Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Benchmark your site against your competitors Our public-facing Industry Benchmarks dashboard gets a lot of visits, but did you know you can create your own custom competitive benchmarking dashboard in SpeedCurve? READ : How to create a competitive benchmark dashboard ––––– 4.

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KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

Take these statistics from Google’s industry benchmarks for mobile page speed guide: We’ve said it before but it’s worth reiterating that as web page load times increase, so does the likelihood of your visitors. Fonts are render-blocking as we discussed in our case study on web font performance.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Pagespeed Benchmarks - US Retail - LCP When you examine a waterfall, it's pretty obvious that TTFB is the long pole in the tent, pushing out render times for the page.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

In fact, there are two recent case studies that demonstrate why custom web fonts are detrimental to page loading speeds. In this case study, Downtime Monkey boasts a page speed improvement of 58% through a variety of optimizations — two of which pertained to how they served fonts to their site.

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Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

The easiest way to validate your metrics is to look at rendering filmstrips in your synthetic test data, like this: In the example above (taken from our Industry Benchmarks ) you can see: Start Render does correlate to content appearing in the viewport. Let's get started! Background: How performance budgets work 1.

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Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

A while back, our friends at Shopify published this great case study , showing how they optimized one of their newer themes from the ground up – and how they worked to keep it fast. Benchmark your site against your competitors. Connect the dots. Collaborate on performance budgets.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Case study: the new responsive Guardian site. There are great tools available to monitor the actual in browser speed and benchmark your site against others. Currently WebP is only supported in Chrome and Firefox are considering adding support. Comparison of page size and assets types across different responsive widths.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Researchers and major companies have been publishing case studies for years , proving that slower page load experiences impact business metrics, including conversion rate, revenue, bounce rate, and more. They are more of a benchmark than a true measurement of real user experience.

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 31, 2018

Case studies are an awesome way to do this, which is why I've been helping curate WPOstats , a vendor-neutral directory of performance case studies. Case studies are a great way to convert performance skeptics. Case studies from other companies are compelling, but using your own data is even more compelling.

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Rigor

DECEMBER 19, 2019

For example, in a case study published by Gilt Groupe , Eric Shepherd, who was formerly Gilt’s principal front end engineer, noted that: Both RUM and synthetic monitoring give different views of our performance, and are useful for different things. Benchmark Against Competitors.

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Monitoring Benchmarking Website Traffic 40

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Whether you want a primer on machine learning, benchmarking, functional programming, developing for the cloud or agile practices, there are articles from reputable contributors that can help you get learning. Sidebar Sidebar curates five daily design links that include essays, data visualizations, case studies and code resources.

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Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Many articles and case studies published during the last decade successfully achieve the balance between abstract models and machine learning. Besides that, the numbers can vary greatly depending on many factors, so our goal here is just to provide a few benchmarks that give some sense of the magnitude of potential improvements.

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Percona

JULY 1, 2023

In any case, you should always keep in mind that performance depends on schema design. Doing extensive benchmarks will be the subject of a future blog post. View the full results of the case study here. In any case, you should benchmark both RDS MySQL and Aurora before taking the decision to migrate.

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Speed Curve

JULY 8, 2024

In case you have any doubts, countless case studies have proven a consistent and demonstrable correlation between page speed and business and user engagement metrics like conversions, bounce rate, and search rank. With many synthetic monitoring tools, you can benchmark your site against your competitors.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Throughout this post I've used examples from our public Industry Benchmarks dashboard , which I'd encourage you to check out so that you can explore these metrics on your own. read industry case studies, like those gathered on WPOstats.com. Look at your own industry/competitor benchmarks and your own data! Is it loading?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data. How to get there?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data. How to get there?

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