Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2024

The Web Performance Guide is – as its name suggests – a collection of articles we've been writing over the years to answer the most common questions we field about performance topics like site speed, why it matters, how it's measured, website monitoring tools, metrics, analytics, and optimization techniques.

Performance 103

Performance Speed Best Practices Metrics 103

MachMetrics

APRIL 24, 2019

All of the popular speed testing tools typically provide a page speed score along with their objective results. The reality is that these scores are estimates of how well your site implements performance best practices. These best practices can make your site faster, but they don’t always.

Speed 111

Speed Best Practices Google Website 111

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

According to Rich Howard, CEO of Optimal, a business dedicated to optimizing websites and mobile apps , there are ten steps your business can take now to start preparing your website or web application for the upcoming holiday season. STEP 1: Invest in the Right Tooling and Get Everyone On Board.

Website 74

Website Cache Traffic Ecommerce 74

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JULY 7, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

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. According to Google, the best practice for a website’s speed is to keep it under 3 seconds load time.

Google 103

Google Cache Speed Analytics 103

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. The Smashing team has done a lot to make a fast website, so even a fresh load (though this experiment may not be a completely fresh load if you came to this article from the home page). Here’s an experiment for you.

Cache 106

Cache Games Performance Website 106

Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

It is recommended to follow rules and best practices of building and sending emails. A mistake could be made when you work with several projects/websites. Test your SMTP connection (there are tools both for developers and marketers — we will take a look at them later in this article). Large preview ).

Testing 112

Testing Servers Social Media Automotive 112

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

But with the growing smartphone user base, two things are a given: one — There will be more people who will want to access your website via mobile, ensuring great quality and usability for your websites for mobile and testing them well will become very important. What Is Mobile Web Testing? Signup for free.

Mobile 65

Mobile Testing Website Speed 65

Testsigma

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Cross-browser compatibility testing is the most important testing for someone whose business is completely dependent on a website. It may have gone through rough testing phases but is there a point in exhausting all your energy when the end-user is not able to communicate with the website properly?

Testing 52

Testing Website Testing Tools Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. This is because, as I stated in the introduction to part 1 , much of the early HTTP/2 content was overly optimistic about how well it would work in practice, and some of it, quite frankly, had major mistakes and bad advice.

Network 120

Network Servers Cache Traffic 120

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

It also allows users to access a website for which native application is not available. There are so many different devices readily available in the market today to view a website. Keeping all these differences, it becomes very important that a website is tested thoroughly before it is launched on different platforms.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. Web developers should learn to use various testing tools such as Lighthouse and WebPageTest. There is a wealth of information on websites to help guide you along your learning path. And most of all, we need to care.

Media 77

Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 77

KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

Customer want to know they can trust the website they are buying from, they want to access the website fast, and they want a great offer. 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.

Ecommerce 41

Ecommerce Speed Mobile Website 41

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Google Lighthouse is an open-source tool that checks your page against rules for Performance, PWA, Accessibility, Best Practice, and SEO. A good practice is to look at your last 2-4 weeks of data for a given metric, identify the worst number, and then set your performance budget for that number. ( Can You Afford It?

Performance 138

Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 138

Testlodge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

For example, take a website that sells coffee. Use Case Testing – Testers can use personas and perform use case testing by envisioning how each character would use the application. For example, consider our coffee website from earlier. Would someone with limited technical knowledge know how to easily checkout?

Systems 81

Systems Testing Software Software 81

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? synthetic testing tools and RUM together provide a complete picture of performance in your application.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? synthetic testing tools and RUM together provide a complete picture of performance in your application.

Performance 111

Performance Cache Network Metrics 111

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? synthetic testing tools and RUM together provide a complete picture of performance in your application.

Performance 112

Performance Cache Servers Network 112