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. More on that later.).

Mobile 145

Mobile Google Benchmarking Metrics 145

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

One of the great things about Google's Core Web Vitals is that they provide a standard way to measure our visitors’ experience. If you want to understand which elements are being chosen for LCP, you can either use synthetic monitoring or the webvital.js How much did the content move around as it loads?

Metrics 141

Metrics Retail Mobile Analytics 141

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. You don’t have the time to monitor something that affects your company’s revenue and almost every online metric your business cares about ? Conclusion.

Ecommerce 40

Ecommerce Retail Performance Benchmarking 40

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. According to Google, pages should maintain a CLS score of less than 0.1 Fortunately, we have the ability to do both those things in synthetic and real user monitoring (RUM).

Retail 88

Retail Benchmarking Google Metrics 88

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?" Then we'll talk about how to use your monitoring tools to understand how your real people experience your site.

Hardware 52

Hardware Internet Internet Speed 52

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

For each site, I used a month's worth of RUM (real user monitoring) data to generate correlation charts. LCP is relatively new, and has received a great deal of attention since it was introduced a couple of years ago as part of Google's Core Web Vitals. You need to look at your own real user data. (If

Performance 128

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 128

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

AWS is far and away the cloud leader, followed by Azure (at more than half of share) and Google Cloud. but the fact remains that a proportion of enterprises either outsource their email hosting to Google, Microsoft, and other providers or subscribe to cloud office productivity services that (in most cases) bundle email hosting, too.

Cloud 144

Cloud Serverless AWS DevOps 144

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

For example, someone might web scrape all the product pages of a competitor’s retail site to harvest information about products being offered and current pricing to try to gain a competitive edge. If you are just starting out wondering if someone might be re-publishing your web content, the easiest thing to do is a Google search.

Website 108

Website Analytics Google Cache 108

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. Gartner has anointed “Hyperautomation” one of the top 10 trends for 2022.

Games 141

Games Processing Healthcare Retail 141

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

You can then configure your monitoring tools to send you alerts – or even break the build, if you're testing in your staging environment – when your budgets are violated. seconds or less, which is Google's recommendation for page experience and SEO. Let's get started! Background: How performance budgets work 1.

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Media Google 98

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 16, 2019

More than 100 companies are involved with IBM’s Food Trust network, including many consumer packaged goods companies and grocery retailers. Consumers, retailers, and food safety organizations are demanding more transparency, and blockchain is looking to be a promising solution for this complex ecosystem.

Blockchain 74

Blockchain Retail Innovation Healthcare 74

Rigor

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

As a retailer, you know that conversion rates are the lifeblood of your business. One of the ways we helped that retailer achieve an increase in their conversion rate was by helping them get their third parties in check. Google’s SpeedUpdate has you nervous about your mobile page speed.

Retail 40

Retail Ecommerce Website Performance Mobile 40

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Here's a recap of product highlights designed to make your performance monitoring even better and easier! We hope these updates have made your performance and UX monitoring easier! Every year feels like a big year here at SpeedCurve, and 2024 was no exception.

Cache 52

Cache Google Metrics Hardware 52

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The one for the menu was the longest and had INP time of 350ms – in other words, 150ms longer than Google's 200ms threshold for 'Good'. Long interaction when opening the menu on H&M Let's compare this to another fashion retailer, French Connection. The result: a processing time of 303ms.

Analytics 94

Analytics Processing Google Mobile 94

Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

In this article, I am going to show you how to get started using the Speed Index library and how you can start collecting this data using Google Analytics. If you start collecting this data from the field, you'll be able to build a better picture of your web page performance using Real User Monitoring (RUM). speedindex-test.

Speed 40

Speed Analytics Google Website 40

Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

In this article, I am going to show you how to get started using the Speed Index library and how you can start collecting this data using Google Analytics. If you start collecting this data from the field, you'll be able to build a better picture of your web page performance using Real User Monitoring (RUM). speedindex-test.

Speed 40

Speed Analytics Google Website 40

Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

In this article, I am going to show you how to get started using the Speed Index library and how you can start collecting this data using Google Analytics. If you start collecting this data from the field, you'll be able to build a better picture of your web page performance using Real User Monitoring (RUM). speedindex-test.

Speed 40

Speed Analytics Google Website 40

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

For each site, I used a month's worth of RUM (real user monitoring) data to generate correlation charts. LCP is relatively new, and has received a great deal of attention since it was introduced a couple of years ago as part of Google's Core Web Vitals. You need to look at your own real user data. (If

Performance 52

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 52

Speed Curve

JANUARY 27, 2025

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 97

Mobile Best Practices Google Metrics 97

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

You can then configure your monitoring tools to send you alerts – or even break the build, if you're testing in your staging environment – when your budgets are violated. For each of these metrics, I've included what type of tool you can use to track them: synthetic and/or real user monitoring (RUM). > Can I use it?

Performance 138

Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 138

Speed Curve

JULY 8, 2024

With many synthetic monitoring tools, you can benchmark your site against your competitors. US Retail Benchmarks leaderboard Background: Looking at 20 leading sites For this investigation: I looked at the synthetic test results for twenty randomly selected industry-leading sites, taken from SpeedCurve's Page Speed Benchmarks dashboard.

Speed 139

Speed Cache Benchmarking Metrics 139

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

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. Gumtree: Introduction to performance monitoring.

Retail 52

Retail Benchmarking Website Metrics 52

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Optimize your monitoring By now, you're most likely getting ready to head into a holiday code freeze/thaw/chill – which means you may not have a lot of opportunities to make big changes or optimizations. Not sure if you need synthetic or real user monitoring? Hopefully this item is easy to check off. You probably need both.

Speed 64

Speed Benchmarking Traffic Retail 64