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The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters

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If you’d like to dive deeper into the performance of Android and iOS devices, you can check Geekbench Android Benchmarks for Android smartphones and tablets, and iOS Benchmarks for iPhones and iPads. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known. Testing the Smashing Magazine website on different devices. Conclusion.

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Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study)

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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. Many of them are covered in CSS-Tricks’ helpful overview , and Smashing Magazine offers a great PDF checklist.

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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. Sergey is an open source developer, tireless educator on performance topics, and author of many web performance-related tools, including ShowSlow , SVN Assets , drop-in.htaccess and more. Rachel Andrew. Vitaly Friedman.

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40+ Best Web Development Blogs of 2018

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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. Smashing Magazine Smashing Magazine is an established resource for those who want to master the front end.

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Optimizing Video For Size And Quality

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To figure out what exactly is the problem, we can use FFMPEG , which is open source and free, and proves to be one of the most reliable tools to optimize videos. In FFMPEG, the principal quality/size benchmark is the Constant Rate Factor (CRF) compression, with values ranging from 0 (no compression) to 50 (high compression).

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Performance budgets in action

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Benchmark a variety of metrics and choose a target of 20% faster or less resources. SpeedCurve's Benchmark dashboard is a great way to see how you compare to your competitors for setting budgets. In the chart below, we can see why Smashing Magazine is so much faster - they're simply delivering a lot less JavaScript. Speed Index.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

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And now we are even changing the change ! […] Benchmarking is that part of the design process where you ask how an existing system is performing against agreed performance requirements set at the scoping stage of the design process. Further Reading on Smashing Magazine. Stay tuned!