Smashing Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

Resource hints are a feature supported by modern browsers which can boost website performance. We can optimize that by combining them into a single request like this: <link href="[link] rel="stylesheet"> There is no limit to how many fonts and variants a single request can hold. Resource Hints.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

As websites become heavier and more complex , the task of maintaining performance becomes ever more challenging. Measuring website performance used to be challenging and required specific expertise. And that in order to achieve this strategy implementing a culture of performance throughout the organization is a must.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

However, developers with a deep understanding of the project may want to improve performance beyond that by doing some fine-tuning under the hood. It’s common knowledge that better website performance results in more conversions, more traffic, and better user experience.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

In particular, the increase in the amount of downloaded JavaScript can have a direct impact on website performance. And there are other aspects of framework usage that can impact performance as well.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

As a result, website performance can suffer. Recommended reading : How To Use Heatmaps To Track Clicks On Your WordPress Website. If long website response times keep you up at night, this is a how-to for you. Everyone knows that if a website is slow, users will abandon it.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 (PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word). How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. (dm, Further Reading on SmashingMag: Now You See Me: How To Defer, Lazy-Load And Act With IntersectionObserver. Lazy Loading JavaScript Modules With ConditionerJS.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Luckily, there are many great options that help you automate the collection of data and measure how your website performs over time according to these metrics. Your decision will depend on what you are after: with WebP, you’ll reduce the payload, and with JPEG you’ll improve perceived performance. Image source ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Luckily, there are many great options that help you automate the collection of data and measure how your website performs over time according to these metrics. Your decision will depend on what you are after: with WebP, you’ll reduce the payload, and with JPEG you’ll improve perceived performance. Image source ).

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

For those that want to delve into CrUX even more, there are monthly tables of CrUX data available in BigQuery (at origin level only, so not for individual URLs) and Rick has also documented how you can create a CrUX dashboard based on that which can be a good way of monitoring your overall website performance over the months.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Regardless of how much the CSS codebase has been improved during the refactoring process and how much more maintainable and extendable it is, the final stylesheet needs to be optimized for the best possible performance and least possible file size. After all, users won’t wait around forever for the website to load.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Luckily, there are many great options that help you automate the collection of data and measure how your website performs over time according to these metrics. On Smashing Magazine, we could measure 19-32% improvement , too. Facebook has introduced 2G Tuesdays to increase visibility and sensitivity of slow connections.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Recommended reading : How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. We can’t, for example, choose the devices that our users access our pages from or decide on the network infrastructure that their requests travel through, but we can take steps to improve our websites’ performance. More after jump!

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