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How to Optimize Websites for Ad Publishers

Dotcom-Montior

Synthetic Monitoring: Continuous Website Performance Monitoring. But as we’ve mentioned, if your pages don’t perform to your visitors’ expectations, they’ll quickly lose interest and leave. As if website speed wasn’t enough, Google has recently announced that user metrics will become a core ranking factor by 2021.

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Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties

Smashing Magazine

You may have a lean, agile, responsive site design only to find it gradually loaded down with more and more “extras” that are often put onto the site by marketing departments or business leaders who are not always thinking about website performance. They are more of a benchmark than a true measurement of real user experience.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

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. Designing for Performance. High Performance Responsive Design. Web Performance Collection. Web Performance Tuning.

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How I Used Brotli to Get Even Smaller CSS and JavaScript Files at CDN Scale

CSS - Tricks

In the show, Google is portrayed by the fictional company Hooli, which is after Pied Piper’s intellectual property. The funny thing is that, while being far from a startup, Google does indeed have a powerful compression engine in real life called Brotli. At that time, I was working as a freelance website performance consultant.

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Performance Testing - Tools, Steps, and Best Practices

KeyCDN

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. 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. What is Performance Testing?

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Beyond Speed: Why You Should Be Tracking Interactive Metrics

Rigor

First, it is used as a factor in the Google Lighthouse Performance Score. Rigor, in keeping with the evolving nature of the performance industry, now offers these interactivity metrics through our platform. Understanding that measuring web performance from multiple angles and adopting new strategies is key to staying ahead.

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2021 in review: It was a big year!

Speed Curve

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!

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