CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative was launched in May of 2020 and, since then, its role in Search has morphed and evolved as roll-outs have been made and feedback has been received. However, to this day, messaging from Google can seem somewhat unclear and, in places, even contradictory. Don’t have time to read 5,500+ words?

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CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Google has a pretty tight grip on the tech industry: it makes by far the most popular browser with the best DevTools, and the most popular search engine, which means that web developers spend most of their time in Chrome, most of their visitors are in Chrome, and a lot of their search traffic will be coming from Google. You Will Need….

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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

If you’re not a developer/designer, you may not be familiar with the Chrome DevTools and the extremely powerful Google Lighthouse Audits that can be found inside. However, you have likely used the Web UI that Google uses to allow you to test websites for speed – Google PageSpeed Insights. Performance.

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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.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time Matt Zeunert 2025-02-12T17:00:00+00:00 2025-02-13T01:34:15+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Loading your website HTML quickly has a big impact on visitor experience. But actually, theres a lot more to optimizing this metric.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites. Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London.

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MachMetrics

APRIL 15, 2020

Using a page speed optimization audit tool like GTmetrix or WebPageTest is a great first step towards assessing how your website loads for visitors. However, you may be making one of the common page speed testing mistakes that often cost website owners engagement, and ultimately, revenue. Mistake #1: Only Testing Desktop.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 6, 2025

How To Fix Largest Contentful Issues With Subpart Analysis How To Fix Largest Contentful Issues With Subpart Analysis Matt Zeunert 2025-03-06T10:00:00+00:00 2025-03-06T14:50:25+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear The Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) in Core Web Vitals measures how quickly a website loads from a visitors perspective.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2025

What I got back were two artifacts, one of them being the following video of Akamai web performance expert Robin Marx speaking at We Love Speed in France a few weeks ago: The other artifact is a Google document originally published by Patrick Meenan in 2015 but updated somewhat recently in November 2023. Lets touch on that now.

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MachMetrics

MARCH 21, 2020

Chrome’s DevTools suite contains some of the most powerful tools available to help you analyze and improve the speed of your website (or web app). In our most recent article , we covered one area of the DevTools that we can use to measure the load time of our site – the ‘Audit’ tab. To improve your site!

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MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

These authors are experts and many have a ton of additional articles and resources that you can check out. If you’re looking to read optimization ideas from one of the greatest minds in speed performance, look no further. and the Head Performance Engineer at Google. and Google, they’ll do wonders for your website!

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CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

These intermediates fall outside of the scope of this article, but if you’ve ever run a traceroute , you’re on the right lines. That’s exactly what this article is about. The speed at which files download will be a function of bandwidth and round trip time. Where Does CrUX’s RTT Data Come From? How Can I See RTT Information?

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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. In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score. In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score. What is Google Lighthouse? Recommended!

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Similar to our article Average Page Load Times for 2018 , we’ll go over the averages for metrics and help you determine if your site is faster or slower than average. As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Geoff Graham 2023-08-10T08:00:00+00:00 2023-08-10T12:35:05+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear There is no shortage of ways to measure the speed of a webpage. Lighthouse results. One type is called lab data.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum has a uniquely designed data pipeline that can efficiently stream data from the disk to the CPU, without relying on the data fitting into RAM memory, as explained in their Greenplum Next Generation Big Data Platform: Top 5 reasons article.

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Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2024

Our customers often tell us how much they appreciate the user-friendliness of the articles we create for them, so we recently decided to make them available to everyone (not just SpeedCurve users). You'll find the articles grouped into these topics. Introducing the Web Performance Guide !

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

He lit the match for many conversations about how to improve speed through his Meet for Speed events (also still going strong), where brave souls ask for critique of websites while a panel of experts perform forensic analysis of front-end code. Sergey currently works as a Speed Manager at Cloudflare.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). With Google Search Console you can see exactly where your pages are (or aren’t) ranking for different keywords. Google Keyword Planner. Google Trends. Google Mobile-Friendly Test.

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. I’m hopeful this can serve as a good introduction for any developer interested in learning about how to work with Google Lighthouse programmatically.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While speeding up development processes and reducing complexity does make the lives of Kubernetes operators easier, the inherent abstraction and automation can lead to new types of errors that are difficult to find, troubleshoot, and prevent. 60 seconds to self-upgrading observability on Google Kubernetes Engine. Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

It doesn’t come as a surprise, considering the benefits of higher conversion rates, customer engagement, decreased page loading speed, and lower costs on development and overhead. The following qualities are considered great additions to the basic PWA by Google developers. The Application Works Offline As It Does Online.

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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. Google Optimize) has finished applying its experiments. In Google Optimize's default case is the whole document.

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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

In this article, we will check how page load time affects your site revenue and also the importance of even just one second in page loading. They get even MORE impatient when it comes to website speed. drop in the number of articles a visitor read The three-second delay resulted in a 7.9% Want proof? Want proof?

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

Then again, a newer but less widely known framework may more effectively suit your needs, so it's worth it to get up to speed about today's most popular options. Prototypes - The ideal frontend framework allows you to quickly produce wireframes and prototypes to speed up the overall design and development process.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Here’s another article about reducing JavaScript dependencies and the bundle size sent to the client. This article is about a couple of things that Bookaway faced and we (as a company in the traveling industry) managed to optimize our pages, so that the HTML we send is smaller. Both for Google bots (SEO) and to actual clients.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? A Google machine-learning study I participated in a few years ago found that the total number of page elements was the single greatest predictor of conversions. You can dive deeper into image optimization and SEO tips in this article in Google Search Central.).

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Testsigma

JUNE 10, 2021

In this article, we will only discuss testing the OTP based authentication for obvious reasons. We cannot test third-party mobile apps like Twilio Authy or Google Authenticator. To read more on how exactly Testsigma does it, check the article here: 2 Factor Authentication(2FA) with Testsigma .

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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

David Gilbertson and the guys at Hackernoon have a great article and flowchart that will help you decide whether or not you really need to load a web font for your site. Using Google’s Font API. Google Font API is a web service that supports open source font files that can be used for your web designs. Source: caniuse.com.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. Image CDN Using a content delivery network like KeyCDN, or what we also call an image CDN , can be one of the easiest and fastest ways to speed up the delivery of your images.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Barry Pollard has written an excellent in-depth article about CLS. Apart from that, we check the Google Search Console Core Web Vitals Report section to get an idea of any potential CLS issues in any of our pages. Note : Paul Irish has written an excellent article on this topic. How We Discovered CLS Issue In Our Product Page.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

This article is sponsored by imgix. How do I account for different network speeds in different environments? This solution is fine when network speeds are fast, but it can be problematic when network speeds are not fast (or fluctuate). Doug Sillars. 2022-08-25T08:00:00+00:00. 2022-08-25T13:03:51+00:00.

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Tim Kadlec

MARCH 19, 2018

You have to consider at least four different contexts: How well does AMP perform in the context of Google search? How well does AMP perform compared to the canonical article? How well does AMP perform in the context of Google search? In the context of Google search, then, AMP performs remarkably well.

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MachMetrics

JANUARY 16, 2020

His article in the Web Performance Calendar, The ugly truth about optimizing beautiful images , explores a few case studies and offers some solutions as well. In the above article, we walk you through how to implement lazy loading for your images in 83 seconds! Javascript is blocking the render. Those must have been some huge images!

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf. I didn't end up getting published in SysAdmin directly, but my performance work did make it as a feature article (thanks Matty). Or even on a plane. Ford, et al., “TCP

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