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Zillow
Bigger, Faster, and More Engaging while on a Budget
Zillow
Zillow give a blow by blow account of using SpeedCurve performance budgets to catch a rouge A/B test...
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Holiday Extras
Holiday Extras tackles single page application performance at scale
We used the RUM/LUX 'blocking scripts' metric to convert our last sync script and reduced load time by 40%...
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Trivago
25% Faster Hotel Search with Trivago
In emerging markets, maintaining optimal web performance can become a challenge: varying network conditions and different device topology cause issues. Thanks to trivago's rigorous testing culture, we identified these issues in one of our key emerging markets...
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GOV.UK
Speeding up GOV.UK with HTTP/2
GOV.UK enabled HTTP2 and were able to measure that this significantly improved performance. They found that, for users with slower devices and connections, start render improved by 2.5 seconds and page load time by 6 seconds.....
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FarFetch
How Farfetch built a performance culture at scale
We love how SpeedCurve addresses performance budgets, which have been helping us achieve our goals...
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Financial Times
Designing a sustainable front-end toolset for Financial Times
The Financial Times explain how they cut Time To Interactive in half across their main applications while keeping the process sustainable and supportable.....
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The Telegraph
Improving Cumulative Layout Shift at Telegraph Media Group
The leading UK news website used SpeedCurve to demonstrate how they improved their 75th percentile CLS by 250% from 0.25 to 0.1...
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BBC News
Introducing a faster BBC News front page
BBC News
I have regularly and loudly complained that the BBC News website is unnecessarily slow, so when I was given the opportunity to help rebuild one of the most visited pages of BBC News—the front page—I jumped at the chance...
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Shopify
Crafting Faster Themes at Shopify
By keeping to performance budgets throughout the entire project, we’ve produced the fastest feature-rich theme in the Shopify Theme Store...
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CSS Wizardry
From Milliseconds to Millions
How to use SpeedCurve to do A/B testing – in this case, testing the impact of custom font usage on bounce rate...
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CSS Wizardry
Performance Budgets, Pragmatically
Setting performance budgets doesn’t need to be complex or confusing. You simply need some existing data, some monitoring, and to remember that budgets and targets are two different things.....
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Business Insider
Business Insider and art of correlation and performance metrics
At Insider Inc., we have been ramping up our focus on synthetic testing as an important way to test web performance. A more performant user experience translates to user satisfaction...
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The Guardian
Breaking News at 1000ms with the Guardian
Patrick details the performance pitfalls and bottlenecks from networking to rendering their team has had to break through in order to deliver the latest news hot off the press and straight to the browser within the psychologically important 1000ms barrier...
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Ancestry
How Ancestry shifted to user-centered performance metrics
Ancestry.com saw a 7% increase in conversions after improving render time by 68%, page weight by 46% and load time by 64%...
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Marks & Spencer
How PerfOps is revolutionising performance at Marks & Spencer
Marks & Spencer
In this talk, Andy shares Marks & Spencer’s performance journey, what they learned along the way, and where they plan to go from here...
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Casper
How Casper shaved 1.7 seconds off casper.com by self-hosting Optimizely
We recently deployed a change to casper.com that loaded a piece of 3rd party JavaScript from our own server instead of the vendor’s server. This change shaved 1.7 seconds off of the start render time...
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GOV.UK
How GOV.UK uses synthetic web performance monitoring
Matt Hobbs shares a straightforward, pragmatic walkthrough of how he set up the performance monitoring dashboards – including configuring test settings and creating performance budgets and alerts – for GOV.UK.....
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The Telegraph
Improving third-party web performance at The Telegraph
We use SpeedCurve and have found it invaluable to help pinpoint potential problems along the way. The dashboards they offer around JavaScript usage and third-parties remind us to keep a record of where we’ve come from and where we need to be...
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Farfetch
Farfetch reduces page load by over a second
Farfetch analyzed more than 1M pageviews and found that conversion rate decreased 2.7% for each additional second of TTI on mobile, and 2.1% on desktop.....
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Unsplash
How Unsplash setup “Real User Monitoring” using redux-observable
We recently started using SpeedCurve to track Unsplash’s performance. To get its “Real User Monitoring” (a.k.a. “LUX”) working with our app, we needed to do some extra work to handle client-side navigations...
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Vox Media
Declaring performance bankruptcy at Vox Media
Look, we know our sites aren’t as performant as they could be… I mean, let’s cut to the chase here... our sites are friggin’ slow, okay!..
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Quizlet
Launching A Successful Redesign For 20 Million Students at Quizlet
Quizlet
When more than 20 million people use your service each month, how and when you roll out a redesign matters. When considering making a big update, we knew we had to make it better for our users not just aesthetically but also functionally...
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Airbnb
Airbnb's faster, better trip to Linaria
Airbnb used SpeedCurve to ensure Linaria, their new CSS-in-JS library, delivered both better web performance and developer experience...
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Leroy Merlin
Fostering a web performance culture on leroymerlin.fr
French retailer LeroyMerlin shares how they use a combination of RUM and synthetic monitoring – including performance budgets and alerts – to keep their entire team up to speed...
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Vox Media
Building a mobile-first and performance-first culture at Vox Media
A mobile-first perspective is also a performance-first perspective at Vox Media. Dan Chilton and Guillermo Esteves talk about how they helped build a culture of performance...
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Wehkamp
How performance budgets help Wehkamp keep a highly performant website
Wehkamp are using performance budgets, the Status dashboard and Slack alerts to stay on top of site changes and make sure they catch performance issues when they.....
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Cars.com
Building a Web Performance Culture at cars.com
It’s easy for a website’s performance to degrade over time. Trying to keep up with the competition through innovation rarely affords the time to tune and optimize and, often times, organizations struggle with balancing performance technical debt with their day-to-day operations...
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Tim Kadlec
Tim Kadlec: A/B testing Instant.Page with Netlify and Speedcurve
Tim walks through a demonstration of how to do A/B testing with Netlify and LUX, our RUM tool.....
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QuintoAndar
How QuintoAndar increased conversion rates
QuintoAndar
A project focused on optimizing Core Web Vitals and migrating to Next.js resulted in a 5% increase in conversion rates and a 87% increase in pages per session...
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Andy Davies
Improving Perceived Performance With the Link Rel=preconnect HTTP Header
Sometimes a small change can have a huge effect...
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NerdWallet
Speeding Up NerdWallet
NerdWallet shares how adopting SpeedCurve is "probably the biggest change we've made to ensure we are on top of our performance" by building "a culture that values site performance and measures it on a regular basis."..
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Pinterest
Pinterest builds a Foundation for Performance
How the web performance team tackled the task of gathering data, prevented performance regression as developers shipped new features, executed on the best opportunities to improve the Pinterest experience for our users, and made performance a priority for the company...
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GOV.UK
Making GOV.UK pages load faster and use less data
We made a simple code change but the impact on the wider GOV.UK codebase was significant. We changed the way the `@font-face` loading method referenced fonts...
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