Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). Work out what your priorities are, how you can measure progress, and the limitations of the available data. Google Keyword Planner. Google Trends. Google Mobile-Friendly Test.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

If you are just starting out wondering if someone might be re-publishing your web content, the easiest thing to do is a Google search. Copy a ten or twelve-word sentence from a page of interest on your site into the Google search bar, put it inside double-quotes, and click on Search. How To Track Suspicious Activity. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

For this, you can use such well-known tools as Semrush and SimilarWeb and reviews from Trustpilot , Google Play , and Apple’s App Store. For user feedback on edX, I went to Trustpilot (Google Play and the App Store are relevant only for analyzing mobile apps). edX analysis on Google PageSpeed ( Large preview ). Take SimilarWeb.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks. How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks. In particular, the increase in the amount of downloaded JavaScript can have a direct impact on website performance. Dan Shappir. 2022-05-12T09:30:00+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals Matt Zeunert 2024-04-16T10:00:00+00:00 2024-04-16T12:05:36+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative has increased the attention website owners need to pay to user experience.

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CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Google has a pretty tight grip on the tech industry: it makes by far the most popular browser with the best DevTools, and the most popular search engine, which means that web developers spend most of their time in Chrome, most of their visitors are in Chrome, and a lot of their search traffic will be coming from Google. Chrome for iOS?

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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. With performance at the forefront of my mind, I decided to head over to MDN for a fresh look at the Performance API.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

We work with millions of merchants, and as many companies, we obsess about storefront performance. We obsess even more about finding the optimal balance between performance, capabilities, and merchants’ business objectives. Surveying the existing landscape of available developer tools and runtimes, we felt that there is a gap.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). It was at this point that we realized we needed to make a significant change in our approach towards performance, and that we must embrace performance as part of our culture. Dan Shappir. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. It’s fair to say Google Fonts are popular. Without Google Fonts you would be limited to the handful of “ system fonts ” installed on your user’s device. Like all good things, Google Fonts do come with a cost. Danny Cooper.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2018

In this article, I will introduce the subject of competitive analysis , which is basically a method to determine how well your competitors are performing. It should be useful if you are new to product design, UX, interaction or digital design, or if you have experience in these fields but have not performed a competitive analysis before.

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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. Of all those options, it’s safe to assume that text is the best choice for LCP performance because it loads and renders fast.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Hence, they can’t be promoted separately or found by users who’ve input a search query in Google. As shown on the screenshots below, the product page of the store can be found via Google. PWAs don’t require installation from the App Store or Google Play to the device to be used (like native apps do). You need a site for that.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

In my last article , I suggested using the SaveData API to deliver a different, more performant, experience to users that expressed that desire. That user preference is available in two (hopefully soon to be three!) This is available behind a flag in Chrome, but not yet on by default while it finishes standardization.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. Can’t be perfect every time!

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

To understand touchscreen performance, Steven undertook several studies and found that popular notions of touch accuracy and preferred touch regions are wrong. The eBook is available right away (PDF, ePUB, Amazon Kindle). eBook is already available as PDF, ePUB, and Amazon Kindle. menus, lists, floating bars, tabs).

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

You can find a comprehensive Beginner’s Guide To Progressive Web Apps on Smashing Magazine that focuses on building the core of PWAs. The following qualities are considered great additions to the basic PWA by Google developers. By default, PWAs have greater performance over similar native apps due to their lite nature.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

If you’re reading this before March 2024 and fire up your favorite performance monitoring tool, you’re going to to get a Core Web Vitals report like this one pulled from PageSpeed Insights: ( Large preview ) You’re likely used to seeing most of these metrics. INP will officially replace FID when it becomes an official Core Web Vital metric.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. Large preview ) We’ve known for a long time that fast page performance influences search engine rankings.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Fashion magazines are launching electronic retail sites. Apple is now in the greeting card business, Google in travel. Nor should they on a technology utility. At the same time, firms invest in themselves through technology. Airlines are pursuing new revenue streams with captive in-flight technology.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. But not everything about performance happens directly at the code level, right?

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

To run this series of tests, we have signed up for all of the 32 web hosting providers as a regular user, using the cheapest plan available. Tools like Pingdom or Appoptics APM let you regularly check if a website or app is available.) Uptime guarantee available: SiteGround is a hosting provider with an excellent uptime score.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 18, 2020

On the other hand, for simple key-value storage that also works on the web, there’s a cross-platform Google-developed first-party plugin package called shared_preferences , which has a Web-specific component called shared_preferences_web which uses NSUserDefaults , SharedPreferences or localStorage depending on the platform.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

That is why eye-tracking can and should be combined with other methodologies such as surveys, Thinking Aloud (when users verbalize what goes through their mind while performing a task during a usability test), and click rate to provide valuable insights for the researcher. The metrics available in eye-tracking can vary from tool to tool.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Large preview ) I don’t know about you, but it often feels like I’m missing something when measuring page speed performance. Even with all of the available tools at my disposal, I still find myself reaching for several of them. Not the best way to get a high-level view of performance. Lighthouse results.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). In this second part, we will zoom in on the performance improvements that QUIC and HTTP/3 bring to the table for web-page loading. HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). Robin Marx. 2021-08-23T06:20:00+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

If you’re creating tons and tons of DOM elements and doing a lot of real-time updates, you might or might not run into performance challenges. Mike: I haven’t seen a performance issue ever. is performance right at the box. There’s accessibility, best practices, performance and one fourth one. It’s concern. Drew: Yes.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Shopify Themes (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Shopify Themes (Case Study). Code evolves over time with more features, new or changing dependencies, or maybe a goal of performance improvements. Better performance across the board. Carson Shold. 2021-05-06T11:00:00+00:00.

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Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

One of the great things about Google's Core Web Vitals is that they provide a standard way to measure our visitors’ experience. The screenshots from What Hifi (a UK audio-visual magazine) illustrate this problem. You can also create performance budgets and get alerts when they exceed their thresholds.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

The average user doesn’t spend much time waiting for a web page to load or to interact with the page: According to Google, if a page’s load time goes up from 1 second to 3 seconds, the probability of the user bouncing increases by 32%. However, it’s not always easy to maintain high performance in websites. The JavaScript Tax.

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Performance budgets are an important tool for ensuring your site is delivering a great user experience. Steve first experienced performance budgets while Head Performance Engineer at Google. The practice of using budgets to track performance took off with Tim Kadlec's blog post Setting a Performance Budget.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 13, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. In pre-war American advertising agencies, the job of a layout artist was simply to place headlines, copy, and images into available space, but that changed after WW2 with an influx of immigrant designers from Europe. U&lc (Uppercase and lowercase) magazine by Herb Lubalin.

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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. Both for Google bots (SEO) and to actual clients. Google’s amount of time and resources to crawling a site is commonly called the site’s crawl budget.” — “ Advanced SEO ,” Google Search Central Documentation.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. However, just as out-of-control spending bodes ill in the long run, so does unbudgeted digital media decimate site performance. Performance Budgets. “A A performance budget is ‘. Business Performance. Akshay Ranganath.

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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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KeyCDN

JANUARY 16, 2019

Furthermore, trying to accommodate everyone often leads to cluttered markup that negatively impacts performance. Client hints were introduced by Google for Chrome, and other browsers have adopted (or in the process of adopting) them since the HTTP specification was released. What Are Client Hints? How Do Client Hints Work?

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