Five Crucial Metrics for Improving Website Speed
Providing a satisfactory user experience for your website visitors is not as simple as applying any one single proven modus operandi. However, paying attention to certain metrics at consistent times can provide web development teams with some actionable insights. Such insights can help these teams to identify issues that can be addressed to augment website speed.
Five Crucial Metrics for Improving Website Speed
5 key metrics, which website development teams should be monitoring for ensuring that their websites are providing an optimal UX, are given as under:
TTFB, Time to First Byte
This refers to the time required for a mobile phone or browser to receive the 1st data or response from the server when the user requests any particular URL. At a higher level, TTFB consists of 3 main parts:
- The time it takes to transmit an HTTP request
- The time that the server takes for processing the request
- The time which the server takes to send the 1st data to the user
Inappropriately written code, sluggish database queries or misconfigured servers are the most usual problems, which can lead to the poor performance of TTFB. Discovering and fixing these critical problems can significantly improve a website’s speed.
TCP (Transmission-Control-Protocol) Connection Time
Conventionally, this refers to the time required by browsers (mobiles/web) for establishing a reliable connection with the server. Diagnosing problems in such a connection can sometimes be difficult because it depends on several factors. For example, augmented user traffic from real users or even bots may lead the connection time to increase. Even the users accessing the site from several geographic areas can experience lengthier connection time(s). In such cases, teams should be considering using a CDN or caching-server for improving site performance and for ensuring faster connections for users.
DNS Lookup Time
DNS is shortened to Domain-Name-System! Usually, a domain name like “xyz.com” must be mapped to an IP-address. DNS-lookup-time could be termed as the time it takes for a DNS service provider for translating a domain-name into an IP–address. If some web page takes a very long time for loading, there is a good chance that the page has more than one DNS-lookup. For example, a social media share button (like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, etc.) will result in extra DNS lookups on that page. This can cause the webpage to be loaded sluggishly. For solving this, web development teams should use a trusted DNS service provider instead of the free versions.
Page Loading Time
This refers to the total time a browser takes to fully display the content of a certain webpage. Given underneath are some factors affecting the page-load-time:
- Ineffectually written HTML and CSS scripts
- Using unoptimized high-res pictures
- Many redirects
Page Response Time
This refers to the time it takes to receive the 1st response from the destination server. If this response time is very short, then there is quite a high chance of users bouncing from the website! As per Google, the response time must be less than 200ms.
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