Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. In this episode, we’re talking about designing for safety. What does it mean to consider vulnerable users in our designs? Design for Safety from A Book Apart. Drew McLellan.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

LCP, or Largest Contentful Paint , is one of the three Core Web Vitals that you must “pass” to get the full search ranking boost from Google as part of their Page Experience Update. From an SEO perspective, it doesn’t really matter what other tools tell you, GSC is what Google Search sees. The issue was that LCP was too slow on mobile.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

All industries have a part to play, and that includes web design and development. Businesses that achieve BCorp status can benefit (according to the website) from “committed and motivated employees, increased customer loyalty, higher levels of innovation, and market leadership”. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

A year after the first web servers became available, how many companies had websites or were experimenting with building them? Such policies would be designed to mitigate legal problems and require regulatory compliance. How will AI adopters react when the cost of renting infrastructure from AWS, Microsoft, or Google rises?

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Real-life performance for your users and how the website “feels” when you’re using it should not be discounted, even if it costs you a point or two in Page Speed (otherwise, we would all just have a search bar and unstyled text).

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MachMetrics

JUNE 1, 2020

Mobile use surpassed desktop use years ago, but all too often websites are still being built desktop first and mobile second. If you’re unsure of how your website performs on a mobile device (or even got a poor result on a speed audit), stick with us. Nail your mobile site design. Google Devs. Definitely not ideal.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s the newest metric of the bunch and is set to formally be a ranking factor in Google search results beginning in March 2024. Rather than pushing off INP until after it starts influencing the way we measure site performance, let’s take a few minutes to level up our understanding of what it is and why it’s designed to replace FID.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. A measly front-end designer like me can be blissfully ignorant of all this mumbo-jumbo. There are self-hosted alternatives to Google Analytics, after all.

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Jos

APRIL 6, 2018

You can check Website Sameness or Web Design Trends: Why Do All Websites Look The Same? Or loading a 3rd party component like a Google Map, with all its additional assets needed to render the thing? A code coverage report, like the one Google Chrome provides won’t help us much. const latlng = new google.

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Tech News Gather

MAY 23, 2022

If you are wondering how mobile app development can strengthen your digital marketing efforts, here are a few reasons that will definitely convince you to invest in mobile app development for your digital growth. According to Google , approximately, 89% of U.S. Optimize Your App Design.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. With the latest introduction of the Core Web Vital section on GSC + upcoming Google’s core web vital update, site owners are forced to take note of their website speed and web vitals. Daniel An, Google, 2017.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Codrops Codrops features blogs with topics ranging from UI design and page animations to image formatting and general JavaScript practices. Visit website 2. Visit website 3. Visit website 4. Visit website 5. A List Apart A List Apart focuses on UX and branding from business and design-oriented perspectives.

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Jos

APRIL 5, 2018

You can check Website Sameness or Web Design Trends: Why Do All Websites Look The Same? Or loading a 3rd party component like a Google Map, with all its additional assets needed to render the thing? A code coverage report, like the one Google Chrome provides won’t help us much. for some inspiration :). Map ( this.

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Google's Search App and Facebook's various apps for Android undermine these choices in slightly different ways. [3] Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. For a browser to serve as the user's agent, it must also receive navigations. " you might ask?

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Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Cross-browser testing is a mantra to be followed by everyone developing a website. Since browsers work on different browser engines, differences will definitely be seen. This is the simplest definition of cross-browser testing. They just released their website for Google Chrome versions 80 and above.

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Rigor

JANUARY 8, 2020

Reality: While it’s true that when there’s a web performance budget in place, teams need to keep it in mind when updating code or site design, this doesn’t have to impact the speed at which these updates happen. Mark notes that Steve* first experienced performance budgets while Head Performance Engineer at Google. Addy Osmani.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

It has never been easier to build a personalized website, digitalize a product and start seeing results. Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. Large preview ).

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2 Lighthouse.

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Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

Reading Time: 8 minutes Whether your ecommerce business is 100% online or you supplement with bricks and mortar, your website is a critical revenue driver. When your website isn’t performing optimally, you risk not only your revenue but also your reputation as a trusted resource. Not all ecommerce designs are created equal.

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Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Since a SPA is by definition a full app shoved inside a single page, the CLS for a SPA would continue to grow for the lifetime of the app/page. In 2021, Google relaunched CLS with a session window. By introducing a session window, Google reduced the impact of the SPA problem.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Nobody frames it precisely this way; instead they'll say, if WebKit weren't mandated, Chromium would take over , or Google would dominate the web if not for the WebKit restriction. The New York Times reported in late 2020 that Google now pays Apple between $8-12 billion per year , up from $1 billion in 2014. And that's a choice. "WebKit

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CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 16, 2019

I’d like to say that this one AMP Story was an outlier, but each of the nine demos listed on the AMP Stories website sound just as incomprehensible in VoiceOver. And Google’s used its market dominance to force publishers to adopt the framework, going so far as to suggest that AMP’s the only format you need to publish pages on the web.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Certain tools are designed for certain metrics with certain assumptions that produce certain results. This is high-quality data from actual website visitors, for example based on Google’s Chrome User Experience (CrUX) Report. Large preview ) This is the kind of thing I would definitely expect from a paid service.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

WordPress is the most used website builder in the world; almost half of the web has used WordPress to create their website. It makes sense, because it allows you to quickly create websites and has a rich plugin’s ecosystem to help you scale your site. The Benefits Of Going Headless And When It Makes Sense.

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Website Architecture Technology Technology 142

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The intentional, responsible leadership of Blink was no accident, but to see it rewarded so definitively is gratifying. This lack of transparency is by design and provides Apple deniability while simultaneously setting low expectations, making them easier to exceed. 31st : Web Share changes Feb. 13th : Declarative Shadow DOM Feb.

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Energy Games Engineering Design 79

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. CSS is designed to not lose content, to not cause harm. Another common trigger for overflow has to do with one of the recognized mistakes in the design of CSS by the CSS Working Group. More after jump! With Carie Fisher, Stefan Baumgartner and so many others. Jump to online workshops ?.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Mike’s personal website. Designing With Code: A Modern Approach To Design. The Rise Of Design Thinking As A Problem Solving Strategy. Actually, I was just checking the Cut Into The Jamstack website today, and the accessibility score is very high. But for me, I don’t have design sense. Show Notes. Mike: Yeah.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2018

It should be useful if you are new to product design, UX, interaction or digital design, or if you have experience in these fields but have not performed a competitive analysis before. Competitive Analysis, Service Design Cycle, Five-Stages Design Process. The five-stages design process. Large preview ).

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Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

However, we cannot outline the best, but we can definitely analyze which is the best framework to choose in which situations. JavaScript Developers prefer to use Angular to develop large-scale web applications like e-commerce, Progressive Web Apps, and reservation platforms, allowing a website to perform like a smartphone app.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

While a perfect understanding of these concepts is not needed for the rest of this post, having a common high-level definition would be good. This means that it will not magically download your website resources much more quickly than TCP. Initial tests by Google , for example, show low percentage improvements for its use cases.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Nor will I talk too much about the mechanics of how CLS is calculated: Google has some good documentation on that , and Jess Peck ’s The Almost-Complete Guide to Cumulative Layout Shift is an awesome deep dive into that too. On design systems, CSS/JS and smart interface design patterns. Jump to online workshops ?.

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Media Metrics Website Google 125

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As a trend, it’s not performing well on Google; it shows little long-term growth, if any, and gets nowhere near as many searches as terms like “Observability” and “Generative Adversarial Networks.” However, growth always ends: nothing grows exponentially forever, not even Facebook and Google. Should it be?

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites written by Dan Shappir. Adding A Dyslexia-Friendly Mode To A Website written by John C Barstow. And so we can definitely dig into that in a bunch of different angles, depending on where you want to take this conversation. Chris on Twitter. The Vanilla JavaScript Podcast. Weekly Update.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly.

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