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Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores

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PageSpeed Compare is a page speed evaluation and benchmarking tool. It graphs server, network, CSS, Javascript, critical content, and image optimizations to show the potential savings you could gain by incorporating fixes into your site. Network and CPU are throttled for lab data tests for more realistic conditions.

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Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1)

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With entrance into the industry being so easy and lack of proper benchmarking (Note: this is somewhat contradictory to point 2, but more on that later) around what makes a good designer, software engineer, or product manager, we’re forced to face the facts that it’s a recipe for poor quality products. Community is everything in the industry.

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Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study)

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Today, the website is much faster and ranks highly in various showcases and benchmarks. Many of them are covered in CSS-Tricks’ helpful overview , and Smashing Magazine offers a great PDF checklist. The waterfall of network activity helped a lot here, but so did thinking of user flows. Large preview ).

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The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters

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The gotcha here is that, if your mobile experience isn’t optimized for various devices and network conditions, these customers will never appear in your analytics — just because your website or app will be barely usable on their devices, and so they are unlikely to return. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

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Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. Vitaly is a co-founder of the Smashing Magazine brand. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine until October 2017 when he passed the baton to the remarkable Rachel Andrew. Rachel Andrew. Vitaly Friedman. Rick Viscomi.

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Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

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Every unnecessary bit of JavaScript code you bundle and serve will be more code the client has to load and process. The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. How will you serve blazingly fast code, then? Medium Homepage.

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Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties

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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. In many cases, they can be super convenient to add or remove without having to push code changes to the site. More after jump! Jump to table of contents ?.

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