Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. But as it stands, websites are growing ever more obese, which means that the energy demand of the Internet is continuing to grow exponentially. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00.

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MachMetrics

APRIL 24, 2019

Google PageSpeed Insights has a their “Speed Score.” 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. Is that really the best use of your time and effort?

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 2, 2022

The new WebPageTest website design. It’s like when Google Fonts finally got a redesign and the broad community let out a collective exhale of appreciation. Caching Header Best Practices — Simon Hearne’s dissertation on Cache headers. This is way better.

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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. Compressing, minifying and caching assets. It gets redirected.

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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? Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ).

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The limited number access points, compounded with the fact that traffic is controlled by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, creates performance bottlenecks for all users in China when trying to access websites from inside and outside of the country. These updates will disable access of Google apps downloader, for example.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

My kids love LEGO, too, which means that every year I find myself spending a fair bit of time on the LEGO website during the holidays. According to Google's thresholds, an LCP time of 3.96 Are you compressing and caching the right things? I love LEGO. seconds As mentioned, this leaderboard ranks pages based on their LCP time.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

These metrics are used by Google to evaluate the quality of user experience. 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. Eloïse Martin. Large preview ).

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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? Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to. Image source ).

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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? From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). Image source ).

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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. 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.

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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.

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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. Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

When it comes to a Traditional CMS, the CMS and the resulting front-end website are built on a monolithic architecture. For example, if the CMS is built on Microsoft’s.NET Framework, the front-end website would also be built on the same technology. there was a separate subdomain for a mobile website). Editing Experience.

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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. I think Jason Miller of Google came up with this terminology. Transcript.

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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 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

AUGUST 22, 2021

This means that it will not magically download your website resources much more quickly than TCP. Some examples of the latter are heavily cached websites, as well as single-page apps that periodically fetch small updates via APIs and other protocols such as DNS-over-QUIC. What Does It All Mean? 0-RTT Connection Set-Up.

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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. itself directly.

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