Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

According to Rich Howard, CEO of Optimal, a business dedicated to optimizing websites and mobile apps , there are ten steps your business can take now to start preparing your website or web application for the upcoming holiday season. Chrome Developer tools. STEP 1: Invest in the Right Tooling and Get Everyone On Board.

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KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

Running speed tests with tools like Google PageSpeed Insights , WebPageTest , or KeyCDN’s Website Speed Test are always a good way to help gauge your website’s performance. According to Google, the best practice for a website’s speed is to keep it under 3 seconds load time.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

A cornerstone of our business model lies in the development of effective landing pages. As the world’s leading search engine, Google is committed to delivering the best possible search results to its users. This commitment involves prioritizing websites that offer not only relevant content but also an excellent user experience.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. It’s inherently tied to everything we build and develop. So, while it’s tempting to solve everything in one fell swoop, the best approach to improving performance might be an iterative one. It gets redirected.

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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

If you’re not a developer/designer, you may not be familiar with the Chrome DevTools and the extremely powerful Google Lighthouse Audits that can be found inside. However, you have likely used the Web UI that Google uses to allow you to test websites for speed – Google PageSpeed Insights. Best Practices.

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MachMetrics

APRIL 24, 2019

The reality is that these scores are estimates of how well your site implements performance best practices. These best practices can make your site faster, but they don’t always. And they usually come at a cost of higher maintenance for your development team if not done properly. PSI Score Reality.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2021

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? So every time a conversation about further development happens, performance is a part of that conversation as well.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

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. This way, the image loads faster, and your website will get a better LCP score.

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 29, 2021

To truly audit CSS, we would need to dig deeper and find places that are not considered best practices. It may not be critical data to know, but sometimes it helps to understand the caching strategy. I would think twice before doing that as it might not be worthwhile, especially with today’s caching mechanisms.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Establish a performance culture. Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor. Image source ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? So every time a conversation about further development happens, performance is a part of that conversation as well.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

JavaScript, CSS, images, iframes, and other resources impact how quickly website loads, renders and becomes usable to the user. However, developers with a deep understanding of the project may want to improve performance beyond that by doing some fine-tuning under the hood. Adrian Bece. 2022-04-11T09:30:00+00:00. References.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Rich Howard is the founder and CEO of Optimal , a company dedicated to improving the performance of websites and mobile apps. Howard sat down with Rigor’s CTO Billy Hoffman to discuss best practices for holiday and peak-load readiness from a user experience and web performance perspective. Introducing…Rich Howard.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Way back in the days when JavaScript was very much the poorer cousin to HTML and CSS, we didn’t need to think too much about how our scripts could be used as an attack vector for our websites. file hosted as part of their own website on their own server. That’s a big problem. Enter Subresource Integrity.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Guy Podjarny’s recent research shows that only one in eight websites is responsive. 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. Source: SpeedCurve.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

Tools And Practices To Speed Up The Vue.js Development Process. Tools And Practices To Speed Up The Vue.js Development Process. Throughout this tutorial, we will be looking at practices that should be adopted, things that should be avoided, and have a closer look at some helpful tools to make writing Vue.js

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

For developers. When it comes to a Traditional CMS, the CMS and the resulting front-end website are built on a monolithic architecture. The Traditional CMS tries and succeeds in many ways to serve the needs of the developer, content author, and marketer. there was a separate subdomain for a mobile website). Omnichannel.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2021

This issue steered developers to resort to third-party libraries when all they needed was to avoid prop drilling. For example, you might share authentication in one Context, internationalization preferences in another, and website theme in another. discussions to provide a smooth developer experience for achieving this.

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites written by Dan Shappir. Adding A Dyslexia-Friendly Mode To A Website written by John C Barstow. We last talked to him in July 2020 , where we asked if modern best practices about for the web. Chris on Twitter. The Vanilla JavaScript Podcast. Weekly Update. Chris: Indeed.

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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

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

Websites would magically become 50% faster with the flip of a switch! Five years later, we know that server push doesn’t really work in practice, streams and prioritization are often badly implemented , and, consequently, (reduced) resource bundling and even sharding are still good practices in some situations.

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