MachMetrics

JANUARY 16, 2020

His article in the Web Performance Calendar, The ugly truth about optimizing beautiful images , explores a few case studies and offers some solutions as well. Case 2 in Gooding’s article, was an instance where the total size of the site’s images was cut in half, visitors were still experiencing lag.

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Speed Website Metrics Cache 89

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Case Study: Image Component In A Jamstack Site. Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. Cache Your Images. Why Image Optimization Is So Important For A Jamstack Site? Fixes To Common Problems. Conclusion.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 125

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

At the same time, they open a door to lots of concepts that might be overwhelming: PRPL, RAIL, Paint Timing API, TTI, HTTP/2, Speed Index, Priority Hints and more …. Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. Ideally, shoot for 30% speed improvements.

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Performance Speed Google Media 100

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Cue server-timing headers Historically, when looking at page speed, we've had the tendency to ignore TTFB when trying to optimize the user experience. Caching the base page/HTML is common, and it should have a positive impact on backend times. This can include a lot of different service layers, not just serving from cache.

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Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 64

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) LCP measures the perceived load speed of a webpage from a user’s perspective. Each stage has its unique challenges and potential pitfalls, as other case studies show. The shorter the TTFB, the better the perceived speed of the site from the user’s perspective.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 78

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Based on the data provided by divante ’s findings on 30 PWA case studies, progressive web apps have a 36% larger mobile conversion rate than native applications. This also implies that you don’t have to spend additional time and money on creating a PWA to suit various devices, greatly speeding up time-to-market. Why is that?

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Code Cache Mobile Retail 90

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Thanks to the build speed of static site generators like Hugo and modern Jamstack CMSs designed to handle vast amounts of content, even prominent blogs like Smashing Magazine , web.dev , and JFK International Air Terminal can take advantage of a Jamstack approach. For the more complex enterprise use cases, we have fewer examples.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 142

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Researchers and major companies have been publishing case studies for years , proving that slower page load experiences impact business metrics, including conversion rate, revenue, bounce rate, and more. The most popular, by far, is the Google Lighthouse report (available in Chrome Developer Tools) and Google’s Page Speed Insights.

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Website Design Network Testing 138

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

All CMS's should be offering this level of image manipulation and caching. Case study: the new responsive Guardian site. There are great tools available to monitor the actual in browser speed and benchmark your site against others. It’s a new image format developed by Google that’s 30-40% smaller than a jpeg.

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Performance Mobile Website Benchmarking 60

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Individual pages can be spot checked via the CrUX API or tools such as Page Speed Insights But as Cliff's already covered in How to find (and fix!) Guest profiles also start with empty caches, empty cookie stores, empty browser storage, etc. I expect consent managers to adopt this approach as a default.

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Analytics Processing Google Mobile 94

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Jennifer Brehm. 2021-06-02T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-06-02T13:32:39+00:00. Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 132

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 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. Why Care About Page Speed? There are a multitude of reasons why you should care about page speed. A site which loads in 2.6

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Google Cache Speed Analytics 103

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 124

KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

For example, while the average mobile download speed on 4G in Switzerland is fast at 35.2 Mbps, countries with a growing Internet users like India is only at an average mobile download speed of 6.8 Take advantage of free website speed test tools , many of which have options to test on mobile. Mbps ( Opensignal ).

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Speed Website Mobile Latency 52

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

MachMetrics

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

We recently did a case study on how Target could make their site 3 seconds faster , but Target will likely never get their site fully loaded in 2 seconds. However, you can follow all of the tips above to ensure that your images have a minimal impact on your site speed. Craigslist. Continue The Classics.

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Website Speed Google Cache 57

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data.

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Performance Cache Metrics Media 145

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. It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data. How to get there?

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Performance Cache Servers Network 112

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Study common complaints coming into customer service and see how improving performance can help relieve some of these common problems.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 111

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

Plus a service worker that caches all static assets and serves them for repeat views, along with cached versions of articles that a reader has already visited. We chose to focus specifically on slow mobile devices — with slow 3G, 400ms RTT and 400kbps transfer speed, just to be on the pessimistic side of things.

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Performance Cache Mobile Network 111