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. Largest Contentful Paint – When the largest element – usually image or video – in the viewport is rendered.

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Benchmarking Speed Retail Mobile 56

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This includes: waterfall charts with details about every request, filmstrips and videos that help you visualize the rendering experience, and. Synthetic is great for trending over time, especially when looking at the number and size of requests (images, JavaScript, CSS), which collectively have a big impact on speed.

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Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

Also, there was a 65% increase in video consumption on mobile devices in 2020. According to Tim Kadlec (video), that’s an Android device that’s couple of years old, and costs around $200. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known. Hot-reloading is supported as well, as well as video recording and screenshots.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 136

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

I intentionally left out the numbers for video, because they seemed inconsistent. These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. You can see this by looking at the synthetic test result for Sears.com (again, available via our Industry Benchmarks ). The CLS score for this page is 1.0468.

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Mobile Google Benchmarking Metrics 145

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

Page speed has been a key factor in Google’s ranking algorithm since 2010 , so it is essential to understand the various ways you can optimize your pages and why implementing synthetic monitoring can ensure your pages perform flawlessly and revenue isn’t lost. Remember, speed is key to the user experience. Optimize Your Pages.

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Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Why speed matters, examples of the impact saving a few seconds of load time has had on revenue and engagement. Bandwidth, latency and it's fundamental impact on the speed of the web. An overview of tools for measuring performance, uptime monitoring, real user monitoring and performance benchmarking. Muti-device challenges.

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Speed Benchmarking Mobile Website 40

Speed Curve

AUGUST 8, 2017

These numbers should not in any way even remotely be taken as a benchmark for your own site. Here you can see page growth from 2011 to now, broken out by content type: The first thing that jumps out is the large amount of page real estate being taken up by video. These numbers are mainly relevant when viewed in a historical context.

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Metrics Website Speed Benchmarking 82

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Jumped into in-person events, and were so happy to catch up with some of you at SmashingConf and performance.now() (You can watch videos of my talk about performance budgets and Andy Davies' talk about third parties.). Your current competitive benchmarks status. Expanded Industry Speed Benchmarks. Lots of new videos!

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Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52

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. It's only tracked on certain elements, e.g., IMG and VIDEO. It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast.

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Performance Metrics Media Google 98

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Watch a video walkthrough of the Vitals dashboard.). Watch a demo video showing how to create custom charts and performance budgets for Web Vitals.). This video shows you how to use SpeedCurve to investigate CLS issues.). More: Watch this video for a walkthrough of the RUM Sessions dashboard. Time period.

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Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 52

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Fighting regressions should be the top priority of anyone who cares about the speed of their site. 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?

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Benchmarking Metrics Website Testing 66

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

Keep reading to learn how you can apply these best practices to your own site and give your pages a speed boost. JavaScript, fonts, and video carry the bulk of the rest of the weight. Speed Index (synthetic only): 4 seconds recommended. Benchmark your site against your competitors. What's blocking the user experience?

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 81

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

For more than ten years, I've been writing about page bloat, its impact on site speed, and ultimately how it affects your users and your business. 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. More on that later.)

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 19, 2015

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. It’s an independent measure and provides two unique metrics we can budget against, start render and speed index. Speed Index.

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Performance Benchmarking Metrics Media 45

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. Data-loading patterns are one way you can optimize your applications’ speed.

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Cache Performance Servers Architecture 128

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. Those are already big wins.

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Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 72

Speed Curve

MAY 31, 2020

If you're more into watching than reading, my fellow SpeedCurver Cliff Crocker has created a great trio of short explainer videos, which I've included at the bottom of this post.). Looking at this list, it's pretty clear where some of the issues lie: Video size has jumped from 32KB to more than 4MB. Generate comparison videos.

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Metrics Retail Benchmarking Testing 63

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

In addition, such custom systems could only be benchmarked once they were deployed, so by the time multiple layers of management had each added a 50% safety margin to the initial SWAG , it was not unusual to see them running at 10% of capacity (but 150% of the lucky hardware salesman’s annual quota). Watch the Video.

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Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

We will also discuss how you can speed up your slow WordPress site. Many factors affect the speed of your WordPress website; some of them are: Your web host Server-side optimizations (PHP version, compression, caching, etc.) Several website speed testing tools available could be used for this purpose. Why is WordPress slow?

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Cache Website Speed Website Performance 52

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Performance issues surrounding Availability Groups typically were related to disk I/O or network speeds. We needed to start thinking about how fast can we replicate to a synchronous secondary replica in terms of % of the speed of a standalone workload. As we moved towards SQL Server 2014, the pace of hardware accelerated.

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Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Many factors are invisible, as Paul Luna — a professor at the University of Reading’s Department of Typography & Graphic Communication — mentions in this video Paul Luna on the typographer’s task. David Sless also states in his article “Choosing the right method for testing:”.

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Performance Design Best Practices Testing 113

Speed Curve

JANUARY 31, 2018

This lets you do great things like generate side-by-side filmstrips – and even better: videos – of your site alongside your competitors' sites (or any other aspirational sites). Because SpeedCurve synthetic monitoring is built on top of WebPageTest, you can take advantage of WPT's filmstrip and video capabilities.

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Performance Metrics Traffic Monitoring 40

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The Lighthouse Performance score is based on some of the most important performance metrics : First Contentful Paint, First Meaningful Paint, Speed Index, Time to Interactive, First CPU Idle, and Estimated Input Latency. When it comes to network speed, Lighthouse gives you three options – and no others.

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Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

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. The margin for speed is tight.

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Speed Cache Benchmarking Metrics 138

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. > It's only tracked on certain elements, e.g., IMG and VIDEO (learn more here ).

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Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 137

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Real-life performance for your users and how the website “feels” when you’re using it should not be discounted, even if it costs you a point or two in Page Speed (otherwise, we would all just have a search bar and unstyled text).

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 118

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 18, 2022

When that data is used to train an AI system, that system can replicate our bad behavior with speed and scale. audited FakeFinder (the deepfake detector), we needed to know demographic information about people in deepfake videos to gauge performance and outcome differences across demographic groups. Each face and body needs a label.

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Artificial Intelligence Government Healthcare Metrics 118

KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

eCommerce Conversion Rate Benchmarks First off, we’ll start with some benchmarks. The lower conversion rate on mobile could be due to a variety of reasons including the website not being responsive for mobile devices, the speed isn’t up to par, etc. Improve Site Speed In 2019, having fast site speed is imperative.

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Ecommerce Speed Website Mobile 41

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. Video Transcoding. We already use the public cloud to autoscale some async processing like Video Transcoding, text extraction, data migration, Search, etc. Document store.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Start Render time, Speed Index ). Treo Sites provides competitive analysis based on real-world data.

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Performance Cache Network Servers 112

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. Follow him on Twitter @ RickByers and be sure to watch the video of his conversation at Chrome Dev Summit 2016 , where he discussed the ways Chrome is “improving predictability for developers.” Here is our (ever-growing!) Rachel Andrew.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!), You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Time to First Byte (TTFB) can be a page speed killer , especially during peak traffic. Benchmark your site against your competitors. Setting up a competitive benchmarking dashboard – which is easy to do with synthetic monitoring – is an effective way to see who's delivering a good UX and who isn't. Track your CDN.

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Speed Benchmarking Traffic Retail 60