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The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters

Smashing Magazine

If you’d like to dive deeper into the performance of Android and iOS devices, you can check Geekbench Android Benchmarks for Android smartphones and tablets, and iOS Benchmarks for iPhones and iPads. However, there are quite a few high-profile case studies exploring the impact of mobile optimization on key business metrics.

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What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites

Smashing Magazine

Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google. Although we’ve been told for years that visitors are willing to wait three seconds for a web page to load , Google considers 2.9 seconds too long.

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A Complete Guide to Performance Budgets

Speed Curve

seconds or less, which is Google's recommendation for page experience and SEO. But I've participated in many usability studies that have found a strong, consistent correlation between Start Render time, user engagement, and business metrics. > Let's get started! Background: How performance budgets work 1.

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

Speed Curve

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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How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

Speed Curve

Google recommends that TTFB be 800ms at the 75th percentile. Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Recent server timing case studies It's great to see server timing starting to get more use in the wild.

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Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties

Smashing Magazine

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. The most popular, by far, is the Google Lighthouse report (available in Chrome Developer Tools) and Google’s Page Speed Insights.

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Getting started with web performance? Here's what you need to focus on.

Speed Curve

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. If you're tracking custom metrics, you probably want to create performance budgets for them.