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. Every major website on the Internet today relies — to some degree — on third-party services.

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Testlodge

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG), run by professionals from Apple, Mozilla, Google, and Microsoft and World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) maintains these standards. Aside from being best practice, having clean code will ensure the web page looks and performs as the developer intended.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

These metrics are used by Google to evaluate the quality of user experience. To address this problem, I’ll provide an overview of the best practices for the integration and optimization of an LCP image. Read this article to learn more about this topic and see when you might need to preload your LCP resource.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. Do we have a carousel of images?

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Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? Master the many facets of delivering high performance images on the internet—without adversely affecting site performance. Progressive Web Apps Dean. Responsive Web Design.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

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 ). For each of them, Google recommends a range of acceptable speed goals.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

<img src="turtle.jpg" alt="Lazy turtle" loading="lazy"> Addy Osmani wrote extensively about this topic in his article “ Native Image Lazy-Loading For The Web! ” in which he stated that the Google Chrome team are already developing the feature and intend to ship it in Chrome 75. Important Best Practices.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). awesome-webpack is a curated list of useful Webpack resources, libraries and tools, including articles, videos, courses, books and examples for Angular, React and framework-agnostic projects. Image source: Katie Hempenius ) ( Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Note : as TCP generally under-utilizes network connection by a significant amount, Google has developed TCP Bottleneck Bandwidth and RRT ( BBR ), a relatively new TCP delay-controlled TCP flow control algorithm.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

In this article, we’ll take a look at what SRI is, how it can help protect you, and how you can start using it in your own projects, not just for files hosted on CDNs. Googling for your own platform of choice with SRI or Sub Resource Integrity will likely point you in the right direction. A Bit Of History. Other Things To Note.

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Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Most of us work on connections that are typically quite a bit faster than that of the average internet user. In the early days of the web when we were browsing the internet via a dialup connection, improving performance meant removing the images from your site. Google’s results were perhaps even more startling. Conclusion.

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O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

This article summarizes what I learned from that experience. The inspiration (and title) for it comes from Mike Loukides’ Radar article on Real World Programming with ChatGPT , which shares a similar spirit of digging into the potential and limits of AI tools for more realistic end-to-end programming tasks.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

To simplify this behavior, a best practice is to ensure your styles include resetting all elements to use border-box. Note : Another timely note here is that Internet Explorer will reach end of life officially on June 15, 2022 ). Reviewing how to handle a lack of support for a feature is a bit beyond the scope of this article.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

These statements and articles typically skip over some crucial technical details , are lacking in nuance, and usually are only partially correct. In this article series, I will discuss the new protocol, especially its performance features , with more nuance. Did You Know?

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is because HTTP/3 and QUIC mainly help deal with the somewhat uncommon yet potentially high-impact problems that can arise on today’s Internet. HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). Practical HTTP/3 deployment options ( coming up soon! ). This series is divided into three parts: HTTP/3 history and core concepts.

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