Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

We then adjusted our build to generate base64-strings for AVIF files automatically during the build time (if author images are available as AVIF images). Are Modern Best Practices Bad For The Web? That also makes it easy for us to remove it when we don’t need it any longer. New Online Workshops on Smashing. What Is CUBE CSS?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Let’s look at it for a site that’s much “heavier” than Smashing Magazine. But does it need to be available immediately ? You can see that Lighthouse does indeed provide that metric. Large preview ) There we go. The problem with the Lighthouse report, though, is that I have no idea what is causing that TBT. Probably not.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

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. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

The result of the collaboration is a standardized, valid, and reliable reading test system available in numerous languages. For example, the academic journal Visible Language has all journals available for free on their website. Further Reading on Smashing Magazine. Is it necessary? I think the time has come, and we are there.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. seconds — the best number Smashing Magazine has ever seen since the Core Web Vitals initiative was launched. When investigating the impact on your site look at all available metrics for any improvement. Jump to table of contents ?.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Chapter 10 covers best practices in how the UIs of interactive elements are designed to attract the eye, afford action, be readable, and inspire confidence that they can be safely tapped. The eBook is available right away (PDF, ePUB, Amazon Kindle). eBook is already available as PDF, ePUB, and Amazon Kindle.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

The eBook is available right away (PDF, ePUB, Amazon Kindle). eBook is already available as PDF, ePUB, and Amazon Kindle. Promoting best practices and providing you with practical tips to master your daily coding and design challenges has always been (and will be) at the core of everything we do at Smashing.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

Let’s write a script that allows us to measure performance, a11y, best practices, and provide us with an SEO score. There are performance score, a11y score, best practices score, SEO score. title, value: report.categories['best-practices'].score, title, value: report.categories['best-practices'].score,

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Devoted to the open-source community, Addy’s past open-source contributions include Lighthouse (an auditing tool for performance and web best practices), Workbox (libraries for offline-caching files using service workers), Yeoman (the web scaffolding tool), Critical (the critical-path CSS optimization tool), and TodoMVC. Get the eBook.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Now, let’s dive into the technical features and best practices that my team adopted in the process of building the WaterBear web app. I plan on sharing specifically what I learned from performance and accessibility practices as a first-time lead developer of a team , as well as what I wish I had known before we started.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

The most popular, by far, is the Google Lighthouse report (available in Chrome Developer Tools) and Google’s Page Speed Insights. For this reason, best practice advice is to load CSS resources as early as you can in the page load , so the browser has all the information to render the page as soon as possible.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

The best practice is to do this for the primary images — typically for the ones that will be displayed above the fold. <img This is a best practice only if you do it only to secondary images — typically for the ones will be displayed below the fold. <img Important Best Practices.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

To achieve it, Rauno uses an experimental CSS property element() to display a live image from an arbitrary HTML element (which currently only available in Firefox). With 100s of real-life examples , guidelines and best practices that you can apply right away. Conditional Border Radius In CSS. More after jump! Online, and live.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

In this screenshot below, for example, we can see that loading the Smashing Magazine website for the first time incurs just under a megabyte of data transfer. Note : You also may want to investigate Google’s PageSpeed Module , available for both Apache and Nginx. Data transfer is one thing that we can measure quite easily.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

While LCP is a user-centric metric, reducing it should make a big help to Google bots as Googe states: “The web is a nearly infinite space, exceeding Google’s ability to explore and index every available URL. This data collection is being made available by inserting the JSON inside a script tag with id __NEXT_DATA__.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized, key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Usually, the most specific and relevant ones are: Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized , key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. Large preview ). Watch out for the Webpack Roadmap 2021.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Cypress provides some prewritten sample tests to showcase its features and give you some starting points — this is the reason for the tests that are available. However, due to run times, it is not advisable to cover every single available workflow. Example: Finding My Articles in Smashing Magazine. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In this article, we’re going to cover code-splitting best practices and showcase some examples using React, so we load the minimum JavaScript necessary to render a page and dynamically load sizeable non-critical bundles. This problem is more apparent on unreliable and slow networks and lower-end devices. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Usually, the most specific and relevant ones are: Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized, key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. Other options are available , too.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

However, this control over the core concepts requires developers to be careful and use them according to best practices, as incorrect use may harm both the performance and user experience. It will be great to see the development community come up with more interesting use cases and performance improvements.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

With over 100,000 landing pages, each available in seven different languages, we managed a total of around 700,000 individual pages. It also reports on mobile usability, security, and best practices such as HTTPS. However, it also introduced a unique problem: our “long tail” of rarely visited pages. LCP seconds over time.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Most sites were all hosted on a single physical server somewhere on our own hosting infrastructure, and it was the server we thought about defending when it came to security best practices. If you’re using a CMS like WordPress, I found a plugin that appears to make it easy, although I’ve not tried it myself.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2021

An expected behavior of your app is that once the authentication condition is met, a new set of navigation routes are available only to logged-in users, while the other screens which were displayed before authentication is removed and can’t be returned to unless the user signs out of the application. 10 React Security Best Practices.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

In this three-part series , we are going to go through the CSS refactor process from the beginning to the end, starting with knowledge on how to approach it and some general pros and cons of refactoring, then moving onto the refactoring strategies themselves and ending with some general best practices on CSS file size and performance.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

We’ll develop the card component in isolation and use the agreed standards and best practices. It’s important to document the rules and best practices that were established and applied during the refactoring projects. Stylelint can make this process much less stressful for everyone.”. Conclusion. References.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2021

With 100s of real-life examples , guidelines and best practices that you can apply right away. A freely available online version of the classic reference book, The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. They have a wide range of low-cost and even free tutorials available on demand. More after jump! Online, and live.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

If you happen to be interested in learning how to accomplish the exact same concept using React, friend of the show magazine Heydon Pickering wrote about the topic back in 2018 and supplied React/JSX sample code. With best practices and guidelines on accessibility, assistive technology and inclusive design patterns. `); } }.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

There’s accessibility, best practices, performance and one fourth one. You just plug the theme provider in there and Chakra does the rest of the work and it just becomes available everywhere. That you, is available from the makers of Chakra, but as a commercial offering. Some of these are actually available.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2018

You’ll also see that the closest store’s hours are posted and boldly tell me how quickly I can have any products available in store. As I peruse the rest of the site, I will receive relevant information regarding in-store product availability, buy-online-pick-up-in-store options, and so on. Source: BarkBox ) ( Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

now includes an Image component with several of the above best practices baked in. A component with similar capabilities is available for Nuxt.js. The 700px value in this example approximates the width and height of each chunked section. See CanIUse.com for latest browser support for CSS content-visibility. Image Component.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

But first of all, I’d like to make something clear right now — while the act of scraping publicly available data is legal, Amazon has some measures to prevent it on their pages. With 100s of real-life examples , guidelines and best practices that you can apply right away. You’re about to find out! More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The “Changes” panel should be already available by default and next to the “Computed” tab. To simplify this behavior, a best practice is to ensure your styles include resetting all elements to use border-box. Additionally, you can persist your changes by using the local overrides feature.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

That’s because, once the developer finishes with the component, it can now utilize Merge to make it available to designers in UXPin, and of course, all your product developers have it at the same time! Gone are the days of product designers asking if a component is available to their product developers. But enough about the process.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The data will be available to any of our templates and pages under the madlibs key. // Get our utilities const client = require('./utils/sanityClient') Since our rich text is stored as Portable Text JSON, we need a way to convert the data to HTML. In this file, we can add global data to our 11ty site. Next, create a madlibs.js

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The Ultimate Guide to UX Research shares tips and best practices from leading industry experts. In fact, in her article, “ The Ultimate Guide to Designing Data Tables ,” Molly Helmuth highlights some of the best practices for designing complex data tables, and Andrew Coyle has some table design patterns that you can use as well.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

We’ve explored the concepts behind headless CMSes in detail here on Smashing Magazine, but let’s do a quick recap. But where do they preview the content before it is made available to the general public? A preview feature must be available in the pricing plan you have chosen for the headless CMS of your choice. Content Previews.

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