Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The fact that INP is already available in performance reports means we have an opportunity to familiarize ourselves with it today, in advance of its release. In other words, the data is not looking at your actual web traffic but a simulated environment that gives you an approximate view of traffic when certain conditions are in place.

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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

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. Code My UI has some excellent code snippets available that you can use to create a skeleton screen for your PWA. Optimizing Based On Network Usage. Cache first, then network.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Even with all of the available tools at my disposal, I still find myself reaching for several of them. The other issue is that the data I’m getting back is based on lab simulations where I can add throttling, determine the device that’s used, and the network connection, among other simulated conditions. Lighthouse results.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

For example: An underpowered hosting plan fails to handle influxes of traffic, which leads to slower page speeds and a drop in conversion rates. Occasional downtime on the website leaves visitors wondering if it’s even worth going to the site if its availability is unreliable. Dedicated Hosting. VPS Hosting. Apache vs. nginx.

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Let’s look at it for a site that’s much “heavier” than Smashing Magazine. We can expand the metric to glean insights into what exactly is causing traffic on the main thread. But does it need to be available immediately ? We want fewer cars on the road to alleviate traffic on the main thread. Large preview ) There we go.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

We’ve published a whole article just about that , but here’s the high-level breakdown along with the pros and cons of each one: Synthetic Tests These tests are run on-demand in a controlled lab environment in a fixed location with a fixed network and device speed. They can produce very detailed reports and recommendations.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google uses anonymized data from Chrome users to feedback metrics and makes these available in the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX). CrUX data is available in a number of tools, including in Google Search Console for your site. That data is what they are using to measure these three metrics for the search rankings.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It also, however, takes a full network round trip to complete before anything else can be done on a connection. For example, if the device is a firewall, it might be configured to block all traffic containing (unknown) extensions. and lower), this typically takes two network round trips. What is so different?

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. Servers and Networks. Network Configuration.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. If your average visitor is on a fast cabled or cellular network, they probably won’t benefit from the new protocols all that much. An often used metaphor is that of a pipe used to transport water. Congestion Control.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this case, we are not going to be talking about infrastructure services, such as a cloud computing platform like Microsoft Azure or a content distribution network like Akamai. And JavaScript can certainly make requests for additional network resources. Sometimes, the visitor’s browser itself can be the origin of network activity.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. As for mobile network connection type, 84.7% Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Ukraine follow at $0.27, $0.49

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 21, 2023

This is particularly important for web applications that experience high traffic or demand, as Web Workers can help to ensure that the application can handle an increased load without impacting performance. Handling Network Requests Let us consider a scenario where a web application needs to initiate a significant number of network requests.

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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. This strategy is very simple and closely resembles the development environment, but cannot handle large or inconsistent amounts of traffic effectively. Media Files.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

We need a new breed of CMS — one that can make content available through any channel at which point a Headless CMS is required. The API makes contents available through any channel and on any device using most favorite tools and programming languages plus it also provides a higher level of security and much better scalability.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Instead, you migrate application bit-by-bit and make those new bits available to your users as soon as they are ready. Microservices architecture is a set of independent services that are all connected into a network. From now on, we’re directing HTTP traffic to our React subfolder. Large preview ).

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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. The reasons for it are numerous, but the most important one is a huge difference in network conditions and device hardware across the world.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +. Downloading files such as images or videos over the network can be slow and costly. HTTP caching, service workers, image spriting, and preloading help optimize network requests. Image Content Delivery Networks. +. Large view. Table Of Contents. Print + eBook.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +. Downloading files such as images or videos over the network can be slow and costly. HTTP caching, service workers, image spriting, and preloading help optimize network requests. Image Content Delivery Networks. +. Large view. Table Of Contents.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. Layout Shift GIF Generator that visualizes CLS with a simple GIF (also available from the command line). Large preview ).

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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. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

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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. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g.

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