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

Smashing Magazine

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

Smashing Magazine

However, visitors from Europe, Asia, or Australia wait a while for the website to load. Large preview ) What Content Delivery Networks Mean for Time to First Byte One way to speed up your website is by using a Content Delivery Network (CDN). These services provide a network of globally distributed server locations.

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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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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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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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