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Why Optimizing Your Lighthouse Score Is Not Enough For A Fast Website

Smashing Magazine

Google Lighthouse is merely one tool in a complete performance toolkit. What it’s not is a complete picture of how your website performs in the real world. Sure, we can glean plenty of insights about a site’s performance and even spot issues that ought to be addressed to speed things up.

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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

The internet may change, and web pages may grow and evolve, but user expectations are constant. Slow websites are just one problem, but for those of us who spend much of our work and personal time online, slow sites creates extra friction in an already friction-filled world.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

High Performance Mobile Web. Maximiliano Firtman demonstrates which aspects of your site or app slow down the user’s experience, and what you can do to achieve lightning-fast performance. High Performance Images. A collection of practical articles on front-end website performance for front-end developers.

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How to Optimize Websites for Ad Publishers

Dotcom-Montior

If a majority of your visitors are from specific locations, you need to determine performance from their perspective. And not only that, the tool also allows you to select from different desktop/mobile browsers, which comes in handy if you know what devices your visitors utilize.

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An In-Depth Guide To Measuring Core Web Vitals

Smashing Magazine

A counterpoint however is that, for many Western sites at least, our mobiles are perhaps not quite as low-powered as tools such as Lighthouse in mobile mode suggest, as these are quite throttled. At the top is the big Lighthouse performance score out of 100. CrUX LCP dashboard ( Large preview ). CrUX is Chrome only.

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Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties

Smashing Magazine

You may have a lean, agile, responsive site design only to find it gradually loaded down with more and more “extras” that are often put onto the site by marketing departments or business leaders who are not always thinking about website performance. of mobile sites and 94.1% of requests on mobile and 45.1%

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How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps

Smashing Magazine

And slow websites are, in a way, discrimination: The majority of the world’s population don’t have access to high-speed Internet or fast CPUs. Even if your website is designed with usability in mind, these factors impede users from fully benefiting from the website’s features. More after jump! The Builder.io

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