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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. In fact, choosing the right metric is a process without obvious winners.

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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. 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. With Brad Frost, Stéph Walter and so many others.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. The browser process consists of knowing the device width, checking the sizes attribute, and then choosing from the srcset images the one that has that width. Cache Your Images. Large preview ). The Relation Between Images And Web Performance.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

They all generally are instrumented as JavaScript processes that are loaded onto your site’s web pages through a tag or snippet of loader code. 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.

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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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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

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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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

These numbers are based on first-page load — caching seems very efficient for subsequent page loads. Ideally, the design process should take into account the ways in which clients might wish to share content from social media. Two embeds. Description. JS (uncached). Single embed. Two embeds. But that doesn’t mean they should.

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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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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. This process is easy to integrate with your Django deployment scripts. Performance And Availability. This process is called minification.

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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

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

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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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

JULY 16, 2020

Its performance will depend on how you use React when building it, and on your understanding of how React operates and the process through which components live through the various phases of their lifecycle. During the initial rendering process, React builds a DOM tree of components. You might be asking, “Where do we start?”.

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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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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

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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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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OCTOBER 26, 2018

Recommended reading : WordPress Security As A Process. 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. post_slug || !

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

Development Process. Development Process. Instead, use the getter function because it can be mapped into any vue component using the mapGetters behaving like a computed property with the getters result cached based on its dependencies. Tools And Practices To Speed Up The Vue.js Tools And Practices To Speed Up The Vue.js

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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. Transferring an ArrayBuffer is near-instant and involves a proper transferral of ownership: The sending JavaScript scope loses access to the data in the process. 2021-06-30T12:00:00+00:00. 2021-07-13T02:07:04+00:00.

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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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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

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. Images are processed after all render-blocking and critical resources have already been rendered, and even using preload or loading="eager" won’t change that.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

They’d take the hit for the first site to use the file, but then it would sit in their local browser cache and downloads could be skipped for each subsequent site. File hashing is the process of taking a file and running it through an algorithm that reduces it to a short string representation, known as a hash or checksum.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Now, let’s take a deeper look into the actions and processes we put in place in order to achieve these significant results. So once a certain level of performance is achieved, we want to be able to preserve it without being constantly required to invest additional effort, or slow down the development process. The Wix Challenge.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2019

You’re going to have to go through this same process whether images come from a stock site or from someone’s DSLR. Whether you use the default or your own optimization setting, remember to switch on the additional compression settings available under the Advanced tab. As for dimensions? Source: ImageKit ) ( Large preview ). Add a CDN.

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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. will optimize images dynamically upon request and store them in a local cache. A handy overview on Cloudinary blog.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

This approach was touted to be better for fine-grained caching because each subresource could be cached individually and the full bundle didn’t need to be redownloaded if one of them changed. This retry process best happens, of course, somewhere before the back-end server — for example, at the load balancer.

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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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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The clean-up process typically follows the form below. This is an asynchronous process, and so we used the async/await function, we could have also used the dot then the syntax. The API has been available in React, as an experimental feature, for a while but it became safe to use in React 16.3.0. The useContext Hook.

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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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