Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Back in October of 2019, “Perl 6” was renamed to “Raku”. If you’re already familiar with the HTMHell website, then you can guess how interesting its advent calendar is going to get! Good ol’ PerfPlanet is back for another season with all things speed and web performance. Accessible websites are simply better websites.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. By running basic optimizations of our videos before adding them to our websites, we can prevent these issues from occurring for good — well, most of them. There is a solution though!

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2019

According to StatCounter , as of September 2019, Google Chrome holds 63.72% browser market share across the globe. The Chrome DevTools can greatly improve your workflow by helping you develop, test, and debug your websites right within your browser. They provide developers deeper access into their web applications and the browser.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. We normally focus solely on the performance aspect, but today we want to dive into additional ways you can optimize images for the web. KB (30%) without losses.

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Speed Curve

AUGUST 8, 2017

Because the average page is now 3MB in size, and this seems like a good time to pause, check our assumptions, and ask ourselves: Is there any reason to care about page size as a performance metric? They don't represent the "typical" website, because there's no such thing as a typical website. Prediction: 4MB pages by 2019?

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Quantum supremacy itself is a simple concept: it means performing a computation that could not be performed on a classical computer. Google performed a computation in a few minutes (3 minutes, 20 seconds to be precise ) that would have taken more than 10,000 years on the most powerful computers we currently have. Mike Loukides.

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CSS - Tricks

JANUARY 31, 2020

This was was both necessary and overdue, as HTTP/1 rendered web performance as an arcane sort of discipline in the form of strange workarounds of its limitations. If we look at the 90 th percentile of that same dataset — because it’s really the long tail of performance we need to optimize for — we see an increase of 239%.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Past swings away from OS default browsers have hinged on the superior features , better performance , improved security , and adequate site compatibility that come from switching. Without the ability to differentiate on features, security, performance, and privacy, what's to sell? What are those mechanisms? A slightly different UI ?

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. 2019-06-26T14:00:59+02:00. 2019-06-26T14:06:48+00:00. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. Suzanne Scacca. She was torn though.

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CSS - Tricks

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

People say JAMstack sites are fast — let’s find out why by looking at real performance metrics! The FCP distribution for the 10th, 50th and 90th percentile values as reported on August 1, 2019. TTI distribution for the 10th, 50th and 90th percentile values as reported on August 1, 2019. First Contentful Paint ( FCP ).

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CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google do strongly encourage you to focus on site speed for better performance in Search, but, if you don’t pass all relevant Core Web Vitals (and the applicable factors from the Page Experience report) they will not push you down the rankings. While Core Web Vitals can help with SEO, there’s so much more to site-speed than that.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Speed Up Your Website With WebP. 2019-10-29T12:30:59+02:00. 2019-10-29T13:36:09+00:00. Spend enough time running websites through PageSpeed Insights and you’ll notice that Google has a major beef with traditional image formats like JPG, PNG and even GIF. That’s okay.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

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. Importance of page loading speed – Google checks your website load time and they like it as fast with a better user experience.

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. It allows you to quickly audit a website in a number of key areas which together can form a measure of its overall quality.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. Before delving into details about code-splitting, let’s quickly remind ourselves what makes JavaScript so impactful on overall performance. Performance Costs. Adrian Bece. 2022-02-02T10:30:00+00:00.

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KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

Well, that is probably true, as long as they don’t slow down your website to the point where you are losing visitors. When it comes to optimizing your website, images are generally the most important asset you should spend time on figuring out how to reduce in size and deliver in a more efficient way. You guessed it, images.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

2019-07-29T14:00:59+02:00. 2019-07-29T13:06:57+00:00. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. Perhaps surprisingly, users experience faster speeds over a mobile network than WiFi in at least 30 countries worldwide, including Australia and France. Chris Ashton. per GB respectively.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

2019-05-06T13:30:59+02:00. 2019-05-06T11:34:08+00:00. Lazy loading is a way to improve the performance of a website or web application by maximizing the rendering speed of the above-the-fold images and iframes (and sometimes videos) by deferring the loading of below-the-fold content. Andrea Verlicchi.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2019

Handling Unused CSS In SASS To Improve Performance. Handling Unused CSS In SASS To Improve Performance. 2019-08-09T12:30:59+02:00. 2019-08-09T12:36:17+00:00. In this article, we’ll start by exploring the impact unused CSS can have on page load speeds. Luke Harrison. Measuring The Impact Of Unused CSS Classes.

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Testsigma

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In the summer of 2019, British Airways faced a technical issue on its website. This is the impact of a small website issue on an enterprise and reminds us that even the slightest mistake is unaffordable. When the world was locked down inside their homes, the only thing that connected people with an enterprise is their website.

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Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

I'm only aware of a few such instances: Apple's 2019 response to the U.S. Nefarious websites have analysed other web browser engines and found flaws that have not been disclosed, and exploit those flaws when a user goes to a particular website to silently violate user privacy or security.

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Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

2019-04-09T12:30:59+02:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. Way back in the days when JavaScript was very much the poorer cousin to HTML and CSS, we didn’t need to think too much about how our scripts could be used as an attack vector for our websites. file hosted as part of their own website on their own server. Drew McLellan.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Quick Summary:- Upgrading your website as per the current trend in the web development industry is crucial to get an edge over your competitors in the digital world. Let’s dive deep into the top website development trends to expect in 2022. Web development is evolving at a rapid speed with each passing year.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. In recent years, the industry thankfully started paying more attention to performance. As a result, website performance can suffer. Recommended reading : How To Use Heatmaps To Track Clicks On Your WordPress Website. Improving performance with the decoupled JSON approach.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2019

2019-10-22T12:30:59+02:00. 2019-10-22T13:06:35+00:00. You know how critical it is to build websites that load quickly. Google takes many factors into account when ranking a website and visitors take maybe a handful of factors into account when deciding to explore a site. At the intersection of the two is website speed.

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This post complements the previous best practice guides this time with the focus on MySQL and MariaDB and achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB MySQL TPC-C test. As is exactly the same with PostgreSQL for system choice a 2 socket system is optimal for MySQL OLTP performance. hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 3.80

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Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

Past trepidation — about perceived vulnerabilities and performance issues — has faded as decision makers realize what an “open source database” really is and what it offers. StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 11, 2019

2019-07-11T12:30:59+02:00. 2019-07-11T11:39:07+00:00. This over-confidence didn’t last long though, because when I arrived, I found myself surrounded by conceptual artists, filmmakers, painters, performance artists, printmakers, and sculptors, who all seemed much more talented than I was. Andy Clarke May 2019.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 22, 2021

In 2019, the worldwide sales of mobile devices were 1524 million units. While performing the mobile app testing, we need to take care of specific challenges for each of them. For native applications, you can skip installing emulators as they do not give you the precise performance of the application. Large Browser Matrix.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 2). Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 2). Therefore, how well does it perform when compared to other typefaces that are considered to be historically well done or have been revived well? Thomas Bohm. 2022-06-10T08:00:00+00:00. 2022-06-10T12:33:17+00:00.

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

However, choice mainly depends on numerous factors like project timeline, framework performance, learning curve, and team size. Performance. Vue vs React: Performance. Two primary metrics verify the speed of an app: start-up time and runtime performance. Both Vue and React libraries have excellent performance.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2019

2019-01-21T13:00:21+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. This article was updated on January 31, 2019 to react to readers’ feedback. Componentizing a site then is a very sensible way to make the website become more maintainable. Introducing The Component-Based API. Introducing The Component-Based API. Leonardo Losoviz.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. Every web performance story is similar, isn’t it? It always starts with the long-awaited website overhaul. While performance has been our goal for almost a decade now , we never really had a dedicated performance team.

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KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

However, in 2019, the expectation for a good user experience is now higher than ever. Customer want to know they can trust the website they are buying from, they want to access the website fast, and they want a great offer. In 2019, all eCommerce operators need to ensure that their images are high-quality and optimized.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

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? Back in the day, performance was often a mere afterthought.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 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. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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