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Guides and insights on web performance for engineering teams.

INP Is Now a Core Web Vital: What Your Team Needs to Know

Feb 3, 20267 min read

Google replaced FID with Interaction to Next Paint (INP) as the responsiveness Core Web Vital. Here's what changed, why it matters for your Lighthouse score, and how to start tracking it across your site with real user data.

Setting Performance Budgets in Your CI/CD Pipeline

Jan 17, 20269 min read

Performance budgets turn vague goals into automated enforcement. Walk through setting up LCP, CLS, and INP thresholds with GitHub Actions, including a real-world example from a Next.js e-commerce site.

How We Reduced Our LCP by 40% Using Real User Data

Dec 22, 20256 min read

Our engineering team used WebPerformanceBeacon's deploy comparison feature to identify a render-blocking third-party script. Here's the full story of how we went from 3.2s to 1.9s LCP on our highest-traffic page.