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. So why use lab data at all?

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. After all, when we look at our analytics, we will hardly find any customers browsing our sites or apps with a mid-range device on a flaky 3G connection. One of the famous examples is Flipkart , India’s largest e-commerce website. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. Win, win, win.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

It also includes a handy CSS reference, a web development experiment playground, tutorials, blueprints to get started from and Collective - a digital design magazine that makes it easy to keep up with trends. Visit website 2. Visit website 3. Visit website 4. Visit website 5. Visit website 6.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. The Smashing team has done a lot to make a fast website, so even a fresh load (though this experiment may not be a completely fresh load if you came to this article from the home page). Here’s an experiment for you.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Analytics is a good example. Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. Let’s look at it for a site that’s much “heavier” than Smashing Magazine. Analytics is another difficult choice.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Third-party Javascript accounts for a lot of bloat on websites, with analytics, chatbots, and embedded widgets being common contributors. I also became interested in this analysis of the COP26 website by Fershad Irani, which shows many things that could be improved to reduce the site’s (relatively large) carbon footprint.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Businesses that achieve BCorp status can benefit (according to the website) from “committed and motivated employees, increased customer loyalty, higher levels of innovation, and market leadership”. Asim talked about Performance Mode in Microsoft Edge: switching on Performance Mode means users get a faster website, while also saving resources.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

In the second stage, I weighed edX’s website against the 10 usability heuristics identified by Jacob Nielsen. SimilarWeb analytics for the edX platform ( Large preview ). Done with the analytical check, I moved on to user interviews. They are visiting various websites, looking for a course that grabs their attention.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

Adding video to your website immediately adds value, but also a new level of complexity to your web development. Does your solution include a customizable player that you can plug into your current website? Last but not least, analytics. You also want to see processing analytics on how many videos have been fully encoded.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

The Core Web Vitals are a set of three metrics designed to measure the “core” experience of whether a website feels fast or slow to the users, and so gives a good experience. In this post, I’m going to attempt to explain a bit more about what’s going on here and explain some of the nuances and misunderstandings of these tools.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

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

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

This commitment involves prioritizing websites that offer not only relevant content but also an excellent user experience. LCP is particularly vital for landing pages , which are predominantly content and often the first touch-point a visitor has with a website. We can then forward this data to a custom analytics service.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

I was working on an application that opened the provided webpage and then give the user an option to modify elements, add events, add analytics, and so on. I tried with loads of websites to see how they behave in iframe. Now the Selenium WebDriver is being used as it provides support for the mobile experience and dynamic websites.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

It always starts with the long-awaited website overhaul. 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. You, dear readers, seem to visit a number of articles on Smashing Magazine. Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study). Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study). ESLint ,” official website. TypeScript , official website. At the time of writing, Vercel Analytics only works on production deployments. Jonne Kats.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

Unquestionably, media enlivens websites, adding appeal, excitement, and intrigue, let alone enticements to stay on a page and frequently revisit it. Even though rich media can promote user engagement, we need to balance the cost of delivering them with your website performance and business goals. Akshay Ranganath. Wrapping Up.

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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

AUGUST 17, 2018

These are not to be confused with micro-interactions, which are miniscule engagements websites have with visitors when they "touch" key points of the interface. When a visitor arrives at a mobile website (or app), they’ve come with a clear motivation: “I want to know.”. “I An example of Google Analytics’ visitor behavior breakdowns.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Physics and the limits of human perception - Why goalkeepers have trouble stopping long-range shots - Seed Magazine. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. My most interesting picture this week : A green, purple, yellow & orange Steinway. Arts & Society.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? In most companies, that means looking into analytics and creating user profiles based on most common device types.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? To get accurate results and goals though, first study your analytics to see what your users are on. Image source ).

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

The biggest distinction is that a website can’t be built with a headless CMS on its own. Wordpress relies heavily on plugins and themes which may contain malicious codes or bugs and slow the speed of the website or blog. A CMS that gives complete freedom to build a website or a branded blog with full SEO and supports any tech stack.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

I wanted to simulate a slow connection like those experienced by users in Uzbekistan, to see what kind of experience websites would give me. I installed ModHeader and set the ‘Save-Data’ header to let websites know I want to minimise my data usage. Notice the async keyword on the Google analytics script? Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

It’s an admin page that has an overview of all user activity, accounts, and analytics (admin page). Like any file referenced and used on a website, it first needs to be downloaded from a server. Website performance is not consistent across devices. A single private page. It can be accessed by logging in (dashboard page).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

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). The pages can be crawled, indexed, and ranked, as it happens with regular websites.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2019

Using a component-based API makes most sense when the website is itself built using components, i.e. when the webpage is iteratively composed of components wrapping other components until, at the very top, we obtain a single component that represents the page. I have deployed the PoP API under [link] for demonstration purposes.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

A mistake could be made when you work with several projects/websites. By the way, their website states that: “On average 51% of emails never reach the inbox! It provides inbox placement, reputation check, DMARC analytics, bounce analytics, automatic tests, monitoring and alerts, and template editor. So where do they go?

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

CSS is a simple stylesheet language for defining a website or document’s presentation. This CSS is usually render-blocking , so the browser won’t even render the website content until it has finished downloading and parsing the CSS file, resulting in a poor UX and performance on slower or unreliable networks. Adrian Bece.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2021

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”. Let’s also disable Google Analytics because ours is a mini-app. The deployed app is available for viewing , and the final code is on Github. What Is Quasar Framework? Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Web has over 4 billion internet users and is nearing 2 billion websites. One example of this might be Fathom: it’s third-party analytics, but they have openly published the method they use to ensure user privacy. This might feel like a lot to fix at once, but not to worry: we can all make the Web better one website at a time.

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