Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Vitaly is a co-founder of the Smashing Magazine brand.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

How To Benchmark And Improve Web Vitals With Real User Metrics. How To Benchmark And Improve Web Vitals With Real User Metrics. Different products will have different benchmarks and two apps may perform differently against the same metrics, but still rank quite similarly to our subjective “good” and “bad” verdicts.

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Benchmarking Metrics Best Practices Monitoring 116

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. Agustinus Theodorus. 2022-09-27T14:00:00+00:00. 2022-09-27T16:33:12+00:00. When it comes to performance, you shouldn’t be stingy.

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Performance Cache Servers Social Media 125

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

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. Alright, enough doom and gloom.

Design 126

Design Social Media Website Best Practices 126

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

It means adopting common software development practices. Google has one , too. When you create a linter, you are setting a benchmark of quality for your documentation. Automating documentation and improving documentation workflow fixes this. Automating Documentation From a High Level. What does automating documentation mean?

Development 119

Development Benchmarking Code Engineering 119

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. The project consisted of upgrading the shop software to our own open-source system and redoing the shop’s front end from scratch. Today, the website is much faster and ranks highly in various showcases and benchmarks.

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 115

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). For each of them, Google recommends a range of acceptable speed goals.

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