Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Google search ranking. Large preview ). The Wix Challenge. Heavier websites.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2020

Using Google Fonts is often one of the first steps people take to give their website a unique look. But if you’ve ever brought over that amazing font and ran a speed test, you might be asking – “Does Google Fonts slow down my site?” Use that awesome font from Google and live with the performance hit.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

South Korea has the fastest mobile download speed , averaging 52.4 Mbps download and 0.7 The USA ranks 40th in the world for mobile download speeds, at around 34 Mbps, and is at risk of falling further behind as the world moves towards 5G. Google Homepage — DOM. Mbps, but Iraq has the slowest, averaging 1.6

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. It is important to note how much data the client needs to download.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

If you want to use web fonts your choices are basically Flash of Invisible Text (aka FOIT) where the text is hidden until the font downloads or Flash of Unstyled Text (FOUT) where you use the fallback system font initially and then upgrade it to the web font when it downloads. Wasn’t font-display Supposed To Solve This?

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Operating System Google Website Cache 144

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Last year, Google made two significant changes to their search indexing and ranking algorithms : In March, indexing became based on the mobile version of a page , rather than desktop. Cache-Headers missing?

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. seconds faster on average and it drove 60 million more Firefox downloads per year. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2 Lighthouse.

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Jos

APRIL 6, 2018

Or loading a 3rd party component like a Google Map, with all its additional assets needed to render the thing? A code coverage report, like the one Google Chrome provides won’t help us much. Code coverage tab on Google Chrome ( source ) As with everything else, there are trade-offs with lazy-loading. const latlng = new google.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Most of you have probably seen the following Google PageSpeed Insights optimization suggestion at one point or another when running a speed test: By compressing and adjusting the size of … you can save 14.2 KeyCDN’s Cache Enabler plugin is fully compatible the HTML attributes that make images responsive.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

If you want to use the Google UI toolkit to build natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase?, Download the configuration YAML file, which contains all relevant keys for the plugin itself and for the plugin to forward communication to OneAgent for iOS or Android. Dynatrace news.

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Randon ASCII

JULY 11, 2022

A bug had been filed suggesting that Chrome download speeds (such as those measured by speedtest.net ) seemed to be affected by some anti-virus software. Downloads go through the cache, the cache is saved to disk, and saves to disk are slowed by (some) anti-virus software. As usual, I was minding my own business.

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Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

including DNS, Connection, SSL, Request, First packet, and Download. As your speed test results will probably show, most of the time spent loading your page is for downloading images and initializing JavaScript. Browser Caching: Although it may seem commonplace, caching is sometimes overlooked. Optimize Your Pages.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google. Although we’ve been told for years that visitors are willing to wait three seconds for a web page to load , Google considers 2.9 Clean coding practices. Minification.

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Jos

APRIL 5, 2018

Or loading a 3rd party component like a Google Map, with all its additional assets needed to render the thing? A code coverage report, like the one Google Chrome provides won’t help us much. Code coverage tab on Google Chrome ( source ). When it comes to SEO, you might have issues indexing lazy-loaded content on Google.

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Code Performance Google Media 130

Tim Kadlec

MARCH 19, 2018

You have to consider at least four different contexts: How well does AMP perform in the context of Google search? How well does AMP perform when the library is served using the AMP cache? How well does AMP perform in the context of Google search? In the context of Google search, then, AMP performs remarkably well.

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Cache Google Speed Metrics 79

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

The most popular, by far, is the Google Lighthouse report (available in Chrome Developer Tools) and Google’s Page Speed Insights. Configuring WebPageTest to run a test measurement that simulates a failure of the Google Fonts third-party service. These tools fall into several categories. Other blocking effects. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. Download Time of HTML This is the time it takes to download the page’s HTML file.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

It's possible that Amazon Luna , NVIDIA GeForce Go , Google Stadia , and Microsoft xCloud could have been built years earlier. A standard version of an approach demonstrated in Google's web applications to dramatically improve security. PowerPoint or Google Slides). Trusted Types. CSS Container Queries. inert Attribute.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

As a second example, TCP sees all of the data it transports as a single “file” or byte stream , even if we’re actually using it to transfer several files at the same time (for example, when downloading a web page consisting of many resources). IETF’s QUIC is technically very different from Google’s QUIC. itself directly. For HTTP/1.1,

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 2, 2022

It’s like when Google Fonts finally got a redesign and the broad community let out a collective exhale of appreciation. Caching Header Best Practices — Simon Hearne’s dissertation on Cache headers. When I first started caring about web performance, this was, like, the main thing.

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Performance Cache Best Practices Strategy 69

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Before we dive in, I’d just like to note that the authors responsibly disclosed their findings to Google, who have announced that they will be fixing many of the identified issues in AndroidQ. Google, to their credit, have announced that they are addressing many of the issues that we reported to them.

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The Polyglot Developer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

You may one day find yourself needing to make an Ionic Framework Android and iOS app that downloads media or in-app purchase content from a remote web server to the users device. Maybe you created an audio app that plays music from the cloud and you decided to cache upcoming songs in your playlist like Google Music does.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

This approach was touted to be better for fine-grained caching because each subresource could be cached individually and the full bundle didn’t need to be redownloaded if one of them changed. To be able to download multiple files on a single connection, you need to somehow multiplex them. Prioritization. Implementation.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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. Clearly, we want to give freedom to our content creators, but we can leave to chance neither the resolution nor the speed of delivery and download of the images that will be displayed on our website.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 109

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

PWAs have been around for over five years, yet native applications outnumber them both in the quantity ratio and how many times users download them. Hence, they can’t be promoted separately or found by users who’ve input a search query in Google. As shown on the screenshots below, the product page of the store can be found via Google.

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MachMetrics

MARCH 21, 2019

Resource Download Time. Every single file that you reference in your website’s html has to be downloaded. Every font, css, javascript file, and image takes time to download. Looking at your page load ‘waterfall’ will show you all the resources and how long it takes to download each.

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Metrics Social Media Performance Speed 74

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. The fastest Androids predictably remain 18-24 months behind, owing to cheapskate choices about cache sizing by Qualcomm, Samsung Semi, and all the rest. The Moto G4 , for example. Is that a lot?

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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Unfortunately, there is typically much less thought put into the performance cost of using the amazing third-party font you downloaded. This means they don’t need to be downloaded to the visitor’s computer when they visit your site. Using Google’s Font API. They can also be easily cached to improve load times.

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Tim Kadlec

MARCH 14, 2019

Google formally announced Lite Pages the other day and the response has been… let’s say mixed. But in this case, the announcement has to deal with Google making changes to HTTPS content which, as you would expect, makes folks a little more nervous. Understandably so. Sometimes that’s fine. What We Know.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

These updates will disable access of Google apps downloader, for example. One can only download apps using the manufacturer’s downloader software, where VPN installers and other banned apps are not available for installation. The use of VPN however, usually slows down downloading and accessibility by 30 percent or more.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

According to Google's thresholds, an LCP time of 3.96 Are you compressing and caching the right things? Even though the hero image – which in and of itself is a fairly well optimized image – has downloaded at around the 2.9 seconds As mentioned, this leaderboard ranks pages based on their LCP time.

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MachMetrics

JULY 15, 2020

If these aren’t being downloaded asynchronously (see below), that’s a problem. This method doesn’t support simultaneous download, meaning it still needs to do one import at a time. This method doesn’t support simultaneous download, meaning it still needs to do one import at a time.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

Loading experience is crucial to the user’s first impression and overall usability, so Google defined Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric to measure how quickly the main content loads and is displayed to the user. Let’s focus on how these resources are requested and downloaded. See the Pen Prioritizing stylesheets by Adrian Bece.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website.

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Rigor

JULY 2, 2019

Because of the redirection, our total HTML request, download, and render time took an additional 156 ms – for a total of 521 ms. If your site requires external files, such as images and CSS, ensure that your HTML calls these resources directly and that there aren’t any redirects occurring to download these files.

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Mobile Traffic Google Latency 60

Dean Hume

MARCH 29, 2018

I wanted the site to be super fast - once someone has read an article that won’t change, why not serve it from the cached version on their device. Once the offline page had been created, I needed to create a service worker file to start handling the offline and caching requirements for the blog. Creating the Service Worker.

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Dean Hume

MARCH 29, 2018

I wanted the site to be super fast - once someone has read an article that won’t change, why not serve it from the cached version on their device. Once the offline page had been created, I needed to create a service worker file to start handling the offline and caching requirements for the blog. Creating the Service Worker.

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Cache Google Website Network 40