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General posts related to GTmetrix and the world of web performance.
Black Friday/Cyber Monday 2018: Performance Blips and Blunders of Top Online Retailers
This article may contain outdated material The analysis performed in this article references the legacy version of GTmetrix. Continuing from our last year’s Black Friday/Cyber Monday post, we monitored over 50 popular retailer sites from the UK/US to see how they fared in this year’s shopping rush.
Black Friday/Cyber Monday 2017: Performance Blips and Blunders of Top Online Retailers
We monitored over 50 sites from the UK and the United States to see how they held up with the online retail rush that is Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
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.
GTmetrix for WordPress Plugin
This article may contain outdated material This plugin utilizes our v0.1 API, which will only return GTmetrix legacy report data. Overview For those WordPress users who want a more indepth analysis of their sites, we’ve created GTmetrix for WordPress – a WordPress plugin that actively keeps track of your WP install and sends you alerts […]
Infographic: How much time is wasted on loading unnecessary data?
We collect a lot of data at GTmetrix – so we were really interested to see how the Top 1,000 sites perform with regards to speed and optimization standards.
