Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. PageSpeed Compare is a page speed evaluation and benchmarking tool. It measures the web performance of a single page using Google PageSpeed Insights. Network and CPU are throttled for lab data tests for more realistic conditions.

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Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 134

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

million : new image/caption training set; 32,408,715 : queries sent to Pwned Passwords; 53% : Memory ICs Total 2018 Semi Capex; 11 : story Facebook datacenter prison in Singapore; $740,357 : ave cost of network downtime; Quotable Quotes: @BenedictEvans : Recorded music: $18 billion. However still far from Google ($28B) and Facebook ($13.2B).

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

One free tool has become prominent in the space – Google Lighthouse – and one question often bubbles up: “I use Google Lighthouse for one-off snapshots of my site’s performance, so why do I need a performance monitoring solution?” Where Google Lighthouse Shines Bright.

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Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The gotcha here is that, if your mobile experience isn’t optimized for various devices and network conditions, these customers will never appear in your analytics — just because your website or app will be barely usable on their devices, and so they are unlikely to return. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known.

Mobile 142

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 142

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. According to Google, pages should maintain a CLS score of less than 0.1 Here are the current US media benchmarks on a fast desktop connection , ranked by CLS score. recommended by Google.

Retail 88

Retail Benchmarking Google Metrics 88

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. All modern browsers are fast, Chromium and Safari/WebKit included. Gamepad API.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

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. In this case, my website is “slow”, even when served on 4G networks. For example: Think with Google suggests the typical page speed optimizations.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 111

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this case, we are not going to be talking about infrastructure services, such as a cloud computing platform like Microsoft Azure or a content distribution network like Akamai. And JavaScript can certainly make requests for additional network resources. Sometimes, the visitor’s browser itself can be the origin of network activity.

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Website Design Network Testing 138

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This is sometimes referred to as using an “over-cloud” model that involves a centrally managed resource pool that spans all parts of a connected global network with internal connections between regional borders, such as two instances in IAD-ORD for NYC-JS webpage DNS routing. This also aids scalability down the line.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

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. billion if the site slowed down by just one second. Lighthouse.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 94

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Today, the website is much faster and ranks highly in various showcases and benchmarks. Additionally, page speed is a ranking factor for search and also for your Google Ads. Jennifer Brehm. 2021-06-02T10:30:00+00:00.

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 132

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

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. The use of server-timing headers by content delivery networks closes a big gap.

Servers 64

Servers Cache Benchmarking Retail 64

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Though still not “profitable” by many benchmarks, it’s a lot closer to being so, perhaps in a big way.) That early decision was notable because whereas the GPL is applied if derivative work is distributed, the AGPL license applies both for distributed work and whenever end users interact with a program over a network.

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Open Source Programming Database Servers 98

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. seconds on the target device and network profile, consuming 120KiB of critical path resources to become interactive, only 8KiB of which is script. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript. These are generous targets.

Performance 98

Performance Network Mobile Speed 98

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. JavaScript is the single most expensive part of any page in ways that are a function of both network capacity and device speed. The median user is on a slow network.

Performance 74

Performance Network Benchmarking Mobile 74

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 Optimizing the critical rendering path could make this page a star on the Retail Benchmarks leaderboard.

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Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 78

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. High Performance Browser Networking. Fail, and you can kiss your customers and profits goodbye.” Time is Money.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Speed Curve

JULY 2, 2013

SpeedCurve focuses on a third which I like to call web performance benchmarking. These services often check from various geographic locations to keep an eye on network routes to your server and will send you alerts via email and txt if your website is down. Web Performance Benchmarking. Uptime Monitoring.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Performance Website Analytics 40

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

The network constraints and what makes the web slow? An overview of tools for measuring performance, uptime monitoring, real user monitoring and performance benchmarking. Diagnotic Tools WebPagetest and how to read a browser waterfall Google Pagespeed Insights YSlow. Competitive Benchmarking SpeedCurve. Performance Tools.

Speed 40

Speed Benchmarking Mobile Website 40

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.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

With entrance into the industry being so easy and lack of proper benchmarking (Note: this is somewhat contradictory to point 2, but more on that later) around what makes a good designer, software engineer, or product manager, we’re forced to face the facts that it’s a recipe for poor quality products. Community is everything in the industry.

Design 132

Design Website Social Media Best Practices 132

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. Google Lighthouse Google Lighthouse is a free and open source tool that is part of the Google Chrome DevTools family. What is Performance Testing?

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. In early January a related paper was published by Satoshi Matsuoka et. petaflops, which is 0.8%

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2021

As of September 2020, Statista reports that around 30,40,000 apps are available on Google Playstore. Unlike iOS development, Android development requires proper standards and varying benchmarks for performance and optimization. Performance Check On Various Networks: If we ask any user, they’ll tell us that app loading time matters.

Testing 52

Testing Mobile Testing Tools Strategy 52

Rigor

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Can you test with 3G, 4G, or different networking connections? Competitive & Industry Benchmarking. With a Synthetic product, benchmarking a competitor’s site is as easy as testing your own site…you simply provide a URL. Benchmarking your performance against your competitors and industries.

Monitoring 59

Monitoring Benchmarking Mobile Testing 59

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This is a question recently asked and explored by a team of Google researchers led by Jeff Dean with a major focus on database indexes. Jeff is a Google Senior Fellow in the Google Brain team and widely known as a pioneer in artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning community.

Artificial Intelligence 40

Artificial Intelligence Hardware Google Benchmarking 40

Speed Curve

JANUARY 27, 2025

Core Web Vitals are a Google search ranking factor. Given that Google continues to dominate search usage, you should care about Vitals alongside the other metrics you should be tracking. Image size is another issue, as excessive image weight hurts your SEO ranking in Google Image Search. How does page bloat hurt Core Web Vitals?

Mobile 97

Mobile Best Practices Google Metrics 97

Speed Curve

JULY 8, 2024

With many synthetic monitoring tools, you can benchmark your site against your competitors. Competitive benchmarking is a great way to see how you stack up – and how much you need to improve. Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive set of dashboards that anyone can explore and use for their own research.

Speed 139

Speed Cache Benchmarking Metrics 139

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Content Delivery Networks (CDN) like Akamai, Fastly, Cloudflare, Cloudfront can sometimes have a big impact on performance. If you are in this camp and getting pressure around improving SEO or responding to inbound questions regarding numbers seen in Google Console, you'll want to familiarize yourself with these metrics. The internet.

Performance 143

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

Cache 141

Cache Performance Servers Architecture 141

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 127

Performance Network Mobile Metrics 127

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

Core Web Vitals are a Google search ranking factor. Given that Google continues to dominate search usage, you should care about Vitals alongside the other metrics you should be tracking. Image size is another issue, as excessive image weight hurts your SEO ranking in Google Image Search. How does page bloat hurt Core Web Vitals?

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Jake is a frequent speaker at many popular conferences and events, such as 100 Days of Google Dev , JAMstakConf , JSConf , SmashingConf , and dozens of others.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

Lastly, I tried not to search for help on Google, Stack Overflow, or other websites, which is what I would normally be doing while programming. For a few years now Google has been transitioning developers to v3 , which I didn’t know about since I had no prior experience with Chrome extensions. And ChatGPT didn’t warn me about this.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. You can download the spreadsheet as Google Sheets, Excel, OpenOffice document or CSV. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to. 300ms RTT, 1.6

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Performance Cache Servers Network 112