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Jaime Rios
Jaime Rios

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What are the key metrics that you look for Web App optimization?

Note: I'll try to include the most relevant metrics on the Part 4 of my Front End Developer Automation series. If you'd like to collaborate, please let me know @papaponmx.

For me the depending on the topic, some of those are:

  • <meta> tags presence and confirm that they include relevant content.
  • Validate all html tags.
  • First meaningful paint.
  • Number, size and latency of initial requests and their relevance.
  • Font sizes and images size on mobile devices.
  • Color contrast ratio.
  • Can I traverse the app just with the keyboard?

What are yours?

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deleteme deleteme

Academically it should, in practice most companies will not schedule the time for the work required to make this happen. It's just a cost sink for them.

Having said that, if your app is a mithril or react app written in javascript, what exactly is supposed to happen for someone with javascript disabled?

Just a: "Please enable javascript to use this site" seems good enough for them.

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Jaime Rios

Should it? Under which circumstances someone might disable Javascript?

 
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deleteme deleteme

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But that's a totally different thing.