CSS - Tricks

MARCH 2, 2022

I have a handful of good links to articles about performance that are burning a hole in my bookmarks folder, and wanna drop them here to share. The new WebPageTest website design. Unveiling the new WebPageTest UI — I absolutely love seeing WebPageTest’s design evolve and improve. This is way better.

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Performance Cache Best Practices Strategy 68

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. The design was made by a design and UX agency that also handled the HTML prototype (based on Bootstrap 4). In this article, I’ll highlight some of the work we did and how we were able to achieve our speed.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The service workers enable the offline usage of the PWA by fetching cached data or informing the user about the absence of an Internet connection. When developing a PWA, you can cache the application shell’s resources and assets in the browser. Cached content with IndexedDB. Cache first, then network. Service Workers.

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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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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf. I didn't end up getting published in SysAdmin directly, but my performance work did make it as a feature article (thanks Matty). Or even on a plane.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Active Memory Caching. When you want to get data that you already had quickly, you need to do caching — caching stores data that a user recently retrieved.

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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. It also lists cached resources and identifies unused Javascript. You can export the results as a CSV file for Excel, Google Sheets or Apple Pages.

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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. Compressing, minifying and caching assets. Lighthouse.

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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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Cache Speed Google Website 78

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This article is sponsored by Storyblok. But if you’re worried that you’re not getting the performance you expected because of large, poorly optimized images, don’t worry because that’s what you’re reading this article for! A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites. A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites. Alba Silvente.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 105

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

console.log("I will not run until slow-loading-stylesheet.css is downloaded."); This is by design. In fact, Google Analytics even tell us what to do, and they’re right: Copy and paste this code as the first item into the of every webpage you want to track. This article is getting way, way more forensic than I intended.

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Network Performance Media Cache 278

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. I hope to raise the profile of difficulties faced by real people, which are avoidable if we design and develop in a way that is sympathetic to their needs. Google Homepage — DOM.

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Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly. thanks, Guy Podjarny! ).

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

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. Search Engine And Web Archive Cached Results.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. You’ve focused on making the web design responsive to ensure that the widest audience of visitors can access your content. You’ve agonized over design patterns and usability. Ken Harker.

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CSS - Tricks

MAY 3, 2021

For one thing, the design of WebPageTest is now quite nice. google-analytics.com", "sanList":[ "*.google-analytics.com", google-analytics.com", "*.fps.goog", An amazing achievement, to be sure, but it also feels good to me that WebPageTest is now owned by Catchpoint with Patrick being there himself on the project.

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Transportation Cache Google Mobile 86

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

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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Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Jos

APRIL 6, 2018

The article will be using Preact/React, yet the ideas can be applied to any other component library. You can check Website Sameness or Web Design Trends: Why Do All Websites Look The Same? Or loading a 3rd party component like a Google Map, with all its additional assets needed to render the thing? const latlng = new google.

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Code Performance Media Google 147

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term. Setting Realistic Goals.

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CSS - Tricks

JUNE 5, 2020

In the show, Google is portrayed by the fictional company Hooli, which is after Pied Piper’s intellectual property. The funny thing is that, while being far from a startup, Google does indeed have a powerful compression engine in real life called Brotli. This article is about my experience using Brotli at production scale.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites. UI/UX : There is usually a designer and/or UX person that sets the look & feel and information architecture.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

Jos

APRIL 5, 2018

The article will be using Preact/React, yet the ideas can be applied to any other component library. You can check Website Sameness or Web Design Trends: Why Do All Websites Look The Same? Or loading a 3rd party component like a Google Map, with all its additional assets needed to render the thing? for some inspiration :).

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Code Performance Google Media 130

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. The Font Style Matcher app by Monica Dinculescu is often cited in font loading articles and gives a fantastic glimpse of what should be possible here. However, beyond that it didn’t really solve the problem.

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Operating System Google Website Cache 143

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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Dean Hume

MARCH 29, 2018

In this article, I am going to take you through the different steps required to get a Ghost blog up and running as a Progressive Web App ( hint: it’s easier than you think! ). I wanted the site to be super fast - once someone has read an article that won’t change, why not serve it from the cached version on their device.

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Cache Google Website Network 40

Dean Hume

MARCH 29, 2018

In this article, I am going to take you through the different steps required to get a Ghost blog up and running as a Progressive Web App ( hint: it’s easier than you think! ). I wanted the site to be super fast - once someone has read an article that won’t change, why not serve it from the cached version on their device.

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Cache Google Website Network 40

Dean Hume

MARCH 29, 2018

In this article, I am going to take you through the different steps required to get a Ghost blog up and running as a Progressive Web App ( hint: it’s easier than you think! ). I wanted the site to be super fast - once someone has read an article that won’t change, why not serve it from the cached version on their device.

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Cache Google Website Network 40

MachMetrics

JANUARY 16, 2020

Make no mistake, this is a key step to take and should absolutely be a part of your web design/development routine. His article in the Web Performance Calendar, The ugly truth about optimizing beautiful images , explores a few case studies and offers some solutions as well. Javascript is blocking the render. Further analysis.

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Speed Website Metrics Cache 89

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Application leaders for digital commerce technologies must plan for PWAs when designing digital commerce experiences”. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. Hence, they can’t be promoted separately or found by users who’ve input a search query in Google.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

These metrics are used by Google to evaluate the quality of user experience. The images used in the article’s Codepen demonstrations will be integrated with TwicPics to save time in their creation and speed up the optimization of the LCP metric. Eloïse Martin. 2023-01-16T18:00:00+00:00. 2023-01-16T22:03:27+00:00. Use Priority Hints.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. To help our customers manage ongoing data explosion, we have designed many of the core components over the last few years. Edge caching. Google cloud. Google Pub/Sub.

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MachMetrics

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

We seem to link our article on image optimization more than any other one we’ve written. Looking again at the websites above, you’ll see that Google uses one image (their logo), Craigslist uses 0(!) Looking again at the websites above, you’ll see that Google uses one image (their logo), Craigslist uses 0(!),

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Website Speed Google Cache 57

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. Sustainable Web Design.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

It’s designed in such a way that you won’t even notice if the website has been blocked. If the DNS caches are manipulated to contain wrong IP addresses, it’s called DNS poisoning. The Great Firewall of China is something that isn’t straight forward to decode with transparent policies. Blocking IP Access. Deep Packet Inspection.

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