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. Fundamentally enabling for video creation apps. This is as it should be.

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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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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.

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Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

Video – For the first time in the many years that I've been covering the topic of page growth, I'm going to focus on the volume of video that pages contain. Core Web Vitals are a Google search ranking factor. Heavier visual elements can take much longer to render, especially videos. More on that later.)

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Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

seconds or less, which is Google's recommendation for page experience and SEO. > Largest Contentful Paint (Synthetic and RUM) Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is one of Google's Core Web Vitals. It's only tracked on certain elements, e.g., IMG and VIDEO. Let's continue with the example above, where the worst LCP time was 8.64

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Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

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. How to make your website faster. Optimization tools and techniques.

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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. LCP measures when the largest visual element in the viewport – typically a hero image or video – finishes rendering. seconds, LCP lags at 3.96

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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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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. Watch a video walkthrough of the Vitals dashboard.). Industry speed benchmarks for Japan.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Its videos and blog articles address issues such as web performance, extensible component development and the intersection of CSS with other technologies, like HTML and JavaScript. Igvita Igvita is the blog of Google’s web performance engineer, Ilya Grigorik. Visit website 3. Visit website 19. Visit website 20. Visit website 33.

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Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

JavaScript, fonts, and video carry the bulk of the rest of the weight. Since Google research suggests that you should aim to be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor, it might also be a good idea to monitor your competitors' sites so you can create budgets that will help you stay faster than the competition.

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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. On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. Agustinus Theodorus. 2022-09-27T14:00:00+00:00. 2022-09-27T16:33:12+00:00. When it comes to performance, you shouldn’t be stingy. More after jump!

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Steve first experienced performance budgets while Head Performance Engineer at Google. Benchmark a variety of metrics and choose a target of 20% faster or less resources. SpeedCurve's Benchmark dashboard is a great way to see how you compare to your competitors for setting budgets. This is great when doing a responsive redesign.

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KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Unoptimized content (generally images) Slow WordPress themes Sluggish WordPress plugins A huge number of HTTP requests from external sources Not utilizing a specifically dedicated resource to serve content (video hosting, CDN, etc.) Check out our performance benchmarks that we ran against WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache.

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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.

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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. Tracking critical content such as images and videos is a good place to start. > Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) is another one of Google's Core Web vitals.

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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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KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

eCommerce Conversion Rate Benchmarks First off, we’ll start with some benchmarks. With a CDN, you can offload your static assets such as product images, videos, GIFs, CSS files, and much more to the CDN’s edge servers. You can also use videos for products which don’t solve a problem per-se (i.e.

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Rigor

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Does it capture screenshots or a video of script running, so you can see what the screen looked like when a button or form field couldn’t be found? Can you compare the videos or waterfalls side-by-side? Competitive & Industry Benchmarking. Benchmarking your performance against your competitors and industries.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. Video Transcoding.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Paddy Ganti’s script constructs two URLs (one normal and one blocking the ads), prompts the generation of a video comparison via WebPageTest and reports a delta.

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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.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data.

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Google Tag Manager) or A/B testing tool if you need to circumvent code changes. If you're still out of luck in the RUM department, you can always look at field data from Google CrUX (Chrome User Experience Report). Benchmark your site against your competitors. Use a tag manager (e.g., Use CrUX in a pinch.

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