Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

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. I’ll be covering image optimization in more depth in Smashing Magazine’s new book on Image Optimization. Use srcset + efficient modern image formats.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In this second article, I’ll go over some key technical highlights from the project. In the first article, I briefly discussed the technical stack that includes a React-based front-end framework, Next.js Definitely read up on the strategy and reasoning behind this stack in the first article if you missed it.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Is it expensive JavaScript, slow web font delivery, heavy images, or sluggish rendering? Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Image credit: Performance is a distribution via Karolina Czczur ). Table Of Contents.

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O'Reilly

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In the US, the Copyright Office has issued guidance stating that the output of image-generating AI isn’t copyrightable, unless human creativity has gone into the prompts that generated the output. If a human writes software to generate prompts that in turn generate an image, is that copyrightable? How do we make sense of this?

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Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) measures when the largest visual element (image or video) finishes rendering. How responsive was the page to visitors' actions? On subsequent visits to the same page, the largest element might be an image for a product or a photo that illustrates a news story. link] on mobile and desktop viewports.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

Server-Timing is uniquely powerful, because it is the only HTTP Response header that supports setting free-form values for a specific resource and makes them accessible from a JavaScript Browser API separate from the Request/Response references themselves. Setting Server-Timing. The only required field is the name. More after jump!

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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. What about images? Applying style to the images can be achieved with CSS. Leonardo Losoviz. 2021-11-09T09:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-09T14:02:28+00:00.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2023

For example, we have a service that stores a movie entity’s metadata or a service that stores metadata about images. The service should be able to serve real-time, aka UI, applications so CRUD and search operations should be achieved with low latency. All of these services at a later point want to annotate their objects or entities.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

For example, a budget can help them decide if a page should contain five images — or three images and one video — and still remain within the planned limits. If you splurge a lot of bytes on nonoptimal videos and images, the rich-media experience will not be so rich anymore. Large preview ). Business Performance.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. This could be an image, a block of text, or even an embedded video. Core Web Vital metrics definitions.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 24, 2021

This approach works well when the responsiveness of the target element media query should only depend on viewport size. Let’s take a look at the following responsive page layout example. Responsive page layout example. Responsive product card component example. Large preview ). Large preview ). Large preview ).

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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. That’s what this article is all about.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

We normally focus solely on the performance aspect, but today we want to dive into additional ways you can optimize images for the web. The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

In that spirit, what we’re looking at in this article is focused more on the incremental wins and less on providing an exhaustive list or checklist of performance strategies. I’m going to audit the performance of my slow site before and after the things we tackle in this article. In fact, the median data transfer for images is 948.1

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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. Check the calculator image below –. The factors that impact on LCP: Slow origin server response times Render-blocking JavaScript and CSS on page load Page Resource load times User side page rendering. 3rd party widgets.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2023

The practice of ChatOps has now evolved beyond incident management to include tasks such as code deployment, monitoring, and automated incident response. In this article, we’ll explain more about ChatOps and show you how to set up ChatOps integration with Dynatrace to help streamline and improve your IT operations.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

Image source: Lighthouse Metrics ) ( Large preview ). We were designing and building things, setting up new products, refactoring the components, and publishing articles. The entire build for deploying around 2500 articles live takes around 6 mins at the moment. We had to fix that. That’s Where We Were.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 24, 2022

In this article, I’m referring to question formats used in surveys, questionnaires, and workshops. It’s not a bad question, but it’s fairly direct and a structure people will be familiar with, so might elicit a quick response without encouraging deeper reflection. To close this article, I’m going to leave you with three questions.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It works with React-powered components that consume APIs before optimizing and bundling everything to serve as static files with bits of reactivity. That includes media files, like images, video, and audio. In Part 1 , we discussed various strategies and techniques for handling images, video, and audio in a Gatsby project.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Barry Pollard has written an excellent in-depth article about CLS. After performing different actions we found the layout shift score is getting increased when the user uses the image magnify feature. We have used react-image zoom library to build this image magnify functionality. How We Fixed It.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Usually, they are not related with computational complexity, but about serving what’s needed when needed in the best possible way. What about the response headers? When someone has the responsibility for a task to be done it will be more likely to be on the board. What resources are blocking? Which ones can be delayed?

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

Recently Noam Rosenthal published two articles analyzing the common benefits and capabilities provided by various frameworks , and also their associated costs. I highly recommend checking out these articles. For this article, I primarily rely on insights gained from analyzing data presented using the Core Web Vitals Technology Report.

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Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

Resources – Total number of resources (HTML, images, fonts, etc.) Images – Often the greatest contributor to page bloat. Looking at the 90th percentile of the distribution of page weight, images account for a whopping 5.7 In other words, images comprised almost 75% of the total page weight. on the page.

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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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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Optimization and delivery of images play a key role in web development. KeyCDN has significantly simplified the way images are transformed and delivered with our Image Processing service. Today, there's no more reason for not using the next-generation image format WebP and optimizing images all the way through.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it expensive JavaScript, slow web font delivery, heavy images, or sluggish rendering? Study what metrics matter most to your application: usually, it will be defined by how fast you can start to render most important pixels of your interface and how quickly you can provide input responsiveness for these rendered pixels.

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Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

As the person responsible for the performance of this page, you don't want to see it get worse than this while you work to make things faster. At the same time, the person responsible for this page might know that they would like the LCP time to eventually be 2.5 Even if you're not responsible for backend time (e.g.,

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KeyCDN

AUGUST 8, 2019

Responsive image techniques, such as the srcset , sizes , and media HTML attributes, allow different scaled images to be delivered based on the size and resolution of the accessing device. This allows you to further optimize your image delivery to improve the overall performance of your website or application.

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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. On February 19th, most of our articles landed in the red zone. Floating Labels Are Gone. So, did it?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it expensive JavaScript, slow web font delivery, heavy images, or sluggish rendering? Study what metrics matter most to your application: usually it will be related to how fast you can start render most important pixels of your product and how quickly you can provide input responsiveness for these rendered pixels. Table Of Contents.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 18, 2019

We’ve written tons of articles giving you step-by-step advice on how to make your website faster – but not everyone wants to go through lots of steps. Good news is that we can answer that with a simple response. The most important thing you can do to speed up your site is: Optimize your images! Sounds simple, right?

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2021

My team has experience designing for major automotive companies like Mercedes-Benz and Mitsubishi, and we want to share some practical experience in this article. This article covers HMI car design, touching on why it is an essential aspect of car design. Image by Hagerty ) ( Large preview ). Image by Hagerty ).

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 27, 2021

In this article, we’ll build a website (a tea shop!) </p> <p>We have been open since 1987 and serve customers with hand-picked oolong teas.</p> Because we used the max-width property, we don’t need any media queries to make our layout mobile responsive. image: "/oolong.jpg" }, //. ].

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

These applications serve small and average businesses equally and are not that complicated to create. Otherwise, the user experience could be as frustrating as Ankita Masand’s ordeal with ordering a cake as she describes in her article about the pain points of PWAs. Let’s look at each one. case '3g': imageQuality = 'q_30'; break; //.

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Tim Kadlec

MARCH 22, 2018

2012 was a dark time for responsive images. Some remained unconvinced that responsive images were even a problem that needed to be solved. In July of that year, Daan Jobsis discovered a technique that the Filament Group would later dub “compressive images”. What are compressive images?

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In this article, we’ll walk through the tools and some of the steps you can take to optimize your videos for playback — all of it to avoid stalls and impress your precious customers! We could endlessly tweak the configuration in FFMPEG, but let’s just touch on a few important ones in this article. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You’ve focused on making the web design responsive to ensure that the widest audience of visitors can access your content. In this article, we will review what third-party resource requests are, consider how impactful they can be to the user experience, and discuss common optimization strategies to reduce the impact on the user experience.

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