Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Some tips to get us started: For a fast Largest Contentful Paint : Request your key hero image early. While not render-blocking, they can indirectly impact render performance. If using 11ty for your static sites, try the 11ty high-performance blog template. It also shows up on hover in the DevTools Performance panel.

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The best way to fight regressions is to create performance budgets on key metrics, and get alerted when they go out of bounds. You can even go one step further and integrate your performance budgets with your CI/CD process, so that you not only get alerts but even break the build if a new deploy would violate any of your budgets.

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Speed Curve

APRIL 3, 2018

We're excited to announce that we've launched Last Painted Hero as an official metric. Last Painted Hero is a synthetic metric that shows you when the last piece of critical content is painted. When choosing the right performance metric, my soapbox for the last few years has been "not every pixel has the same value".

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MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The large HD image you use for a hero image on the desktop version of your site isn’t going to look near as good on a small screen. Even if it looks fine, making the browser load that large image and then scaling it down to a mobile screen is not a performant solution. However, browser support is often slow going.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

It’s not uncommon to find websites with extremely large videos — for example, used used as hero background videos. You may have noticed a few videos and hero images on the page, but really, every pizza place kind of looks the same, so you didn’t bother to watch the video. Real-World Data. Conclusion. Hiding Videos On the Mobile Web. (vf,

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

Moreover, they give us the possibility to improve the website’s performance and to have more control and security over the application. Having this setup will not only give you freedom, security and comfort, but will also improve the performance of your application without third-party services. Monolithic vs Headless. Monolithic.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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