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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rachel Andrew.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). How well does a typeface work and perform against another similar typeface? Reasons To Measure The Performance Of Typefaces? Measuring Typefaces And The Resulting Performance Data. Thomas Bohm.

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40+ Best Web Development Blogs of 2018

KeyCDN

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

Smashing Magazine

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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The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters

Smashing Magazine

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. Performing Mobile Web Testing. billion by 2026.

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Performance budgets in action

Speed Curve

Performance budgets are an important tool for ensuring your site is delivering a great user experience. Steve first experienced performance budgets while Head Performance Engineer at Google. The practice of using budgets to track performance took off with Tim Kadlec's blog post Setting a Performance Budget.

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Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties

Smashing Magazine

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. Measuring Performance Impact. You cannot always anticipate what you cannot control.

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