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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. Jack Lenox.

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Optimizing Google Fonts Performance

Smashing Magazine

Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. 2019-06-20T11:00:16+02:00. 2019-06-20T10:35:07+00:00. If I change my user-agent to Internet Explorer 11, I’m served the font in the WOFF format instead. In 2019 Google, announced they would add support for font-display: swap.

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Hybrid Lazy Loading: A Progressive Migration To Native Lazy Loading

Smashing Magazine

2019-05-06T13:30:59+02:00. 2019-05-06T11:34:08+00:00. Please note that vanilla-lazyload uses the IntersectionObserver API under the hood, so you would need to polyfill it on Internet Explorer and less recent versions of Safari. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 (PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word). Andrea Verlicchi.

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Average Page Load Time in 2021

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Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. High-performing fast sites attract and preserve users better than low-performing ones. Quote : “40% of people abandon a website that takes more than 3 seconds to load” Neil Patel, Internet Marketing expert.

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Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting

Smashing Magazine

Like any file referenced and used on a website, it first needs to be downloaded from a server. Users can browse the Internet using slow and unreliable networks, so minification, optimization, and code-splitting of JavaScript files ensure that the user downloads the smallest file possible. import("path/to/myFunction.js").then((myFunction)

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Build a Node.js Tool to Record and Compare Google Lighthouse Reports

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For example, this means, it’s much easier to share the win with Heather from marketing after spending time improving website accessibility as she’s more able to appreciate the effort after seeing the Lighthouse accessibility score go up 50 points into the green. Create a new function that accepts a URL as a parameter.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. 2019-01-07T12:00:13+00:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? Vitaly Friedman. Image source ). Browser support?