Todd H. Gardner

Published in Request Metrics

·6 days ago

See Current Core Web Vitals with Chrome

Google is using Core Web Vitals as a factor in search results rankings. They’ve also found that improving Core Web Vitals can lead to increased traffic, sales and ultimately conversions. But how can you see your Core Web Vitals easily? Request Metrics is the best solution for monitoring Core Web…

Chrome

3 min read

Published in Request Metrics

·Jun 21

Optimizing Static HTML And Images With Webpack

Webpack is great for building Javascript applications, but did you know it can optimize static HTML assets too? In this article, we use Webpack to process HTML files while automatically optimizing their images too. > Hey! Don’t want to read all the in’s and outs of bending Webpack into shape…

Webpack

6 min read

Published in Request Metrics

·Jun 14

Optimizing Images for Web Performance with NGINX

Images are a constant source of pain when developing websites. There are many formats and resolutions a developer must consider in order to maximize web performance. You’ll often end up with a cartesian explosion of the same image in different sizes and formats to support different scenarios. For example, you…

Nginx

7 min read

Published in Request Metrics

·Jun 7

Fast Inline Images With React and Webpack

Webpack is great for building React applications, but did you know it can help you optimize app performance too? Webpack can automatically inline image data, improving performance by reducing the number of requests your page needs to make. Let’s learn how. Image Inlining Normally, every image on a webpage is a unique…

Webpack

6 min read

Published in Request Metrics

·May 31

5 Tips To Make Google Fonts Faster

Google Fonts is a fantastic tool for web designers and developers, but it is sometimes one of the slowest resources on your website. It’s frustrating and ironic that Google’s own font service is the long pole in so many web performance reports, but it doesn’t have to be! …

Googlefonts

7 min read

Published in Request Metrics

·May 23

Using Brotli Compression in NGINX

Brotli is gaining steam as the compression algorithm du jour for high performance websites. Created back in 2013 by Google to decrease the size of WOFF files, Brotli was standardized in 2016 as part of RFC 7932. The sales pitch for Brotli is better compression than Gzip — with similar…

Brotli

5 min read

Published in Request Metrics

·Nov 30, 2021

HTTP/3 is Fast

HTTP/3 is here, and it’s a big deal for web performance. See just how much faster it makes websites! Wait, wait, wait, what happened to HTTP/2? Wasn’t that all the rage only a few short years ago? It sure was, but there were some problems. …

Http 3

8 min read

Published in Request Metrics

·Nov 29, 2021

Using HTTP Caching: 2021 Guide

The fastest website is the website that is already loaded, and that’s exactly what we can do with HTTP caching. HTTP caching lets web browsers reuse of previously loaded resources, like pages, images, JavaScript, and CSS. It’s a powerful tool to improve your web performance, but misconfiguration can cause big…

Web Performance

6 min read

Published in Request Metrics

·Nov 10, 2021

Synthetic Testing and Real User Monitoring

Synthetic Testing and Real User Monitoring are the most important tools in your performance toolbox. …

Web Performance

5 min read

Synthetic Testing and Real User Monitoring

Published in Request Metrics

·Sep 28, 2021

Advertising’s Performance Tradeoffs

Advertising is everywhere on the web and users have noticed. More than 40% of internet users block ads. Are these users sticking it to the man or just tired of slow site performance? To find out, we measure advertising’s performance impact on a few popular sites. Getting Real Measurements We picked Yahoo, Reddit…

Web

3 min read