Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

The upcoming prefers-reduced-data media query, which allows CSS to set different options depending on this setting. 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. prefers-color-scheme.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Note : as TCP generally under-utilizes network connection by a significant amount, Google has developed TCP Bottleneck Bandwidth and RRT ( BBR ), a relatively new TCP delay-controlled TCP flow control algorithm.

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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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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

These updates will disable access of Google apps downloader, for example. China’s firewall works both ways: people inside China cannot access restricted sites hosted in foreign countries, while a number of Chinese sites, apps, music and other media are not accessible outside China as well.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Graph of resource request chains on a typical news media website. The most popular, by far, is the Google Lighthouse report (available in Chrome Developer Tools) and Google’s Page Speed Insights. Configuring WebPageTest to run a test measurement that simulates a failure of the Google Fonts third-party service.

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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. Script (async), Media and images, SVG document. We are loading the following resources: Google Fonts Stylesheet.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). From Fast By Default: Modern Loading Best Practices by Addy Osmani (Slides 18, 19). PRPL stands for Pushing critical resource, Rendering initial route, Pre-caching remaining routes and Lazy-loading remaining routes on demand.

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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 ). Image Component.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

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. Microsoft word documents, spreadsheets, Google docs always rear their heads up when working with content authors. A Picture’s Worth: How To Handle Media.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

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. Matthew: And then lastly, there’s one called media and that’s based on media queries.

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