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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Percona

MAY 29, 2023

With the Percona Operators, businesses can manage multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud PostgreSQL deployments with ease, ensuring that critical data is always available and secure, no matter what happens. In this article, you will learn how to set up disaster recovery with Percona Operator for PostgreSQL version 2.

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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. Plan in suitable buffer time for traffic issues, etc. Google doesn’t (currently) care about your TTFB, but a good TTFB is going to help get closer to a good LCP. LCP is a milestone timing—it measures…. Block-level.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. That’s what this article is about.

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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 does it need to be available immediately ? Analytics is a good example.

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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. According to StatCounter , as of December 2020, mobile traffic has surpassed desktop traffic with 55.73% of traffic coming from mobile devices. was developed as an alternative to Angular and React.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

This article delves into the specifics of how AI optimizes cloud efficiency, ensures scalability, and reinforces security, providing a glimpse at its transformative role without giving away extensive details. Exploring artificial intelligence in cloud computing reveals a game-changing synergy.

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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

APRIL 19, 2021

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. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

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Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

This project implements multiple techniques and tactics to censor China’s internet and controls the internet gateways to analyze, filter, and manipulate the internet traffic between inside and outside of China. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China.

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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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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. All rely heavily on utilizing allocated portions from existing pools made available through specific providers as part of their service offerings.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Yes, that's right: I read the comments on a MacRumors article. Nobody frames it precisely this way; instead they'll say, if WebKit weren't mandated, Chromium would take over , or Google would dominate the web if not for the WebKit restriction. There's no point in recommending a better browser because none is available.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In one of our previous articles , we discussed what an SRE is, what they do, and some of the common responsibilities that a typical SRE may have, like supporting operations, dealing with trouble tickets and incident response, and general system monitoring and observability. Monitoring. Monitoring can provide a way to differentiate between.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

This project implements multiple techniques and tactics to censor China’s internet and controls the internet gateways to analyze, filter, and manipulate the internet traffic between inside and outside of China. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. Google Keyword Planner. Google Trends. Google Mobile-Friendly Test. Go Auditor.

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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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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Google recommends that TTFB be 800ms at the 75th percentile. For example, processing of web application firewall (WAF) rules, detecting bots or other malicious traffic though security services, and growing in popularity, edge compute. This data is available by enabling the mPulse behavior in property manager.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The ability to modify the headers of traffic that pass through your browser is a great tool to have. This article focuses on various approaches to modify headers in a Selenium automation setup. This is only available as a Python module. There’s a lot more to it than what can be covered in this article. the New-Header.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

The most preferred single-page applications are Gmail, Google Drive, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. According to Ericsson’s analysis, international mobile data traffic is projected to become 4.5 Low data usage and Offline accessibility: It works fine in low internet reception and is also possible to access offline like Google Maps.

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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. Lighthouse results.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2021

This project implements multiple techniques and tactics to censor China’s internet and controls the internet gateways to analyze, filter, and manipulate the internet traffic between inside and outside of China. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

Testsigma

JUNE 5, 2021

As the number of websites has increased with time, so has the source of traffic leading to that website. In 2015, 35% of the internet traffic came from mobile devices, 6 years later, the number is 54.8%. For example, a device with Android 9 and Google Chrome and another device with Android 10 with Google Chrome (or Firefox etc.).

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The following qualities are considered great additions to the basic PWA by Google developers. Otherwise, the user experience could be as frustrating as Ankita Masand’s ordeal with ordering a cake as she describes in her article about the pain points of PWAs. Adaptive loading illustration by Google. Large preview ).

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Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 27, 2021

This project implements multiple techniques and tactics to censor China’s internet and controls the internet gateways to analyze, filter, and manipulate the internet traffic between inside and outside of China. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China.

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Website Internet Internet Performance 52

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

WebP is the way to go WebP was first developed by Google back in 2010 and has now become the successor of JPEG. WebP means faster loading times and less traffic. We won't go into detail in this article. The available operations are listed in our documentation. WebP offers both lossy and lossless compression.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In this article, we’ll explore some of the ways that we as individuals can use our skills to have a positive environmental impact within a digital organization. Terabyte of wasted traffic. Other factors to consider include workload, resources (including financial), and the availability of team members. With approx.

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 15, 2020

We will use continuous performance testing and Google Lighthouse to audit every change. This is not available in the src directory until we run a command to copy over the default from the cache: cp.cache/default-html.js Let’s pretend we work with a marketing department and they want to start measuring traffic with Google Analytics.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.

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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. New pages or articles not created by you, or the content of the current pages changing suddenly. There are plugins available that can help in backing up the data.

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ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

have pointed out in their recent Science article (“There’s plenty of room at the Top”) — and cited by Hennessy in his Turing lecture — a naive implementation of matrix-matrix multiply in Python runs between 100x and 60,000x slower than their counterparts written in a “metal” language (highly optimized C).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this article, we will review what third-party resource requests are, consider how impactful they can be to the user experience, and discuss common optimization strategies to reduce the impact on the user experience. They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. If you’re on the latter end of this scale, you probably need more specialized advice than this article is prepared to give. Performance And Availability.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

This article is part of a series in which I attempt to use the web under various constraints, representing a given demographic of user. Google Homepage — DOM. This isn’t useless JavaScript; Google has to have some in order to display suggestions as you type. Google Dev Docs. Chris Ashton. 2019-07-29T14:00:59+02:00.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

We were designing and building things, setting up new products, refactoring the components, and publishing articles. The entire site is built with progressive enhancement in mind, meaning that you, dear reader, can read every Smashing article in its entirety without the need to boot the application at all. We had to fix that.

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MachMetrics

OCTOBER 16, 2019

In our article How Does Page Load Time Affect Your Site Revenue , we illustrated the dramatic difference this can make: Even by a few hundred milliseconds, can affect your business bottom line. – Yahoo saw a 9% increase in traffic to every 400 milliseconds of webpage speed improvement. Speed is worth the investment.

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Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

Additionally, teams are measuring and tracking key business metrics – conversion rates, cart abandonment rates, customer lifetime value, revenue by traffic source, and so on. Web Developer Programs Engineer at Google Rick Viscomi , the thresholds for fast/average/slow TTFB are 200 ms at the upper limit and 1000 ms at the lower limit.

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