How To Speed Test Your Site From All Over The World
Our most recent article identified (and remedied) the 4 most common page speed testing mistakes we see website owners making, and it inspired us to …
4 Most Common Page Speed Testing Mistakes
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, …
Best Web Performance Books to Learn Site Speed Optimization
If you’re anything like us, you’ve been cooped up at home for longer than you’d prefer, and have been staring at a computer screen for …
The DevTools Performance Tab – Using Chrome’s Profiler to Optimize Your Page Speed
Chrome’s DevTools suite contains some of the most powerful tools available to help you analyze and improve the speed of your website (or web app). …
Google Lighthouse Audits – How to use Chrome’s built-in speed testing tool
If you’re not a developer/designer, you may not be familiar with the Chrome DevTools and the extremely powerful Google Lighthouse Audits that can be found …
Web Font Performance – How Your Fonts Affect Page Speed
For many of us, typography is as big of a decision as anything else in the design process of a website. Choosing the perfect font …
Why speed test results are different than your load times
Tell me if you’ve experienced this before. You run a speed test on a website, and the results don’t match what you personally experience. Perhaps …
Optimizing Your Images Didn’t Improve Your Load Time? Here’s Why
Optimizing your images is often the very first suggestion that any performance writer or consultant will make when it comes to optimizing a website. We’re …
Year in Web Performance: 2019
The Web Almanac by HTTP Archive is a free, open-source collaborations featuring input from over 80 contributors. It is one of the most complete “state …
Average Page Load Times for 2020 – Are you faster?
With another year winding down, it’s time for us to take stock of how our site performance compares to the average page load times for …