CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 13, 2019

Entry (10) lives on a different origin again, so we have more connection overhead to contend with, and the file seems to take an incredibly long time to download (as evidenced by the sheer amount of dark green—sending data). To further exacerbate the problem, the 302 response has a Cache-Control: must-revalidate, private.

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Latency Cache Strategy Media 209

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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Website Performance Google Website Performance 141

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 6, 2025

If your website is loading slowly, thats bad for user experience and can also cause your site to rank lower in Google. Google has been working to address that recently by introducing LCP subparts , which tell you where page load delays are coming from. Resource Load Delay : Time spent before the LCP image starts to download.

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Website Google Speed Metrics 59

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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Code Mobile Monitoring Infrastructure 244

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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Google Speed Cache Website 57

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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Cache Mobile Google Network 99

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. Jump to the details ↓ Download a free PDF sample (12MB).

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 124

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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Google Engineering Speed Mobile 73

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 145

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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Cache Social Media Media Website 94

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

And as the graph below shows, even some urban centres can suffer download speeds as low as 20 Mbps. Here are some minimum download speed requirements for common online activities: Check email and basic web browsing: 0.5-1 The number of internet users in your house could increase your download speed needs by 2X or more.

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Hardware Internet Internet Speed 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. Jump to the details ↓ Download a free PDF sample (12MB).

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

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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Code Performance Media Google 147

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

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. And while you can usually cache the full page of an article, the same is not true of many shop pages and elements. Additionally, page speed is a ranking factor for search and also for your Google Ads. Jennifer Brehm.

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 132

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Last year, Google started emphasizing the importance of Core Web Vitals and how they reflect a person’s real experience when visiting sites around the web. It wasn’t long before a sea of red “poor” and yellow “needs improvement” notices in our Google Search Console needed our attention. How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study).

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Google Analytics Serverless Metrics 111

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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Cache Energy Google Processing 105

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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Website Speed Mobile Design 111

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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Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

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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Website Design Network Testing 138

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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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 78

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

It’s an initiative by Google to share unified guidance for quality signals that can be key to delivering a great user experience on the web. CWV is part of a set of page experience signals Google Search will be evaluating for ranking. From Speed at Scale with Katie Hempenius and I at Google I/O. Large preview ). MB of images.

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Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

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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Media Games Education Engineering 145

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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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

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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Code Cache Mobile Retail 90

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 71

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 125

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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Network Servers Cache Traffic 120

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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Systems Traffic Network Google 74

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 6, 2025

If your website is loading slowly, thats bad for user experience and can also cause your site to rank lower in Google. Google has been working to address that recently by introducing LCP subparts , which tell you where page load delays are coming from. Resource Load Delay : Time spent before the LCP image starts to download.

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Website Google Speed Metrics 62

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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Media Cache Google Cloud 52

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

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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Speed Performance Google Open Source 65

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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Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 78

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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Media Tuning Metrics Google 78