Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. Research shows that users will abandon sites that take longer than three seconds to load. The main goal of SSR is to give the user a static HTML with the prerequisite data. But isn’t waiting for the data the point?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 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. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Last year, Google started emphasizing the importance of Core Web Vitals and how they reflect a person’s real experience when visiting sites around the web. Our fast computers and fiber internet masked the experience real people have on our site. generally works by transforming React components into static HTML and CSS.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

What formats should the video be in for the best browser support? It features a number of advantages to just using a static video in the <video> tag. The first step occurs on video upload when the streaming service generates a number of copies of the video in different bitrates. Do Browsers Not Support HLS?

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

Specifically the ratio of websites built using each of these frameworks that have good (green) scores for all three CWV metrics out of the total sites built using them. I’ll inspect the impact of Server-Side Rendering (SSR) and also Static Site Generation (SSG) as page generation/delivery options in more detail later on in this article.

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KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

This plugin was initially released as a lightweight caching plugin that was able to speed up WordPress websites by generating static HTML files that could then be minified and even converted for WebP support. The development was led by KeyCDN and had the helpful support of community feedback and contributions.

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KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

As we can see from the graph below, this best practice is far from being met for sites based in the United States. The constant growth in web page size is likely a contributing factor to why static sites have been increasing in popularity as of late. A site which loads in 2.6 Take the example below for instance.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The carbon emissions of the internet are roughly equivalent to those generated by the entire aviation industry, or the whole of Africa. Making performance improvements to a client’s site could result in happier clients who send more business our way. Do you really need Google Analytics on every site you build? Regulation.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

These tend to be static websites with a few pages giving core information about the business and details on products and services offered. To convert potential interest in your products and services into actual sales, a business needs to foster relationships with their customers on and off their sites.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Unfortunately, using wildcards isn’t perfect there are a couple of drawbacks: No More Static-Site Generation (and ISR). Unfortunately, there aren’t any special systems to provide custom statically generated pages for different wildcard subdomains like you may with dynamic routing for example (where you have [slug].js

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 15, 2020

But yeah, it’s true that even a Jamstack site can suffer hits to performance just like any other site. Let’s see if we can spot some of the poor decisions that can lead to a “slow” Jamstack site. To do that, we’re going to build a really slow Gatsby site. To do that, we’re going to build a really slow Gatsby site.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 27, 2021

is to statically render assets whenever possible, so it doesn’t make so much sense to write JS that needs to be run in the browser to generate CSS. support doing so with no additional setup; it also yields results that are performant and static. CSS setup will be storing all site-wide values as design tokens.

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CSS Wizardry

JULY 21, 2018

If you never need to touch the help and support section, there’s no point going out of your way to research it. This is general good advice with any tech debt or refactoring problem: don’t increase your (cognitive) workload unnecessarily. Parker is a wonderful static analysis tool from my buddy Katie. important s, etc.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

We’ll be breaking it all down into two parts: deploying a static web application (in this case a Notes application), and then a serverless web application to CloudFront using the Serverless UI library. Serverless UI also works great with any static website, and websites that use serverless functions to handle requests to some sort of API.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

Some of you might know that we are running on JAMStack , with all articles and pages stored as Markdown files, Sass files compiled into CSS, JavaScript split into chunks with Webpack and Hugo building out static pages that we then serve directly from an Edge CDN. We had to explore it in more detail.

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KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

We will also discuss how you can speed up your slow WordPress site. However, a site loading within two seconds is also acceptable. KeyCDN's speed test tool allows you to test your site's speed from multiple locations. WebP conversion is supported with a paid license. Why is WordPress slow?

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

However, not all browsers support IndexedDB , so the first thing you want to do is check if the user’s browser supports it. indexedDB' in window)) { console.log('This browser doesn't support IndexedDB'); return; }. Here’s an example from Jeff Posnick on caching static HTML using service workers.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Sometimes it’s easy enough to find the answer to that question and the site just needs to invest in performance. Sometimes though, it’s a little trickier and, despite thinking your site was great on the performance for some reason it still fails. It is intended to measure what the site visitor likely came here to see.

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Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

And why would having language support benefit us even more for writing preconditions more than for the other two? A precondition is a “call site prerequisite on the inputs”: a condition that must be true at each call site before the caller can invoke this function. What is that?

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CSS - Tricks

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Clicking the “Generate report” button will run a series of tests on the web page and display the results right there in the Lighthouse tab. It is a suite of tools that help you identify the impact of specific code changes on you site not just performance-wise, but in terms of SEO, accessibility, offline support, and other best practices.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

First Input Delay (FID) measures any delays in interactions and seems not to be a problem for most sites. your JavaScript and is usually site-specific. But there are of course exceptions and those sites need to consider how to react to this. Optimizing that is usually a matter of cleaning up (or reducing!)

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Below you’ll find a (hopefully unbiased and objective) front-end performance checklist for 2020 — an updated overview of the issues you might need to consider to ensure that your response times are fast, user interaction is smooth and your sites don’t drain user’s bandwidth. Table Of Contents. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

If you have a largely static site you can rely on the enormous power of S3 to make serving your content highly scalable and storing it extremely durable. And it is not just purely static websites. Cactus is a static website generator developed by Koen Bok of Made By Sofa (recently acquired by Facebook ).

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Root Domain Support for Amazon S3 Website Hosting. I have been a big fan of the Amazon S3 Static Website Hosting feature since its launch and this blog happily is being served from it. Until the launch today of S3 Website Root Domain support you could not host your website at the root domain, but only at a subdomain.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Below you’ll find a (hopefully unbiased and objective) front-end performance checklist for 2019 — an updated overview of the issues you might need to consider to ensure that your response times are fast, user interaction is smooth and your sites don’t drain user’s bandwidth. Table Of Contents. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics.

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Alex Podelko

AUGUST 15, 2017

In my experience it is a major factor – and a weak spot of most open source products (some of which don’t support it at all). Many technologies generate so sophisticated HTTP queries that recording is a must. What I’m looking for primarily is functionality that supports load test automation. Regards, Alex.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

All that junk is actually a really useful security feature called Subresource Integrity (SRI) that can help to defend your site against certain types of hacks and compromises. They’d take the hit for the first site to use the file, but then it would sit in their local browser cache and downloads could be skipped for each subsequent site.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

If using 11ty for your static sites, try the 11ty high-performance blog template. Generated using Layout Shift GIF Generator. Serving overly high DPR images is a common problem for sites leveraging <img srcset> and a suite of image sizes. We’ll cover this later. You may have heard of Core Web Vitals (CWV).

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

A headless CMS doesn’t have the features that let you build your site — it doesn’t have site themes or templates. To use a headless CMS, you have to build a site or app, or other experience first, then use the CMS’s API to plug your content into it. This tool saves you money and the time for site development time.

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MachMetrics

JULY 15, 2020

Obviously the number of roundtrips needed will have a large impact on how quickly your site loads. Perform an Audit of Your Site. We highly recommend continuous monitoring of your site, however, which you can do with our service – MachMetrics. You can check for HTTP/2 support here. Did your test reveal some issues?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Another thing we have to consider when talking about modern image formats is browser support. Although WebP is widely supported and has been a staple for some time now, my team decided to provide an optimized fallback JPG just in case. There’s a long-running ticket to add support , and I’m holding hope we get it.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

The world’s first website was made from static HTML files created in a text editor. Yet, for all these technological developments, it’s interesting that many of us are still serving sites in the same way Tim did with the very first website — a web server serving static website files. Mike Neumegen. released 1998.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

All static assets output directly to CDN. ? We support two different MySQL DBaaS plans ( compare MySQL plans ): Dedicated MySQL Cluster - hosted through your ScaleGrid account. Leave your comments: [link]. now/wordpress summary: ? ? size = 13mb. ? Just needs `wp-config.php`. ? Powered by `php-fpm` (soon as a Lambda layer directly). ?

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Because my blog is almost completely static content I wanted to run in this very simple configuration since the launch of Amazon S3. been running at a traditional hosting site for many years until this preferred simple solution became available: today marks that day and I couldnt be happier about it. Spot Instances - Increased Control.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 18, 2020

The Keychain and KeyStore are very different in nature, though: Keychain is a generic credentials storage solution, whereas the KeyStore is used to store (and can generate) cryptographic keys , either symmetric keys or public/private keys. It’s called Cross-Site Request Forgery and you don’t want that. TargetPlatform.iOS.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

They’ve been around for a long time and they’re a previous generation of framework, it would seem. Mike: I actually tweeted the creator of Chakra UI, Seg, saying they should put a gallery on the site because it’s really great. I don’t know if Chakra UI has any tells that make it obvious that you’re using a Chakra UI for your site.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

But you can see how this will quickly get unwieldy, we would need to support more and more properties to handle various use cases and edge cases for maximum flexibility. JSX does support inline functions and it can be really useful for declaring simple logic with variables inline, as long as it returns a JSX Element. “.

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