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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 Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. In this screenshot below, for example, we can see that loading the Smashing Magazine website for the first time incurs just under a megabyte of data transfer. Jack Lenox.

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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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You can track individual TTFB components like TCP duration or redirect time and break down website performance by country, ad campaign, and more. DebugBear can help you collect real user metrics for Time to First Byte, Google Core Web Vitals, and other page speed metrics.

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

As websites become heavier and more complex , the task of maintaining performance becomes ever more challenging. Measuring website performance used to be challenging and required specific expertise. And that in order to achieve this strategy implementing a culture of performance throughout the organization is a must.

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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). What Are Core Web Vitals?

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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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