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Optimizing Video For Size And Quality

Smashing Magazine

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. 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. There is a solution though!

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. Here is our (ever-growing!) Plus, at the end, a few bonus Twitter handles to round things out.). Presented here alphabetically by last name: Rachel Andrew.

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Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Smashing Magazine

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. On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. When a website has a prefetch link, the browser will silently download the content and store it within its cache.

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What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites

Smashing Magazine

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. She understood how important mobile page speeds were to the user experience and, by proxy, SEO.

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Measuring Network Performance in Mobile Safari

CSS Wizardry

Same page, same connection speed, same locale, same release year, different devices. What we really want to do, alongside capturing good benchmark- and more permanent data with WebPageTest, is interact with and inspect a site slightly more realtime. Here is how my actual iPhone on a throttled connection deals with my website.

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The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters

Smashing Magazine

This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. 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.

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Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties

Smashing Magazine

Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. Your website may be using more third-party services than you realize. Ken Harker.

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