#performance
Articles tagged "performance".
20 articles
Core Web Vitals Explained: LCP, CLS, INP (and how to keep them green)
Google grades your pages on three numbers — and they affect both how your site feels and how it ranks. Here's what LCP, CLS and INP actually measure, what 'good' looks like, and how to fix them.
Synthetic vs Real User Monitoring (RUM): what's the difference?
Synthetic monitoring and RUM answer two different questions about your site. Here's what each one does, where each shines, and why the best setups use both.
Latency & Percentiles: why p99 matters more than the average
Your average response time looks great — so why are users complaining? Because averages lie. Here's why percentiles like p95 and p99 tell the real story of how your service feels.
504 Gateway Timeout: what it means and how to fix it
A 504 means a proxy waited for your app to respond — and gave up. It's the signature of something slow, not something dead. Here's how to find the slowness and fix it.
What is a CDN? (And do you actually need one?)
A CDN makes your site faster by serving it from locations close to your users. Here's how that works, what you actually gain, and whether your site needs one.
What is TTFB (Time to First Byte) and how to improve it
TTFB is the first number that tells you whether your backend is fast or slow. Here's what Time to First Byte measures, what's 'good', what makes it bad, and how to bring it down.
Monitoring Serverless (Lambda and friends)
Serverless means no servers to watch — and a few new things that can go wrong. Here's what to monitor when your code runs as functions: cold starts, duration, errors and throttles.
How to Speed Up Your Website (the high-impact wins first)
Website speed affects conversions, bounce rate and even SEO. The good news: most of the gains come from a short list of fixes. Here they are, roughly in order of impact.
LCP Explained: Largest Contentful Paint (and how to improve it)
LCP is the Core Web Vital that answers 'when does the page feel loaded?' Here's exactly what it measures, what counts as good, and the handful of fixes that move it most.
CLS Explained: Cumulative Layout Shift (and how to fix it)
CLS measures the most annoying thing on the web: the page jumping around as it loads. Here's what it is, what counts as good, and how to stop your layout from dancing.
INP Explained: Interaction to Next Paint (and how to improve it)
INP is the newest Core Web Vital — it measures how quickly your page responds when people actually interact with it. Here's what it is, what's good, and how to make your site feel snappy.
Lighthouse Explained: how to read the score
Lighthouse gives your page a 0–100 score across performance, accessibility, SEO and more. Here's what it actually measures, how to read it, and the trap of chasing a perfect 100.
Image Optimization for the Web (the biggest easy win)
Images are usually the heaviest thing on a page — and the easiest to fix. Here's how to make them load fast without looking worse: compress, resize, modern formats, and lazy loading.
Caching Explained: browser, CDN and server caches
Caching is the closest thing the web has to free speed: store a result once, reuse it many times. Here are the three layers of caching, how each works, and the one hard part — invalidation.
HTTP/2 vs HTTP/3: what actually changed
HTTP keeps getting faster. HTTP/2 fixed how requests share a connection; HTTP/3 changed the connection itself. Here's what's different, in plain terms, and whether you should care.
Gzip vs Brotli: web compression compared
Text compression shrinks your HTML, CSS and JS before they travel — for free speed. Here's how gzip and Brotli compare, and which to use where.
Web Font Performance: fast text without the flash
Custom fonts make a site look great — and can quietly slow it down or make text vanish during load. Here's how to keep your typography both beautiful and fast.
What is Latency? (and how to reduce it)
Latency is the delay between asking for something and getting it — and it shapes how fast everything online feels. Here's what it is, what causes it, and the practical ways to cut it.
Bandwidth vs Latency: what's the difference?
“I have fast internet, so why is this slow?” Because speed has two dimensions — bandwidth and latency — and they're not the same thing. Here's the difference, with a simple analogy.
Anycast Explained: one IP, served from everywhere
Anycast is the clever routing trick behind fast CDNs and resilient DNS: one IP address answered by the nearest of many servers. Here's how it works and why it matters.