Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch. Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch. One of the reasons for that is because a PWA has the same code base. So unlike the case with native applications, the progressive web app needs to be coded only once. Alex Husar.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In this article, we’ll answer some of the most frequently asked questions about the Log4Shell vulnerability, and continue to add on as new questions come up. The vulnerability enables an attacker to gain control over a string and trick the application into requesting and executing malicious code under the attacker’s control.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

For more information about defining critical paths, see the article Understanding your application’s critical path. According to Google’s SRE handbook , best practices, there are “ Four Golden Signals ” we can convert into four SLOs for services: reliability, latency, availability, and saturation. Availability.

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Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

Apart from library code, maybe your application doesn't have frame pointers either, in which case everything is broken. This technique saves two instructions in the prologue and epilogue and makes one additional general-purpose register (%rbp) available." Google should be no surprise because they pioneered continuous profiling.)

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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. I’m hopeful this can serve as a good introduction for any developer interested in learning about how to work with Google Lighthouse programmatically.

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O'Reilly

JUNE 13, 2023

After fixing some obvious errors, I ran the program–and while it told me (correctly) that my number was non-prime, when compared to a known good implementation of Miller-Rabin, ChatGPT’s code made many mistakes. When it became available, GPT-4 gave me similar results. And the result itself–well, that could have been a good guess.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

This article will explore hybrid cloud benefits and steps to craft a plan that aligns with your unique business challenges. Infrastructure-as-Code, Containers, and Security Posture Management Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) greatly enhances automation in provisioning and managing hybrid clouds.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. But not everything about performance happens directly at the code level, right?

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CSS Wizardry

MARCH 28, 2022

The important thing to note here is that Google doesn’t care how you get to LCP, as long as you get there fast. Google doesn’t (currently) care about your TTFB, but a good TTFB is going to help get closer to a good LCP. For the purposes of this article, I built a series of reduced demos showing how each of the LCP types behave.

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Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

We’re equally convinced on both counts, but in this blog article, we’re focusing on why MongoDB is not open source. Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. We agree with the OSI’s determination that any software under the SSPL cannot be open source.

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CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Historically, I’d maybe look at Google Analytics—or a RUM solution if the client had one already—but this is only useful for showing me particular outliers, and not necessarily any patterns across the whole project. In a separate sheet—available at the same link as before —I’ve simply graphed the data by page type. See entry 6.

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

Due to their popularity, a wide array of frontend frameworks are available, and new ones emerge on a regular basis. If you're a beginner, a more robust framework like Bootstrap may be in order, as it comes prepackaged with many useful widgets and requires minimal coding skills. was developed as an alternative to Angular and React.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Here’s another article about reducing JavaScript dependencies and the bundle size sent to the client. This article is about a couple of things that Bookaway faced and we (as a company in the traveling industry) managed to optimize our pages, so that the HTML we send is smaller. Both for Google bots (SEO) and to actual clients.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

Ironically, at the moment of publishing that article in late February, we still had floating labels used in most of our forms, and we wanted to explore if removing them would actually help us improve the overall experience on the site. On February 19th, most of our articles landed in the red zone. Floating Labels Are Gone.

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O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

GPT-3 is essentially an auto-complete bot whose underlying Machine Learning (ML) model has been trained on vast quantities of text available on the Internet. Indeed, Google recently announced LaMDA , a model at GPT-3 scale that is designed to participate in conversations. Figure 1: Click-bait article titles generated by GPT-3.

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Dean Hume

MAY 16, 2018

Have you ever been on a website and noticed a popup notification that suggests that there is a new version of the site available? I recently visited Google’s Inbox and noticed a notification a little like the image below. This article is a bit of a lengthy beast, so strap in tight and get comfy! service-worker.js.

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Dean Hume

MAY 16, 2018

Have you ever been on a website and noticed a popup notification that suggests that there is a new version of the site available? I recently visited Google’s Inbox and noticed a notification a little like the image below. This article is a bit of a lengthy beast, so strap in tight and get comfy! service-worker.js.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

In my last article , I suggested using the SaveData API to deliver a different, more performant, experience to users that expressed that desire. In this article, I want to spend a bit more time on this, and also look at other signals we can similarly use to help us make decisions on what to load on our websites. Barry Pollard.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Preparing For Interaction To Next Paint, A New Web Core Vital Preparing For Interaction To Next Paint, A New Web Core Vital Geoff Graham 2023-12-07T21:00:00+00:00 2023-12-08T00:07:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear There’s a change coming to the Core Web Vitals lineup. That’s what this article is all about.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Have we optimized enough with tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, progressive hydration, clients hints, HTTP/3, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? You can download the spreadsheet as Google Sheets, Excel, OpenOffice document or CSV.

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Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Procedural language debugger helps you to debug your code. It has one of the best editors – multiple data views are available to support a variety of user needs. You can easily create and edit SQL statements with its visual SQL builder, and the powerful code auto-completion saves you a lot of time and helps you avoid mistakes.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Kubernetes Dashboard as a part of a comprehensive monitoring solution This article introduces the key building blocks to consider when designing your Kubernetes monitoring solution. metrics, traces, and logs) to gain a better understanding of the behavior of their code during runtime. The Kubernetes experience.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. It measures the web performance of a single page using Google PageSpeed Insights. You can export the results as a CSV file for Excel, Google Sheets or Apple Pages. They are granular and available at domain and page levels.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

In this article, we will explain the multi-cloud challenges and explain how using multiple cloud services can make your business more adaptable, ensure that your operations continue without interruption, and help you control your spending.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

You’ll also find example code or references to more specific guides so you can implement these tips to your PWA. The following qualities are considered great additions to the basic PWA by Google developers. Here’s an example from Google developers of opening a database, adding an object store, and adding an item to this store.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

without any need to code. This article focuses on various approaches to modify headers in a Selenium automation setup. You author your code in the same way as you do with Selenium, but you get extra APIs for inspecting requests and responses and making changes to them on the fly. . # This is only available as a Python module.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. In this article, I’ll highlight some of the work we did and how we were able to achieve our speed. For this article, we will focus on the first three and the performance adjustments for these. Jennifer Brehm.

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KeyCDN

MARCH 22, 2023

This article contains some practical tips to eliminate malwares from which attackers take advantage. Suppose Google can detect any kind of malware on your website. However, it is even better to install a plugin as it can dig deep into the roots of your website code and fish out the vulnerabilities or malware that are hard to detect.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

A number of sites moved to font-display: swap when this first came out, and Google Fonts even made it the default in 2019. If the web font isn’t available then, we fall back to the fallback font, but the next page navigation (or a reload of this page) will use the font — as it should have finished downloading now.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

If you are just starting out wondering if someone might be re-publishing your web content, the easiest thing to do is a Google search. Copy a ten or twelve-word sentence from a page of interest on your site into the Google search bar, put it inside double-quotes, and click on Search. How To Track Suspicious Activity. Large preview ).

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

In this article, we will particularly look at the average page load time in 2021 and importance of web vitals. With the latest introduction of the Core Web Vital section on GSC + upcoming Google’s core web vital update, site owners are forced to take note of their website speed and web vitals. Daniel An, Google, 2017.

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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. The code for the site is available on GitHub for reference.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 11, 2022

With a myriad of options available out there, we have compiled a list of top frontend frameworks out there to help you out. These front end frameworks provide various templates to interact with browser components and are compatible with various libraries which boost the performance while reducing the amount of code required.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Geoff Graham 2023-08-10T08:00:00+00:00 2023-08-10T12:35:05+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear There is no shortage of ways to measure the speed of a webpage. See the “Prettify Code” option? ?( Lighthouse results.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

And suddenly, before you know it, the code base gets a little bit overweight and fragmented , third-party scripts have to load just a little bit earlier, and shiny new dynamic content finds its way into the DOM through the backdoors of fourth-party scripts and their uninvited guests. We had to fix that. That’s Where We Were.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Most of you have probably seen the following Google PageSpeed Insights optimization suggestion at one point or another when running a speed test: By compressing and adjusting the size of … you can save 14.2 The PHP library for the API is available on GitHub. Search engines, such as Google, sees hyphens as a separator.

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Dean Hume

JULY 30, 2018

In this article, we are going to be building a demo example that inspects each HTTP request to determine if the current user has a connection speed that is slower than 3G. To give you a flavour for the information returned in this API, let’s open up any web page in Google Chrome and head over to the Console tab. The basics.

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