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I am not sure whether 20 development days invested for a postmark score is a good time investment.

by tpetry 6y ago

rz2k 6y ago
It looks like the accessibility score went down, too.
- efedorenko 6y ago
  Hi, author here. Accessibility score went from 87 to 96. The second screenshot with a score of 86 was a preliminary result after introducing the fake widget. (Best Practices went from 86 to 100.)
  - rz2k 6y ago
    Sorry, I had just skimmed the article until I came across two sets of scores. That's great!
linkjuice4all 6y ago
I've worked on a number of these projects where clients were chasing Lighthouse scores without any actual measure of effort, reward, or impact. Google Analytics offers many site speed metrics that are tied to real-world visits and can be correlated with other metrics, behaviors, and conversions on the site itself. These numbers also give you visibility on the entire site and not just a single page that you've run through the Lighthouse tool. I don't want to discourage people from making the web faster but Lighthouse scores are about as helpful as domain authority and Alexa rank when you can take a detailed look at your users through Google Analytics and get more granular performance analysis from WebPageTest.org (which also provides Lighthouse scores, can be run privately, simulates various devices and locations, and much more).
- efedorenko 6y ago
  The Lighthouse score is just a detailed and useful metric for troubleshooting, but not the only one we monitor. I included a chart from our Core Web Vitals in the end, which monitors the performance of all pages indexed by Google and uses actual usage data from a wide sample of users (Chrome User Experience Report).
- C1sc0cat 6y ago
  GA is also moving to WCV reporting as is lighthouse. Personally I think GSC (google search console) is more useful. I have seen improvements from speeding up pages particular in mobile postmark is unusual in having so much many desktop viewers.

I am not sure whether 20 development days invested for a postmark score is a good time investment.

by tpetry 6y ago

I am not sure whether 20 development days invested for a postmark score is a good time investment.

rz2k 6y ago

It looks like the accessibility score went down, too.

efedorenko 6y ago
Hi, author here. Accessibility score went from 87 to 96. The second screenshot with a score of 86 was a preliminary result after introducing the fake widget. (Best Practices went from 86 to 100.)
- rz2k 6y ago
  Sorry, I had just skimmed the article until I came across two sets of scores. That's great!

linkjuice4all 6y ago

I've worked on a number of these projects where clients were chasing Lighthouse scores without any actual measure of effort, reward, or impact. Google Analytics offers many site speed metrics that are tied to real-world visits and can be correlated with other metrics, behaviors, and conversions on the site itself. These numbers also give you visibility on the entire site and not just a single page that you've run through the Lighthouse tool. I don't want to discourage people from making the web faster but Lighthouse scores are about as helpful as domain authority and Alexa rank when you can take a detailed look at your users through Google Analytics and get more granular performance analysis from WebPageTest.org (which also provides Lighthouse scores, can be run privately, simulates various devices and locations, and much more).

efedorenko 6y ago
The Lighthouse score is just a detailed and useful metric for troubleshooting, but not the only one we monitor. I included a chart from our Core Web Vitals in the end, which monitors the performance of all pages indexed by Google and uses actual usage data from a wide sample of users (Chrome User Experience Report).
C1sc0cat 6y ago
GA is also moving to WCV reporting as is lighthouse. Personally I think GSC (google search console) is more useful. I have seen improvements from speeding up pages particular in mobile postmark is unusual in having so much many desktop viewers.