Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

A cornerstone of our business model lies in the development of effective landing pages. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. SEO is key to our success. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Missing Cache Settings – Make sure you cache resources that don’t change often on the browser or use a CDN. I’m sure your frontend developers already have their tools and techniques in place. Missing caching layers, e.g. provide a read-only cache for static data. Impressive results I have to say!

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. It’s inherently tied to everything we build and develop.

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The Polyglot Developer

MARCH 25, 2019

As you know, The Polyglot Developer is a static generated website that is built with Hugo. Given the nature of static generated websites, they are generally much faster than the CMS alternatives, but just because they’re fast, doesn’t mean they pass all of Google’s tests by default.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Last year, Google started emphasizing the importance of Core Web Vitals and how they reflect a person’s real experience when visiting sites around the web. It wasn’t long before a sea of red “poor” and yellow “needs improvement” notices in our Google Search Console needed our attention. How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what strategies should be used to fix them. Establish a performance culture. Large preview ).

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ACM Sigarch

JULY 17, 2023

One such challenge has been the emergence of marginal defect-driven faults that are difficult to address solely using best practices in manufacturing test and screening. AVF modeling was developed for such faults. We first frame the problem statement and highlight the importance of fault root causes.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

The upside to using third-party services on your site is that you do not need to develop everything you want to do yourself. For developers who know enough JavaScript to be dangerous. The most popular, by far, is the Google Lighthouse report (available in Chrome Developer Tools) and Google’s Page Speed Insights.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what loading patterns should be used to fix them. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Establish a performance culture. thanks, Guy Podjarny!

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what loading patterns should be used to fix them. The former is particularly useful during development as it will help you identify, isolate and fix performance issues while working on the product. Establish a performance culture.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

The final prompt for a more aggressive optimization was the “Core Web Vitals” dashboard in the Google Search Console. We first thought that it could be related to the cookie banner adjustments we made recently, but it turned out it was a Google Search Update that seemed to be more aggressively penalizing us for a high CLS.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

These metrics are used by Google to evaluate the quality of user experience. Since recently becoming a ranking factor, this major web performance KPI is still a new concept for many web developers. To address this problem, I’ll provide an overview of the best practices for the integration and optimization of an LCP image.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The community even developed a boatload of plugins to manage various tools and services; this includes comprehensive management of CDNs such as Cloudflare, Fastly, Akamai, and many others, allowing businesses to integrate and automate their content delivery mechanisms seamlessly.‍Background‍The ‍Why Manage Infrastructure by Code?

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

Perhaps this is a best practice even for those using Save Data, as perhaps they’re unaware or had forgotten that they turned this setting on, and so are getting a different experience. These allow web developers to change their websites, based on various user preferences: prefers-reduced-motion.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

As web developers, it’s understandable to feel that this is not an issue over which we have any influence, but this isn’t true. Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

Loading experience is crucial to the user’s first impression and overall usability, so Google defined Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric to measure how quickly the main content loads and is displayed to the user. We are loading the following resources: Google Fonts Stylesheet. Script (async), Media and images, SVG document.

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Media Tuning Metrics Google 71

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This means that with Terraform, you can manage resources across multiple cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and more, using a single tool.‍A Being open-source, Terraform invited a vast community of developers and companies to rally around it. Easy MaintenanceWhen we say “easy maintenance,” it’s not a vague promise.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Recently Grigorik has been championing this approach and the Google Pagespeed Insight rules have been updated to reflect this best practice with recommendations on how to reduce the size of "above the fold" content. All CMS's should be offering this level of image manipulation and caching. Source: SpeedCurve.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

It’s an initiative by Google to share unified guidance for quality signals that can be key to delivering a great user experience on the web. CWV is part of a set of page experience signals Google Search will be evaluating for ranking. From Speed at Scale with Katie Hempenius and I at Google I/O. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Most sites were all hosted on a single physical server somewhere on our own hosting infrastructure, and it was the server we thought about defending when it came to security best practices. Googling for your own platform of choice with SRI or Sub Resource Integrity will likely point you in the right direction.

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Website Servers Code Best Practices 59

Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

For developers. The Traditional CMS tries and succeeds in many ways to serve the needs of the developer, content author, and marketer. If you see authors turning to other authoring tools such as Google Docs for its commenting or suggestions capabilities, it may be a red flag as to what features you are missing. Omnichannel.

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Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Performance optimization is the Rodney Dangerfield of web development–it “don’t get no respect” In spite of its great importance in the overall user experience, it is all too often pushed aside and treated as an afterthought. Google’s results were perhaps even more startling. Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

We last talked to him in July 2020 , where we asked if modern best practices about for the web. Last time we talked, we posed this question of if modern best practices, the use of reactive frameworks and these sorts of things were actually bad for the progress of the web. Drew: You want it to remain unspoiled.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. This is because, as I stated in the introduction to part 1 , much of the early HTTP/2 content was overly optimistic about how well it would work in practice, and some of it, quite frankly, had major mistakes and bad advice.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Drew McLellan talks to developer Matthew Phillips to find out. Drew McLellan: He’s an engineer at Skypack and a major contributor to a new project called Astro, which aims to combine performance best practices with the developer experience improvements we see from component based approaches. Drew McLellan. Show Notes.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This part is a bit more technical than the first, though it offloads most of the really deep stuff to outside sources, focusing on explaining why these things matter to the average web developer. As such, tuning congestion logic is usually only done by a select few developers, and evolution is slow. What does it all mean?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

This series is aimed mainly at web developers who do not necessarily have a deep knowledge of protocols and would like to learn more. However, many other devices are sitting between the client and the server that also have their own TCP code on board (examples include firewalls, load balancers, routers, caching servers, proxies, etc.).

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