Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. Image size is another issue, as excessive image weight hurts your SEO ranking in Google Image Search.

Mobile 145

Mobile Google Benchmarking Metrics 145

The Morning Paper

JUNE 18, 2019

Nines are not enough: meaningful metrics for clouds Mogul & Wilkes, HotOS’19. The authors of today’s paper should know a thing or two about that: Jeffrey Mogul and John Wilkes at Google 1 ! It’s hard to define good SLOs, especially when outcomes aren’t fully under the control of any single party.

Metrics 79

Metrics Cloud Google Network 79

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"I made my pages faster, but my business and user engagement metrics didn't change. The performance poverty line is the plateau at which changes to your website’s rendering metrics (such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint) cease to matter because you’ve bottomed out in terms of business and user engagement metrics.

Performance 128

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 128

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Back in May, we shared that SpeedCurve supports Google's Core Web Vitals in both our synthetic monitoring and LUX real user monitoring tools. The newcomer to the scene was Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), and, not surprisingly, it's the metric that's gotten the most questions. recommended by Google. How is it calculated?

Retail 88

Retail Benchmarking Google Metrics 88

MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Target is one of the most well-known retailers around, and they’ve recently increased their focus on the e-commerce portion of their business – Target.com. In fact, they just cracked into the top 10 list of US e-commerce retailers. Look again at the metrics above. Unfortunately, Target.com is not a fast website.

Retail 82

Retail Speed Website Google 82

Rigor

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Whether it be time, money, or technical know how, every day we talk to eCommerce and Retail teams who explain why they aren’t monitoring their site’s performance. Since our team is preparing for eTail West , there is no better time to address some of the common objections I’ve seen when talking to eCommerce and Retail teams about performance.

Ecommerce 40

Ecommerce Retail Performance Benchmarking 40

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.

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Media Google 98

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

Degrading quality for higher profit It is instructive to consider how the algorithmic technologies that underpinned the aggregator platforms of old (think Amazon, Google and Facebook among others) initially deployed to benefit users, were eventually reprogrammed to increase profits for the platform. But it is far from alone.

Social Media 127

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 127

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Have you ever looked at the page speed metrics – such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint – for your site in both your synthetic and real user monitoring tools and wondered "Why are these numbers so different?" modems aren't available for retail purchase yet. Note that the specs for DOCSIS 4.0 After DOCSIS 4.0

Hardware 52

Hardware Internet Internet Speed 52

Speed Curve

APRIL 3, 2022

Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive dashboard that lets you explore and compare web performance data for leading websites across several industries – from retail to media – over the past year. Key metrics. LCP is one of Google's Core Web Vitals , so it should be on your radar, especially if you care about SEO.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Speed Retail Mobile 59

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.

Servers 64

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 64

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As a trend, it’s not performing well on Google; it shows little long-term growth, if any, and gets nowhere near as many searches as terms like “Observability” and “Generative Adversarial Networks.” The data available to our retail business is much more limited. As a result, your relationship to many important financial metrics changes.

Games 141

Games Healthcare Processing Systems 141

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We track LEGO.com, along with a handful of other leading ecommerce sites, in our public-facing Retail Benchmarks dashboard , which I encourage you to check out. According to Google's thresholds, an LCP time of 3.96 It shows how key metrics align with the rendering timeline (the filmstrip view at the top of the chart).

Performance 78

Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 78

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).

Cache 52

Cache Google Metrics Hardware 52

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Google's Core Web Vitals have been a huge topic this year. We've been tracking these as individual metrics – Largest Contentful Paint, First Input Delay, and Cumulative Layout Shift – since before Google branded them as a set. Web Performance for Retailers. We're so happy to have him on Team SpeedCurve!

Retail 52

Retail Benchmarking Website Metrics 52

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. Core Web Vitals are a Google search ranking factor. Given that Google continues to dominate search usage, you should care about Vitals alongside the other metrics you should be tracking.

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Some of the names include Amazon’s Luna, TikTok, Tinder, among many online retailers. Moreover, Garten-und-Freizeit, a German e-commerce store that sells furniture, saw an amazing improvement in their metrics after getting a PWA. Hence, they can’t be promoted separately or found by users who’ve input a search query in Google.

Code 90

Code Cache Mobile Retail 90

Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Whilst web page load time is an important metric to measure, it doesn't tell the whole picture. As I started to learn more about web page performance, I started to experiment with webpagetest.org and discovered the different metrics that it uses. The excitement of seeing a web page load in an instant kept me coming back for more.

Speed 40

Speed Analytics Google Website 40

Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Whilst web page load time is an important metric to measure, it doesn't tell the whole picture. As I started to learn more about web page performance, I started to experiment with webpagetest.org and discovered the different metrics that it uses. The excitement of seeing a web page load in an instant kept me coming back for more.

Speed 40

Speed Analytics Google Website 40

Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Whilst web page load time is an important metric to measure, it doesn't tell the whole picture. As I started to learn more about web page performance, I started to experiment with webpagetest.org and discovered the different metrics that it uses. The excitement of seeing a web page load in an instant kept me coming back for more.

Speed 40

Speed Analytics Google Website 40

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"I made my pages faster, but my business and user engagement metrics didn't change. The performance plateau is the point at which changes to your website’s rendering metrics (such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint) cease to matter because you’ve bottomed out in terms of business and user engagement metrics.

Performance 52

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 52

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. Long interaction when opening the menu on H&M Let's compare this to another fashion retailer, French Connection.

Analytics 94

Analytics Processing Google Mobile 94

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.

Google 103

Google Cache Speed Analytics 103

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?

Performance 138

Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 138

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.

Speed 139

Speed Cache Benchmarking Metrics 139

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Jake is a frequent speaker at many popular conferences and events, such as 100 Days of Google Dev , JAMstakConf , JSConf , SmashingConf , and dozens of others.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Google Tag Manager) or A/B testing tool if you need to circumvent code changes. If you're still out of luck in the RUM department, you can always look at field data from Google CrUX (Chrome User Experience Report). Make sure you’re tracking the right metrics Think beyond Core Web Vitals. Consider adding custom metrics.

Speed 64

Speed Benchmarking Traffic Retail 64