Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What do the different metrics mean? While the focus in most cases tends to be directed toward front-end developers, it's important to remember the back-end as well if you see higher than normal start render times or increases in more basic metrics like time to first byte. What do the different metrics mean? Let's get started.

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Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Additionally, include benchmarks for stakeholders and best practices that support the anticipated growth of the organization as a whole. Establish a FinOps culture that supports buy-in from all stakeholders, as well as metrics that all teams understand and use. FinOps company culture.

Cloud 202

Cloud Strategy Retail Energy 202

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Benchmarking spreadsheet systems Rahman et al., construct a set of benchmarks to try and understand what might be going on under the covers in Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, and LibreOffice Calc. With formula-value datasets, Excel, Calc, and Google Sheets fail to meet the interactivity barrier at just 6000, 150(!)

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Benchmarking Systems Google Scalability 56

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. Key metrics. LCP is one of Google's Core Web Vitals , so it should be on your radar, especially if you care about SEO.

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Benchmarking Speed Retail Mobile 56

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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Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

High Scalability

OCTOBER 19, 2018

four petabytes : added to Internet Archive per year; 60,000 : patents donated by Microsoft to the Open Invention Network; 30 million : DuckDuckGo daily searches; 5 seconds : Google+ session length; 1 trillion : ARM device goal; $40B : Softbank investment in 5G; 30 : Happy Birthday IRC!; They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.

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Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 123

Rigor

JUNE 4, 2019

In the past, the answer would be based on the load time of a page, but over the years, we have evolved our approach to site speed to incorporate new metrics, alone or in combination with existing metrics. The next evolution of performance brought in paint metrics. This is where so-called interactivity metrics come in.

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Metrics Speed Benchmarking Website 71

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Reading time 11 min As companies become more aware of the importance of web performance, internal teams begin to research tools they can use to use to track their metrics and improve the user experience of their websites and applications. Where Google Lighthouse Shines Bright. Google Lighthouse has a lot going for it.

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Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"I made my pages faster, but my business and user engagement metrics didn't change. The performance poverty line is the plateau at which changes to your website’s rendering metrics (such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint) cease to matter because you’ve bottomed out in terms of business and user engagement metrics.

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Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 124

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

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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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Back in May, we shared that SpeedCurve supports Google's Core Web Vitals in both our synthetic monitoring and LUX real user monitoring tools. The newcomer to the scene was Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), and, not surprisingly, it's the metric that's gotten the most questions. recommended by Google. How is it calculated?

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Retail Benchmarking Google Metrics 83

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

A performance budget is a threshold that you apply to the metrics you care about the most. A good performance budget chart, such as the one above, should show you: The metric you're tracking The threshold you've created for that metric When you exceed that threshold How long you stayed out of bounds When you returned to below the threshold 3.

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Performance Metrics Media Google 98

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The scale of the effect can be deeply situational or hard to suss out without solid metrics. Since then, the metrics conversation has moved forward significantly, culminating in Core Web Vitals , reported via the Chrome User Experience Report to reflect the real-world experiences of users. Today, either method returns a similar answer.

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Performance Network Mobile Metrics 127

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. Another window into this question is provided by the Web Confluence Metrics project.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The best way to fight regressions is to create performance budgets on key metrics, and get alerted when they go out of bounds. These charts let even the most non-technical stakeholder easily see the correlation between performance and user engagement and business metrics, such as bounce rate and conversion rate.

Benchmarking 66

Benchmarking Metrics Website Testing 66

Rigor

JULY 9, 2019

In the past, the answer would be based on the load time of a page, but over the years, we have evolved our approach to site speed to incorporate new metrics, alone or in combination with existing metrics. The next evolution of performance brought in paint metrics. This is where so-called interactivity metrics come in.

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Metrics Speed Benchmarking Website 40

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

However, that pesky 20% on the back end can have a big impact on downstream metrics like First Contentful Paint (FCP), Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), and any other 'loading' metric you can think of. Google recommends that TTFB be 800ms at the 75th percentile.

Servers 60

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 60

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

As if website speed wasn’t enough, Google has recently announced that user metrics will become a core ranking factor by 2021. Web performance solutions like Dotcom-Monitor offer real browser-based monitoring for your web pages and applications to establish performance benchmarks. Dotcom-Monitor Website Monitoring.

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Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

That's why it's a good idea to not just focus on metrics like Start Render – you should also investigate Hero Rendering metrics , which track when the most meaningful content on your pages (e.g., At SpeedCurve we call these metrics "IX Time" and they're available on your LUX Performance dashboard.)

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 81

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. 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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Website Design Network Testing 133

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. Quantitative performance testing looks at metrics like response time while qualitative testing is concerned with scalability, stability, and interoperability.

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Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

Establishing clear service-level agreements is key as they outline specific responsibilities and performance benchmarks expected from cloud service providers during disaster recovery scenarios. Multi-cloud strategies for disaster recovery incorporate redundancies through several cloud providers, which ensure additional backups are available.

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Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We track LEGO.com, along with a handful of other leading ecommerce sites, in our public-facing Retail Benchmarks dashboard , which I encourage you to check out. According to Google's thresholds, an LCP time of 3.96 It shows how key metrics align with the rendering timeline (the filmstrip view at the top of the chart).

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Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 72

Speed Curve

JULY 2, 2013

SpeedCurve focuses on a third which I like to call web performance benchmarking. Real user monitoring (RUM) sends performance data directly from a user's browser to a cloud service like New Relic or Google Analytics that aggregates and reports on millions of combined measurements. Web Performance Benchmarking. Uptime Monitoring.

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Benchmarking Performance Website Analytics 40

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Steve first experienced performance budgets while Head Performance Engineer at Google. The idea is to identify your performance goals and track the metrics that help you achieve your goals. Benchmark a variety of metrics and choose a target of 20% faster or less resources. Not all metrics are equal.

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Performance Benchmarking Metrics Media 45

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Google's Core Web Vitals have been a huge topic this year. We've been tracking these as individual metrics – Largest Contentful Paint, First Input Delay, and Cumulative Layout Shift – since before Google branded them as a set. Industry speed benchmarks for Japan. We're so happy to have him on Team SpeedCurve!

Retail 52

Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 52

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. This helps support executive sponsors who then have meaningful metrics to point to in justifying the investments being made. Very rarely have we seen a team succeed that doesn’t set budgets, gather RUM metrics, and carry representative customer devices.

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Performance Network Benchmarking Mobile 74

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

That's because video seems to have had a surge in growth, which should be a cause of concern for anyone who cares about metrics like Largest Contentful Paint, which measures the largest visual element on a page – including videos. Core Web Vitals are a Google search ranking factor. More on that below.)

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance. Time is Money. High Performance Websites.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Recently Grigorik has been championing this approach and the Google Pagespeed Insight rules have been updated to reflect this best practice with recommendations on how to reduce the size of "above the fold" content. It’s a new image format developed by Google that’s 30-40% smaller than a jpeg.

Performance 60

Performance Mobile Website Benchmarking 60

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"I made my pages faster, but my business and user engagement metrics didn't change. The performance plateau is the point at which changes to your website’s rendering metrics (such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint) cease to matter because you’ve bottomed out in terms of business and user engagement metrics.

Performance 52

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 52

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies. Setting up PMM on Google Compute Engine in 15 minutes or less. And making lists. on Ubuntu 16.04

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Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

Rigor

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

You don’t have the time to monitor something that affects your company’s revenue and almost every online metric your business cares about ? I recommend checking out WebPageTest , Google PageSpeed Insights , or Rigor’s Free Performance Report. I don’t either, but I set up Benchmark, Uptime, API, and Real Brower Checks every day.

Ecommerce 40

Ecommerce Retail Performance Benchmarking 40

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

According to Google Trends, development companies were more interested in hiring React developers, followed by Vue over the past year. Two primary metrics verify the speed of an app: start-up time and runtime performance. SSR provides more extensive visibility for websites once Google crawls sites for its results pages.

Open Source 52

Open Source Mobile Google Scalability 52

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Doing extensive benchmarks will be the subject of a future blog post. Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) can also be used to gather metrics. In any case, you should benchmark both RDS MySQL and Aurora before taking the decision to migrate. Let Percona Actively Manage Your Databases To Achieve Peak Performance.

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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

Running speed tests with tools like Google PageSpeed Insights , WebPageTest , or KeyCDN’s Website Speed Test are always a good way to help gauge your website’s performance. While these metrics can be very helpful it is also important to keep this data in perspective. Why Care About Page Speed? A site which loads in 2.6

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