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

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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. I emphasized the important part.

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How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing

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Choose A Scalable Web Host The most convenient way to design a high-traffic website without worrying about website crashes is to upgrade your web hosting solution. This can negatively impact your website performance, particularly if you use a shared hosting service.

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Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time

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Connecting to a server on the web typically takes three round trips on the network: DNS: Looking up the server IP address. What Network Latency Means For Time To First Byte Lets add up all the network round trips in the example above: 2 server connections: 6 round trips. TCP: Establishing a reliable connection to the server.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. Reduce Network Requests. Jack Lenox. Large preview ).

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

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Six years ago, over 70% of sessions for Wix websites originated from desktops, with under 30% coming from mobile devices. While mobile devices have come a long way in terms of network and CPU speed, many of them are still significantly underpowered when compared to desktops, especially in countries where mobile connectivity is still poor.

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Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties

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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. And JavaScript can certainly make requests for additional network resources.

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How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals

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There are three web vitals metrics Google uses to measure different aspects of website performance: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), Interaction to Next Paint (INP). Real User Monitoring (RUM) This data tells you how fast your website is for your actual visitors. What Are Core Web Vitals?

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