Are render-blocking resources slowing your page speed and impacting user experience? Learn how to identify and troubleshoot these issues.
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Identifying and reducing resources responsible for blocking the rendering of your web page is a critical optimization point that can make or break your page speed.
It can be so critical that it can pay dividends to your site’s page experience metrics (and your user’s satisfaction) as a result.
In 2021, the average time it took to fully render a mobile web page was 22 seconds. In 2018, it was 15 seconds.
Clearly, this is a substantially higher number than Google’s recommended time of 2-3 seconds. It’s also substantially higher than it used to be.
What could be causing these issues with render-blocking resources?
What is driving this increase in overall page render speed?
One interesting trend to note is that there has been an increasing reliance on third-party fonts compared to system fonts. Using third-party fonts as a resource tends to interfere with the processing and rendering of a page.
With system fonts, the browser does not have to load anything extra, so it doesn’t have that additional processing step as a result.
Screenshot from Web Almanac, January 2022
This reliance across industries is likely to impact this rendering time. Of course, this is not the...
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