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

Smashing Magazine

In this article, well discuss six ways to design websites for high-traffic events like product drops and sales: Compress and optimize images , Choose a scalable web host , Use a CDN , Leverage caching , Stress test websites , Refine the backend. This enables you to find out how your website performs in various conditions.

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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

In the fourteen years that I've been working in the web performance industry, I've done a LOT of research, writing, and speaking about the psychology of page speed – in other words, why we crave fast, seamless online experiences. In fairness, that was in the early 2000s, and site speed was barely on anyone's radar.

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10 digital experience monitoring best practices

Dynatrace

Define monitoring goals and user experience metrics Next, define what aspects of a digital experience you want to monitor and improve — such as website performance, application responsiveness, or user engagement — and prioritize what to measure for each application. Speed index. The time taken to complete the page load.

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4 Most Common Page Speed Testing Mistakes

MachMetrics

Using a page speed optimization audit tool like GTmetrix or WebPageTest is a great first step towards assessing how your website loads for visitors. However, you may be making one of the common page speed testing mistakes that often cost website owners engagement, and ultimately, revenue.

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Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time

Smashing Magazine

You can see the impact of that in practice by running a global TTFB test on a website. Here, Ive tested a website thats hosted in Brazil. We get good TTFB scores when testing from Brazil and the US East Coast. However, visitors from Europe, Asia, or Australia wait a while for the website to load.

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Mobile Page Speed Testing

MachMetrics

Mobile use surpassed desktop use years ago, but all too often websites are still being built desktop first and mobile second. In fact, failing to run a mobile page speed test is the number 1 speed testing mistake we see our users make! All of these things can be achieved with a faster mobile speed.

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