning of the code.

Testing Tools

Testing Tools Mobile Internet Internet

The Three Types of Performance Testing

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 27, 2018

It is vital, therefore, that engineers have a firm understanding of performance fundamentals, as well as a solid command of their tools. You’re out on the world wide web—you have no idea who is turning up to the site, what their context is, what hardware, software, or infrastructure they’re using, or anything.

Performance Testing

Performance Testing Testing Performance Strategy

Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF)

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Where Does SEO Belong In Your Web Design Process? ” Lighthouse for automated web page audits. Fabulous desktop layouts are great, but SEO, like the web, is now a mobile-first world. Every web page should have a meta title and meta description. The title should tell people and web crawlers alike what the page is about.

Engineering

Engineering Google Website Analytics

A Deep Dive Into Serverless UI With TypeScript

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

We’ll be breaking it all down into two parts: deploying a static web application (in this case a Notes application), and then a serverless web application to CloudFront using the Serverless UI library. The above list contains dependencies and their type definitions to work optimally with TypeScript.

Serverless

Serverless Lambda AWS Website

Error Tracking - Top Suggestions and Tools

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The same can be said for web development. Error tracking is a vital component to any web project because it helps you pinpoint performance problems before they get out of hand. Ideally, you want to identify bugs in your web application before users encounter them. What is Error Tracking?

Strategy

Strategy Monitoring Website Google

The Fight For The Main Thread

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

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. That’s a lifetime in web seconds, particularly considering that this test is based on a desktop experience on a high-speed connection.

Google

Google Analytics Traffic Metrics

Optimizing The Image Element LCP

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Largest Contentful Paint (or LCP) is one of three metrics of the Core Web Vitals. Since recently becoming a ranking factor, this major web performance KPI is still a new concept for many web developers. If you want to find out how to identify the LCP element on your web pages, check out this guide by Laurent Cazanove.

Media

Media Mobile Website Metrics

AI Powered Misinformation and Manipulation at Scale #GPT-3

O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

The prompt text can be sourced from trending hash-tags on Twitter along with additional context to sway the content to a particular position. It’s straightforward to see how this technique can be extended to generate titles and complete news articles on the fly and in real time.

Social Media

Social Media Media Internet Internet

A Complete Guide to Performance Budgets

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

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. > Largest Contentful Paint (Synthetic and RUM) Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is one of Google's Core Web Vitals.

Performance

Performance Metrics Media Google

Debugging Interaction to Next Paint (INP)

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Interaction to Next Paint (INP) will become a Core Web Vital on March 12th. Like all Core Web Vitals, INP has a set of thresholds: INP thresholds for Good, Needs Improvement, and Poor Many sites tend to be in the Needs Improvement or Poor categories. INP measures how responsive a page is to visitor interactions.

Analytics

Analytics Processing Google Mobile

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. SEO And Web Vitals In the realm of search engine optimization, performance plays a critical role. Core Web Vital metrics definitions. Everything in one single 528-pages book.

Performance

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics

Web Performance for Product Managers

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

I hope this post can serve that purpose and cover a few of the fundamental areas of web performance that I’ve found to be most useful while honing the craft of product management. Yes, it's true that when they impact your performance, there is little you can do to make them faster, short of removing the tag or throwing the kill switch.

Performance

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring

A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

But what happens when we all start creating content on a massive scale, filling the web with more and more data, and storing hundreds of zettabytes of content? That is why, today, Web Performance is as important and trendy as having an online presence. Table of Contents: What Is Web Performance? What Is Web Performance?

Media

Media Cache Website Mobile

Site-Speed Topography

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

A couple of years ago, my first few days on a new web performance project were always slow going. Given that render blocking resources reside in the head of the document, this implies differing head tags on that page. Or, perhaps a more extreme scenario is that it has entirely different head tags?

Speed

Speed Ecommerce Metrics Analytics

How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

The average user doesn’t spend much time waiting for a web page to load or to interact with the page: According to Google, if a page’s load time goes up from 1 second to 3 seconds, the probability of the user bouncing increases by 32%. When you have lots of third-party scripts on your web page, they will block your own JavaScript.

Website

Website Google Open Source Mobile

Front-End Testing is For Everyone

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 1, 2021

We first check that <p> tag is empty. And lastly, we check that the <p> tag contains “Hello human!” Web accessibility means that websites, tools, and technologies are designed and developed so that people with disabilities can use them. and it likely is given the recent focus on Core Web Vitals and SEO ?—?you’ll

Testing

Testing Performance Testing Website Code

Reducing HTML Payload With Next.js (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Meet “ Web Vitals ”, but in particular, meet LCP (Largest Contentful Paint): “Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is an important, user-centric metric for measuring perceived load speed because it marks the point in the page load timeline when the page’s main content has likely loaded — a fast LCP helps reassure the user that the page is useful.”.

Google

Google Architecture Servers Speed

Why Is Flutter the Best Choice for Your Mobile App Startup?

Tech News Gather

JUNE 22, 2023

Flutter is a free and open-source UI framework for creating cross-platform apps that run equally well on mobile devices, the web, and desktop computers. Tools and Testing Flutter is equipped with powerful testing tools, which is great because testing is vital to developing software.

Mobile

Mobile Strategy Google Speed

How To Boost Your Business With WordPress Website?

Official Blog - World Web Technology

JUNE 28, 2023

However, you can also hire WordPress web development services to keep away headaches if you are not good at technology. Create Title Tags for Products Ask the WordPress web development services provider to create unique title tags for each page. Title tags determine the name of the page on the HTML code of the page.

Website

Website Social Media Media Traffic

Optimizing Video Streaming CDN Architecture for Cost Reduction and Enhanced Streaming Performance

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Once fetched, it can be stored closer to the user in a Content Delivery Network (CDN) for faster access in future requests, and since the content is static, we don’t really need to employ specialized security measures like a Web Application Firewall (WAF), or load balancing. Think of it like an artist painting a mural.

Architecture

Architecture Performance Internet Internet

Refactoring CSS: Optimizing Size And Performance (Part 3)

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

This CSS is inlined in HTML under a style tag, so the styles are loaded and parsed alongside the HTML file. has a template-specific critical CSS inlined inside HTML style tag in the head element, and a deferred main.css stylesheet which contains all non-critical styles. We can draw even more conclusions from the Web Vitals charts.

Media

Media Performance Cache Strategy

How To Migrate From WordPress To A Headless CMS

Smashing Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

WordPress is the most used website builder in the world; almost half of the web has used WordPress to create their website. A headless architecture allows these companies to centralize content management in a single administration interface , providing the APIs that will be consumed by the company’s different web pages. Alba Silvente.

Website

Website Architecture Technology Technology

Frankenstein Migration: Framework-Agnostic Approach (Part 2)

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Write Web Component Wrapper Around Alien Service. Replace Host Service With Web Component. Write Web Component Wrapper Around Alien Service. As mentioned in the previous article, we are going to use Web Components to integrate Alien into Host. Replace Host Service With Web Component. Let’s dive right in!

Storage

Storage Testing Processing Code

Setting Up and Deploying PostgreSQL for High Availability

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Backup and continuous archiving: PostgreSQL asynchronous replication relies on the write-ahead log (WAL) stream, and it’s vital to have centralized storage that all nodes can access. A good place to start is our Highly Available PostgreSQL web page. It can be done by building the HA infrastructure within a single data center.

Availability

Availability Open Source Architecture Database

The Humble ` ` Element And Core Web Vitals

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

The Humble `<img>` Element And Core Web Vitals. The Humble `<img>` Element And Core Web Vitals. Given how central it is to image optimization on the web, let’s catch up on what it can do and how it can help improve user experience and the Core Web Vitals. Addy Osmani. Large preview ).

Media

Media Network Metrics Mobile

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

These were stored as one big svg tag in the HTML head of the page, with a symbol for each of the icons that was then used as a linked svg in the HTML’s body. Like on so many other websites, we use web fonts for our typography needs. We made good progress on “Core Web Vitals”. Icon Loading. Font Loading. Large preview ).

Performance

Performance Cache Website Mobile

Canonicalization Explained

KeyCDN

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The average person will not know that there is a problem because when they type in the web address they will be taken to the correct website location. Every marketer, blogger, news agency, and organization wants their content to rank high on search engines and canonicalization is vital in making this happen. What is a canonical tag?

Website

Website Traffic Ecommerce Google

How We Improved SmashingMag Performance

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

Every web performance story is similar, isn’t it? Harry Roberts ran his (excellent) Web Performance Masterclass as an online workshop with us, and throughout the entire workshop, he was using Smashing as an example by highlighting issues that we had and suggesting solutions to those issues alongside useful tools and guidelines.

Performance

Performance Cache Mobile Network

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? Is it expensive JavaScript, slow web font delivery, heavy images, or sluggish rendering? Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics Performance culture, Core Web Vitals, performance profiles, CrUX, Lighthouse, FID, TTI, CLS, devices. Impact of Web Performance , via Addy Osmani ).

Performance

Performance Cache Media Metrics

Understanding the performance impact of anti-flicker snippets

The right person at the right time makes all the difference: Best practices for ownership information

Trending Sources

In Defence of DOM­Content­Loaded

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Solving CLS Issues In A Next.js-Powered E-Commerce Website (Case Study)

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Jetpack Boost Handles Critical CSS For You

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Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF)

A Deep Dive Into Serverless UI With TypeScript

Error Tracking - Top Suggestions and Tools

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AI Powered Misinformation and Manipulation at Scale #GPT-3

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Debugging Interaction to Next Paint (INP)

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience

Web Performance for Product Managers

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How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps

Front-End Testing is For Everyone

Reducing HTML Payload With Next.js (Case Study)

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Canonicalization Explained

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