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Page bloat update: How does ever-increasing page size affect your business and your users?

Speed Curve

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.

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Are Imposter Domains Re-Publishing Your Website?

Smashing Magazine

Are Imposter Domains Re-Publishing Your Website? Are Imposter Domains Re-Publishing Your Website? 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. Ken Harker.

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Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

Dynatrace

Mobile retail e-commerce spending in the U. With so many of their transactions occurring online, customers are becoming more demanding, expecting websites and applications to always perform perfectly. Website load times have been found to have a direct correlation with conversion rates.

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Web Development Trends 2019

KeyCDN

Progressive Web Apps Being responsive is no longer enough; today’s websites need to be progressive. Progressive web apps are websites that resemble native mobile apps. Companies that have switched from traditional websites to progressive web apps have seen higher conversions and customer engagement.

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How Target.com Could Make Their Site 3.1s Faster

MachMetrics

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. Unfortunately, Target.com is not a fast website. Time to Interactive (TTI): 6.2s

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Ten years of page bloat: What have we learned?

Speed Curve

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.).

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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

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.