Speed Curve

JANUARY 19, 2025

Annie leads the Chrome Speed Metrics team at Google, which has arguably had the most significant impact on web performance of the past decade. It's really important to acknowledge that none of this would have been possible without the great work from Annie and her small-but-mighty Speed Metrics team at Google. Nice job, everyone!

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Performance Google Speed Metrics 98

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

How To Run A UX Audit For A Major EdTech Platform (Case Study). How To Run A UX Audit For A Major EdTech Platform (Case Study). For this, you can use such well-known tools as Semrush and SimilarWeb and reviews from Trustpilot , Google Play , and Apple’s App Store. edX analysis on Google PageSpeed ( Large preview ).

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Education Website Google Design 102

CSS Wizardry

APRIL 22, 2020

21 years later, in 2013, Google launched Brotli, a new algorithm that claims even greater improvement than Gzip! of a reasonable size (compression is more relevant) and not formed predominantly of non-compressible content (like, for example YouTube)), and/or; not all multi-billion dollar corporations (let’s use some normal case studies, too).

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Latency Servers Website Speed 311

Jos

MARCH 13, 2020

Look, there are many case studies proving a correlation between loading time and business metrics!” ?-?I Using Test My Site from Think with Google : Gives you an estimation of potential revenue increase for your site when saving loading time. What is the business opportunity for web performance improvements?

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Performance Google Mobile Metrics 204

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. Lots of case studies where changes in performance led to key metric improvement.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Five years ago when Google published The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines it was a manifesto declaring the world of computing had changed forever. Since then the world has chosen to ride along with Google. If you like this kind of stuff, you might also like Google's New Book: The Site Reliability Workbook.

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Design Education Google Internet 54

Jos

MARCH 13, 2020

Look, there are many case studies proving a correlation between loading time and business metrics!” ?-?I Using Test My Site from Think with Google : Gives you an estimation of potential revenue increase for your site when saving loading time. In this case the Rel mCvR is 40%. I would repeat over and over. Conversion rate.

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Performance Google Mobile Metrics 130

Speed Curve

MARCH 11, 2024

After years of development and testing, Google has added Interaction to Next Paint (INP) to its trifecta of Core Web Vitals – the performance metrics that are a key ingredient in its search ranking algorithm. According to Google, an INP of 200 milliseconds or less is ideal. Not sure what INP means or why it matters?

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Mobile Google Metrics Monitoring 88

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

WebP is the way to go WebP was first developed by Google back in 2010 and has now become the successor of JPEG. WebP size comparison In previous case studies, we've analyzed the different image sizes against WebP. In almost each case, the size of the WebP images was smaller. decrease in image size on average.

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Processing Cache Website Servers 127

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 13, 2019

An outgoing request from a whitelisted domain returns a 302 , forwarding the request to a self-hosted CSS file that is optimised specifcally for your browser, OS, and UA (Google Fonts do something similar). In case you’re wondering, a non-whitelisted domain returns a 403. The CSS file(s) that we host is provided by Cloud.typography.

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Latency Cache Strategy Media 213

Highly Scalable

JANUARY 31, 2012

Several practical case studies are also provided. Case Study: Simulation of a Digital Communication System. This process is illustrated in the figure below: Case Study: Availability Propagation Through The Tree of Categories. Case Study: Breadth-First Search.

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C++ Network Ecommerce Processing 144

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 seconds too long.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 111

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

However, there are quite a few high-profile case studies exploring the impact of mobile optimization on key business metrics. WPO stats collects literally hundreds of them — case studies and experiments demonstrating the impact of web performance optimization (WPO) across verticals and goals.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 142

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Chances are, you're here because of Google's update to its search algorithm , which affects both desktop and mobile, and which includes Core Web Vitals as a ranking factor. If you're new to Core Web Vitals , this is a Google initiative that was launched in early 2020. When Google talks, people listen.

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Performance Google Metrics Mobile 97

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Have a look at the Financial Times Case study: “The speed of the site negatively impacts a user’s session depth, no matter how small the delay…The data suggests, both in terms of user experience and financial impact, that there are clear and highly valued benefits in making the site even faster. Want proof? Summing up.

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Speed Website Performance Website Mobile 93

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. In the final case study in Michael’s article, the total image size was reduced by 95%. Images are being lazy-loaded above the fold.

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Speed Website Metrics Cache 89

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Self-hosted Kubernetes installations or services — such as Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, or the Google Kubernetes Engine — make it possible for enterprises to select and implement best-fit functions. It also protects your development infrastructure at scale with enterprise-grade security. What is OpenShift? The post What is OpenShift?

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Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

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 ). 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. A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0,

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Performance Speed Google Media 100

Website Optimization

APRIL 26, 2020

Google previously provided the average ad position (1.5 Google has replaced this metric with Impressions Top and Absolute Top (see Figure 1). Derived from Google Analytics, the average session duration shows how long the average session lasts in seconds. Figure 3: Linking Google Analytics into Google Ads.

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Google Analytics Metrics Code 59

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Software 2.0 , in case you missed it, is a term coined by Andrej Karpathy to describe software in which key components are implemented by neural networks. The particular system discussed in this paper is Google’s email information extraction system. I.e., Google engineers don’t have access to them. But in Software 2.0

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Systems Design Software Software 84

O'Reilly Software

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

We get a huge number of excellent case studies at the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference, which we like because it gives attendees insight into real-world problems and solutions; this one is an outstanding example. Architecting for Data-Driven Reliability , by Yaniv Aknin, Google Cloud.

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Software Architecture Architecture Software Software 64

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

seconds or less, which is Google's recommendation for page experience and SEO. But I've participated in many usability studies that have found a strong, consistent correlation between Start Render time, user engagement, and business metrics. > Let's get started! Background: How performance budgets work 1.

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Performance Metrics Media Google 98

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 4, 2018

I couldn’t let this injustice continue, so I told them to “Google for quokka selfies” Christi , who works on Bing, commented with a smile: “Or you could look it up on Bing.” I’ve mentioned in the past the mixed feelings I have about Google’s influence on the web. Not a chance.

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Google Engineering Internet Internet 70

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

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In one of my case studies, I’ll share how we used velcro and felt to have potential users explore the concept of a touch screen kiosk at a zoo exhibit. I’ve also been a part of studies where we created an ATM out of cardboard to simulate a user interacting with an ATM as part of the concept. Case Studies.

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Design Testing Education Processing 118

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Thus, this post serves as a case study on adding generative AI into a personal project where I didnt have much time, resources, or expertise at my disposal. That said, I still found GenAI useful as a replacement for Google or Stack Overflow sorts of questions like How do I write X in modern JavaScript?

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Code Programming Servers Cloud 74

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

That makes sense: with serverless being relatively young, formal training is difficult to find, specific documentation must be generated, and case studies to learn from—while growing—are harder to come by. “Educating current staff” was the No. 1 concern among respondents whose organizations have adopted serverless. Figure 13.

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Serverless Architecture FinTech Infrastructure 94

Speed Curve

JUNE 15, 2020

We've also added Total Blocking Time (TBT), which is one of Google's recommended Core Web Vitals metrics for lab/synthetic testing. That's when Sander sent through this case study. Total Blocking Time. We felt it was an important metric, but we were disappointed with the lack of usage.

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Metrics Best Practices Monitoring Google 85

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

Website Optimization

MAY 31, 2018

Drafts and experiments lets you propose and test changes to your Google Adwords search and display campaigns. In Google Adwords, you can propose and test variations to your campaigns usind drafts and experiments respectively. Setting Up An Experiment in Google Adwords. Target Cost Per Acquisition (CPA) that Google recommended.

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Google Strategy Traffic Metrics 40

Smashing Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

There is now so much content out there that to get somebody’s attention, let alone rank well on Google, is incredibly hard. Nobody is interested in your company or your latest case studies. Because it has been so successful, it has become trendy and, as a result, highly competitive. More after jump! Encourage Contact.

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Social Media Media Network Website 145

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

To ease your first steps into the world of typography (or help you take your skills to the next level) the Google Fonts team teamed up with typographic experts from around the world to create a library of typographic guides: Fonts Knowledge. Fonts Knowledge by the team at Google Fonts helps you make well-considered typographic choices.

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Airlines Mobile Design Strategy 136

Tasktop

MAY 24, 2021

Business agility guru, Jon Smart , revealed that since 2018 OKRs have overtaken portfolio management and balance sheet in Google search trends. While Smart gave a concise overview of what OKRs are and what good and bad OKRs look like, our CEO and founder Dr. Mik Kersten shared a compelling case study into the role of flow in OKRs.

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DevOps Metrics Healthcare Innovation 91

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2018

A couple of years ago, Google announced a new mobile-first initiative it wanted web designers and marketers to pick up on. However, as Google launched this initiative a couple of years ago, its had time to quietly observe users in these micro-moments as well as the websites that have most aptly responded to them. Suzanne Scacca.

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Design Google Website Mobile 66

MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Of course, any major retailer is going to have its fair share of ads and integration with Google. It’s how they’re able to better recommend products for you (think why products are recommended to you on Google when you search for them on other sites). However, it’s clear that a better balance could be struck here.

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Retail Speed Website Google 82

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Recently Grigorik has been championing this approach and the Google Pagespeed Insight rules have been updated to reflect this best practice with recommendations on how to reduce the size of "above the fold" content. 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

JUNE 24, 2019

A while back, our friends at Shopify published this great case study , showing how they optimized one of their newer themes from the ground up – and how they worked to keep it fast. You may find that some of these metrics and numbers are relevant for your site, while others may be less relevant.

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 85