Posts Tagged ‘page speed’

Welcome to my series on Sitecore Website Performance. This series will outline the key metrics and tools used to track website performance as well as specific recommendations to improve page speed within Sitecore.  In Part 1 we will review how to test website performance and how we get the most accurate results. What is the […]

Today consumers expect all their products and data to be delivered as quickly as possible. Instagram, Facebook and all other social media platforms know that they only have a few seconds to capture the user’s attention before they scroll on to the next post. Websites are all competing to keep the users engaged and even […]

There is a tendency in web development to tightly couple the pages with their data source. An example of this would be building a page that uses its backend process to retrieve and render data in a table. This is fine for small pages or quick-and-dirty prototypes, but as pages grow in complexity, this approach […]

Critical Rendering Path is a sequence of steps the browser needs to go through to convert the most important HTML, CSS and Javascript into actual pixels on the screen. This also means we make the most important visual parts of our site load first instead of loading everything at once. In order to set up the appropriate […]

As a long-time analyst (from several different research and development fields, not just online), I tend to foam at the mouth a little bit when I hear vendors oversimplify analytics—especially test analytics. While not rocket science, tests should not be interpreted in a slapdash way. We want the net effects of tests to be better […]