The way we measure and optimize website speed is always changing. New web standards are introduced (and eventually widely supported), new tools are developed, and new metrics suggested. By Matt Zeunert.
This article takes a look at some of the ways that the web performance landscape changed in 2022:
- Priority hints
- No more OSCP requests in Chrome
- Interaction to Next Paint Metric
- Desktop core web vitals as a ranking factor
- Back/forward cache in Chrome
- View observed metrics in PageSpeed Insights
- HTTP/3 standardized
- Better data on what requests are render-blocking
- Chrome DevTools performance insights panel
- 103 early hints
- Full page prerendering in Chrome
… and more. A lot of new browser features have become available to improve website performance in the last year. We also have new tools to measure and improve site speed. Good read!
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