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I don't take this as "Google doesn't care about UX" or performance as some comments suggest. Google is a large company and its not one unified team working on v
by donohoe 5y ago
I don't take this as "Google doesn't care about UX" or performance as some comments suggest. Google is a large company and its not one unified team working on various projects in exact sync.
That said, as Google will start promoting non-AMP content that passes Coe Web Page Vitals, its become a bigger deal.
I work in media and CLS is a big problem. Most publishers don't come close to passing. As of writing only 5 out of the 80 I track score above 80! (Out of 100, and higher is better)
The publication I run Product/Engineering for hovers around 84 to 85 and we don't have ads.
Full list: https://webperf.xyz/ https://webperf.xyz/
To save you a click, the top 10 are:
Rank Site Score Speed-Index FCP LCP Int TBT
1 ThoughtCo 87 1856 1.6 s 2.0 s 6.5 s 345 ms
2 The Markup 86 3621 2.4 s 3.5 s 3.5 s 95 ms
3 Rest of World 84 3154 1.9 s 4.0 s 4.3 s 79 ms
4 Investopedia 81 2009 1.6 s 1.9 s 6.5 s 552 ms
5 The Spruce 80 1877 1.3 s 1.9 s 6.7 s 634 ms
Bottom 5 are...
Rank Site Score Speed-Index FCP LCP Int TBT
77 CNN 11 31408 6.2 s 35.7 s 70.5 s 17,666 ms
78 Seattle PI 10 27902 6.4 s 14.6 s 57.1 s 11,687 ms
79 SFGate 9 41064 7.4 s 31.1 s 96.7 s 24,437 ms
80 NY Mag 8 18222 6.0 s 10.8 s 41.1 s 7,157 ms
81 Teen Vogue 8 22549 3.4 s 9.1 s 42.3 s 8,968 ms
If you want to help me get our Score to 95 or higher, I am hiring frontend developers :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27358113 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27358113
- walshemj 5y agoEven google has its own SEO teams and they are not immune to the developers messing up. And you need technical SEO's not more front end devs cranking out the frame work dejour
- VHRanger 5y agorestofworld.org living up to their name and are accessible in the rest of the world Good on them
- donohoe 5y agoThats very nice of you to say. We're trying our best but have more work to do.
- tedd4u 5y agoSurprised there’s anything lower on that list than SFgate :)
- donohoe 5y agoIt's funny you mentioned that, I worked on SFGate experiment for optimizing ads and web performance in 2017. I got it down from 85s load time to 15s load time, and Speed Index score from 21,000 to 7,000. Ad revenue went up by 35% too (better UX as well) Then some jackass on business side signed a deal about a auto-play video player on every page and the project was killed https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12ds0b4nTxzcDy23te0Zmc9UOdx8HWsTf1UECwhxkNdo/edit#slide=id.g249fa45551_0_14 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12ds0b4nTxzcDy23te0Zm... It is a bit sad to see where it is now. The potential was there.
- tedd4u 5y agoThank you for the work you put into improving SFGate.