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Tools to Use for Testing Performance
Trust in web performance metrics is crucial for every web developer but achieving that has its quirks. Performance metrics require careful understanding and the right tools for testing. We find out how to trust those magic numbers and tools to get optimal results. Understand the Metrics Landscape Let’s dive straight in. Frankly, you can’t trust…
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Google Lighthouse And Core Web Vitals Compared
So, you want to tune up your site, but you’re caught between Google Lighthouse and Core Web Vitals? And you’re starting to wonder what the difference is between Core Web Vitals and Google Lighthouse. Or is there even? Well, look no further as we delve into a short and concise dissection of both services. On…
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Get Ready for Cloudflare Fonts!
One of our favorite website Performance and Security enhancing companies, Cloudflare, just announced a new feature called Cloudflare Fonts. Enhancing privacy while juicing up website speed? Now that’s a double treat! The All-New Cloudflare Fonts How exactly does this work out, I hear you asking? Well, it’s all about getting Google Fonts to load from…
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Outshine the Competition with Superior Website Performance and UX
Remember the good old days when we could growl at our dial-ups to hustle a bit? Long gone but not forgotten, they set the pace for our hunger for speed on the web. But alas! The race has taken a more sophisticated turn. It’s not just about the sprint – it’s a triathlon! Set, Go,…
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Web Core Vitals Metrics Explained
Let’s dive into the world of web metrics, shall we? Specifically the ones that are part of Google’s Page Speed metrics / Google Lighthouse, the Web Core Vitals. It is the combination of these metrics that give you the so desired perfect 100 scores. Now, often times these acronyms can be a bit hard to…
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How To Improve Your Total Blocking Time (TBT)
Earlier this week I talked about LCP taking up 25% of your Google Lighthouse score. But did you know there’s an even larger metric? Meet TBT. I takes up 30% of the total score. I’ll explain what it is, and what you can do to avoid it as much as possible. Imagine you’re in a…
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Optimizing Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) for Your WordPress Site
Did you know LCP makes up for 25% of the Google Lighthouse score of your WordPress site? That’s a huge chunk that when optimized correctly gives you a huge performance boost. Let me explain what Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is, and what you can do to improve it. If you’re reading a book and the…
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The Time to Focus on INP is Now
Google updated their article on INP a few weeks back. Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is a new Core Web Vital metric currently under development. It gauges a page’s overall responsiveness to user interactions by observing the latency of these interactions during a user’s visit. The goal? Achieve an INP of 200ms or less for an optimal…
