Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Mike’s personal website. Actually, I was just checking the Cut Into The Jamstack website today, and the accessibility score is very high. I’ve done static websites. It definitely is. We definitely have a lot more need for UI than marketing stuff. In this episode, we’re talking about Chakra UI. Show Notes.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

Description: The most efficient typefaces with the best ratio of x-height and cap-height seem to be Wayfinding Sans Pro and Johnston Underground with an x-height between 67% to 69% of the cap height. Measurement: Accuracy and efficiency of users’ actions. Ascender And Descender Height In Relation To X-height. Time Pressure.

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Tasktop

DECEMBER 18, 2019

By definition, product value streams have to be aligned to a customer. What measuring end-to-end Flow Efficiency has proven is that it is possible to find the most damaging wait states no matter how complex the processes or tools involved.

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CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

Yet, this criticism of React isn’t completely unwarranted: React and ReactDOM total about 120 KiB of minified JavaScript, which definitely contributes to slow startup time. Most developers—I hope —aren’t going to rely solely on React to drive such simple behavior for just one thing on their website. Safari on 2nd Generation iPhone SE.

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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

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? In the case of Wikipedia's website, in 2020, globally, code execution has got 19% faster for Wikipedia users.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Operational Efficiency: The majority of the changes require metadata configuration files and library code changes, usually taking days of testing and service release to adopt the updates. These rule definitions are hosted in a separate git repository and Hendrix module within SKUService load and refresh it periodically. What’s Next?

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

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

WordPress is the most used website builder in the world; almost half of the web has used WordPress to create their website. It makes sense, because it allows you to quickly create websites and has a rich plugin’s ecosystem to help you scale your site. The Benefits Of Going Headless And When It Makes Sense.

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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

While a perfect understanding of these concepts is not needed for the rest of this post, having a common high-level definition would be good. One aspect of performance is about how efficiently a transport protocol can use a network’s full (physical) bandwidth (i.e. Congestion Control. What Does It All Mean? 0-RTT Connection Set-Up.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

So we really can’t talk about automating any significant task without seeing it as a non-trivial data integration project: matching IDs, reconciling slightly different definitions of database columns, de-duping, named entity recognition , all of that fun stuff. But the gain in efficiency would be relatively small.

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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 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. Conclusion.

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