Smashing Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

architecture is built so it better fits Netlify’s and is available by default to every new project that Netlify can identify is using Next.js. Building performance, deploy performance, caching, developer experience. Our heaviest traffic pages are always ready for our users. On-Demand Builders With Next.js. Build time.

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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

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. Work out what your priorities are, how you can measure progress, and the limitations of the available data. There’s no question that there exist bad websites that perform well, but more and more are weeded out with each update.

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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

APRIL 11, 2022

Of all those options, it’s safe to assume that text is the best choice for LCP performance because it loads and renders fast. These default priorities work reasonably well for most cases, usually resulting in a good performance. Improving Largest Contentful Paint performance. Large preview ). Examples And Use Cases.

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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. It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site.

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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

MARCH 28, 2019

Here’s the problem though: As a website grows in authority and expands its reach, security and performance problems will arise if the hosting configuration isn’t prepared to handle it. For example: An underpowered hosting plan fails to handle influxes of traffic, which leads to slower page speeds and a drop in conversion rates.

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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 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

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

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

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. Skeleton screen examples on Code My UI. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

How To Make Performance Visible With GitLab CI And Hoodoo Of GitLab Artifacts. How To Make Performance Visible With GitLab CI And Hoodoo Of GitLab Artifacts. Performance degradation is a problem we face on a daily basis. Performance is a competitive advantage that can bring and retain customers. Anton Nemtsev.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

There are three web vitals metrics Google uses to measure different aspects of website performance: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), Interaction to Next Paint (INP). That means you need to install an analytics script to collect it, and the reporting that’s available is less detailed than for lab tests.

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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

APRIL 19, 2021

LCP is supposed to measure loading performance and is a good proxy for all the old metrics we in the performance community used to use (i.e. Google uses anonymized data from Chrome users to feedback metrics and makes these available in the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX). Previous Web Performance Metrics.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You may have a lean, agile, responsive site design only to find it gradually loaded down with more and more “extras” that are often put onto the site by marketing departments or business leaders who are not always thinking about website performance. They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Often they make it seem as if HTTP/3 is a revolution in performance, while it is really a more modest (yet still useful!) It was heralded as an amazing performance revolution, with exciting new features such as server push, parallel streams, and prioritization. HTTP/3 performance features ( coming up soon! ).

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

If after the previous two parts — HTTP/3 history and core concepts and HTTP/3 performance features — you’re convinced that starting to use the new protocols is a good idea (and you should be!), HTTP/3 performance features. Note that there is an Apache Traffic Server implementation, though.).

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 21, 2023

They were designed to provide a way to execute JavaScript code in the background, separate from the main execution thread of a web page, in order to improve performance and responsiveness. Web Workers are designed to perform tasks that do not require direct access to the UI, such as data processing, image manipulation, or calculations.

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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.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Throughout the experiment I will suggest performance tips to speed up the first contentful paint and perceived loading time of the page. Performance Tip #1: Inline Critical CSS. Performance Tip #2: Minify And Uglify Your Assets. Performance Tip #3: Less Is More. Performance Tip #4: Compress Text-based Assets.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. Every web performance story is similar, isn’t it? A day when a project, fully polished and carefully optimized, gets launched, ranking high and soaring above performance scores in Lighthouse and WebPageTest. Vitaly Friedman.

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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. You could leave your application like this, but it’s not performant (we discuss performance tips and tricks in one of the next parts of the article) and looks quite messy, to be honest. There is a better way.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome and focusing around performance for decades. Some of the biggest size savings and performance improvements can come through a better image optimization strategy. Image Decoding Performance. +.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome who was working all around web performance for decades. Some of the biggest size savings and performance improvements can come through a better image optimization strategy. Image Decoding Performance. +.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Making performance improvements to a client’s site could result in happier clients who send more business our way. Asim talked about Performance Mode in Microsoft Edge: switching on Performance Mode means users get a faster website, while also saving resources. Terabyte of wasted traffic. The Bigger Picture. With approx.

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