Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. What is your website already ranking well for and why? Google Keyword Planner.

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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. Many people reach out to us asking what is the #1 most important bang-for-your-buck tip on optimizing your website’s speed. It’s a godsend.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. But as it stands, websites are growing ever more obese, which means that the energy demand of the Internet is continuing to grow exponentially. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Web pages, such as the one you’re reading now, have text, images, videos and other assets to bring information to you. When it comes to a Traditional CMS, the CMS and the resulting front-end website are built on a monolithic architecture. there was a separate subdomain for a mobile website). How To Choose A Headless CMS.

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Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

Video – For the first time in the many years that I've been covering the topic of page growth, I'm going to focus on the volume of video that pages contain. Core Web Vitals are a Google search ranking factor. Heavier visual elements can take much longer to render, especially videos. More on that later.)

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Google Fonts. Google Sheets sync. You can take a closer look at the thorough guide and video about the plugin to get started. The plugin supports copy and paste from Excel, Google sheet, Numbers and it also can sync with Google Sheets and remote JSON. You can watch a thorough walkthrough video on how to use it.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ).

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Tracking critical content such as images and videos is a good place to start. > Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is one of Google's Core Web Vitals , so it's been getting a lot of attention lately. It's only tracked on certain elements, e.g., IMG and VIDEO (learn more here ). > Largest Contentful Paint (Synthetic and RUM).

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Google's Core Web Vitals have been a huge topic this year. We've been tracking these as individual metrics – Largest Contentful Paint, First Input Delay, and Cumulative Layout Shift – since before Google branded them as a set. Watch a video walkthrough of the Vitals dashboard.). Relaunched website.

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Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast. seconds or less, which is Google's recommendation for page experience and SEO. > Largest Contentful Paint (Synthetic and RUM) Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is one of Google's Core Web Vitals. That's the goal, but it's not the budget.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? A Google machine-learning study I participated in a few years ago found that the total number of page elements was the single greatest predictor of conversions. You can dive deeper into image optimization and SEO tips in this article in Google Search Central.).

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

My kids love LEGO, too, which means that every year I find myself spending a fair bit of time on the LEGO website during the holidays. LCP measures when the largest visual element in the viewport – typically a hero image or video – finishes rendering. According to Google's thresholds, an LCP time of 3.96 I love LEGO.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If you’re optimizing for the Web Vitals , you might be interested to hear that images account for ~ 42% of the Largest Contentful Paint element for websites. However, you should ideally replace such images with videos. JPEG works best with photographs, while PNG is its counterpart for other still images. AVIF Benefits.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

These are just a couple of examples of what disabled users face daily when they try and access a website that is inaccessible. The case for accessibility is this; we as stakeholders, managers, teams, designers and developers need to do better in not only practicing accessibility but advocating for it as well. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. This could be an image, a block of text, or even an embedded video.

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Rigor

JANUARY 8, 2020

A performance budget gives developers and designers data-driven thresholds that they can use when they are designing and building a website or application. Be sure to check out this in-depth piece written by Tim Kadlec about how to make a performance budget stick within your organization (and watch this awesome video, too). Tim Kadlec.

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KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

Customer want to know they can trust the website they are buying from, they want to access the website fast, and they want a great offer. The lower conversion rate on mobile could be due to a variety of reasons including the website not being responsive for mobile devices, the speed isn’t up to par, etc.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2021

With best practices and guidelines on accessibility, assistive technology and inclusive design patterns. Ryan Florence’s Video explains this problem in detail, and how react-call-return fixed it. Ryan Florence’s Video explaining react-call-return. More after jump! Online, and live. Jump to the workshop ?.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

Lazy loading is a way to improve the performance of a website or web application by maximizing the rendering speed of the above-the-fold images and iframes (and sometimes videos) by deferring the loading of below-the-fold content. Your website will gradually benefit from it as support arrives to your users in most modern browsers.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This means that it will not magically download your website resources much more quickly than TCP. Some examples of the latter are heavily cached websites, as well as single-page apps that periodically fetch small updates via APIs and other protocols such as DNS-over-QUIC. What Does It All Mean? 0-RTT Connection Set-Up.

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Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

Inspired by that post, I wanted to dig a bit deeper into a few of the best practices they mentioned, which fall loosely into these three buckets: Analyze your pages – understand the critical rendering path and page composition. JavaScript, fonts, and video carry the bulk of the rest of the weight. Connect the dots.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). Image source ).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. To simplify this behavior, a best practice is to ensure your styles include resetting all elements to use border-box. More after jump! Debugging Overflow.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

That is also something that you can find when using a procurement website. Larger organizations often post their invitations to tender on procurement websites. Websites like Upwork tend to be highly competitive and price sensitive. However, in practice, the results can be underwhelming. Make it a video course instead.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 23, 2022

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. When creating responsive websites, we often make assumptions about input mechanisms based on their screen size. More after jump! Jump to online workshops ?.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

JavaScript, CSS, images, iframes, and other resources impact how quickly website loads, renders and becomes usable to the user. Loading experience is crucial to the user’s first impression and overall usability, so Google defined Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric to measure how quickly the main content loads and is displayed to the user.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

It is recommended to follow rules and best practices of building and sending emails. A mistake could be made when you work with several projects/websites. By the way, their website states that: “On average 51% of emails never reach the inbox! How can we address these challenges? Large preview ). So where do they go?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Websites would magically become 50% faster with the flip of a switch! Five years later, we know that server push doesn’t really work in practice, streams and prioritization are often badly implemented , and, consequently, (reduced) resource bundling and even sharding are still good practices in some situations. itself directly.

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