HashWhat's web performance:
Web performance is a term describing how fast a website is.
Why does performance matters:
Google ranks the websites based on their performance but the most important reason is the real users, whereas it lets them to have a good experience when they work with our websites. Imagine if they like to ride a Bugatti Veyron EB or an slow old car. 🚗 😃
How do we measure performance ?
There are different tools that can be categorized in these two list:
1. browsers tools
Lighthouse
It gives you the results and matrices to make the improvements
It gives you opportunities and diagnosisNetwork Tab
Run network and disable cache and check times and waterfall for all requestsPerfomance Tab
start profiling and check all things in detail,
2. Hosted third-party tools
PageSpeed insights (Google)
it's like lighthouse but it doesn't run on your local machine, so it will check the matrices from google serversWebpagetest.org
GTMetrics (actually lighthouse)
Standard performance measurements
There are couple of important measurements that you can find or different tools to check the performance of your website.
First paint
The time it takes before the user sees changes happening in the browser.LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)
The time takes before the user sees the contentFMP (First Meaningful Paint)
The time takes before the user sees content that is actually meaningful.TTI (Time to Interactive)
The time it takes before the content has finished loading and the UI can be interacted with.
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