This is the second part of our weekly series about Google toolkit for web performance. A few weeks before the Speed Update (Google algorithm change expected on July 2018) this collection will help you to benefit from the best of the available tools and to avoid tricky mistakes. The tool of the day is perhaps one of the most well-known: Google PageSpeed Insights. Continue reading PageSpeed Insights: the best tool to check your website performance for the Google Speed Update?
Web Performance & E-commerce Benchmark: Who’s the Fastest Beauty E-retailer in France?
Dareboost has tested the loading speed of 12 leading e-retailers of the French beauty market. Nocibé, The Body Shop and L’Oréal Paris stand out as the fastest websites. But the overall industry’s web performance measured by Dareboost is among the slowest ones since we’ve begun to test the french e-merchants loading speed, two years ago… Continue reading Web Performance & E-commerce Benchmark: Who’s the Fastest Beauty E-retailer in France?
Test My Site – Google Tooling and Google Speed Update, part 1.
This is the first part of a serie of articles we’re dedicating to Google tools related to website speed test and analysis, a few weeks before the Google Speed Update.
Today’s tool: Test My Website. Powerful service or simple gadget? Continue reading Test My Site – Google Tooling and Google Speed Update, part 1.
Web Pages Optimization: 2018 Dareboost Top of Tips
Among the many tips delivered by our analysis reports, which are the most appealing to those who have tested their web pages on Dareboost? We have reviewed the results of over 270,000 audits conducted via Dareboost and how the reports generated by our tool were browsed. Let’s focus on the most “clicked” best practices of the moment. Continue reading Web Pages Optimization: 2018 Dareboost Top of Tips
[Dogfooding] How Dareboost has benefited from Custom Timings monitoring
We may be Web Performance experts, we still don’t have superpowers . We also need tools to analyze our sites and applications. So when we released our new Custom Timings feature, we naturally jumped at the chance to test it on Dareboost.com… and immediately saw the benefit. Continue reading [Dogfooding] How Dareboost has benefited from Custom Timings monitoring
New Metrics for your Web Performance tests & monitors: Custom Timings
Custom timings (API User Timing), have just landed on Dareboost! This brand-new range of performance indicators gives a new dimension to your web page analyses and monitors. And that’s not it yet: more advanced indicators such as DomContentLoaded or Onload are now available in your monitoring data… Let’s discover how to use these new performance metrics with our tool. Continue reading New Metrics for your Web Performance tests & monitors: Custom Timings
How Tag Managers impact web performance
Using a Tag Management System – like Google Tag Manager or TagCommander – to deal with scripts and third-party content populating your web pages presents obvious advantages for marketers. From a Web Performance point of view, the impact of such tools deserves your attention… Continue reading How Tag Managers impact web performance
Deploying CSP: a 5-step approach
You may have seen recommendations from Dareboost to put in place a security policy regarding the origin of your resources. In case you haven’t dived in yet, I’d like to offer some advice on its implementation, from my experience. Continue reading Deploying CSP: a 5-step approach
User Timing API (Custom Timing): the most relevant performance measure ever
You may already have dreamed of it: being able to measure exactly when one image of your web page is rendered or a particular script is executed, and track this moment through your favorite tools. The User Timing API made it possible, allowing you to place marks wherever you need within your pages! That feature is now supported by all the most recent browsers. And Dareboost is about to let you benefit from it at a larger scale! Continue reading User Timing API (Custom Timing): the most relevant performance measure ever
Back to static with JAMStack: a paradigm shift for better UX and web performance
For several years now, a new range of solutions have emerged in the web technologies landscape. Static site generators, headless CMS, content infrastructure… these solutions contribute to a global trend. “Static trend”, “JAMStack”, several names exist but none really covers what is an overall new proposal for web application architecture, and somehow a comeback to the roots of the Web.
Continue reading Back to static with JAMStack: a paradigm shift for better UX and web performance
Website speed test from Oslo now available on Dareboost
Dareboost has just added Norway to its list of available locations to test your website performance. Indeed, Oslo is the 13th city across the world – the 5th on the European continent – to host our test probes. Continue reading Website speed test from Oslo now available on Dareboost
Web Performance Fundamentals: what is the Speed Index?
At Dareboost, we have a motto: you can’t assess your overall website performance with one single metric! Nevertheless, some are more synthetical and relevant than others. We consider Speed Index as one of the most important indicators to analyze. Let’s discover why: what does the Speed Index indicate? How is it measured? How to interpret and use it properly? Continue reading Web Performance Fundamentals: what is the Speed Index?