CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 24, 2022

As I see it, there are two main issues when it comes to measuring performance changes (note, not improvements , but changes) in the lab: Site-speed is nondeterministic 1. What if another file on the critical path had dropped out of cache and needed fetching from the network? This next example was the motivation for this whole article.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

In previous articles from this series, we’ve covered auditing CSS codebase health and the incremental CSS refactoring strategy , testing, and maintenance. Also, the management will be dissatisfied with the decreased traffic and revenue caused by the unoptimized codebase, despite the code quality improvements. Adrian Bece.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Every unnecessary bit of JavaScript code you bundle and serve will be more code the client has to load and process. How will you serve blazingly fast code, then? Jamstack is popular with documentation sites that usually compile code to HTML files and host them on the CDN. Active Memory Caching. Caching Schemes.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

It doesn’t come as a surprise, considering the benefits of higher conversion rates, customer engagement, decreased page loading speed, and lower costs on development and overhead. You’ll also find example code or references to more specific guides so you can implement these tips to your PWA. Cached content with IndexedDB.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. The code for the site is available on GitHub for reference. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2 Lighthouse.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. In this article, we will particularly look at the average page load time in 2021 and importance of web vitals. Importance of page loading speed – Google checks your website load time and they like it as fast with a better user experience.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Have we optimized enough with tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, progressive hydration, clients hints, HTTP/3, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!),

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KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Unfortunately, it is a bit difficult to point out the problem directly– there are many possibilities that we will explore in this article. But this article won't just help you figure out why your WordPress website is not fast enough. We will also discuss how you can speed up your slow WordPress site. Why is WordPress slow?

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Real-life performance for your users and how the website “feels” when you’re using it should not be discounted, even if it costs you a point or two in Page Speed (otherwise, we would all just have a search bar and unstyled text).

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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

David Gilbertson and the guys at Hackernoon have a great article and flowchart that will help you decide whether or not you really need to load a web font for your site. The API makes it very simple to use @font-face CSS coding. They can also be easily cached to improve load times. Do I really need to use a custom web font?

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Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 6, 2022

Load Time Details For Individual Elements : In the waterfall chart, when the user moves their cursor on a specific bar, he is shown a load time details which are DnsTime, ConnectTime, SSLTime, RequestTime, FirstByteTime, ResponseTime, StartTime, EndTime, Speed which is pointed in a red oval. Queued request.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This article is sponsored by Storyblok. Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites. A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites. Alba Silvente. 2022-11-17T10:00:00+00:00. Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In this article, we will go through how to optimize and build a high-performance Next.js If you’re a developer looking to optimize applications and create reuseable components across applications effectively, this article will show you how to quickly scale your applications, and how to work with Nx. Optimizing Next.js Optimizing Next.js

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are?

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MachMetrics

JANUARY 16, 2020

His article in the Web Performance Calendar, The ugly truth about optimizing beautiful images , explores a few case studies and offers some solutions as well. In the above article, we walk you through how to implement lazy loading for your images in 83 seconds! Javascript is blocking the render. Those must have been some huge images!

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) LCP measures the perceived load speed of a webpage from a user’s perspective. HTML Processing Once a web page’s HTML file has been downloaded, the browser begins to process the contents line by line, translating code into the visual website that users interact with.

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score. In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score. Cache-Headers missing? Recommended!

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

And suddenly, before you know it, the code base gets a little bit overweight and fragmented , third-party scripts have to load just a little bit earlier, and shiny new dynamic content finds its way into the DOM through the backdoors of fourth-party scripts and their uninvited guests. We had to fix that. That’s Where We Were.

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Dotcom-Montior

MAY 6, 2020

Load Time Details For Individual Elements : In the waterfall chart, when the user move his cursor on a specific bar, he is shown a load time details which are DnsTime, ConnectTime, SSLTime, RequestTime, FirstByteTime, ResponseTime, StartTime, EndTime, Speed which is pointed in a red oval. The time captured by the server to produce a response.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Start Render time, Speed Index ). Rendering metrics provide an estimate of how fast content renders (e.g.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

This article is part of a series in which I attempt to use the web under various constraints, representing a given demographic of user. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. South Korea has the fastest mobile download speed , averaging 52.4 I Used The Web For A Day On A 50 MB Budget.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

PageSpeed Compare is a page speed evaluation and benchmarking tool. It also lists cached resources and identifies unused Javascript. Treo Site Speed also performs site speed audits using data from the Chrome UX Report, Lighthouse and PageSpeed Insights. PageSpeed Compare. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

There was something gratifying in taking a code that takes minutes to run and make it run in a handful seconds. Normally the team decides how well to cover and test the code, and it’s important that all developers in a team know how to write tests. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time.

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MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

So in this article, we’ll pit Gzip vs Brotli and completely end the debate! As we discussed in our article on how to test your page weight , compression is pretty much standard practice in web performance now, so you absolutely want to make sure you’re taking advantage of it. One such measure is HTTP compression. OK, not really.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

In this article, I will highlight a few core features that every headless CMS should provide. All functionality and integrations would also have a tight dependency which in turn results in a large, cumbersome monolithic code base. Comprehensive documentation and code samples are also a must. Custom domain capabilities.

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ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

have pointed out in their recent Science article (“There’s plenty of room at the Top”) — and cited by Hennessy in his Turing lecture — a naive implementation of matrix-matrix multiply in Python runs between 100x and 60,000x slower than their counterparts written in a “metal” language (highly optimized C).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

It’s not just source code for the configuration, models, views, and templates, but also static assets: CSS and JavaScript, images, icons. Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. Philip Kiely. Static Files.

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 15, 2020

This will highlight the importance of testing every code change. This is not available in the src directory until we run a command to copy over the default from the cache: cp.cache/default-html.js We have reduced the speed of the site down to a score of 66. Static files are cached on the edge reducing Time to First Byte (TTFB).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

In this article, I’ll share an overview of what it was that we wanted to achieve and what we encountered while trying to implement our goals. Because of its history and for being sort of a fork of an old blogging platform called “b2” (more details here ), it’s largely written in a procedural way (using function-based code).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

The images used in the article’s Codepen demonstrations will be integrated with TwicPics to save time in their creation and speed up the optimization of the LCP metric. Read this “ Optimize Largest Contentful Paint ” article by Philip Walton and Barry Pollard to learn more about the four LCP subparts and their relation to each other.

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CSS - Tricks

JUNE 5, 2020

This article is about my experience using Brotli at production scale. In 2015, Google published a blog post announcing Brotli and released its source code on GitHub. I had several tricks that could significantly speed up websites. Brotli’s beginning…. This was really disappointing for me. Luckily we already had that in place.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. KeyCDN’s Cache Enabler plugin is fully compatible the HTML attributes that make images responsive. jpg 480 KB 407 KB 43 KB 89% jpg-to-webp-2.jpg

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CSS - Tricks

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

cache things! Google provides synthetic lab data, where you can directly control your environment, device, and network speed. This includes context on variable network speed, browser, device, region, and so forth. Here’s how he described it: To a fault, code is loyal to its author. Make stuff smaller!

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

As we’ve noticed, website performance, especially its speed and availability, are essential to the success of your business. High speed, on the other hand, improves your customers’ user experience, and results in an increased conversion rate and income. For this article, we ran a speed test for the TED website as the target website.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

1:36pm it was discovered that this shop was linked to from the Etsy blog post, via an article posted by the Etsy employee that owned the shop. Gathering timestapms of changes made to application code during the outage. A coded timelime was created dividing activities into three main types: Coordination activities. The last word.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

There was something gratifying in taking a code that takes minutes to run and make it run in a handful seconds. At the same time, they open a door to lots of concepts that might be overwhelming: PRPL, RAIL, Paint Timing API, TTI, HTTP/2, Speed Index, Priority Hints and more …. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 16, 2020

Its name, “ memo ” comes from memoization, which is basically a form of optimization used mainly to speed up code by storing the results of expensive function calls and returning the stored result whenever the same expensive function is called again. Webpack suggests three general approaches to code-splitting: Entry points.

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