Despite claims that slow websites are a major turnoff for site visitors the problem is growing. However, there is a bright spot, as some websites have caught on to an emerging key metric for the usability of a website and the user experience it delivers: Time to Interact (TTI).
The web performance industry is filled with terms that describe the actions taking place as a website loads. Let’s start taking a look at some of these terms to put definitive meaning around them as they relate to the web performance universe.
Responsive Web Design–a solution that delivers a consistent experience across different screen resolutions—is picking up significant steam as the standard method by which websites are being designed. Let’s look at three ways website performance can be improved using this method:
A new performance metric has come on the scene that is less about measuring the actual time it takes for an entire page to load and more about measuring how long it takes for the page to deliver the experience the website visitor is seeking. Time to Interact (TTI) pinpoints the most critical moment in a page load—the moment the page’s primary interactive content is displayed and becomes interactive –from the end user’s perspective. Proponents say this is the new metric to watch because users do not need to wait until the entire page loads to begin to interact with the site. Ideally their experience with a website using TTI as an indicator would be better than using TTL (Time to Load).
Not much progress in supporting image formats has been made since the standard JPEG, GIF and PNG formats were brought to market more than 15 years ago. The reason is simple: Supporting new image formats across different browser types is hard. However, two new image formats have come on the scene in the last few years and have recently started to gain traction as a way to optimize images: WebP (put forth by Google) and JPEG XR (backed by Microsoft).
The Top 10 features to ask an external website monitoring service provider about to prove that it is focused on reducing your IT costs, not its own IT costs:
We explore the distinctions of “high-quality monitoring” and outline what to look for when employing monitoring as part of an SLA management strategy.
Images account for more than half of a typical web page’s content and are often the biggest hindrance to ensuring optimal web performance and a pleasant user experience. Learn which method of reducing image size is best for the web, and what the difference is between Lossless vs Lossy image compression techniques.
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In the case of managing web traffic, preparation is the key. Moreover, load balancing managed domain name server (DNS) processes is an important method for preparing for web traffic. So, how do you know if your web infrastructure is prepared for a surge in web traffic?
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