Speed Curve

JANUARY 27, 2025

HTML – Typically the smallest resource on the page, HTML's performance risk is usually negligible. And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. In other words, images comprised almost 60% of the total page weight. Learn how to optimize images.

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Mobile Best Practices Google Metrics 97

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. Fastest Retail Sites. Create your own custom benchmark dashboard. United States. UK & EU.

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Benchmarking Speed Retail Mobile 59

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"How can I demonstrate the business value of performance to people in my organization?" If you've ever asked yourself any of these questions, then you could find the answers in identifying and understanding the performance poverty line for your site. What is the "performance poverty line"?

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Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 128

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Retail: $20 trillion. Of course, in some cases the difference to performance is small enough that one can live with it, but it’s often bad enough to be a problem. We fairly frequently see performance get 5% or more worse over time in a single process execution. They'll love you even more. Cars: $1 trillion.

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Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

So I thought it would be fun to spend some time poking around behind the scenes and give the site a holiday performance audit. Background For this performance audit, I looked at this synthetic test for the LEGO.com home page. (We The performance team is clearly doing a good job of fighting page bloat. Are images optimized?

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Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 78

Rigor

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

As web perfectionists, we have heard every excuse in the book for why teams cannot make web performance a priority. Whether it be time, money, or technical know how, every day we talk to eCommerce and Retail teams who explain why they aren’t monitoring their site’s performance. Sure, that can be the case.

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Ecommerce Retail Performance Benchmarking 40

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

If you've been working in the performance space for a while and you hear me start to talk about page growth, I'd forgive you if you started running away. ;). HTML – Typically the smallest resource on the page, HTML's performance risk is usually negligible. These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site.

Mobile 145

Mobile Google Benchmarking Metrics 145

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. Background: How performance budgets work 1. What is a performance budget? What should a performance budget look like? Let's get started!

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Performance Metrics Media Google 98

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Six months in, I've had a chance to gather and look at a lot of data, talk with customers, and learn from our friends in the performance community. SpeedCurve's Industry Benchmarks dashboard – which tracks the performance of top sites in retail, media, travel, and other industries – is a good place to start.

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Retail Benchmarking Google Metrics 88

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

That performance golden rule still holds true today. Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Charlie Vazac introduced server timing in a Performance Calendar post circa 2018.

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Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 64

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

we also: Launched a series of new and improved dashboards to help you identify and fix your performance issues more quickly and efficiently (More on those below.). Your Home dashboard brings together your Synthetic and RUM data to provide an easy-to-digest – and easy-to-share – snapshot of how your site is performing.

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Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

How can I demonstrate the business value of performance to people in my organization?" If you've ever asked yourself any of these questions, then you could find the answers in identifying and understanding the performance plateau for your site. What is the "performance plateau"? The concept of the performance plateau isn't new.

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Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 52

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Andy joined us in June , and since then he's already helped countless customers in his role as in-house performance consultant. Custom Vitals tracking in your Favorites – Track Web Vitals in your Favorites, and set performance budgets for them in both SpeedCurve Synthetic and SpeedCurve RUM. Performance Budgets 101.

Retail 52

Retail Benchmarking Website Metrics 52

Speed Curve

MAY 31, 2020

One of the huge benefits of tracking web performance over time is the ability to see trends and compare metrics. Spot any new or unique requests – such as JavaScript and images – and see their impact on performance. In this demo account, we track a number of leading retail, travel, and media sites. Let's take a look.

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Metrics Retail Benchmarking Testing 66

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

For many years, I explicitly advised people not to run their SQL Server workloads on AMD hardware because of the much lower single-threaded CPU performance and consequently higher SQL Server core license costs. This has led to a very noticeable reduction in generational performance increases since Broadwell-EP, as shown in Figure 1.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

HTML – Typically the smallest resource on the page, HTML's performance risk is usually negligible. And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. In other words, images comprised almost 75% of the total page weight. More on that later.)

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Rigor

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Measuring and optimizing for user experience is the future of web performance. Interactivity timings were designed to help performance professionals optimize for this delta. Emily is the VP of Engineering for UGG, an American footwear and activewear retail company. Visual Metrics Alone Paint Only Half The Picture.

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Metrics Social Media Website Retail 40

Rigor

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Measuring and optimizing for user experience is the future of web performance. Interactivity timings were designed to help performance professionals optimize for this delta. Emily is the VP of Engineering for UGG, an American footwear and activewear retail company. Visual Metrics Alone Paint Only Half The Picture.

Metrics 40

Metrics Social Media Website Retail 40

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Performance budgets are one of those ideas that everyone gets behind conceptually, but then are challenged to put into practice – and for very good reason. If you're just getting started with performance budgets – or if you've been using them for a while and want to validate your work – this post is for you.

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Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 138

Speed Curve

JULY 8, 2024

A recent analysis of twenty leading websites found a surprising number of page speed optimizations that sites are not taking advantage of – to the detriment of their performance metrics, and more importantly, to the detriment of their users and ultimately their business.

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Speed Cache Benchmarking Metrics 139

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. That’s why Google created a performance revenue calculator that estimates how much additional revenue you could be making if your site was faster.

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Google Cache Speed Analytics 103

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rick Byers.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 29, 2024

And if you're already close to being ready for your holiday code freeze, you can use this as a checklist to validate that you've ticked all the boxes on your performance to-do list. If you use a content delivery network (CDN), then you need to know that CDN performance is critical during the holiday season. Track your CDN.

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Speed Benchmarking Traffic Retail 64