MachMetrics

JANUARY 4, 2019

The way a website is constructed can have a major impact on website speed performance, but developers often have a hard time keeping track of factors that cause slow page loads and other speed-related issues. Good website performance is part of that equation. PageSpeed is an open source project.

Speed 60

Speed Website Open Source Google 60

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

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.

Website 100

Website Speed Google Metrics 100

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

Page speed has been a key factor in Google’s ranking algorithm since 2010 , so it is essential to understand the various ways you can optimize your pages and why implementing synthetic monitoring can ensure your pages perform flawlessly and revenue isn’t lost. Remember, speed is key to the user experience. Optimize Your Pages.

Website 92

Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

If you run ads from Google Adsense, or any other blocked companies, along with banned advertisements in China, they won’t appear on your page and your websites or applications may also face access restrictions. Monitor your website speed from China. In Conclusion: Monitoring Website Performance from China.

Website 97

Website Internet Internet Performance 97

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

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.

Servers 78

Servers Latency Cache Website 78

MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Google’s PageSpeed Insights tools may be just what you need to leverage data collected through speed testing. Having too many large images, files, and plugins may slow down site speed or server response times and that is where PageSpeed testers come in. Why This Matters for Speed. What is PageSpeed Insights?

Speed 49

Speed Best Practices Google Website 49

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

If you run ads from Google Adsense, or any other blocked companies, along with banned advertisements in China, they won’t appear on your page and your websites or applications may also face access restrictions. Monitor your website speed from China. In Conclusion: Monitoring Website Performance from China.

Website 82

Website Internet Internet Performance 82

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Yet, we wanted to put together our list of the top web performance books for anyone who cares about speed of the web and would like to explore the timeline of web performance engineering milestones over nearly two decades through the lens of published books. Web Performance Daybook-Volume-2. Web Performance In Action.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Rigor

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Google recently announced the launch of their Speed Update. This change to how Google ranks websites for searches will now take mobile page speed into account in its ranking algorithm. This announcement is part of a Google’s ongoing efforts to incentivize good web performance. Prioritize Performance Improvements.

Speed 40

Speed Social Media Google Mobile 40

MachMetrics

MAY 31, 2019

These days everyone knows the importance of front-end site testing and has some basic tools in place to help them – but how do you know if your testing efforts are ideal? From speed testing to usability testing, use these ten strategies to ensure your website is always running on all cylinders.

Website 49

Website Testing Speed Website Performance 49

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. High-performing fast sites attract and preserve users better than low-performing ones. Importance of page loading speed – Google checks your website load time and they like it as fast with a better user experience.

Cache 78

Cache Speed Google Website 78

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You’ve tested and retested the site for errors. 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.

Website 138

Website Design Network Testing 138

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. What is Performance Testing?

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. We normally focus solely on the performance aspect, but today we want to dive into additional ways you can optimize images for the web.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Google Website 106

KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

But this article won't just help you figure out why your WordPress website is not fast enough. We will also discuss how you can speed up your slow WordPress site. Quite a number of brands prefer WordPress to maintain their website. Apart from that, several other factors should be taken care of to ensure that the website is fast.

Cache 52

Cache Website Speed Website Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

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.

Website 98

Website Google Open Source Mobile 98

Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 27, 2021

If you run ads from Google Adsense, or any other blocked companies, along with banned advertisements in China, they won’t appear on your page and your websites or applications may also face access restrictions. Monitor your website speed from China. In Conclusion: Monitoring Website Performance from China.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2021

If you run ads from Google Adsense, or any other blocked companies, along with banned advertisements in China, they won’t appear on your page and your websites or applications may also face access restrictions. Monitor your website speed from China. In Conclusion: Monitoring Website Performance from China.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

MachMetrics

OCTOBER 31, 2020

WebPageTest is one of the best website speed auditing services for any designer or developer concerned with site speed (which should be all of them). We use it as the engine for our automated testing services at MachMetrics.com. Need to speed test a website that lives behind a login?

Social Media 52

Social Media Website Speed Google 52

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

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. Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS).

Google 143

Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 143

Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

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. Test native lazy loading demo. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet.

Website 106

Website Best Practices Media Open Source 106

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

JavaScript’s effect on performance consists of download, parsing and the execution costs. Like any file referenced and used on a website, it first needs to be downloaded from a server. How quickly the file is downloaded depends on the connection speed and the size of the file itself. Large preview ). Large preview ).

Code 104

Code Performance Network Website 104

Rigor

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

This event will feature tracks on mobile, innovation, and UX development, so attendees will certainly leave with many ideas for how they can improve their website. These focus areas are integrally linked with website performance, so it’s essential that brands also work to improve their digital experience. Conclusion.

Retail 40

Retail Ecommerce Website Performance Mobile 40

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

But remember, static content trades off real-time personalization for speed and consistency, lacking in dynamic interactivity.Static content and CDNs are a power duo, delivering your site's unvarying elements at unparalleled speed.Pros and Cons of Static ContentPros of Static Content:Caching Benefits: Static content is highly cacheable.

Cache 52

Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Load Testing: HTTP vs Headless vs Real Browser. Therefore, performance testing has become a fundamental part of the development chain and the demand is still growing. Performance testing platforms provide a broad range of load simulation methods such as HTTP, headless, and real browser-based. Contents: Overview.

Testing 40

Testing Performance Testing Servers Programming 40

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

We apply this litmus test to everything we do, and I believe it's the secret of our success. We've made LCP events easy to spot by highlighting them in your Vitals dashboard, your test details, and your Sites dashboard, where you'll also see how key metrics are trending over time. Relaunched website. RUM Live dashboard.

Retail 52

Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 52

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

For example, this means, it’s much easier to share the win with Heather from marketing after spending time improving website accessibility as she’s more able to appreciate the effort after seeing the Lighthouse accessibility score go up 50 points into the green. Testing the script at the point should result in a new directory being created.

Google 86

Google Latency Website Metrics 86

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 5, 2020

At that time, I was working as a freelance website performance consultant. I wanted to compress every last possible byte for my clients’ websites in a drive to make them faster, but using pre-compression and allowing clients to update files on demand simultaneously was not always easy. Taking matters into my own hands.

Cache 83

Cache Website Servers Open Source 83

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

But remember, static content trades off real-time personalization for speed and consistency, lacking in dynamic interactivity.Static content and CDNs are a power duo, delivering your site's unvarying elements at unparalleled speed.Pros and Cons of Static ContentPros of Static Content:Caching Benefits: Static content is highly cacheable.

Cache 40

Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 40

Speed Curve

AUGUST 8, 2018

One of the longest-standing items on my performance monitoring tool wishlist is an automatically-generated performance improvement checklist , with the improvements ordered by the impact that they will have on the website. Why we created the Improve dashboard. How to use it.

Performance 45

Performance Website Performance Website Google 45

Dotcom-Montior

JANUARY 18, 2018

Most of us believe that content and popularity of websites are the only factors, which are responsible for the success of our sites. But beyond that, even more, important is speed and user experience. Sometimes due to technical reasons, a website may become slow. Now, speed and user experience has been added to the mix.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Performance Website Ecommerce 40

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

Websites and apps that are allowed to be used in China can be accessed at a very fast speed, up to the recent 5G (20Gbps) upgrade. Therefore, even foreigners inside China will also opt to use the local counterparts of banned apps and websites due to speed.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Performance Internet Internet 52

Dotcom-Montior

JANUARY 18, 2018

Most of us believe that content and popularity of websites are the only factors, which are responsible for the success of our sites. But beyond that, even more, important is speed and user experience. The post Why Companies Need Web Performance Monitoring appeared first on Dotcom-Monitor Web Performance Blog.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Performance Website Speed 40

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

According to it, the average page tested “produces 1.76 Recommended reading : How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. The mean average emissions for websites with a PageSpeed score of 100 is about 1 gram of carbon, which rises to a projected almost 6 grams for websites with a score of 0.

Website 140

Website Internet Internet Energy 140

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2020

If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. To investigate this topic, let’s first check how important your website performance is to your online business. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JULY 7, 2020

If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. To investigate this topic, let’s first check how important your website performance is to your online business. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. To investigate this topic, let’s first check how important your website performance is to your online business. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52