CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Every browser available on iOS is simply a wrapper around Safari. Network Link Conditioner. In there, you should find a tool called Network Link Conditioner. Here is how my actual iPhone on a throttled connection deals with my website. In short, it’s easy to see why Safari gets left out in the cold. Why This Is a Problem.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Real-life performance for your users and how the website “feels” when you’re using it should not be discounted, even if it costs you a point or two in Page Speed (otherwise, we would all just have a search bar and unstyled text). Today, the website is much faster and ranks highly in various showcases and benchmarks. Large preview ).

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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. There’s a handy calculator linked up in the report summary that lets you adjust performance values to see how they impact the overall score. Can’t be perfect every time!

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. But as it stands, websites are growing ever more obese, which means that the energy demand of the Internet is continuing to grow exponentially. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Third-party Javascript accounts for a lot of bloat on websites, with analytics, chatbots, and embedded widgets being common contributors. I also became interested in this analysis of the COP26 website by Fershad Irani, which shows many things that could be improved to reduce the site’s (relatively large) carbon footprint. Webmentions.

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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. This way, you’ll not only have the information you need to read your performance reports come March 2024 but can proactively prepare your website for the change.

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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. In other words, PWAs are websites that users can use as stand-alone applications. The web app manifest is the core for making a website run as a stand-alone application in full-screen mode.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

This space can act as its own website — not tied to anything. This approach, however, is far from perfect as there is a delay between the page’s first render and the wildcard being available. Fortunately, the same request object we discussed in the above section on getServerSideProps is also available when using a Node.js

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 23, 2022

Some answers from the community surprised me, as they’ve included some very useful and often-requested CSS features which were made available in the past year or two. See the Pen [all property]([link] by Adrian Bece. See the Pen [all property - revert-layer]([link] by Adrian Bece. So, let’s get started! all Property.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

It also includes a handy CSS reference, a web development experiment playground, tutorials, blueprints to get started from and Collective - a digital design magazine that makes it easy to keep up with trends. Visit website 2. Visit website 3. Visit website 4. Visit website 5. Visit website 6.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

All of these techniques basically involve setting aside the correct amount of space before additional content is loaded — whether that is media or JavaScript-injected content, but there’s a few different options available to web developers to do this. Smashing Magazine article with fallback font and with full web fonts.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. Win, win, win.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. In another tab, load [link]. The Smashing team has done a lot to make a fast website, so even a fresh load (though this experiment may not be a completely fresh load if you came to this article from the home page).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

In the second stage, I weighed edX’s website against the 10 usability heuristics identified by Jacob Nielsen. They are visiting various websites, looking for a course that grabs their attention. Problem 1: “Can I Trust This Website?”. The heuristic states that all information valuable to a user should always be available.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

It has never been easier to build a personalized website, digitalize a product and start seeing results. Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

As of writing, they have been viewed over 29 trillion times across the web and it’s easy to understand why — the collection gives you access to over 900 beautiful fonts you can use on your website for free. Without Google Fonts you would be limited to the handful of “ system fonts ” installed on your user’s device. Thin Italic (100i).

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

By running basic optimizations of our videos before adding them to our websites, we can prevent these issues from occurring for good — well, most of them. It’s not uncommon to find websites with extremely large videos — for example, used used as hero background videos. There is a solution though! Real-World Data. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

As stated, it’s a lightweight library that’s quickly installed over the terminal, and can be used to set up configure-domain, deploy static or serverless websites — all done on the terminal. Serverless UI also works great with any static website, and websites that use serverless functions to handle requests to some sort of API.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

The Core Web Vitals are a set of three metrics designed to measure the “core” experience of whether a website feels fast or slow to the users, and so gives a good experience. This second metric measures the time between when the user interacts with a page, clicking on a link or a button for example, and when the browser processes that click.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

I tried with loads of websites to see how they behave in iframe. I observed that most of the websites don’t work in iframe due to x-frame-options and content-security-policy headers. Now the Selenium WebDriver is being used as it provides support for the mobile experience and dynamic websites. the New-Header. Limitations.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 22, 2020

After moving from Switzerland to the United States, Erik Nitsche for magazines including Harper’s Bazaar, Life, and Vanity Fair. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. From left: Rivoluzione Industriale magazine, 1960. Imbalaggio magazine cover, 1955–65. And that’s something I try to remember every day. Left: Didot.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2023

file: module.exports = { plugins: [ { resolve: `gatsby-transformer-remark`, options: { }, }, ], }; Restart the development server and navigate to [link] graphql in the browser. The gatsby-remark-images plugin is capable of processing Markdown images, making them available when querying the Markdown from the data layer.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 16, 2019

Web scraping is a way to grab data from websites without needing access to APIs or the website’s database. Using Google, you can see there are several sites that will list these movies by name, and maybe some additional information, but generally you’ll have to follow through with links to capture all the information you want.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2021

GraphicSurf’s official website. Please note that this set is available for download on graphicsurf.com and is royalty-free for use in both personal and commercial projects. A preview of the set. Large preview ). A preview of the set. Large preview ). Download The Icon Set For Free. Download the COVID-19 icons pack (free, ZIP, 3.5

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Let’s look at it for a site that’s much “heavier” than Smashing Magazine. But does it need to be available immediately ? That’s because preconnect is a value on the rel attribute that’s used on a <link> tag. You can see that Lighthouse does indeed provide that metric. Large preview ) There we go. Probably not.

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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 24, 2021

In short, we are linking a “magical” viewport dimension value to element dimensions value. Example of how media query cannot be reliably linked to element dimensions. See the Pen [Product cards - various containers]([link] by Adrian Bece. It’s still in development and is not currently available. Browser Support.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

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 project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? Layout Shift GIF Generator that visualizes CLS with a simple GIF (also available from the command line). Image source ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2021

Two versions available: Designers can use the Flagpack in Figma and Sketch, developers can install it directly within their code project (React, Vue, and Svelte are supported). Six different styles are available, abstract patterns just like friendly smileys. No more boring business websites! A friendly little detail.

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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). Since implementing these changes, we have seen a dramatic improvement in the performance of websites built and hosted on our platform. Dan Shappir. 2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-22T11:06:56+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

It always starts with the long-awaited website overhaul. 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. There wasn’t really a shortage of tools available, so we’ve tested a few and decided to run a few tests.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

JavaScript, CSS, images, iframes, and other resources impact how quickly website loads, renders and becomes usable to the user. It’s common knowledge that better website performance results in more conversions, more traffic, and better user experience. See the Pen [Example - without fetch priority]([link] by Adrian Bece.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

That’s approximately 35 hours 32 minutes of downtime per year, per website. 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. After that, we set up a basic WordPress website and start monitoring them with Pingdom.com. MidPhase.com.

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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 9, 2021

For some websites this works, but for others (such as Hack Club’s Scrapbook , a site built by @lachlanjc that I help maintain), the user expects the data to be kept up to date. For this we’re going to build a website that shows how many taxis are available in Singapore (where I live!) Using SWR With Next.js Project Structure.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

Lazy loading is a way to improve the performance of a website or web application by maximizing the rendering speed of the above-the-fold images and iframes (and sometimes videos) by deferring the loading of below-the-fold content. Your website will gradually benefit from it as support arrives to your users in most modern browsers.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 28, 2020

Depending on the OpenType features available in the font you’ve chosen, you can also improve tabular data readability by specifying lining rather than old-style numerals. The extra space available on medium-size screens allows me to introduce more of the vertical stripe motif, which is inspired by Emmett McBain’s original design.

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