Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. Bitrate is the playback speed of the video. However, all the other connections have a downlink speed that’s significantly lower than 20 MBPS. There is a solution though! Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Let’s look at it for a site that’s much “heavier” than Smashing Magazine. We can expand the metric to glean insights into what exactly is causing traffic on the main thread. Large preview ) That’s a nice big view and is a good illustration of TBT’s impact on page speed. Large preview ) There we go.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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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 8, 2021

For sites with large traffic and a global reach, basic optimizations at build time are usually not enough. His team focuses on speed , helping keep the web fast. But this is an area of loading performance where, without a lot of work, you can get significant gains without a loss of content quality. Image Content Delivery Networks. +.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

For sites with large traffic and a global reach, basic optimizations at build time are usually not enough. His team focuses on speed , helping keep the web fast. But this is an area of loading performance where, without a lot of work, you can get significant gains without a loss of content quality. Image Content Delivery Networks. +.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic. The most popular, by far, is the Google Lighthouse report (available in Chrome Developer Tools) and Google’s Page Speed Insights. As a discovery tool, request maps are great for identifying the source of third-party, fourth-party, fifth-party, etc.,

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