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Meltdown/Spectre & GTmetrix: How patched servers affected us – and potentially you.
On December 28th, 2017, our test servers were patched to protect against Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities. Upon reboot, we noticed an increase in job runtime – roughly a 10% increase to the norm.
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Browsers Updated and First Contentful Paint Added
In this release, major changes include upgrading Chrome and Firefox and also adding the First Contentful Paint timing.
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First Contentful Paint Explained
Along with various other upgrades, Chrome 62 introduced the First Contentful Paint timing, which differs from First Paint. Read on to discover the difference.
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New Default Screen Resolution and Browser for Tests
GTmetrix will now default tests to a screen resolution of 1366×768, using Chrome as the Browser Option.
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The Difference Between GTmetrix, PageSpeed Insights, Pingdom Tools and WebPagetest
If you’ve used any of these tools, you may wonder why the results are sometimes different. The post serves to highlight the key differences in these performance analysis tools.
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Updates to CDN Detection, Dashboard and More
We’ve made a few updates to our CDN detection, Dashboard behaviour, API usage notifications, and History graphs.
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RankPay: A Site Speed Case Study
Editor’s note: Today we have a guest post by Sam Warren, Manager of Marketing and Partnerships, RankPay – an actual case study of how he used GTmetrix to improve his company’s page performance.
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How to Optimize Images: A Practical Guide
Want to know how to Serve Scaled Images and Optimize Your Images? We’ll show you how!
