Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). It doesn’t really matter if you’re a front-end dev, UX designer or content strategist, we’re certain you’ll find at least something to inspire you for the upcoming year.

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Design Development Programming Website 108

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. By doing this, China is also able to force people to use Chinese alternatives for websites. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

Website 82

Website Internet Internet Performance 82

MachMetrics

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

If you asked the average internet user how slow a website would need to load before they gave up and left, they might say something like 8 or 10 seconds. Unfortunately, visitors actually give up on websites much faster. So what is the secret to the 2-second website? Look again at the websites above. Craigslist.

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Website Speed Google Cache 57

Smashing Magazine

JULY 14, 2021

Frustrating Design Patterns: Broken Filters. Frustrating Design Patterns: Broken Filters. Part Of: Design Patterns. Designing For The Comfortable Range. A well-designed filter in a well-designed trip planner UI. Vitaly Friedman. 2021-07-14T13:30:00+00:00. 2021-07-14T14:23:10+00:00. Filters are everywhere.

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Design Retail Ecommerce Mobile 143

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Automatically Transforming And Optimizing Images And Videos On Your WordPress Website. Automatically Transforming And Optimizing Images And Videos On Your WordPress Website. So, you want to give personality to your site by making it stand out from all other websites out there. Leonardo Losoviz. 2021-11-09T09:30:00+00:00.

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Website Social Media Media Design 104

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. By doing this, China is also able to force people to use Chinese alternatives for websites. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

Website 97

Website Internet Internet Performance 97

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Powered E-Commerce Website (Case Study). Powered E-Commerce Website (Case Study). Barry Pollard has written an excellent in-depth article about CLS. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Note : Paul Irish has written an excellent article on this topic. Solving CLS Issues In A Next.js-Powered Arijit Mondal.

Website 106

Website Google Metrics Testing Tools 106

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I began writing this article in early July 2023 but began to feel a little underwhelmed by it and so left it unfinished. Given that 66% of all websites (and 77% of all requests ) are running HTTP/2, I will not discuss concatenation strategies for HTTP/1.1 in this article. If you are still running HTTP/1.1,

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Cache Latency Strategy Speed 291

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Building Gatsby Themes For WordPress-Powered Websites. Building Gatsby Themes For WordPress-Powered Websites. With Gatsby, you can pull data from (almost) anywhere and use it to generate static or dynamic websites. I used to design and develop WordPress themes. I used to design and develop WordPress themes.

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Website Open Source Code Availability 128

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

If you’re not a developer/designer, you may not be familiar with the Chrome DevTools and the extremely powerful Google Lighthouse Audits that can be found inside. However, you have likely used the Web UI that Google uses to allow you to test websites for speed – Google PageSpeed Insights. Performance. Accessibility.

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Google Speed Testing Tools Testing 82

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Ernest Journal. Inspired Design Decisions: Ernest Journal. When you work in design for any length of time, forming habits is natural. This repetition can be fabulous for your productivity, but when each design looks much like your last, you can quickly begin to feel jaded. Andrew Clarke.

Design 79

Design Energy Website Media 79

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2021

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. By doing this, China is also able to force people to use Chinese alternatives for websites. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 27, 2021

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. By doing this, China is also able to force people to use Chinese alternatives for websites. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

JULY 11, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters. Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters. Its publishers hope to inspire newcomers to printmaking, but as I thumbed through its pages, I found there is plenty about the design of Pressing Matters which can inspire web designers too. Andrew Clarke. 2019-07-11T12:30:59+02:00.

Design 93

Design Media Mobile Energy 93

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JULY 7, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

Tools And Practices To Speed Up The Vue.js Tools And Practices To Speed Up The Vue.js Note: This article is aimed at both beginners and seasoned developers who want to better their Vue.js In a traditional app where we have signup, logins, or product page we want to have consistent behavior and design. Development Process.

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Speed Processing Development Code 133

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

The success of your website depends on the impression it leaves on its users. It’s worth mentioning that good Core Web Vitals scores don’t necessarily mean that your website scores in high 90s on Lighthouse. PageSpeed Compare is a page speed evaluation and benchmarking tool. Zara Cooper. 2022-08-09T14:00:00+00:00.

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Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 130

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google do strongly encourage you to focus on site speed for better performance in Search, but, if you don’t pass all relevant Core Web Vitals (and the applicable factors from the Page Experience report) they will not push you down the rankings. While Core Web Vitals can help with SEO, there’s so much more to site-speed than that.

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Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

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).

Performance 116

Performance Cache Website Mobile 116

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

For many of us, typography is as big of a decision as anything else in the design process of a website. We want our font to be an extension of the design, as well as make our content pleasing to the eye, drawing our readers interest. Choosing the perfect font family, making sure we’re using the right font weight.

Speed 65

Speed Performance Google Open Source 65

MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Covey’s universal and timeless advice can apply to a multitude of aspects of our lives, and as we wrote about last month fast websites are good for the world. Here are how his 7 habits apply to high performance websites. Don’t simply jump into your project with no plan – before we design, we measure twice. . Be proactive.

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Website Performance Speed Design 48

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential part of a website’s design, and one all too often overlooked. Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things.

Engineering 131

Engineering Google Website Analytics 131

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2018

Designing For Micro-Moments. Designing For Micro-Moments. A couple of years ago, Google announced a new mobile-first initiative it wanted web designers and marketers to pick up on. In Myriam Jessier’s " Things Designers Should Know About SEO In 2018 ", she sums up Google’s four micro-moments: “I want to know.”. “I

Design 62

Design Google Website Small Business 62

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

Plesk VPS Hosting For Better Website Outcomes. Plesk VPS Hosting For Better Website Outcomes. This is a sponsored article.) In early discussions you have with clients about the website you’re tasked with designing, does the topic of web hosting ever come up? The Web Designer’s Connection to Web Hosting.

Website 48

Website Servers Design Traffic 48

MachMetrics

JANUARY 16, 2020

Optimizing your images is often the very first suggestion that any performance writer or consultant will make when it comes to optimizing a website. Make no mistake, this is a key step to take and should absolutely be a part of your web design/development routine. We’re no exception. Javascript is blocking the render.

Speed 89

Speed Website Metrics Cache 89

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

As is the case with many other developers, the reports over the last few years of the huge energy requirements of the web have prompted me to take a look at my own websites and see what I can do to minimize their impact. But first, a confession: When I first heard about the environmental impact of websites, I didn’t quite believe it.

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Website Energy Internet Internet 135

KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

Frontend frameworks let you hit the ground running when developing a new website. Then again, a newer but less widely known framework may more effectively suit your needs, so it's worth it to get up to speed about today's most popular options. This is accomplished through the usage of the Material Design framework.

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Google Mobile Open Source Website 135

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Bea Feitler, An Unstoppable Creative Force. Inspired Design Decisions: Bea Feitler, An Unstoppable Creative Force. Even if you didn’t study graphic design at art school, you might know a few famous names. Previously On “Inspired Design Decisions”. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine.

Design 77

Design Media Website Speed 77

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This article is sponsored by Storyblok. It has never been easier to build a personalized website, digitalize a product and start seeing results. 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. Alba Silvente. What Is Web Performance?

Media 106

Media Cache Website Mobile 106

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Websites. Even Faster Websites. Designing for Performance. How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

I’ve written a few articles here before on Core Web Vitals, and am always interested to see what’s in their annual Web Performance Checklist. Running a failing article page through WebPageTest highlighted the LCP element: The LCP image of a typical Smashing Magazine article. OK, so the article author photo is the LCP element.

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Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

With that caveat out of the way, let’s get to the guts of the article: What is the Back/Forward Cache and why does it matter so much? Think about the number of times you visit a home page, click on an article, then go back to the home page to view another article? so reusing them from that home page visit is a good saving.

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Cache Games Performance Website 91

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. Can’t we think of the site loading speed on a scale where benefits are reversely proportional to the speed?

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

Rigor

JANUARY 8, 2020

Reality: While it’s true that when there’s a web performance budget in place, teams need to keep it in mind when updating code or site design, this doesn’t have to impact the speed at which these updates happen. She does so while referencing one of the most popular articles by Addy Osmani, The Cost of Javascript. . Addy Osmani.

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Performance Mobile Metrics Speed 122

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

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 … Why Performance doesn’t get Prioritized Web performance at organizations is a real challenge. What happens when a browser tries to load a website?

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Performance Speed Google Media 237