August 2022 Release Notes

Trends View

The project overview now lets you see which of your pages has had consistent metric changes.

Waterfall Improvements

We now show additional data in the request waterfall:

• Long CPU tasks are shown in orange in the waterfall
• Lazy loaded images and iframes are highlighted
• Scripts are marked as defer/async if applicable
• Priority hints/fetchpriority is shown for requests
• New request index column
• An asterisk for the priority column indicates if the request priority changed

Advanced Page Filters

Quickly find pages on a specific domain or with a specific tag.

Other Improvements

• Test site speed from the new Poland/Warsaw test location
• You can now link to specific parts of a test result – click the section title to update the link
• We now run tests with Lighthouse 9.6.5.

Finally, we made it easier to compare test results to tests other than the previous one.

New Articles

• What cloud provider has the fastest console page speed? Data from GCP, AWS, and Azure – using Google CrUX data and lab based measurements to compare cloud UI performance
• Why does site speed matter? – a look at the different ways that site speed benefits your business and your users
• What is Lighthouse Simulated Throttling? – A look at how Lighthouse works by default and how to switch to a more accurate throttling method

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