Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). 2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-22T11:06:56+00:00. Since implementing these changes, we have seen a dramatic improvement in the performance of websites built and hosted on our platform. Dan Shappir.

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High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

OpenConnect, the ability to deploy the CDN directly into the internal network of these ISPs served multiple purposes--not the least of which was to expose the fact that they were holding Netflix for ransom. So, to say that was the executive foreseeing things is a bit of revisionist history.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

2021-12-15T11:30:00+00:00. 2021-12-15T13:06:33+00:00. Fairly rapidly, text messaging (SMS, short for “Short Message Service”) was added, as it was baked into the network itself, originally as a way to send messages internally or for testing. Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt). Steven Hoober.

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Testsigma

MAY 5, 2021

seconds to form an opinion on a website — and whether they’ll use it or not. The same report also states that 57 percent of the population won’t recommend a non-responsive website. To help you pick the right tool, we’ll discuss the best multi-browser testing tools to check out in 2021 in this post. Highlights.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. In this article, we will particularly look at the average page load time in 2021 and importance of web vitals. 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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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. Your website may be using more third-party services than you realize. Ken Harker.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

2021-11-02T12:00:00+00:00. 2021-11-02T17:37:55+00:00. However, at the end of 2020, about 1% of websites included a Service Worker, and 2.2% As PWAs work in browsers, they have web pages with URLs that work just like any other website (be it launched on a desktop or mobile device). Alex Husar. What Does This Mean?

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Here begins our 2021 adventure. Hard Reset.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

2021-04-19T08:30:00+00:00. 2021-04-19T08:35:54+00:00. Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. CrUX data is available in a number of tools, including in Google Search Console for your site.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

2021-03-02T16:30:00+00:00. 2021-04-14T15:55:39+00:00. This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. State Of Mobile 2021. What’s a representative device to test on in 2021? The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters.

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Google's Search App and Facebook's various apps for Android undermine these choices in slightly different ways. [3] Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. 26 12:12 PM · Jul 15, 2021. have invested almost nothing in clarifying the situation.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

2021-07-23T11:00:00+00:00. 2021-07-23T11:50:27+00:00. That is also something that you can find when using a procurement website. Larger organizations often post their invitations to tender on procurement websites. Websites like Upwork tend to be highly competitive and price sensitive. Networking.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2 Lighthouse.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

2021-08-30T10:00:00+00:00. 2021-08-30T12:07:38+00:00. Deploying the refactored codebase shouldn’t result in worse website performance and worse user experience. After all, users won’t wait around forever for the website to load. Refactoring CSS: Optimizing Size And Performance (Part 3). Adrian Bece. Critical CSS.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

In 2016, Google made it clear that since mobile traffic is more than all else, mobile-friendly websites will be prioritised when a user searches on mobile. With the end of 2021, we are here after careful analysis of the market trend and the latest prioritised technologies that we believe will be important in the future.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. JavaScript-Heavy # Since at least 2015, building JavaScript-first websites has been a predictably terrible idea, yet most of the sites I trace on a daily basis remain mired in script. [1] What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

It has never been easier to build a personalized website, digitalize a product and start seeing results. Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

2021-07-20T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-07-20T12:06:49+00:00. WordPress is the most used website builder in the world; almost half of the web has used WordPress to create their website. It makes sense, because it allows you to quickly create websites and has a rich plugin’s ecosystem to help you scale your site.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

2021-07-06T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-07-13T02:07:04+00:00. When it comes to a Traditional CMS, the CMS and the resulting front-end website are built on a monolithic architecture. For example, if the CMS is built on Microsoft’s.NET Framework, the front-end website would also be built on the same technology. Emmanuel Tissera.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

2021-10-06T10:00:00+00:00. 2021-10-06T10:38:09+00:00. Within a fixed layout set to 100vh , the bottom part of the website content is stuck behind the browser chrome, making it inaccessible when scrolling is prevented. This is the Google Lighthouse score for how much elements shift or jump during page load.

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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. E-commerce companies investing in PWA 2021 Statista. Progressive web applications (PWA).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

2021-08-23T06:20:00+00:00. 2021-08-23T10:07:21+00:00. As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. If your average visitor is on a fast cabled or cellular network, they probably won’t benefit from the new protocols all that much. Robin Marx.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 11, 2022

Thus, the entire website development methodology benefits from the boosted speed and saves times by using these top front end frameworks. Another benefit of using a modern web framework is that a static/dynamic website can be packaged into a Portable Web Application (PWA). Ember is another contender for top frontend frameworks of 2021.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2021

2021-10-23T11:00:00+00:00. 2021-10-23T12:36:43+00:00. based cross-platform framework whose motto is : “write code once and simultaneously deploy it as a website, a mobile app and/or an Electron app”. Firebase is application development software from Google that enables us to develop iOS, Android, and web apps.

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Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2022

Websites devoting their spaces to sections especially to download their mobile apps denotes how important mobile applications are for businesses. People spent USD $170 billion through mobile applications only in 2021. Network related scenarios in mobile testing. All the research points towards the importance of a mobile app.

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O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

Lastly, I tried not to search for help on Google, Stack Overflow, or other websites, which is what I would normally be doing while programming. For a few years now Google has been transitioning developers to v3 , which I didn’t know about since I had no prior experience with Chrome extensions. using “22” for the year 2022).

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Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

The Log4Shell vulnerability in Apache Log4j’s software made big headlines in 2021, but it wasn’t alone. There’s also WordPress and Drupal, content management systems (CMSes) that power millions of websites worldwide. Attackers find and exploit vulnerabilities in proprietary software all the time.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

2021-03-25T13:00:00+00:00. 2021-03-25T18:06:03+00:00. Unquestionably, media enlivens websites, adding appeal, excitement, and intrigue, let alone enticements to stay on a page and frequently revisit it. Also, be sure to synthetically track Google’s Core Web Vitals (CWVs) as part of your toolkit with tools like LightHouse.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

2021-08-09T11:00:00+00:00. 2021-08-09T15:05:19+00:00. Websites would magically become 50% faster with the flip of a switch! It also, however, takes a full network round trip to complete before anything else can be done on a connection. and lower), this typically takes two network round trips. Robin Marx.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

2021-09-06T11:00:00+00:00. 2021-09-06T12:37:13+00:00. Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). Servers and Networks. mvfst (Facebook), MsQuic , (Microsoft), (Google), ngtcp2 , LSQUIC (Litespeed), picoquic , quicly (Fastly).

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Testsigma

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

We shall also see how decisions are made in an enterprise and why cross-browser testing is the most important thing in 2021 to sustain a healthy business. In the summer of 2019, British Airways faced a technical issue on its website. What does enterprise mean from a tester’s POV? Accessible to everyone.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

2021-08-10T05:00:00+00:00. 2021-08-10T09:07:33+00:00. When I log into our bank from a new Wi-Fi network, I have to ask him like which of these streets did you live on when you were a kid? Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

2021-11-30T14:00:00+00:00. 2021-11-30T16:05:13+00:00. Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites written by Dan Shappir. Adding A Dyslexia-Friendly Mode To A Website written by John C Barstow. Is the requirement of a build process to deploy a project a red flag in 2021? Drew McLellan. Is it all downhill from here?

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

2021-06-02T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-06-02T13:32:39+00:00. Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. From there, we incorporated it into the templates — and for once, we had a client obsessed with performance of the website as well. Jennifer Brehm.

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The technology develops single-page applications , websites, and backend API services designed with real-time and push-based architectures. Network: Node.js You can translate JavaScript code into machine code with the help of the V8 JavaScript engine of Google. based frameworks like Express, Socket.io, and Meteor.js

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. 2021-01-11T15:30:13+00:00. 2021-01-11T16:06:07+00:00. Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Vitaly Friedman. Table Of Contents.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

2021-06-02T12:30:00+00:00. 2021-06-02T13:32:39+00:00. Nor will I talk too much about the mechanics of how CLS is calculated: Google has some good documentation on that , and Jess Peck ’s The Almost-Complete Guide to Cumulative Layout Shift is an awesome deep dive into that too. How To Fix Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) Issues.

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