Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. With that caveat out of the way, let’s get to the guts of the article: What is the Back/Forward Cache and why does it matter so much? Didn’t The HTTP Cache Do All That Anyway? Barry Pollard.

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Cache Games Performance Website 93

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites. One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0, Well, not so fast.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

A well-established metric we provide is APDEX , which tell us how users are perceiving page load times (time to the first byte, page speed, speed index), errors (JavaScript errors, crashes,) and also factors in the overall user journey (each user interaction) including their environment (browser, geolocation, bandwidth).

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Cache Database Architecture Government 202

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. Better tooling and metrics standardization.

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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 72

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Originally initiated at Google, Go—often referred to as Golang—is an open source programming language. Improve cloud platform management with deeper insights into platform metrics. Automatically monitor all important Go metrics. From http.Transport documentation : By default, Transport caches connections for future reuse.

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Transportation Monitoring Metrics Code 186

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

If you’re not a developer/designer, you may not be familiar with the Chrome DevTools and the extremely powerful Google Lighthouse Audits that can be found inside. However, you have likely used the Web UI that Google uses to allow you to test websites for speed – Google PageSpeed Insights. Performance. Best Practices.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 20, 2021

While data analysis tools such as Google Analytics provide statistics based on user experiences, they lack details about what the user is doing and experiencing. Streamlined asset caching: Asset caching is critical for creating accurate replays. This step is critical because the metrics needed to achieve these goals differ.

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MachMetrics

MARCH 21, 2019

Web performance metrics track the efficiency (or lack thereof) of any individual aspect of your website’s performance. Once you have started collecting some of these must-track web performance metrics for your website, inefficiencies will become clearer. Top 10 Web Perf Metrics to Track. Time to First Byte. Bounce Rate.

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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

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Similar to our article Average Page Load Times for 2018 , we’ll go over the averages for metrics and help you determine if your site is faster or slower than average. As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

This metric is a little difficult to comprehend, so here’s an example: if the average cost of broadband packages in a country is $22, and the average download speed offered by the packages is 10 Mbps, then the cost ‘per megabit per month’ would be $2.20. For reference, the metric is $1.19 Google Homepage — DOM.

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Speed Curve

APRIL 9, 2023

Here's how the update to Lighthouse 10 may affect your metrics. Metrics and scoring weights include the deprecation of Time to Interactive (TTI) and the increase in weight for Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS). Basically, we see a trend similar to the trend observed by Google. Read on to learn more about these exciting changes!

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Tim Kadlec

APRIL 10, 2023

10% 90% Google 25% 75% MySpace 9% 91% MSN 5% 95% ebay 5% 95% Amazon 38% 62% YouTube 9% 91% CNN 15% 85% When Steve Souders repeated it in 2012 , he found much the same. I’ve seen a lot of sites suffering from extremely volatile TTFB metrics that vary dramatically based on geography or whether or not there’s a cache hit or miss.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

With the latest introduction of the Core Web Vital section on GSC + upcoming Google’s core web vital update, site owners are forced to take note of their website speed and web vitals. Importance of page loading speed – Google checks your website load time and they like it as fast with a better user experience.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. 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. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Lighthouse.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

But do you know how Lighthouse calculates performance metrics like First Contentful Paint (FCP), Total Blocking Time (TBT), and Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)? Still, there’s nothing in there to tell us about the data Lighthouse is using to evaluate metrics. But it comes with caveats. So why use lab data at all?

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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. Core Web Vital metrics definitions. SEO is key to our success.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The scale of the effect can be deeply situational or hard to suss out without solid metrics. 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 Moto G4 , for example. Don't pay a lot for an Android-shaped muffler.

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Tim Kadlec

MARCH 7, 2017

The first day of the first ever Google AMP conference was today in New York. I would have loved to have been able to participate, but I had to settle for listening to bits and pieces from afar (thanks to Google for always doing such a good job of live streaming all of their events). And AMP does all those things.

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Cache Google Performance Metrics 72

CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 26, 2020

I still think the Google-devised Core Web Vitals are smart. cache things! That’s not just annoying, but a real ding to performance metrics and, ultimately, SEO. in a headless browser, especially for performance tooling) and with real users on your real site (which is called RUM , or Real User Metrics).

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

If you haven’t heard, INP is replacing the First Input Delay (FID) metric, something you can read all about here on Smashing Magazine as a guide to prepare for the change. We can use it to report the load time of elements on the page, even going so far as to report on Core Web Vitals metrics in real time.

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Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

Browser Caching: Although it may seem commonplace, caching is sometimes overlooked. Depending on how often you change content, you may want to set a long expiration time for your cache. Caching can ensure your browser doesn’t have to load all those elements if a visitor returns to your pages.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Linux: Google Container-Optimized OS 77 LTS. Resolved IIS crash on RUM activity interactions (user caching is now disabled if UEM is enabled). Container metrics are reported for Amazon ECS containers on hosts with Amazon Linux (v1). Windows: Windows Desktop 1803. x86 (64bit-only). Vendor announcement. x86 (64bit-only).

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Operating System Java Mobile Cache 109

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Anchored in the primary use case of supporting Google’s YouTube business, what we’re looking at here could well be the future of data processing at Google. Google already has Dremel , Mesa , Photon , F1 , PowerDrill , and Spanner , so why did they need yet another data processing system? Cache all the things.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 16, 2024

INP replaced FID In the spring, Google made it official: Interaction to Next Paint replaced First Input Delay as the responsiveness metric in Core Web Vitals (the trifecta of performance metrics that are a key ingredient in Google's search ranking algorithm).

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CSS - Tricks

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Chris made a few notes about Core Web Vitals the other day, explaining why measuring these performance metrics are so gosh darn important: I still think the Google-devised Core Web Vitals are smart. cache things! There’s certainly a lot of tools out there that help you measure these extremely important metrics.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

However, that pesky 20% on the back end can have a big impact on downstream metrics like First Contentful Paint (FCP), Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), and any other 'loading' metric you can think of. Google recommends that TTFB be 800ms at the 75th percentile. In the case of a cache miss, this should be zero.)

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

REDIS for caching. Having Dynatrace also looking at key EFS metrics gives them additional root cause information in case something goes wrong. If you’re an IT or cloud administrator, make sure to check out Dynatrace’s capabilities on monitoring k8s clusters , AWS , VMWare , OpenStack , Azure , Google GCP , OpenShift , CloudFoundry.

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 2, 2022

And not just defining it in terms of specific metrics (even that is tricky), but answer questions like: What are this discipline’s guiding principles? It’s like when Google Fonts finally got a redesign and the broad community let out a collective exhale of appreciation. What does it look like to practice web performance?

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Performance Cache Best Practices Strategy 69

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The story was about a fast food chain that determined customer service was an important metric that they needed to track in some way. They are able to selectively load things that will appear in the initial viewport and focus heavily on ensuring AMP pages are prerender and cache friendly. You can limit your use of JavaScript.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

The average user doesn’t spend much time waiting for a web page to load or to interact with the page: According to Google, if a page’s load time goes up from 1 second to 3 seconds, the probability of the user bouncing increases by 32%. Consider Google Analytics, which collects and sends tracking data using navigator.sendBeacon().

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Another window into this question is provided by the Web Confluence Metrics project. 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.

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MachMetrics

JANUARY 16, 2020

This is great for performance because if the user doesn’t end up scrolling down that far, the image doesn’t load at all, shaving valuable time from our loading metrics. This allows you to see metrics such as First Contentful Paint, frame by frame. Plugins may be congesting your site. Further analysis.

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Speed Website Metrics Cache 89

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Images are crucial elements for performance and UX, and data extracted from Core Web Vitals metrics such as Largest Contentful Paint , which attempts to identify the most important piece of the above-the-fold content on a given page, proves this. Cache Your Images. Large preview ). — Addy Osmani.

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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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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ). One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. This is difficult to prove because developers will say that “the experience” is what they are seeing on their computers using, for example, Google Chrome.

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