Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). It doesn’t really matter if you’re a front-end dev, UX designer or content strategist, we’re certain you’ll find at least something to inspire you for the upcoming year.

Design 107

Design Development Programming Website 107

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. By doing this, China is also able to force people to use Chinese alternatives for websites. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

Website 82

Website Internet Internet Performance 82

Testsigma

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Responsive design is an approach to design websites such that it responds well on all screen sizes, platforms, and orientations. This approach eliminates the need to design a new set of code for each new device. Responsinator: Responsinator is the simplest tool used widely for testing the responsiveness of websites.

Design 88

Design Testing Website Testing Tools 88

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. By doing this, China is also able to force people to use Chinese alternatives for websites. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

Website 97

Website Internet Internet Performance 97

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Powered E-Commerce Website (Case Study). Powered E-Commerce Website (Case Study). Performance is one of the core aspects to ensure our users are having a delightful user experience irrespective of their devices or network connection. Barry Pollard has written an excellent in-depth article about CLS. Arijit Mondal.

Website 105

Website Google Metrics Testing Tools 105

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I began writing this article in early July 2023 but began to feel a little underwhelmed by it and so left it unfinished. Compressing them over the network: Which compression algorithm, if any, will we use? in this article. Connection One thing we haven’t looked at is the impact of network speeds on these outcomes.

Cache 291

Cache Latency Strategy Speed 291

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Are Imposter Domains Re-Publishing Your Website? Are Imposter Domains Re-Publishing Your Website? We explore how you can use web analytics or real user measurement data on your website to get insight into any imposter domains re-publishing your work. Ken Harker. 2021-09-20T11:30:00+00:00. 2021-09-20T14:12:33+00:00.

Website 89

Website Analytics Google Cache 89

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2021

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. By doing this, China is also able to force people to use Chinese alternatives for websites. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. But as it stands, websites are growing ever more obese, which means that the energy demand of the Internet is continuing to grow exponentially. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 27, 2021

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. By doing this, China is also able to force people to use Chinese alternatives for websites. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

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. To investigate this topic, let’s first check how important your website performance is to your online business.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

CSS Wizardry

MAY 31, 2019

One of the quickest wins—and one of the first things I recommend my clients do—to make websites faster can at first seem counter-intuitive: you should self-host all of your static assets, forgoing others’ CDNs/infrastructure. I won’t go into too much detail in this post, because I have a whole article. Penalty: Network Negotiation.

Cache 274

Cache Latency Infrastructure Website 274

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

The success of your website depends on the impression it leaves on its users. It’s worth mentioning that good Core Web Vitals scores don’t necessarily mean that your website scores in high 90s on Lighthouse. It can also compare the performance of multiple pages of your site or those of your competitors’ websites. Zara Cooper.

Performance 130

Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 130

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. To investigate this topic, let’s first check how important your website performance is to your online business.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

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. To investigate this topic, let’s first check how important your website performance is to your online business.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

If you think that static rendering is limited to generic, public content that is the same for every user of your website, you should definitely read this article. The witty jokes in each article are only visible to paid users. If the user is paid, the server returns the full article directly as HTML. Eric Burel.

Cache 114

Cache Website Energy Servers 114

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. Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

This article strips away the complexities, walking you through best practices, top tools, and strategies you’ll need for a well-defended cloud infrastructure. This includes servers, applications, software platforms, and websites. Companies like Palo Alto Networks Cloud Security, Fortinet Cloud, and Trend Micro.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Cloud Monitoring Strategy 130

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

Plesk VPS Hosting For Better Website Outcomes. Plesk VPS Hosting For Better Website Outcomes. This is a sponsored article.) In early discussions you have with clients about the website you’re tasked with designing, does the topic of web hosting ever come up? The Web Designer’s Connection to Web Hosting.

Website 48

Website Servers Design Traffic 48

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

I tried with loads of websites to see how they behave in iframe. I observed that most of the websites don’t work in iframe due to x-frame-options and content-security-policy headers. That was when I first got to witness the power of network headers. They carry data about the data being transferred. More after jump! Once a week.

Testing 99

Testing Network Website Google 99

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This article is sponsored by Storyblok. It has never been easier to build a personalized website, digitalize a product and start seeing results. Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. Alba Silvente. 2022-11-17T10:00:00+00:00.

Media 105

Media Cache Website Mobile 105

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. Real usage data would be better, of course.

Speed 81

Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Real-life performance for your users and how the website “feels” when you’re using it should not be discounted, even if it costs you a point or two in Page Speed (otherwise, we would all just have a search bar and unstyled text). The design was made by a design and UX agency that also handled the HTML prototype (based on Bootstrap 4).

Performance 115

Performance Cache Website Mobile 115

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. High Performance Websites. Even Faster Websites. Fail, and you can kiss your customers and profits goodbye.”

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

I’ve written a few articles here before on Core Web Vitals, and am always interested to see what’s in their annual Web Performance Checklist. Running a failing article page through WebPageTest highlighted the LCP element: The LCP image of a typical Smashing Magazine article. OK, so the article author photo is the LCP element.

Google 143

Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

With that caveat out of the way, let’s get to the guts of the article: What is the Back/Forward Cache and why does it matter so much? Think about the number of times you visit a home page, click on an article, then go back to the home page to view another article? so reusing them from that home page visit is a good saving.

Cache 91

Cache Games Performance Website 91

Tech News Gather

JANUARY 29, 2024

This article will help you understand how to install a mobile application of a bookmaker company and what are the conditions for its use. All this confirms the fact that you can download the application, install and use it absolutely legally in any country using the Mostbet download link on the official website.

Games 52

Games Mobile Programming Operating System 52

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. While many of us, designers and developers, are likely to have a relatively new mobile phone in our pockets, a vast majority of our customers isn’t quite like us. One of the famous examples is Flipkart , India’s largest e-commerce website.

Mobile 133

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

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.

Traffic 94

Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 94

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. This commitment involves prioritizing websites that offer not only relevant content but also an excellent user experience.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. In that spirit, what we’re looking at in this article is focused more on the incremental wins and less on providing an exhaustive list or checklist of performance strategies. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2 Lighthouse.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92

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 104

Media Mobile Website Metrics 104

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

UI/UX : There is usually a designer and/or UX person that sets the look & feel and information architecture. Your dev environment is not your user’s environment Light Work , a picture by Émile Perron I use a Macbook Pro to develop websites. Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient.

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

But with the growing smartphone user base, two things are a given: one — There will be more people who will want to access your website via mobile, ensuring great quality and usability for your websites for mobile and testing them well will become very important. Signup to make your website mobile web friendly, easily.

Mobile 65

Mobile Testing Website Speed 65

CSS - Tricks

MAY 22, 2020

A couple of interesting articles making the rounds: Tom MacWrite: Second-guessing the modern web Rich Harris: In defense of the modern web. If there is anything I hope for the world of web design and development, it’s that we get better at picking the right tools for the job. That’s where it excels.

Analytics 90

Analytics Innovation Website Network 90

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

By Rufus Rock , UCL ; Tim O’Reilly , UCL ; Ilan Strauss , UCL ; and Mariana Mazzucato , UCL This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Together, these factors influence how strong the network effects and economies of scale and scope are in a market, including the rewards to market dominance.

Social Media 88

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 88

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

If you want to vastly improve the startup and load performance of your website, you cannot miss the impactful observations and insights that Jake posts on jakearchibald.com/ and shares on Twitter @ jaffathecake. Follow @ tameverts to stay updated on all her upcoming speaking engagements and articles. Rick Byers. Rick Byers.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89