Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

My kids love LEGO, too, which means that every year I find myself spending a fair bit of time on the LEGO website during the holidays. seconds (which is a lot!) : Observations The LCP image is added to the page using JavaScript Because of this, the browser doesn't know about the image until the JS is downloaded and fully executed.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The limited number access points, compounded with the fact that traffic is controlled by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, creates performance bottlenecks for all users in China when trying to access websites from inside and outside of the country. These updates will disable access of Google apps downloader, for example.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

Applications that do not require to be downloaded and can be accessed via hitting the URL on a mobile browser are known as mobile web applications. The applications which are required to be downloaded on your smartphone before you start using them are known as Native applications. What are Mobile Web Applications?

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Browsers have lots of caches , the most well-known of which is the HTTP Cache that stores copies of downloaded resources on a local drive for later reuse. Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. so reusing them from that home page visit is a good saving.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. To maximize indexing benefits, be sure to follow best practices.

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. Hence, the node would still be available for other operations. Best practice tip : It is always advisable to use secondary servers for backups to avoid unnecessary performance degradation on the PRIMARY node.

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Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

JavaScript, CSS, images, iframes, and other resources impact how quickly website loads, renders and becomes usable to the user. Let’s focus on how these resources are requested and downloaded. The HTML document is the first resource to be requested and downloaded, but how do browsers determine what to download next and in which order?

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Media Tuning Metrics Google 70

Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

Reading Time: 8 minutes Whether your ecommerce business is 100% online or you supplement with bricks and mortar, your website is a critical revenue driver. When your website isn’t performing optimally, you risk not only your revenue but also your reputation as a trusted resource.

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Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. Your website may be using more third-party services than you realize. Ken Harker.

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Testsigma

MARCH 24, 2021

In this post, we shall see some of the best practices and tips on android UI testing to help you gain confidence and approach testing an application in the correct way. There are online services available that can provide a cloud platform to the tester and on the other end uses actual android devices for testing.

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Best Practices Testing Mobile Games 52

Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

CSS is a simple stylesheet language for defining a website or document’s presentation. Some such examples include: Decreasing code quality as more features are added due to the varying CSS skill levels within a development team and lacking internal rules, conventions, and best practices. Refactoring CSS: Introduction (Part 1).

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

seconds faster on average and it drove 60 million more Firefox downloads per year. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. The code for the site is available on GitHub for reference. It’s is a Google service that audit things performance, accessibility, SEO, and best practices.

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Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

An alternative is the direct download, using the ZIP folders that Cypress provides. Cypress provides some prewritten sample tests to showcase its features and give you some starting points — this is the reason for the tests that are available. I want to write a test for this website, Smashing Magazine. bin/cypress run.

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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. If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

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Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

And if you absolutely have to have it on a device, most of them are available via Kindle as well. Author Steve Souders writes about the best practices that he gained as the Chief Performance Yahoo! Each performance chapter is supported by code snippets (via a companion website) and examples to aid in learning.

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Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This post complements the previous best practice guides this time with the focus on MySQL and MariaDB and achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB MySQL TPC-C test. System setup is covered on the PostgreSQL Best Practice post so it will not be repeated here as the steps are the same. large-pages.

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Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

As the world’s leading search engine, Google is committed to delivering the best possible search results to its users. This commitment involves prioritizing websites that offer not only relevant content but also an excellent user experience. Download Time of HTML This is the time it takes to download the page’s HTML file.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

Lazy loading is a way to improve the performance of a website or web application by maximizing the rendering speed of the above-the-fold images and iframes (and sometimes videos) by deferring the loading of below-the-fold content. Your website will gradually benefit from it as support arrives to your users in most modern browsers.

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Website Best Practices Media Open Source 103

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. If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

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. If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

But first of all, I’d like to make something clear right now — while the act of scraping publicly available data is legal, Amazon has some measures to prevent it on their pages. As such, I urge you always to be mindful of the website while scraping, take care not to damage it, and follow ethical guidelines. Online, and live.

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Website Code Retail Best Practices 115

CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

The best request is the one that never happens: in the fight for fast websites, avoiding the network is far better than hitting the network at all. If there is a newer file available on the server, we definitely want to download it. How is your knowledge of caching and Cache-Control headers?

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

Let’s briefly look at the shortcomings of the many tactics available, starting with cold contacting potential clients. That is also something that you can find when using a procurement website. Larger organizations often post their invitations to tender on procurement websites. Cold Contacting. Procurement Sites. Networking.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Way back in the days when JavaScript was very much the poorer cousin to HTML and CSS, we didn’t need to think too much about how our scripts could be used as an attack vector for our websites. file hosted as part of their own website on their own server. On seeing this, the browser will download bootstrap.min.js. Trying It Out.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

But does it need to be available immediately ? Even if you think you’re only loading one stylesheet &mdahs; your own — it’s very possible that a script loads additional external stylesheets, all of which need to be downloaded and rendered. The connection is done in advance, allowing the full script to download later.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Projects built using JavaScript-based frameworks often ship large bundles of JavaScript that take time to download, parse and execute, blocking page render and user input in the process. JavaScript’s effect on performance consists of download, parsing and the execution costs. Website performance is not consistent across devices.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This in turn affects how fast a page’s resources can be downloaded. Additionally, even if we knew the available physical bandwidth, that wouldn’t mean we could use all of it ourselves. Several users are typically active on a network concurrently, each of whom need a fair share of the available bandwidth. Did You Know?

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. Google Lighthouse is one of the best-automated tools available on a web developer's utility belt. website if you prefer.

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Google Latency Website Metrics 82

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Thousands of avatars available straight from Figma: UI Faces. The plugin has a large library of (literally) millions of logos available at your fingertips. Luis Ouriach published a helpful best-practice guide for structuring your frames in Figma — with consistent naming conventions, descriptive components, and consistent spacing.

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Google Design Code Mobile 145

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

Poorly executed stylesheets can create a host of performance problems, ranging from stylesheets taking too long to download and parse, to improperly placed stylesheets that block the rest of the page from rendering. You can see this by looking at the synthetic test result for Sears.com (again, available via our Industry Benchmarks ).

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Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. This is because, as I stated in the introduction to part 1 , much of the early HTTP/2 content was overly optimistic about how well it would work in practice, and some of it, quite frankly, had major mistakes and bad advice.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Websites would magically become 50% faster with the flip of a switch! Five years later, we know that server push doesn’t really work in practice, streams and prioritization are often badly implemented , and, consequently, (reduced) resource bundling and even sharding are still good practices in some situations. For HTTP/1.1,

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

JULY 7, 2021

You need to sign up for the Interactive Components Beta program to start experimenting with this new feature as it is not yet available in the current stable release. Download the Figma design file → Before Starting. With best practices and guidelines on accessibility, assistive technology and inclusive design patterns.

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Design Website Best Practices Games 144

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? Download The Checklist (PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word). Quick Wins. Happy optimizing, everyone!). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If you’re optimizing for the Web Vitals , you might be interested to hear that images account for ~ 42% of the Largest Contentful Paint element for websites. While decoding speed for JPEGs is excellent, it lacks other desirable features required of images on modern, eye-catching websites. JPEG is also a lossy compression format.

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Open Source Speed Website Google 144

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Download The Checklist (PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word). Assets Optimizations. Build Optimizations. Quick Wins.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Download The Checklist (PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word). Assets Optimizations. Build Optimizations. Quick Wins.

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