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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

APRIL 28, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome and focusing around performance for decades. Addy Osmani is an engineering manager working on Google Chrome. Interface Design Checklists (PDF) 100 practical cards for common interface design challenges.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Apart from that, we check the Google Search Console Core Web Vitals Report section to get an idea of any potential CLS issues in any of our pages. So we decided to use Web Vitals Google Chrome extension since it can record CLS on a page while the user is interacting with it. PR created to help get rid of the CLS issue. Large preview ).

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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. Let’s illustrate the browser’s behavior with an example using our previous code: <img src="image-300.png".

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In many cases, they can be super convenient to add or remove without having to push code changes to the site. For example, users can install browser plugins to suggest coupon codes when they are shopping, to scan web pages for malware, to play games or message friends, or do any number of other things. More after jump! Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

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. In this screenshot below, for example, we can see that loading the Smashing Magazine website for the first time incurs just under a megabyte of data transfer.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Have we optimized enough with tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, progressive hydration, clients hints, HTTP/3, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? You can download the spreadsheet as Google Sheets, Excel, OpenOffice document or CSV.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Similarly from cross-site navigation — think Google search results or the like and then clicking back. 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. You can see the complete list of reasons for the Chrome source code , with a bit more explanation in this sheet. Jump to table of contents ?.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Chapter 10 covers best practices in how the UIs of interactive elements are designed to attract the eye, afford action, be readable, and inspire confidence that they can be safely tapped. Interface Design Checklists (PDF) 100 practical cards for common interface design challenges. People Only Touch What They See. +.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

in which he stated that the Google Chrome team are already developing the feature and intend to ship it in Chrome 75. The best practice is to do this for the primary images — typically for the ones that will be displayed above the fold. <img Here’s a snippet of code that does that. <! The script is only 2.0

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? It’s much easier to reach performance goals when the code base is fresh or is just being refactored.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. SEO is key to our success. Bookaway site search. The reportWebVitals function.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

With detailed code walkthroughs , hands-on examples and common gotchas — all broken down into short, manageable lessons. All popular browsers have an embedded accessible focus by default (you might have seen this bold blue frame around input fields, dropdowns, buttons, and links in Google Chrome). Large preview ). More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). milliseconds mark.

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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. See the Pen Prioritizing stylesheets by Adrian Bece.

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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

JANUARY 5, 2022

That’s right; I’ve parked day-to-day design work in favor of becoming someone very active in the design community, focusing on best practice design advice and scalable systems. The fact is that no one tells us that we should be working harder on making good connections rather than polishing our designs or code. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

This attribute contains seemingly endless alphanumeric junk that you may be tempted to strip out in the quest for cleaner code. 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.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Designing With Code: A Modern Approach To Design. He’s been writing code for two decades, and using JavaScript the whole time. They just have to copy and pastable Chakra code. Is that born out in the code itself? Do they practice what they preach? Drew McLellan talks to expert Mike Cavaliere to find out.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Unethical practices at companies lead to the creation of technology that we all use but often neglect the influence of those intended to serve. How do you get started leveraging ethics in your user research practice to influence how you do your work in a way that upholds a set of guiding standards? Credit: Devin Harold.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Google Fonts. Google Sheets sync. The plugin supports copy and paste from Excel, Google sheet, Numbers and it also can sync with Google Sheets and remote JSON. You can choose from a huge library of palettes or search for a specific color code, name or number to apply to your design. Also, take a look at the other.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The Ultimate Guide to UX Research shares tips and best practices from leading industry experts. Accessibility goes far beyond the code, so when it comes to delivering accessible websites, each person in a team has their specific responsibilities. The more ideas you generate, the better the chances of nailing the big one!

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

We’ve explored the concepts behind headless CMSes in detail here on Smashing Magazine, but let’s do a quick recap. All functionality and integrations would also have a tight dependency which in turn results in a large, cumbersome monolithic code base. It worked a treat without having 50 Google Docs flying all over the place.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

When maintenance is needed, it won’t take the team as long to maintain the code because of accessibility and clean code.”. Design systems should be used not only to ensure branding and consistency, but accessibility, inclusivity, and understanding of code better. Best Practices For Maintaining Accessibility.

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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

JULY 23, 2021

After all, content marketing: Should lead to good search engine rankings if well written and targeted; Educates clients about best practices; Demonstrates to readers your expertise; Builds a relationship with your followers at scale; Offers the ability to reach a large number of potential clients. On paper, this is a good move.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

It is recommended to follow rules and best practices of building and sending emails. Here are two important aspects: Test whether your code works and sends emails in the right way. You can use it without sending a test message — just paste your HTML code with all headers and get an instant result. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch written by Alex Husar. 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.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

WordPress’ architecture often does not offer the possibilities we sometimes need when working on a website, especially when it comes to optimizing performance , one of the most important points when ranking our site in a search engine like Google and especially now that Web Vitals is up and running. Entry Type Page. Full Final Script.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

One of the reasons Google saw very good 0-RTT results for QUIC was that it tested it on its already heavily optimized search page, where query responses are quite small. In other cases, you’ll gain only a few dozens of milliseconds at best, even less if you’re already using a CDN (which you should be doing if you care about performance!).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

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.). It combines decades of deployment experience and best practices of TCP with some core new features. itself directly.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The goal was to develop a new open-source video coding format that is both state-of-the-art and royalty-free. The code to check if AVIF is supported in the fetch event handler can look something like this: const hdrAccept = event.request.headers.get("accept"); const sendAVIF = /image/avif/.test(hdrAccept); AVIF Benefits.

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