Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. High-performing fast sites attract and preserve users better than low-performing ones. In this article, we will particularly look at the average page load time in 2021 and importance of web vitals. We usually consider a site fast when its pages …
On June 30th, 2021, our speed monitoring service will be retired. Speed tests will stop running, and all accounts will be closed. This was a difficult decision to make, but it’s in the best interest of our users. MachMetrics started out as a passion project, and while I worked hard to deliver robust and reliable …
In September of 2020, big news was released – Catchpoint would be acquiring WebPageTest. This is obviously very exciting news, but a little uncertainty comes with it. Webpagetest.org is one of the premier page speed auditing services in the industry. Many of you know that we at MachMetrics use WPT as our engine as well. …
We at MachMetrics are so lucky to have such an incredible user base that we’ve never had to buy advertising. We gain customers solely from word-of-mouth. From you, our amazing users! For this reason, we decided it was time we give back. In that spirit, we are introducing our MachMetrics Affiliate Program. We know everyone …
If you asked the average internet user how slow a website would need to load before they gave up and left, they might say something like 8 or 10 seconds. Unfortunately, visitors actually give up on websites much faster. After about the 2-second mark, your bounce rate starts to rapidly increase. So what is the …
WebPageTest is one of the best website speed auditing services for any designer or developer concerned with site speed (which should be all of them). We use it as the engine for our automated testing services at MachMetrics.com. However, we often see WebPageTest utilized only in its simplest form, which is a little like driving …