Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

Approximately two-thirds of Indian mobile Chrome users of Smashing Magazine have this setting turned on, for example. Weirdly, they report as a range of browsers in our analytics including the Android WebView, Chrome and Safari (despite it’s not supporting this!). And Is It Used? Data Saver. In short, this is not a niche setting.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Barry Pollard, a web performance developer advocate for Chrome, wrote an excellent primer on the CrUX Report for Smashing Magazine. This data is distinct from CrUX because it’s collected directly by the website owner by installing an analytics snippet on their website.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

A big JavaScript bundle might seem out of place on a magazine that merely publishes articles, but actually, there is plenty of scripting happening behind the scenes. Plus a service worker that caches all static assets and serves them for repeat views, along with cached versions of articles that a reader has already visited.

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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. Study common complaints coming into customer service and sales team, study analytics for high bounce rates and conversion drops.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Study common complaints coming into customer service and sales team, study analytics for high bounce rates and conversion drops. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Yet often, analytics alone doesn’t provide a complete picture.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

MB , that suggests I’ve got around 29 pages in my budget, although probably a few more than that if I’m able to stay on the same sites and leverage browser caching. There’s a trade-off to be made here, as external stylesheets can be cached but inline ones cannot (unless you get clever with JavaScript ). Let’s talk about caching.

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