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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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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

We deployed these enhancements gradually over time to ensure that our users didn’t experience any disruptions, but instead only a consistent improvement of their site speed. Since implementing these changes, we have seen a dramatic improvement in the performance of websites built and hosted on our platform.

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How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals

Smashing Magazine

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). You’ll often see different page speed metrics reported by different tools and data sources, so it’s important to understand the differences.

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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. You cannot always anticipate what you cannot control.

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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. The Architecture Behind Partytown.

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Hybrid Lazy Loading: A Progressive Migration To Native Lazy Loading

Smashing Magazine

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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An In-Depth Guide To Measuring Core Web Vitals

Smashing Magazine

LCP is supposed to measure loading performance and is a good proxy for all the old metrics we in the performance community used to use (i.e. Time to First Byte (TTFB), DOM Content Loaded, Start Render, Speed Index) — but from the experience of the user. CrUX LCP dashboard ( Large preview ).

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