Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Preparing For Interaction To Next Paint, A New Web Core Vital Preparing For Interaction To Next Paint, A New Web Core Vital Geoff Graham 2023-12-07T21:00:00+00:00 2023-12-08T00:07:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear There’s a change coming to the Core Web Vitals lineup.

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CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 26, 2020

I still think the Google-devised Core Web Vitals are smart. And while those are all very related to web performance, they are abstractly related. Actual web performance to users are things like how long did I have to wait to see the content on the page? The post Core Web Vital Tooling appeared first on CSS-Tricks.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

Ironically, at the moment of publishing that article in late February, we still had floating labels used in most of our forms, and we wanted to explore if removing them would actually help us improve the overall experience on the site. Web forms redesigned, with a few subtle adjustments — and without floating labels. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

In my last article , I suggested using the SaveData API to deliver a different, more performant, experience to users that expressed that desire. In this article, I want to spend a bit more time on this, and also look at other signals we can similarly use to help us make decisions on what to load on our websites. Barry Pollard.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

A New Way To Reduce Font Loading Impact: CSS Font Descriptors. A New Way To Reduce Font Loading Impact: CSS Font Descriptors. Font loading has long been a bugbear of web performance, and there really are no good choices here. In this age of Core Web Vitals and Cumulative Layout Shifts being (quite rightly!)

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Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? CSS – Like JavaScript, CSS doesn’t have to be bulky to cause problems. And, similar to JavaScript, more CSS files equals more potential trouble. CSS requests have more than doubled for desktop and mobile.

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CSS - Tricks

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Some baby bear thinking from Katie Sylor-Miller: my excitement for Core Web Vitals is tempered with a healthy skepticism. Katie is pro-Web Core Vitals because of their correlation with real user experiences, but there is a lot more to think about. Direct Link to Article — Permalink. I mean, WTF?).

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 29, 2021

Google has said that Web Core Vitals ( WCV ) are going to be an SEO factor, and the date is nigh: May 2021. Direct Link to Article — Permalink. The post Tricking WCV appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter. Ya know, the acronym soup: CLS , LCP , and FID.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study). How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study). Last year, Google started emphasizing the importance of Core Web Vitals and how they reflect a person’s real experience when visiting sites around the web. Beau Hartshorne. 2021-05-17T11:30:00+00:00.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

In this article, we will particularly look at the average page load time in 2021 and importance of web vitals. With the latest introduction of the Core Web Vital section on GSC + upcoming Google’s core web vital update, site owners are forced to take note of their website speed and web vitals.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

The Humble `<img>` Element And Core Web Vitals. The Humble `<img>` Element And Core Web Vitals. Given how central it is to image optimization on the web, let’s catch up on what it can do and how it can help improve user experience and the Core Web Vitals. Addy Osmani. Large preview ).

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 27, 2021

I got together with Tim Kadlec from over at WebPageTest the other day to use do a bit of performance testing on CSS-Tricks. Web performance work is twofold: Step 1) Measure Things & Explore Problems Step 2) Fix it. I was linking out to a third-party CSS file, which then redirects to my own CSS files that contain custom fonts.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? Is it expensive JavaScript, slow web font delivery, heavy images, or sluggish rendering? Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics Performance culture, Core Web Vitals, performance profiles, CrUX, Lighthouse, FID, TTI, CLS, devices. Impact of Web Performance , via Addy Osmani ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

Every web performance story is similar, isn’t it? After the latest redesign in late 2017, it was Ilya Pukhalski on the JavaScript side of things (part-time), Michael Riethmueller on the CSS side of things (a few hours a week), and yours truly, playing mind games with critical CSS and trying to juggle a few too many things.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

However, as the world’s most popular browser and the only browser feeding back the Core Web Vitals information for any search ranking boasting, Chrome getting this (finally, some might say) is important. 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?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

There are many key performance indicators (KPI) that measure different points during the lifecycle of the web page (such as TTFB, domInteractive and onload ), but these metrics don’t reflect how the end-user experiences the page. Barry Pollard has written an excellent in-depth article about CLS. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX.

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Tech News Gather

MARCH 30, 2022

Before you consider building a web or mobile app, one must know the different tools developers use while developing them. In this article, we will see what technology stack to choose for your project? The three main front-end coding languages are HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, wherein a large number of frameworks are based on JavaScript.

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CSS - Tricks

MAY 24, 2021

Everything we know about Core Web Vitals and SEO — Simon Hearne covers why everyone is so obsessed with CWV right now: SEO. This is building upon Philip Walton’s “Smaller HTML Payloads with Service Workers” article. except that instead of bundling the styles in JavaScript, it outputs CSS.

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CSS - Tricks

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

HTTP Caching is a Superpower — Hugh Haworth covers how the Cache-Control header is an awfully potent ingredient in web performance. Why it’s okay for web components to use frameworks — I admit it rubs me the wrong way to think of web components as needing a framework at all, let alone being OK with a hogepodge of random frameworks.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Interaction to Next Paint (INP) will become a Core Web Vital on March 12th. Like all Core Web Vitals, INP has a set of thresholds: INP thresholds for Good, Needs Improvement, and Poor Many sites tend to be in the Needs Improvement or Poor categories. INP measures how responsive a page is to visitor interactions.

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CSS - Tricks

JUNE 25, 2020

And it’s not just “I can’t use CSS grid because IE 11 has 1.42% of global usage still” stuff, it’s about measuring metrics that matter to your site, no matter what they are. Another Web Core Vital is “Largest Contentful Paint” which is a fascinating attempt at a more meaningful performance metric.

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CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

A couple of years ago, my first few days on a new web performance project were always slow going. my about page ), and article pages, like this one you’re reading right now; an ecommerce site would have a homepage, a product listings page (PLP), a product details page (PDP), and a search results page (SRP). Final Word.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. SEO And Web Vitals In the realm of search engine optimization, performance plays a critical role. Core Web Vital metrics definitions.

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 29, 2021

Auditing CSS is not a common task in a developer’s everyday life, but sometimes you just have to do it. Maybe it’s part of a performance review to identify critical CSS and reduce unused selectors. Whatever the case and whenever that moment arrives, I usually reach for some of the tools I‘ll cover in the article. CSS Overview.

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 1, 2021

The marketing for Core Web Vitals (CWV) has been a massive success. Just kidding, it’s CSS. Katie Hempenius and Una Kravets: The way you write your styles and build layouts can have a major impact on Core Web Vitals. use a CSS gradient instead), which lends a bit of credibility to this.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. Same deal with CSS. The HTML is parsed. Elements are rendered.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

In this article, I’ll highlight some of the work we did and how we were able to achieve our speed. For this article, we will focus on the first three and the performance adjustments for these. And while you can usually cache the full page of an article, the same is not true of many shop pages and elements. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. Kelvin Omereshone.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This article is sponsored by Storyblok. But what happens when we all start creating content on a massive scale, filling the web with more and more data, and storing hundreds of zettabytes of content? That is why, today, Web Performance is as important and trendy as having an online presence. What Is Web Performance?

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Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

CSS – Like JavaScript, CSS doesn’t have to be bulky to cause problems. And, similar to JavaScript, more CSS files equals more potential trouble. And, similar to JavaScript, more CSS files equals more potential trouble. How does page bloat hurt Core Web Vitals? That's huge.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Largest Contentful Paint (or LCP) is one of three metrics of the Core Web Vitals. Since recently becoming a ranking factor, this major web performance KPI is still a new concept for many web developers. If you want to find out how to identify the LCP element on your web pages, check out this guide by Laurent Cazanove.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

In the world of web development, those who become experts usually do so by learning from their predecessors. Reading and following the right web development blogs makes it much easier to get a solid education. That’s why we’ve compiled an exhaustive list of web development blogs and newsletters to make this process easier.

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CSS - Tricks

MAY 24, 2021

Everything we know about Core Web Vitals and SEO — Simon Hearne covers why everyone is so obsessed with CWV right now: SEO. This is building upon Philip Walton’s “Smaller HTML Payloads with Service Workers” article. except that instead of bundling the styles in JavaScript, it outputs CSS.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Where Does SEO Belong In Your Web Design Process? ” Lighthouse for automated web page audits. Fabulous desktop layouts are great, but SEO, like the web, is now a mobile-first world. Every web page should have a meta title and meta description. The title should tell people and web crawlers alike what the page is about.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Here’s another article about reducing JavaScript dependencies and the bundle size sent to the client. This article is about a couple of things that Bookaway faced and we (as a company in the traveling industry) managed to optimize our pages, so that the HTML we send is smaller. Liran Cohen. 2021-05-05T10:30:00+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

In this article, we’ll be putting all the theory to the test by performing step-by-step migration of an application, following the recommendations from the previous part. For this article, as a starting point, I picked a jQuery application from the TodoMVC project — an example that may already be familiar to a lot of you.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Live by the link, die by the link.

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