Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

Of all those options, it’s safe to assume that text is the best choice for LCP performance because it loads and renders fast. Browsers construct a render tree using DOM and CSSOM, and the page renders once all render-blocking resources like CSS, font files, and scripts have been parsed and processed. Large preview ). Use It Sparingly.

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MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

So in this article, we’ll pit Gzip vs Brotli and completely end the debate! But we’ll definitely help you decide which is the best choice for your situation. Depending on your specific site, there are other file types you can add, such as fonts, SVG images, etc. OK, not really. What is HTTP Compression? Brotli Compression.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

But we can also draw on a wealth of existing ideas, conference talks and articles which — while not having an explicit focus on sustainability — have a huge overlap with the philosophy of sustainable web design. Are we loading hundreds of kilobytes of web fonts? Are we using all of the web fonts that we’re loading?

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In this article, we’ll walk through the tools and some of the steps you can take to optimize your videos for playback — all of it to avoid stalls and impress your precious customers! We could endlessly tweak the configuration in FFMPEG, but let’s just touch on a few important ones in this article. Video Size (Pixels).

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Best Web Development Blogs Although these blogs aren’t in any specific order, we’ve tried to indicate which topics each one focuses on. Codrops Codrops features blogs with topics ranging from UI design and page animations to image formatting and general JavaScript practices. Visit website 3. Visit website 6.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

In this article, we’ll take a deep dive into the refactoring process itself, and cover incremental refactoring strategy, visual regression testing, and maintaining the refactored codebase. card { min-width: 0; } /* Resets font size enforced by ".hero-container" card { font-size: 18px; }. More after jump! Large preview ).

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Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

<200 ms “fast” TTFB is based on the server responsiveness best practice recommendation. To learn more about optimizing the critical rendering path, check out Ilya Grigorik’s article, Analyzing Critical Rendering Path Performance. You can find a more detailed explanation of Time to Interactive here.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Existing best practices and guidance, such as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), give us a solid foundation for inclusive design and already incorporate many details that affect dyslexic readers. In this article, we’ll look at ways to make an existing design dyslexia-friendly. Font Selection. Whitespace. “It

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The best designers and agencies have a touch of magic about them, transforming your company’s goals, customers’ demands, user specifications, and design instruments into a beneficial experience for both users and businesses. This article is about the essentials of evaluating potential designers and design agencies you wish to hire.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. More often, it would be best to define only max-width if you need to control an element’s size. More ideas, tips, and tools will be discussed next. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

On the site, you’ll also find practical UX challenges to train yourself in crucial UX skills. The Ultimate Guide to UX Research shares tips and best practices from leading industry experts. Fonts Knowledge. Fonts Knowledge by the team at Google Fonts helps you make well-considered typographic choices.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Yes, that's right: I read the comments on a MacRumors article. " Browsers Are Big Business WebKit Is No Charity Choices, Choices Recent Developments How Apple Gutted Mozilla's Chances Back Of The Napkin The Best Kind Of Correct What Now? The Best Kind Of Correct #. Gentle reader, I made a terrible mistake.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 23, 2022

After reading Louis Lazaris’ insightful article “ Those HTML Attributes You Never Use ”, I’ve asked myself ( and the community ) which properties and selectors are lesser-known or should be used more often. h2 { color: var(--color-primary); font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.5; Adrian Bece. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

In previous articles from this series, we’ve covered auditing CSS codebase health and the incremental CSS refactoring strategy , testing, and maintenance. In this article, we’re going to cover CSS optimization strategies that can optimize CSS file size, loading times, and render performance. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

These services use requests to external hosts (not servers you control) to deliver JavaScript framework libraries, custom fonts, advertising content, marketing analytics trackers, and more. Any resource (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, image, font, etc.) Can a fancy third-party custom font give your site a new look and feel? requests.

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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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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

fonts preview. Google Fonts. If you need to test how a different font size will impact your layout, Text Resizer helps you to see what exactly happens with increased or decreased font sizes. Text Resizer helps you see what exactly happens with increased or decreased font sizes. Also, take a look at the other.

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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. I think web fonts are a good example that serves both needs. That’s a tough one.

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 29, 2021

Whatever the case and whenever that moment arrives, I usually reach for some of the tools I‘ll cover in the article. To truly audit CSS, we would need to dig deeper and find places that are not considered best practices. Using the “Inspect arrow” we could even see additional details about colors, fonts, size and accessibility.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In this article, we’ll walk through the process of taking a seemingly simple design for a text-and-media component and deciding how best to translate it into code, keeping in mind the needs of both users and content authors. Does the size of the heading font in the design allow for an appropriate line length when used in this layout?

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

In this three-part series , we are going to go through the CSS refactor process from the beginning to the end, starting with knowledge on how to approach it and some general pros and cons of refactoring, then moving onto the refactoring strategies themselves and ending with some general best practices on CSS file size and performance.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

This article will help you with exactly that. The metrics selection is outside of the scope of this article and depends highly on the project context, but I recommend that you start by reading User-centric Performance Metrics by Philip Walton. There are performance score, a11y score, best practices score, SEO score.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Clean coding practices. Host Fonts From A CDN. There’s enough you have to worry about when it comes to designing fonts for the mobile experience that you probably don’t want to hear this… but custom web fonts suck when it comes to loading. For their Font Awesome icons, they decided to host them from a CDN.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Here’s another article about reducing JavaScript dependencies and the bundle size sent to the client. This article is about a couple of things that Bookaway faced and we (as a company in the traveling industry) managed to optimize our pages, so that the HTML we send is smaller. Liran Cohen. 2021-05-05T10:30:00+00:00.

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Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

A good practice is to: Look at your last 2-4 weeks of data for a given metric Identify the worst number Set your performance budget for that number In the example above, you can see a time series chart that shows Largest Contentful Paint times over a one-month period. Performance budgets are practical.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

So, while it’s tempting to solve everything in one fell swoop, the best approach to improving performance might be an iterative one. 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.

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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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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 9, 2020

Web performance advocates have often advised to add dimensions to your images for best performance to allow the page to be laid out with the appropriate space for the image, before the image itself has been downloaded. So, once we add the dimensions and that the height: auto trick, we get the best of both worlds, right? Barry Pollard.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

What Does This Look Like In Practice? Best Use Cases For Headless CMS. Please note that this article is not written to promote any services or products. In this article, we’d be using GraphCMS because of its GraphQL API approach. What happens when you take away the frontend of a CMS? Gridsome, Gatsby). Contentful.

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Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

Resources – Total number of resources (HTML, images, fonts, etc.) You can dive deeper into image optimization and SEO tips in this article in Google Search Central.) Having said all that, making your pages as small as possible is in the best interest of your users who don't have access to fast networks and devices.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

The following article was originally published in the 2013 Performance Calendar. There's 31 great articles to explore in the calendar including Steve Souders's browser wishlist and Tim Kadlec's take on what it takes to create a performance culture. -. First impressions do count. Control and branch the loading of CSS and JS.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. The Moto G4 , for example.

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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. Inlining, uglifying and minifying assets is all well and good, but the best performance comes from not sending down the assets in the first place. I Used The Web For A Day On A 50 MB Budget.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

In the first part of this article, we saw that measuring and comparing typefaces is not a simple task. Take a look at the first part of this article here so you can get all the context you need to fully enjoy it. Let’s dive into the specifics of typeface aspects so you can get the best out of your tests. Thomas Bohm.

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Tim Kadlec

JULY 31, 2013

There are many books, articles and presentations that have influenced the way I approach the web today. If they’re using a screen reader, I want to make sure that they’re having the best possible experience with all of our websites. Some said it wasn’t practical. It’s our job to make sure that they have a great user experience.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

In this article, I’ll highlight some of the work we did and how we were able to achieve our speed. For this article, we will focus on the first three and the performance adjustments for these. And while you can usually cache the full page of an article, the same is not true of many shop pages and elements. Font Loading.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Is it expensive JavaScript, slow web font delivery, heavy images, or sluggish rendering? Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. when web fonts aren’t loaded yet). Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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