Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time Matt Zeunert 2025-02-12T17:00:00+00:00 2025-02-13T01:34:15+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Loading your website HTML quickly has a big impact on visitor experience. Here, Ive tested a website thats hosted in Brazil.

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CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Google has a pretty tight grip on the tech industry: it makes by far the most popular browser with the best DevTools, and the most popular search engine, which means that web developers spend most of their time in Chrome, most of their visitors are in Chrome, and a lot of their search traffic will be coming from Google.

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Network Mobile Performance Traffic 286

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed. Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 111

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

You can watch the recording of my Online Kubernetes Meetup on YouTube (embedded below), watch the recording of DevOps Fusion on their website as well as access the slides on my Slideshare : Since the talk, I made a few adjustments based on feedback and plan on giving an updated version at upcoming events including our own Dynatrace Go!

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DevOps Metrics Innovation Azure 326

Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks. How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks. These days it is fairly uncommon to encounter a new website or web app that doesn’t rely on some framework, or a platform such as a CMS. Dan Shappir. Large preview ).

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Google Performance Website Mobile 136

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

This essentially means that your website should not only be mobile-friendly but it should also have a Responsive Web Design so that your target customers can access your products (or services) with ultra-ease on their hand-held devices. Different screen resolutions and viewport sizes add another layer of complexity to mobile website testing.

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Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

To illustrate how our five service level objective examples apply to different applications, we will explore the following two use cases: E-commerce websites : Whether you use Amazon, Walmart, BestBuy, or any other websites to buy and sell goods, we all expect a seamless shopping experience. or 99.99% of the time.

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Website Latency Traffic Virtualization 245

Dynatrace

APRIL 3, 2023

One way the agency saves money and resources is by shutting down the test environment every night and on the weekends. Listen and subscribe on our website , or your favorite podcast platform, and leave us a review.

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Efficiency Social Media Artificial Intelligence Cloud 246

CSS Wizardry

APRIL 22, 2020

One of the more fundamental rules of building fast websites is to optimise your assets, and where text content such as HTML, CSS, and JS are concerned, we’re talking about compression. 21 years later, in 2013, Google launched Brotli, a new algorithm that claims even greater improvement than Gzip! Running the Tests. Okay, yeah.

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Latency Servers Website Speed 302

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. With that being said, see how we easily achieved a 100/100 score with WordPress and Google PageSpeed Insights.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In today’s fast-paced market, web apps run on several browsers (Edge, Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, etc.) This is the reason why we need to execute cross-browser tests. Cross Browser Testing scrutinizes the compatibility of a website or web apps on varied operating systems, devices, and browsers.

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Testing Tools Testing Mobile Website 127

Dynatrace

AUGUST 14, 2023

Behavior analytics is a form of business analytics that tracks and evaluates a user’s complete journey through a website or mobile application. These sources can include the website or app itself, a data warehouse or a customer data platform (CDP), or social media monitoring tools. What is behavior analytics?

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Analytics Social Media Website IoT 246

Jos

MARCH 13, 2020

Previous results from other companies or websites, like those published on WPO Stats , are essential to start a conversation about the topic, but it’s not sufficient. 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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Performance Google Mobile Metrics 204

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

If you’re not a developer/designer, you may not be familiar with the Chrome DevTools and the extremely powerful Google Lighthouse Audits that can be found inside. However, you have likely used the Web UI that Google uses to allow you to test websites for speed – Google PageSpeed Insights. Performance.

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Google Speed Testing Tools Testing 82

TechBeacon Testing

JANUARY 21, 2021

They have no patience for slow websites. Our attention span has decreased over time. Online, if a page loads slowly, people are quick to go to a competitor’s site. Businesses that fail to realize this can lose a lot of money after racking up negative reviews from customers.

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Performance Testing Google Performance Website 114

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Powered E-Commerce Website (Case Study). Powered E-Commerce Website (Case Study). We use Lighthouse and WebPagetest as our synthetic testing tools for performance to measure CLS. Apart from that, we check the Google Search Console Core Web Vitals Report section to get an idea of any potential CLS issues in any of our pages.

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Website Google Metrics Testing Tools 120

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps. How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps. However, it’s not always easy to maintain high performance in websites. Even if your website is designed with usability in mind, these factors impede users from fully benefiting from the website’s features.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. And to ensure the quality of a product, we always need to test — on a number of devices, and in a number of conditions.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 142

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative was launched in May of 2020 and, since then, its role in Search has morphed and evolved as roll-outs have been made and feedback has been received. However, to this day, messaging from Google can seem somewhat unclear and, in places, even contradictory. Don’t have time to read 5,500+ words?

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Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Automating Website Deployments Through Buddy. Automating Website Deployments Through Buddy. Managing the deployment of a website used to be easy: It simply involved uploading files to the server through FTP and you were pretty much done. Leonardo Losoviz. 2019-09-03T12:30:00+02:00. 2019-09-03T11:35:16+00:00.

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Website Serverless AWS Lambda 89

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

Running a website speed test can help to determine what factors may be slowing your pages down. There are tools available such as Dotcom-Monitor’s free speed test that you can utilize to gauge performance. The tool gives you the option to run a speed test from 25 locations around the world. Optimize Your Pages.

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Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). Testing And Monitoring. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. What is your website already ranking well for and why?

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Engineering Google Website Mobile 135

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. By doing this, China is also able to force people to use Chinese alternatives for websites. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

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Website Internet Internet Performance 97

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 6, 2025

How To Fix Largest Contentful Issues With Subpart Analysis How To Fix Largest Contentful Issues With Subpart Analysis Matt Zeunert 2025-03-06T10:00:00+00:00 2025-03-06T14:50:25+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear The Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) in Core Web Vitals measures how quickly a website loads from a visitors perspective.

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Website Google Speed Metrics 59

DZone

APRIL 14, 2021

Be it an image editing tool like Canva, a cloud-storage manager like Google Drive, or project planning and collaboration tools like Trello, Asana, Jira; drag and drop functionality can be found everywhere. Additionally, modern websites have started implementing sophisticated drag and drop captcha or bot detection.

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Storage Google Website Cloud 147

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

To illustrate how our five SLO examples apply to different applications, we will explore the following two use cases: E-commerce websites : Whether you use Amazon, Walmart, BestBuy, or any other websites to buy and sell goods, we all expect a seamless shopping experience. or 99.99% of the time. Thus, an ApDex score of 0.85

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Traffic Website Latency Virtualization 173

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Modifying Headers In HTTP(s) Requests In UI Automation Testing. Modifying Headers In HTTP(s) Requests In UI Automation Testing. I tried with loads of websites to see how they behave in iframe. I observed that most of the websites don’t work in iframe due to x-frame-options and content-security-policy headers.

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Testing Network Website Google 117

Testsigma

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In recent years, cross browser compatibility testing has gained a lot of traction as it helps ensure that no customers are left behind after updates. Cross browser compatibility testing helps ensure that no customer has to suffer the consequences of a forgotten update. What is cross browser compatibility testing?

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Testing Internet Internet Website 98

Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

pgAdmin can be downloaded from their official website. In DBeaver, you can generate fake data that looks like real data allowing you to test your systems. The quality of Navicat is endorsed by its world-popular clients, including Apple, Oracle, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Disney, and Adobe. pgAdmin Cost: Free (open source).

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Open Source Database Azure Cloud 262

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. By doing this, China is also able to force people to use Chinese alternatives for websites. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

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Website Internet Internet Performance 82

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 143

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. What is Google Lighthouse? Google Lighthouse is one of the best-automated tools available on a web developer's utility belt.

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Google Latency Website Metrics 86

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

The success of your website depends on the impression it leaves on its users. Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. It’s worth mentioning that good Core Web Vitals scores don’t necessarily mean that your website scores in high 90s on Lighthouse. Zara Cooper. Large preview ).

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Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 134

MachMetrics

APRIL 15, 2020

Using a page speed optimization audit tool like GTmetrix or WebPageTest is a great first step towards assessing how your website loads for visitors. However, you may be making one of the common page speed testing mistakes that often cost website owners engagement, and ultimately, revenue. Mistake #1: Only Testing Desktop.

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Speed Testing Website Mobile 88

MachMetrics

JUNE 18, 2019

We’ve written tons of articles giving you step-by-step advice on how to make your website faster – but not everyone wants to go through lots of steps. Many people reach out to us asking what is the #1 most important bang-for-your-buck tip on optimizing your website’s speed. It’s a godsend.

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Speed Website Social Media Media 81

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2020

Using Google Fonts is often one of the first steps people take to give their website a unique look. But if you’ve ever brought over that amazing font and ran a speed test, you might be asking – “Does Google Fonts slow down my site?” Why We Need to Optimize Google Fonts.

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Google Speed Cache Website 57

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It may even be something you do regularly with Lighthouse in Chrome DevTools, where testing is freely available and produces a very attractive-looking report. The linked-up explainer provides more details, from how scores are weighted to why scores may fluctuate between test runs. Can’t be perfect every time!

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Speed Google Website Metrics 117