Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

I recently shared some of my favourite research at Beyond Tellerrand (video here ) and thought it would be fun to round it up in a post. Interestingly, and perhaps not coincidentally, 100 milliseconds is Google's stated goal when it comes to page load times. Web stress" is measurable When websites perform poorly, we react badly.

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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. Watch a video walkthrough of the Vitals dashboard.). Continued focus on Core Web Vitals.

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Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 52

Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

Lazy loading is a way to improve the performance of a website or web application by maximizing the rendering speed of the above-the-fold images and iframes (and sometimes videos) by deferring the loading of below-the-fold content. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 (PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word).

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Website Best Practices Media Open Source 106

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

Loading experience is crucial to the user’s first impression and overall usability, so Google defined Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric to measure how quickly the main content loads and is displayed to the user. This element could be an image, video, or simply, just a large block of text. Large preview ).

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KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Unoptimized content (generally images) Slow WordPress themes Sluggish WordPress plugins A huge number of HTTP requests from external sources Not utilizing a specifically dedicated resource to serve content (video hosting, CDN, etc.) Apart from that, several other factors should be taken care of to ensure that the website is fast.

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Cache Website Speed Website Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

With clearly documented performance goals, various teams can have meaningful conversations about the optimal delivery of content. For example, a budget can help them decide if a page should contain five images — or three images and one video — and still remain within the planned limits. Business Performance.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Regardless of how much the CSS codebase has been improved during the refactoring process and how much more maintainable and extendable it is, the final stylesheet needs to be optimized for the best possible performance and least possible file size. After all, users won’t wait around forever for the website to load. More after jump!

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KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

We’ve written a comprehensive guide which gives 18 tips for website performance optimization. With a CDN, you can offload your static assets such as product images, videos, GIFs, CSS files, and much more to the CDN’s edge servers. You can also use videos for products which don’t solve a problem per-se (i.e.

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Ecommerce Speed Mobile Website 41

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Addy Osmani has written a very detailed write-up on how to start performance budgeting , how to quantify the impact of new features and where to start when you are over budget. Image source ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik), Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing). Image source ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Defining The Environment Choosing a framework, baseline performance cost, Webpack, dependencies, CDN, front-end architecture, CSR, SSR, CSR + SSR, static rendering, prerendering, PRPL pattern. Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts.

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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 worked at the BBC for four years, writing low-level JavaScript that catered to their strict accessibility, performance and browser support requirements.

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