How The Economic Times passed Core Web Vitals thresholds and achieved an overall 43% better bounce rate
Optimizing Core Web Vitals on The Economic Times website significantly improved the user experience and substantially reduced bounce rate across the entire website.
First load performance is important, but it's not everything. Users who load your site a second time will use their cache to get access to your content—so it's key to make sure it works well too, both for speed and correctness.
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Fast Fashion… How Missguided revolutionised their approach to site performance by Andy Davies
Missguided are one of the UK's most innovative and fast-moving fashion retailers but as with many other retailers, web performance hasn't always been our highest priority.
Memory leaks: the forgotten side of web performance
I’ve researched and learned enough about client-side memory leaks to know that most web developers aren’t worrying about them too much. If a web app leaks 5 MB on every interaction, but…
Votre attention, s'il vous plaît ! Quels leviers face à l'économie de l'attention ? | CNNum | Traducteur et éclaireur des transformations numériques
À quoi faisons-nous attention ? De sa qualité à sa manipulation, les enjeux de la protection de notre attention à l’heure du numérique sont majeurs. Le Conseil national du numérique appelle à passer un cap dans la protection de notre attention et publie ce jour un dossier intitulé « Votre attention, s’il vous plaît ! Quels leviers face à l’économie de l’attention ? ». Au sommaire :
User experience vs. diagnostic metrics
A few years ago, Google introduced the Core Web Vitals metrics. If you've been following web performance for a while, you know there are already a lot of metrics. Dozens and dozens of them, and new ones are being experimented with continually. So it's not surpr
How Terra improved user engagement thanks to Dark Mode
In this article, we'll analyze Terra's journey from identifying the size of the "dark mode" cohort, to applying a custom dark theme, and finally measuring the impact of this implementation on their main KPIs.
You Are Not A Machine. You Are Not Alone. — Smashing Magazine
It was pouring with rain and I found myself driving. I didn’t know where I was going. I just needed out of the house. I needed to escape. After what felt like an age I found myself parked outside my parents' house, just staring at their front door. Eventually I got out of the car, rang the doorbell and burst into tears the moment my mum answered.
We all know them: programmers with long term experience stuck on a low-level of our craft not corresponding to their quantity of experience. Great programmers are creative workers and problem-solvers and one of their most important traits is: never stop learning – but getting stuck in its own comfort zone and becoming reluctant to change is deeply wired into human nature (Humans are hard-wired to follow the path of least resistance).
What is Web3? The Decentralized Internet of the Future Explained
If you’re reading this then you are a participant in the modern web. The web we are experiencing today is much different than what it was just 10 years ago. How has the web evolved, and more importantly – where is it going next? Also, why do any of these