Search engines, speed tests, and debugging at Google
Tags: performance, monitoring, performancematters
Published: 2020-11-12 20:38:02

Hey folks, 

Welcome back to Performance Matters 👋 This week, we're inspired by [Google's announcement](https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2020/11/timing-for-page-experience.html) that page experience signals would be included in Google Search ranking from May 2021. This should come as no surprise, but it's a timely reminder to keep pushing for speed and adopting new performance metrics.

We've also released [Raygun's October launch notes](https://raygun.com/blog/october-launch-notes-2020/) if you want to catch up on what we've been shipping 🚀

Enjoy! 

Your Curator 


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### FEATURED ARTICLES

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<strong>Web performance and search engines</strong>

There is a lot of talk about web performance as a ranking signal in Search Engines and how important or not it is, but often people are overlooking how performance affects multiple phases of a search engine such as crawling, rendering, and indexing.

[Take a look beyond ranking](https://ldnwebperf.org/sessions/web-performance-and-search-engines-a-look-beyond-ranking/)


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<strong>Reducing variability in metrics</strong>

This article looks at three different websites and investigates how much running tests 1, 3, 5, or 7 times reduces variability.

[Find your average speed](https://www.debugbear.com/blog/web-performance-test-variability)


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<strong>Getting fast and staying there</strong>

Getting fast is difficult, staying fast even more so. How do successful companies ensure that their site speed stays at peak?

[Maintain your speed](https://simonhearne.com/2020/getting-fast-staying-there/)

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### BUG OF THE WEEK

<strong>Debugging incidents in Google's distributed systems</strong>

Learn how engineers at Google debug production issues, including the types of tools, high-level strategies, and low-level tasks that engineers use in varying combinations to debug effectively.

[Google's debugging workflow](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3400899.3404974)

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### COMMUNITY

<strong>Npm's new public roadmap and feedback process</strong>

Npm is the world’s largest package registry, powering the world’s largest development community—JavaScript. Their new public roadmap and feedback process takes their collaboration with the community to a whole new level.  

[Npm's open lines of communication](https://github.blog/2020-10-22-introducing-the-npm-public-roadmap-and-a-new-feedback-process/)

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<strong>Raygun's launch notes</strong>

Tech Leaders’ Panel, spike protection, and more. Catch up on all the updates in our monthly launch notes. 
 
[See what we've been working on](https://raygun.com/blog/october-launch-notes-2020/)

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