Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome and focusing around performance for decades. The eBook is available right away (PDF, ePUB, Amazon Kindle). Addy Osmani is an engineering manager working on Google Chrome. Let’s figure it all out.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 23, 2022

Some answers from the community surprised me, as they’ve included some very useful and often-requested CSS features which were made available in the past year or two. Please note that available features depend on the font itself, and some features might not be supported. Further Reading on Smashing Magazine. all Property.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Chapter 10 covers best practices in how the UIs of interactive elements are designed to attract the eye, afford action, be readable, and inspire confidence that they can be safely tapped. The eBook is available right away (PDF, ePUB, Amazon Kindle). eBook is already available as PDF, ePUB, and Amazon Kindle.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

The most popular, by far, is the Google Lighthouse report (available in Chrome Developer Tools) and Google’s Page Speed Insights. Configuring WebPageTest to run a test measurement that simulates a failure of the Google Fonts third-party service. Large preview ). Large preview ). The resource requests for these fonts (.woff

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

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. In this screenshot below, for example, we can see that loading the Smashing Magazine website for the first time incurs just under a megabyte of data transfer.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. SEO is key to our success. Bookaway site search. The reportWebVitals function.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Similarly from cross-site navigation — think Google search results or the like and then clicking back. 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. seconds — the best number Smashing Magazine has ever seen since the Core Web Vitals initiative was launched.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Note : as TCP generally under-utilizes network connection by a significant amount, Google has developed TCP Bottleneck Bandwidth and RRT ( BBR ), a relatively new TCP delay-controlled TCP flow control algorithm.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2018

A couple of years ago, Google announced a new mobile-first initiative it wanted web designers and marketers to pick up on. However, as Google launched this initiative a couple of years ago, its had time to quietly observe users in these micro-moments as well as the websites that have most aptly responded to them. Suzanne Scacca.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized, key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). Assets Optimizations.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

in which he stated that the Google Chrome team are already developing the feature and intend to ship it in Chrome 75. The best practice is to do this for the primary images — typically for the ones that will be displayed above the fold. <img kB gzipped and it’s already available on GitHub , npm , and jsDelivr.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

Loading experience is crucial to the user’s first impression and overall usability, so Google defined Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric to measure how quickly the main content loads and is displayed to the user. We are loading the following resources: Google Fonts Stylesheet. See the Pen Prioritizing stylesheets by Adrian Bece.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

It’s an initiative by Google to share unified guidance for quality signals that can be key to delivering a great user experience on the web. CWV is part of a set of page experience signals Google Search will be evaluating for ranking. From Speed at Scale with Katie Hempenius and I at Google I/O. Large preview ). Image Component.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Most sites were all hosted on a single physical server somewhere on our own hosting infrastructure, and it was the server we thought about defending when it came to security best practices. Googling for your own platform of choice with SRI or Sub Resource Integrity will likely point you in the right direction.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

There’s accessibility, best practices, performance and one fourth one. You just plug the theme provider in there and Chakra does the rest of the work and it just becomes available everywhere. That you, is available from the makers of Chakra, but as a commercial offering. Some of these are actually available.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The “Changes” panel should be already available by default and next to the “Computed” tab. To simplify this behavior, a best practice is to ensure your styles include resetting all elements to use border-box. Additionally, you can persist your changes by using the local overrides feature.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Google Fonts. Google Sheets sync. Thousands of avatars available straight from Figma: UI Faces. The plugin has a large library of (literally) millions of logos available at your fingertips. The plugin supports copy and paste from Excel, Google sheet, Numbers and it also can sync with Google Sheets and remote JSON.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The Ultimate Guide to UX Research shares tips and best practices from leading industry experts. To ease your first steps into the world of typography (or help you take your skills to the next level) the Google Fonts team teamed up with typographic experts from around the world to create a library of typographic guides: Fonts Knowledge.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

We’ve explored the concepts behind headless CMSes in detail here on Smashing Magazine, but let’s do a quick recap. If you see authors turning to other authoring tools such as Google Docs for its commenting or suggestions capabilities, it may be a red flag as to what features you are missing. Technical and sales support.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

If there is no inter-organizational accessibility training available your organization can look into different methods of training like the kind WebAIM , the ADA , or Knowbility has to offer. You could internally document them in a collaborative software such as Notion or Dynalist; or an online documentation like Google Docs or Dropbox Paper.

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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. However, in practice, the results can be underwhelming. There is now so much content out there that to get somebody’s attention, let alone rank well on Google, is incredibly hard. Cold Contacting.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Unethical practices at companies lead to the creation of technology that we all use but often neglect the influence of those intended to serve. Start by affinity mapping your industry and academic examples using sticky notes, google slides or miro/mural board. Credit: Devin Harold. Large preview ). Are you storing it? User Personas.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

It is recommended to follow rules and best practices of building and sending emails. It’s also a command-line utility available in most common computer systems, including Windows, Mac, Linux, and more. Free plans are available for both tools, and their paid subscription plans start at $10/month. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

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. More in-depth information is available. What Does It All Mean?

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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

JULY 20, 2021

WordPress’ architecture often does not offer the possibilities we sometimes need when working on a website, especially when it comes to optimizing performance , one of the most important points when ranking our site in a search engine like Google and especially now that Web Vitals is up and running.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It combines decades of deployment experience and best practices of TCP with some core new features. While the first Google-specific versions of QUIC used a custom set-up for this, standardized QUIC uses the existing TLS 1.3 IETF’s QUIC is technically very different from Google’s QUIC. itself directly.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Additional format vs quality comparisons are available for photography and illustrations. While there was no direct method to create or view AVIF files earlier, you can easily do so now with the open-source utilities available. ImageMagick and Paint.net also support AVIF while Photoshop community plugins for AVIF are also available.

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