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.

Code 75

Code Cache Retail Mobile 75

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

without any need to code. It was very important to load the page in iframe , I was wandering around the internet to find a way to load it. That was when I first got to witness the power of network headers. This article focuses on various approaches to modify headers in a Selenium automation setup. Adding Request Headers.

Testing 102

Testing Network Website Google 102

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

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. Read this “ Optimize Largest Contentful Paint ” article by Philip Walton and Barry Pollard to learn more about the four LCP subparts and their relation to each other.

Media 107

Media Mobile Website Metrics 107

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.

Website 133

Website Design Network Best Practices 133

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. With the networks all around the world, theoretically, you can do business boundlessly. However, like each country has its boundary, the world of Internet is not a world without any control. First Visit. Repeat Visit.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

Lots can go wrong: a network request fails, a third-party library breaks, a JavaScript feature is unsupported (assuming JavaScript is even available), a CDN goes down, a user behaves unexpectedly (they double-click a submit button), the list goes on. How To Build Resilient JavaScript UIs. Callum Hart. 2021-08-03T11:00:00+00:00.

Network 145

Network Engineering Availability Monitoring 145

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. But here, because in this article, we will keep the scope limited to mobile. . Unit Testing – Developers execute unit tests for the smallest unit of code, whenever they commit new code in the code repository.

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Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

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? Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Dotcom-Montior

JULY 7, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. With the networks all around the world, theoretically, you can do business boundlessly. However, like each country has its boundary, the world of Internet is not a world without any control. First Visit. Repeat Visit.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

MrTonyD : I was writing production code over 30 years ago (C, OS, database). There is a reason why I'm not a practicing programmer anymore - even though I love to code. billion increase in pure-play foundry market; Quotable Quotes: WhatsApp cofounder : I am a sellout. I acknowledge that. It is much worse to be a software developer now.

Internet 35

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 35

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

There was something gratifying in taking a code that takes minutes to run and make it run in a handful seconds. Normally the team decides how well to cover and test the code, and it’s important that all developers in a team know how to write tests. Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

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. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 74

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Internet of Things (IoT). Besides that, these apps do well in areas with a slow internet connection. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. Internet of Things (IoT). So, this is the answer – Devices are connected to the internet via intelligent sensors.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. With the networks all around the world, theoretically, you can do business boundlessly. However, like each country has its boundary, the world of Internet is not a world without any control. First Visit. Repeat Visit.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This article is sponsored by Storyblok. Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. 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! Alba Silvente. Large preview ).

Media 108

Media Cache Website Mobile 108

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

iOS empowers developers to easily parallelize code using Grand Central Dispatch , Android does this via their new, unified task scheduler WorkManager and game engines like Unity have job systems. How long your piece of JavaScript takes to finish depends on how fast the device is that your code is running on.

Games 145

Games Architecture Code C++ 145

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? High Performance Browser Networking. Master the many facets of delivering high performance images on the internet—without adversely affecting site performance.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

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. Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. As for mobile network connection type, 84.7%

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Cache Google Mobile Network 97

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? It’s much easier to reach performance goals when the code base is fresh or is just being refactored. 300ms RTT, 1.6

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

It’s not just source code for the configuration, models, views, and templates, but also static assets: CSS and JavaScript, images, icons. The three types of files in a live Django application are: Source Code. Source code files are generally pretty small, measured in kilobytes. Philip Kiely. 2020-06-25T12:30:00+00:00.

Media 70

Media Cache Storage AWS 70

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

So in this article, we’ll pit Gzip vs Brotli and completely end the debate! These compressed files allow for quicker network transfers so that your website can be loaded as fast as possible. Gzip works by greatly reducing the amount of duplicate code and white space in a website’s files. Never change, Internet Explorer.

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Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 9, 2020

With the above code, this would cause the main content to jump down after the image is downloaded and the space needed to display it can be calculated: Layout shift after image loads. This also puts extra work on the browser to recalculate the page layout as each image arrives across the internet. Large preview ). Large preview ).

Website 126

Website Code Mobile Availability 126

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Let us explore a few of such cases in this article. The compatibility of the code on different browsers, devices, OS combinations decides how the UI will be rendered on the front-end. On a slow network connection, the application should display the essential UI elements. Find some helpful tips for cross-browser testing here.

Efficiency 71

Efficiency Testing Testing Tools Website 71

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Our fast computers and fiber internet masked the experience real people have on our site. Internet Explorer 6 was fully supported, Firefox was gaining share, and Chrome was still years from launch. When paired with VS Code the development experience is amazing. It wasn’t enough. It doesn’t take long for bundle sizes to grow.

Google 95

Google Analytics Serverless Metrics 95

Testsigma

JANUARY 13, 2021

As mobile phone usage and internet penetration continue to grow at unprecedented rates, competition amongst developers is also at all-time heights. This article will take an in-depth look at the various tools and strategies that help with mobile application testing. Why do you need to engage in testing a mobile application? Signup now.

Mobile 54

Mobile Strategy Testing Efficiency 54

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

In this article, we will particularly look at the average page load time in 2021 and importance of web vitals. Quote : “40% of people abandon a website that takes more than 3 seconds to load” Neil Patel, Internet Marketing expert. Optimize third-party code. Avoid loading too much 3rd party resources on your site. Preload fonts.

Cache 78

Cache Speed Google Website 78

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

There was something gratifying in taking a code that takes minutes to run and make it run in a handful seconds. Normally the team decides how well to cover and test the code, and it’s important that all developers in a team know how to write tests. Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient.

Performance 130

Performance Speed Google Media 130

Enprowess

JANUARY 11, 2022

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. Reusable code is another area where these modern frameworks shine. Reusable code is another area where these modern frameworks shine.

Virtualization 64

Virtualization Website Speed Mobile 64

Alex Podelko

AUGUST 15, 2017

I should be more clear around what use case(s) I am looking to support, because that shapes my opinions in the article. Maybe this should be a follow-up article…? Many technologies generate so sophisticated HTTP queries that recording is a must. Regards, Alex. Ragnar Lönn: Hi Alexander, I agree. regards, /Ragnar.

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Testing Tools Testing Website Open Source 100

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

This attribute contains seemingly endless alphanumeric junk that you may be tempted to strip out in the quest for cleaner code. 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. It doesn’t matter what that code is.

Website 59

Website Servers Code Best Practices 59

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Follow @ tameverts to stay updated on all her upcoming speaking engagements and articles. One of the top players in web performance, Ilya is a web performance engineer at Google, co-chair of the W3C Web Performance Working Group , and author of High Performance Browser Networking. His articles for WebFundamentals are not to be missed.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 6, 2022

Some of those factors include the following: URL Test Location Browser (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, mobile browsers etc…) Connection Number of Tests Repeat View Elements Used in Waterfall Charts Interactive Slider : The Interactive Slider is an indicator of the performance of each element in terms of milliseconds. Do You Need a CDN?

Performance 52

Performance Cache Website Speed 52

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

This article will cover many areas that database administrators need to be aware of in order to properly license, recover, and tune a Reporting Services installation. In the early days of SSRS, a requirement was to also install and configure Internet Information Services (IIS). A report is essentially just another query.

Tuning 67

Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Throughout this article, we are going to find out how to solve these problems (and many more), and you’ll be ready to test the performance of your Single Page Application with WebPageTest! Note: This articles requires an intermediate understanding about some of WebPageTest advanced features. Recipes for common use cases.

Performance Testing 51

Performance Testing Testing Performance Open Source 51

CSS - Tricks

MAY 15, 2019

In short, we’re talking about a mechanism that defers the network traffic necessary to load content when it’s needed — or rather when trigger the load when the content enters the viewport. A smaller initial page that loads faster and saves network requests for items that may not be needed if the user never gets there. The benefit?

Traffic 58

Traffic Website Network Analytics 58

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

This article is an effort to explore techniques used by developers of in-stream data processing systems, trace the connections of these techniques to massive batch processing and OLTP/OLAP databases, and discuss how one unified query engine can support in-stream, batch, and OLAP processing at the same time. Interoperability with Hadoop.

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Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154