Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time Matt Zeunert 2025-02-12T17:00:00+00:00 2025-02-13T01:34:15+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Loading your website HTML quickly has a big impact on visitor experience. Here, Ive tested a website thats hosted in Brazil.

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DZone

JANUARY 16, 2024

Monitoring application and website performance has become critical to delivering a smooth digital experience to users. With users' attention spans dwindling at an ever-increasing rate, even minor hiccups in performance can cause users to abandon an app or website.

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Monitoring Website Performance Website DevOps 182

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

But that’s difficult when Black Friday traffic brings overwhelming and unpredictable peak loads to retailer websites and exposes the weakest points in a company’s infrastructure, threatening application performance and user experience. Peak loads can overload and crash retailer websites and derail customer interactions.

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Traffic Strategy Retail Ecommerce 246

Dynatrace

JUNE 21, 2024

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. The time taken to complete the page load. Time to first byte.

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Best Practices Monitoring Metrics Transportation 264

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. By doing this, China is also able to force people to use Chinese alternatives for websites. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

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Website Internet Internet Performance 97

CSS - Tricks

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Gerry McGovern asked if I had any insight into energy consumption and websites. They were testing mobile web apps on Android using Lighthouse scores. I can guess that maps pretty well to other platforms and other performance metrics. Say you saved a complete copy of your website every time you deployed it. Fair enough.

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Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

In order to begin optimizing your pages, you’ll need to see how your pages are currently performing. Running a website speed test can help to determine what factors may be slowing your pages down. There are tools available such as Dotcom-Monitor’s free speed test that you can utilize to gauge performance.

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Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. By doing this, China is also able to force people to use Chinese alternatives for websites. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

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Website Internet Internet Performance 82

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps. How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps. However, it’s not always easy to maintain high performance in websites. This is why performance is crucial when building websites. Steve Sewell. 2022-04-29T10:30:00+00:00.

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Jos

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Yesterday I was reading Zakas’ Performance on the Yahoo! Homepage slideshare presentation , and I got very surprised when I saw that Yahoo had realised that two of the wide accepted tips for improving website performance had not work so well for them.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

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Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JULY 7, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Testsigma

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Responsive design is an approach to design websites such that it responds well on all screen sizes, platforms, and orientations. But the question is, how to perform such exhaustive testing? Some of the most common responsive checks that you need to perform includes : Does the website load properly on all the major devices?

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Design Testing Website Testing Tools 88

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals Matt Zeunert 2024-04-16T10:00:00+00:00 2024-04-16T12:05:36+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative has increased the attention website owners need to pay to user experience. What Are Core Web Vitals?

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

For most who work in the retail sector, the pandemic has been an unwelcome test of our ability to cope with disruption. Simultaneously, you’re constantly optimizing your website to meet your customers’ changing priorities. Dynatrace news. Shops closed, shifting apparel and home goods shopping to online marketplaces.

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Retail Analytics Metrics Mobile 182

DZone

JULY 21, 2022

Using data to optimize your website's performance is an effective way to discover new test ideas and insights. This can help you increase your website's overall conversion rate, as well as boost your email subscriptions or product purchases. Tests to Improve Conversion Rate. Read on to learn more.

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MachMetrics

APRIL 15, 2020

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. Mistake #1: Only Testing Desktop.

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Speed Testing Website Mobile 88

Jos

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Yesterday I was reading Zakas’ Performance on the Yahoo! Homepage slideshare presentation , and I got very surprised when I saw that Yahoo had realised that two of the wide accepted tips for improving website performance had not work so well for them.

Performance 100

Performance Website Performance Website Testing 100

Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 27, 2021

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. By doing this, China is also able to force people to use Chinese alternatives for websites. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2021

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. By doing this, China is also able to force people to use Chinese alternatives for websites. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

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. Let’s explore how it works and what it can do to help get your performance up to speed on the backend and frontend.

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Speed Website Open Source Google 60

MachMetrics

JUNE 1, 2020

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! We encourage you to test your site out on slower connection speeds as well!

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

These days it is fairly uncommon to encounter a new website or web app that doesn’t rely on some framework, or a platform such as a CMS. In particular, the increase in the amount of downloaded JavaScript can have a direct impact on website performance. Let’s start by comparing the performance of various JavaScript frameworks.

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

Time is a crucial usability factor If you don't consider time a crucial usability factor, you're missing a fundamental aspect of the user experience I'm embarrassed to admit that, in my previous career as a usability tester, I spent years testing websites in lab conditions. This translates to two full days every year.

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Speed Website Mobile Cloud 138

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance. High Performance Websites. Even Faster Websites. Designing for Performance.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

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. Your website will gradually benefit from it as support arrives to your users in most modern browsers.

Website 106

Website Best Practices Media Open Source 106

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?

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Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

The Core Web Vitals are a set of three metrics designed to measure the “core” experience of whether a website feels fast or slow to the users, and so gives a good experience. These tools run page loads on simulated networks and devices and then tell you what the metrics were for that test run. What Are The Core Web Vitals?

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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 143

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. KB (30%) without losses.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

Testsigma

MARCH 12, 2021

Consequently, there has also been an increase in the range of channels or media through which these websites are accessed. When we speak about the medium, we talk about the variety of devices (desktop and handheld), the different types of browsers that the users use to access these websites, etc. efficiently. Let’s consider a scenario.

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Testing Tools Testing Website Media 52

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

Even more surprisingly, websites that are marked as spam on email portals lose 95 percent of their traffic. It works by flagging emails as spam or by preventing certain websites from loading. Since email communication is one of the primary channels for e-commerce websites, this can prove to be a costly side effect to being blacklisted.

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Monitoring Traffic Website Database 86

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. The screenshot below explains that page load time and lighthouse performance scores are not the same, yet they are really close to each other.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

A WordPress website comprises many parts, including web servers and their settings, different plugins, and themes. Unoptimized content could also be one of the reasons why your WordPress website is not performing as per your expectations. Quite a number of brands prefer WordPress to maintain their website.

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Cache Website Speed Website Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JANUARY 18, 2018

Retailers Still Fail to Prepare Websites for Holiday Shoppers Monitoring of Retailer’s Websites during Black Friday holiday shopping. This year I’ve spent some time for collecting meaningful metrics during Black Friday sales of our leading Retailers websites. Measured start page load time of leading Retailers websites.

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Retail Website Monitoring Servers 40

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.

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Cache Website Servers Open Source 83

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Performance Costs. 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. Website performance is not consistent across devices. Jump to online workshops ?. Large preview ).

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