Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

A big JavaScript bundle might seem out of place on a magazine that merely publishes articles, but actually, there is plenty of scripting happening behind the scenes. Plus a service worker that caches all static assets and serves them for repeat views, along with cached versions of articles that a reader has already visited.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

On top of this foundation, we add layers of caching, prerendering and edge delivery optimizations — not the other way around. Surveying the existing landscape of available developer tools and runtimes, we felt that there is a gap. Large preview ). This is not a debate about dynamic vs. static. You need both.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

Without build optimizations (incremental builds, caching, we will get to those soon) this will eventually become unmanageable as well — think about going through all images in a website: resizing, deleting, and/or creating new files over and over again. The cache is invalidated on a time basis. Creating an On-Demand builder.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

If you haven’t heard, INP is replacing the First Input Delay (FID) metric, something you can read all about here on Smashing Magazine as a guide to prepare for the change. There’s network timing, navigation timing, resource timing, and plenty of custom reporting features available on top of the Core Web Vitals we’ve looked at.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. Large preview ). Watch out for the Webpack Roadmap 2021.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. Cache Your Images. A website’s performance can suffer if frequently accessed images are not cached, as many requests will be made to images that have already been loaded in the user’s system. Large preview ). The Relation Between Images And Web Performance.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Jump to the workshops ↬ Using CDN For Caching And WebP For Lighter File Sizes As I mentioned a little earlier, our stack includes Sanity’s CMS. It offers a robust content delivery network (CDN) out of the box , which serves two purposes: (1) optimizing image assets and (2) caching them. Let’s see the query caching in action.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It may even be something you do regularly with Lighthouse in Chrome DevTools, where testing is freely available and produces a very attractive-looking report. CrUX is what fuels PSI and Google Search Console, but it is also available in other tools you may already use. Can’t be perfect every time!

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It also opens up the possibility for more effective use of caching strategies, potentially enhancing load times further. Their primary role is to store (or “cache”) copies of web content — like HTML pages, JavaScript files, and multimedia content — and deliver it to users based on their geographic location.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

By stepping back and realizing that the fields available have no special bindings to particular types of data, we can see that this technique is also an effective delivery mechanism for any arbitrary data allowing lots of interesting possibilities. Here are a few that come to mind: Is this request served from the service worker cache?

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Search Engine And Web Archive Cached Results. Another common category of imposter domains are domains used by search engines for delivering cached results or archived versions of page views. Typically, these would be pages that might no longer be available on the site but are available in third-party archives.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

Gael Metais suggested to more aggressively subset web fonts and look into caching issues with our AVIF files. If a browser doesn’t support AVIF, it gets a JPEG file (properly cached), The content negotiation happens via <picture> + srcset in the browser. The next day we subset the fonts and pushed them live.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Usually, the most specific and relevant ones are: 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. Getting started with Webpack can be tough though.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

Browser Caching. Another built-in optimization of Google Fonts is browser caching. As the Google Fonts API becomes more widely used, it is likely visitors to your site or page will already have any Google fonts used in your design in their browser cache. All of the fonts files are available on Github. Limit Font Families.

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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. Long FMP usually indicates JavaScript blocking the main thread, but could be related to back-end/server issues as well.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

These numbers are based on first-page load — caching seems very efficient for subsequent page loads. navigator.share({ title: 'Smashing Magazine', text: 'Web development news and tutorials', url: '[link] }). Two embeds. Description. JS (uncached). Single embed. Two embeds. and simpleshare.io are two of them.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

MB , that suggests I’ve got around 29 pages in my budget, although probably a few more than that if I’m able to stay on the same sites and leverage browser caching. There’s a trade-off to be made here, as external stylesheets can be cached but inline ones cannot (unless you get clever with JavaScript ). Let’s talk about caching.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The solution used in Scrapbook was to use the SWR library of React hooks to update the cached page from the server with client side data fetching. The client is first served the cached statically generated page (generated with getStaticProps() ), in the background the server also begins the process of revalidating that page (read more here ).

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. Performance And Availability. If you’re using a library provided by a third-party CDN, make sure you’re using the minified version of that library if available.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. The flex-grow property with its value of 1 ensures all images expand to fill any available space, while flex-basis makes sure these flex items start from a minimum of 640px; header svg { flex-grow: 1; flex-basis: 640px; } header svg:not(:last-of-type) { margin-right: 2rem; }.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

But this “look” is now available in browsers. Due to the use of modern frameworks, advanced caching and rendering, and data transmission via API, properly developed PWAs can be a seven-league step up to boost the store’s speed. A PWA, on the other hand, is available from the browser at all times. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Nx is an open-source build framework that helps you architect, test, and build at any scale — integrating seamlessly with modern technologies and libraries, while providing a robust command-line interface (CLI), caching, and dependency management. Nx uses distributed graph-based task execution and computation caching to speed up tasks.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Let the web developer handle all of the necessary speed optimizations like caching and file minification while you take on the following design tips and strategies: 1. You can see in his example that he suggests a number of optimizations, like limiting which styles and character sets are available for use on the website. Minification.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

You now have [link] and [link] endpoints available. For that reason, we utilized two WordPress features that can help you out when serving simple JSON data out: Transients API for caching, Loading the minimum necessary WordPress using SHORTINIT constant. This last method is known as the “key caching method”. post_slug || !

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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. I predominantly use Nginx, and I have a particular fondness for FastCGI cache and have found it to be especially efficient. Large preview ). We should use HTTP2 over HTTPS.

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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. You can adjust what browser is used, the kind of network connection to employ, the locations to test from, whether or not the browser’s cache is empty or full, how frequently to take the measurements, and more.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 16, 2020

Instead, use the measurement tools available to analyze the performance of your React app and get a detailed report of what might be slowing it down. and react-native 0.57+, enhanced profiling capabilities are available in developer mode using React Developer Tools Profiler. Measuring Performance. React Developer Tools Profiler.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2021

We can use 11ty’s new Serverless mode to build them on request using Netlify’s On-Demand Builders to cache each Madlib. For example, an “On-Demand Builder” is a serverless function dedicated to serving a cached file. Netlify then caches that page on its edge CDN for each additional call. Large preview ). More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Now there’s a massive range of Jamstack CMSs available, which bring all the advantages of static sites while allowing non-technical folk to update content. I vividly remember receiving a PC Magazine for my birthday with a trial of Dreamweaver. Smashing Magazine powered by Netlify. MovableType really was before its time.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This video game-like environment goes through the service worker lifecycle, intercepting requests, working with caches, and more. There are plenty of other interactive learning tools available, and I’m sure many of you have come across some that you’ve found useful. Image source: Service Workies ). Learn Git Branching. Quick Summary.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

I think this information is both interesting and useful, in particular given the wide variety of framework and platform choices currently available to front-end and fullstack developers. I assume that caching, both in the browser and CDNs, contributes to this as well.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

Partytown works with any HTML page and doesn’t require a specific framework, but there are a few integrations (plugins/wrappers) available, including for Next.js, Nuxt.js, React, and Shopify Hydrogen. document.write() ) known to be harmful to the user experience; Excessive DOM elements or expensive CSS selectors.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

The web is streaming, meaning it has none of the resources locally available when you open an app for the first time. The main thread is responsible for rendering the DOM (via preact and, if available, WebGL) and capturing UI events. 2021-06-30T12:00:00+00:00. 2021-07-13T02:07:04+00:00. Large preview ). The Future.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 18, 2020

Specifically, some icons change between the two platforms, app bar titles are in the middle on iOS and on the left on Android (on the left of the available space in case there is a back button or the button to open a Drawer ( explained here in the Material Design guidelines and also known as a hamburger menu). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

It allows developers to define, handle, and make queries/mutations available within our application. We’ll be learning how to do this with GraphQL Features like Cache Update, Subscriptions, and Optimistic UI. Updating the cache directly using update function on the useMutation. Then we go to our index.js to import and use it.

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