Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

From AVIF to WebP: A New Smashing Book By Addy Osmani. From AVIF to WebP: A New Smashing Book By Addy Osmani. Images have been a key part of the web for decades. We interpret images much faster than text, which is why high-quality visuals drive conversions and user engagement. Get the book right away.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Meet Image Optimization, A New Smashing Book By Addy Osmani. Meet Image Optimization, A New Smashing Book By Addy Osmani. Images have been a key part of the web for decades. Our brains interpret images much faster than text, which is why high-quality visuals drive conversions and user engagement.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Given how central it is to image optimization on the web, let’s catch up on what it can do and how it can help improve user experience and the Core Web Vitals. I’ll be covering image optimization in more depth in Smashing Magazine’s new book on Image Optimization. Large preview ).

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It’s a question that comes up repeatedly, and that is very much in the current mind, with events like the strikes by the Writers’ Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild , in which the use of AI to create scripts and to generate images of actors was an issue. Follow the link to see images of Blake’s work.)

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Is it expensive JavaScript, slow web font delivery, heavy images, or sluggish rendering? Have we optimized enough with tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, progressive hydration, clients hints, HTTP/3, service workers and — oh my — edge workers?

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 13, 2020

Although we don’t yet have the same control over typography on the web as we do in print, new file formats, font delivery services, and web fonts have meant far more typographic flexibility than we had ten years ago. At the start of any new project, Lubalin began by sketching arrangements of headlines, copy, and images onto tissue paper.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it expensive JavaScript, slow web font delivery, heavy images, or sluggish rendering? Often deferred till the very end of the project, it would boil down to minification, concatenation, asset optimization and potentially a few fine adjustments on the server’s config file. Assets Optimizations. Build Optimizations.

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