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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Jos

MARCH 13, 2020

Web Performance is important for user experience and business metrics. 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.

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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. INP replaces First Input Delay (FID) as the Vitals responsiveness metric. This is what the INP metric assesses."

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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. Key metrics for OpenShift monitoring. It also protects your development infrastructure at scale with enterprise-grade security.

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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. The metrics that comprise Web Vitals are still evolving. These metrics will (I think) always be in a state of evolution. When Google talks, people listen.

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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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Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

A performance budget is a threshold that you apply to the metrics you care about the most. A good performance budget chart, such as the one above, should show you: The metric you're tracking The threshold you've created for that metric When you exceed that threshold How long you stayed out of bounds When you returned to below the threshold 3.

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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. This allows you to see metrics such as First Contentful Paint, frame by frame. In the final case study in Michael’s article, the total image size was reduced by 95%.

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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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Website Optimization

APRIL 26, 2020

In this follow-up article we explore additional metrics to help optimize PPC ads faster, including Impressions Top & Absolute Top, and Average Session Duration. Using these metrics can give you an early indication of the performance of text ads in search campaigns. Google previously provided the average ad position (1.5

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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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Speed Curve

JUNE 15, 2020

New JavaScript CPU metrics. Track CPU metrics in your first and third parties. For those three new metrics, you not only get them for the full page load, but you also get them split out by first-party or third-party attribution, so you know exactly where the responsibility for a janky page lies. Total Blocking Time.

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Metrics Best Practices Monitoring Google 79

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

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

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. At SpeedCurve we call these metrics "IX Time" and they're available on your LUX Performance dashboard.) hero images, headlines) renders.

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 81

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. Configuring WebPageTest to run a test measurement that simulates a failure of the Google Fonts third-party service.

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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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MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Let’s add in some metrics ( click here if you need a refresher on these ): Time to First Byte (TTFB): 0.47s First Contentful Paint: 0.7s Look again at the metrics above. Of course, any major retailer is going to have its fair share of ads and integration with Google. Time to Interactive (TTI): 6.2s Total Blocking Time: 2.2s

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Retail Speed Website Google 82

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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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. That performance golden rule still holds true today.

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Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 60

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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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The best way to fight regressions is to create performance budgets on key metrics, and get alerted when they go out of bounds. These charts let even the most non-technical stakeholder easily see the correlation between performance and user engagement and business metrics, such as bounce rate and conversion rate.

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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

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Case Study: Image Component In A Jamstack Site. 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. Fixes To Common Problems.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 109

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Heatmap of the most popular pages and their Web Vitals metrics I then typically switch to the RUM > Design dashboard and use the list of popular interaction elements to determine which ones I want to investigate further. He shared a case study where they replaced over 50,000 lines of JavaScript with native HTML and CSS features.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Similarly from cross-site navigation — think Google search results or the like and then clicking back. Though, personally, I am glad they did since it was an interesting case study. When investigating the impact on your site look at all available metrics for any improvement. Large preview ).

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Cache Games Performance Website 93

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. Moreover, Garten-und-Freizeit, a German e-commerce store that sells furniture, saw an amazing improvement in their metrics after getting a PWA. Large preview ).

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Code Cache Retail Mobile 76

Testsigma

MARCH 24, 2021

2020, a new game called FAU-G was released on the Google play store. Such case studies uplift the importance of a better user interface and hence the importance of the user interface testing, or UI testing. Android’s official application store, the Google play store, hosts 2.87

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Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) can also be used to gather metrics. View the full results of the case study here. Read more of our blog series: The Benefits of Amazon RDS for MySQL Embrace the Cloud with Microsoft Azure Benefit from Ongoing Innovation with Google Cloud Need help with your cloud migration?

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Improving Core Web Vitals, A Smashing Magazine Case Study. Improving Core Web Vitals, A Smashing Magazine Case Study. LCP, or Largest Contentful Paint , is one of the three Core Web Vitals that you must “pass” to get the full search ranking boost from Google as part of their Page Experience Update. Barry Pollard.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study). How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study). 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. Beau Hartshorne. 2021-05-17T11:30:00+00:00. Large preview ).

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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. Additionally, page speed is a ranking factor for search and also for your Google Ads.

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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. While these metrics can be very helpful it is also important to keep this data in perspective. Don’t think of it solely from a metric point of view.

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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. Only 3 out of 20 sites passed this audit.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Web pages are unbelievably complex, and there are hundreds of different metrics available to track. A performance budget is a threshold that you apply to the metrics you care about the most. This is when you run into three important questions: Which metrics should you focus on? Which metrics should you focus on?

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Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 137

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome who was working all around web performance for decades. Which metrics should you focus on to improve the user experience? Twitter’s Image Pipeline (Case Study). +. Let’s figure it all out.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 109

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

But we can’t really say just yet whether it had any impact on the business metrics — well, we’ll need to wait for a big book release to see that. The final prompt for a more aggressive optimization was the “Core Web Vitals” dashboard in the Google Search Console. Green Scores in Lighthouse on Mobile. CSS Generators.

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