Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

No, this was a change in strategy. A 2017 attempt to revive it was shot down in 2018 by Apple engineers without evidence or data. Google's security teams audited the colossal volume of user-generated content Google hosts for problems and did not find significant concerns. This was all considered at length.

Energy 79

Energy Games Engineering Design 79

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

A 2017 study by Akamai says as much when it found that even a 100ms delay in page load can decrease conversions by 7% and lose 1% of their sales for every 100ms it takes for their site to load which, at the time of the study, was equivalent to $1.6 Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Lighthouse.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

After the latest redesign in late 2017, it was Ilya Pukhalski on the JavaScript side of things (part-time), Michael Riethmueller on the CSS side of things (a few hours a week), and yours truly, playing mind games with critical CSS and trying to juggle a few too many things. The performance distribution for Largest Contentful Paint in 2020.

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Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Alex Russell

DECEMBER 31, 2023

In through eagle-eyed press coverage, regulatory reports, and legal discovery the shady dealings of Apple and Google's app stores are now comprehensively documented. It has gone largely unreported that Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), have been held back by Apple and Google denying competing browsers access to essential APIs. [2]

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Google Mobile Games Strategy 93

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Google Homepage — DOM. This isn’t useless JavaScript; Google has to have some in order to display suggestions as you type. For comparison, I disabled JavaScript and reloaded the page: The disabled JS version of Google search was only 102 KB and had just 5 network requests. Google Dev Docs. 402 KB transferred, 1.1

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Cache Google Mobile Network 97

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

It might be tempting to get into quick "low-hanging-fruits"-optimizations early on — and eventually it might be a good strategy for quick wins — but it will be very hard to keep performance a priority without planning and setting realistic, company-tailored performance goals. when web fonts aren’t loaded yet). Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

One available proxy is the distribution of use from Google's hosted JS libraries. As a strategy to improve performance for users, significant questions remain unanswered. The idea was floated in 2017 , aired in concrete form for more than a year , and our friends at Mozilla spoke warmly of it. WebKit even implemented the change.

Cache 82

Cache Government Traffic Network 82

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

— Alex Russell (@slightlylate) October 4, 2017. This rework delays launch which, in turn, delays gathering data about the viability of a PWA strategy. Our metrics at Google show a conflicted picture (which I’m working to get to clarity on). Maybe "ambush by JS"? 75% of of connections occur on either 2G or 3G.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

You’ll find psychology heuristics just like tips for building a winning UX strategy , dive deep into user research and UX writing , and explore real-world examples — good and bad — from which you can learn to create experiences that truly matter. How To Build A Winning UX Strategy. Yet how exactly do we get there?

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Airlines Mobile Design Strategy 130