Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

Let’s write a script that allows us to measure performance, a11y, best practices, and provide us with an SEO score. There are performance score, a11y score, best practices score, SEO score. title, value: report.categories['best-practices'].score, title, value: report.categories['best-practices'].score,

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Now, let’s dive into the technical features and best practices that my team adopted in the process of building the WaterBear web app. I plan on sharing specifically what I learned from performance and accessibility practices as a first-time lead developer of a team , as well as what I wish I had known before we started.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Smaller HTML means less time for Google to download and process those long strings of text. In this article, I’ll explain: how we found the HTML size is too big; how it got reduced; the benefits of this process (i.e. That way, the user can start the process of painting the largest content paint ASAP. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

That is why Twitter places so much emphasis on a strong image optimization process. The eBook is available right away (PDF, ePUB, Amazon Kindle). eBook is already available as PDF, ePUB, and Amazon Kindle. Tweets are often accompanied by images to illustrate, amuse, and increase user engagement. Get the book right away.

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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. Third-party resource requests can impact the user experience in several different ways, depending on whether they load early in the page load process or after the page is mostly complete. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

That is why Twitter places so much emphasis on a strong image optimization process. eBook is available, too as PDF, ePUB, and Amazon Kindle. Promoting best practices and providing you with practical tips to master your daily coding and design challenges has always been (and will be) at the core of everything we do at Smashing.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

Tools And Practices To Speed Up The Vue.js Development Process. Tools And Practices To Speed Up The Vue.js Development Process. Throughout this tutorial, we will be looking at practices that should be adopted, things that should be avoided, and have a closer look at some helpful tools to make writing Vue.js

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

However, achieving a good LCP score is often a multi-faceted process that involves optimizing several stages of loading and rendering. HTML Processing Once a web page’s HTML file has been downloaded, the browser begins to process the contents line by line, translating code into the visual website that users interact with.

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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? Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

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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-based frameworks like React made the process of developing web applications streamlined and efficient, for better or worse.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

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. For the more adventurous/technical, the top (table of processes) command provides similar metrics on most Unix-like operating systems such as macOS and Ubuntu. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Micro-optimizations are great for keeping performance on track, but it’s critical to have clearly defined targets in mind — measurable goals that would influence any decisions made throughout the process. Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

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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? Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

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. This is currently the best use-case for fetchpriority. to display the content on the screen. Resource Priorities Defaults. Examples And Use Cases.

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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. SRI does a good job of adopting the simplest — file hashing. This is followed by a dash and then the hash itself, encoded with base64.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

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. However, due to run times, it is not advisable to cover every single available workflow. Example: Finding My Articles in Smashing Magazine. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

Before bringing up the refactoring proposal to the management and stakeholders, it can be useful to back up the suggestion with some hard data about the codebase health — not only to convince the management department, but also have a measurable goal for the refactoring process. Preparation And Planning.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2021

An expected behavior of your app is that once the authentication condition is met, a new set of navigation routes are available only to logged-in users, while the other screens which were displayed before authentication is removed and can’t be returned to unless the user signs out of the application. our entire process is finished.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

There is also the matter of convincing the management or project stakeholders to invest the time and resources into the refactoring process. 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.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2018

You’ll also see that the closest store’s hours are posted and boldly tell me how quickly I can have any products available in store. As I peruse the rest of the site, I will receive relevant information regarding in-store product availability, buy-online-pick-up-in-store options, and so on. Source: BarkBox ) ( Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2021

With 100s of real-life examples , guidelines and best practices that you can apply right away. A freely available online version of the classic reference book, The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. Not strictly aimed at copywriters but still a good overview of the steps in the writing process. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Web scraping is the practice of extracting large amounts of web data through the use of software. So, in essence, it’s a way to automate the tedious process of hitting ‘copy’ and then ‘paste’ 200 times. With 100s of real-life examples , guidelines and best practices that you can apply right away. You’re about to find out!

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Understanding the myriad of image format options out there today can be a confusing process, but you may find Cloudinary’s comparison of modern image formats helpful: There are plenty of format options for images. now includes an Image component with several of the above best practices baked in. Large preview ). Image Component.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Out With The Old Process. If we look at the current process most companies employ today, it can be pretty tedious with some obvious flaws. Listing the process out is long-winded, but luckily it only needs to be done once (we hope): A preview of the common processes for creating and updating components. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The right tools at the right time, help streamline the design process. User experience research is a crucial component of the human-centered design process. But how do you tackle the task and integrate a UX research process into your team’s workflow? In the worst case, customers might even abandon the process.

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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

JULY 6, 2021

Moving to a headless CMS is not an easy decision and the selection process should not be taken lightly. We’ve explored the concepts behind headless CMSes in detail here on Smashing Magazine, but let’s do a quick recap. But where do they preview the content before it is made available to the general public? Enterprise features.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Ethics are an important part of human-computer interaction because they keep people at the heart of the design process. Unethical practices at companies lead to the creation of technology that we all use but often neglect the influence of those intended to serve. A Code Of Ethics: The Backbone Of Ethical Practice. Devin Harold.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

It is recommended to follow rules and best practices of building and sending emails. The trick is that different email clients use different rendering engines — this means that there is no standard for processing email templates. Correct Email Testing Process. How can we address these challenges? Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The data will be available to any of our templates and pages under the madlibs key. // Get our utilities const client = require('./utils/sanityClient') Any frontend framework will work with 11ty if you set up a build process. Since our rich text is stored as Portable Text JSON, we need a way to convert the data to HTML.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

If the product is high quality and makes the company money, that’s when the company is swayed to adopt the practice. To humanize the decision-making process and get executives and colleagues on board by showing them what struggles are faced on a daily basis by disabled users using inaccessible products.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Whether you’re just starting out with Figma or have been using it for a good while now, this post will give you just enough pointers to make your design process faster and smoother. Annotating a design with detailed measurements and specs to help the developers in charge make sense of it all can be a time-consuming process.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

This type of setup is especially useful for companies that have multiple sites and want to reduce costs or simplify processes. It is intended to make development easier and simplify the process of creating a site, as well as scaling it. Headless CMS architecture ( Large preview ). This architecture is also known as Jamstack.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is a bit more difficult to explain, because it depends on the physical properties of the medium (for example, the used frequency of radio waves), the number of users on the network, and also the devices that interconnect different subnetworks (because they typically can only process a certain number of packets per second).

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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

AUGUST 9, 2021

We would have been able to stop bundling resources, stop sharding our resources across multiple servers, and heavily streamline the page-loading process. The key takeaway here is that what we needed was not really HTTP/3, but rather “TCP/2” , and we got HTTP/3 “for free” in the process. As such, the differences between HTTP/1.1

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