Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. We can get a better view if we run the same test in another service, like SpeedCurve , which digs deeper into the metric. Analytics is a good example.

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Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

You can then configure your monitoring tools to send you alerts – or even break the build, if you're testing in your staging environment – when your budgets are violated. seconds or less, which is Google's recommendation for page experience and SEO. What should a performance budget look like? It's important to have your 2.5

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

The secret sharer: evaluating and testing unintended memorization in neural networks Carlini et al., Take a system trained to make predictions on a language (word or character) model – an example you’re probably familiar with is Google Smart Compose. USENIX Security Symposium 2019. Wrapping up.

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Network Testing Strategy Google 55

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. You’ll definitely notice a few strong patterns and a lot of overlap. Start by affinity mapping your industry and academic examples using sticky notes, google slides or miro/mural board.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Practical HTTP/3 deployment options ( current article ). This explains the challenges involved in deploying and testing HTTP/3 yourself. You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. Google Chrome (version 91+) : Enabled by default. Implementation.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 105

CSS - Tricks

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Clicking the “Generate report” button will run a series of tests on the web page and display the results right there in the Lighthouse tab. This makes it easy to test any web page, whether public or requiring authentication. When the Lighthouse CI is run, it will start a server that’s able to run the tests accordingly.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Testing And Monitoring Auditing workflow, proxy browsers, 404 page, GDPR cookie consent prompts, performance diagnostics CSS, accessibility. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Open-source projects are described by many definitions that conclude on the same reasoning. A more technical definition of open-source projects is that they are released under a license in which the copyright owner allows the users to change, analyze and redistribute the code as they want. Testsigma just went open source!

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Practical HTTP/3 deployment options ( coming up soon! ). This explains the challenges involved in deploying and testing HTTP/3 yourself. 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. This is more in depth and technical.

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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. Drew: Sure.

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Technology Technology Servers Code 94

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

To simplify this behavior, a best practice is to ensure your styles include resetting all elements to use border-box. While 100vh appears to work on most desktop contexts, you may have experienced the frustration of having what seems like unexpected behavior, particularly when tested on iOS in WebKit browsers. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Testing And Monitoring. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Now you have something measurable to test against. Table Of Contents. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Testing And Monitoring. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. And if you are using CI to test the budgets, you need to make sure your tested environment matches CrUX if you used CrUX for setting the target ( thanks Patrick Meenan! ). Now you have something measurable to test against.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

Sutter's Mill

MARCH 11, 2024

In that context, I’ll focus on C++ and try to: highlight what needs attention (what C++’s problem “is”), and how we can get there by building on solutions already underway; address some common misconceptions (what C++’s problem “isn’t”), including practical considerations of MSLs; and leave a call to action for programmers using all languages.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Practical HTTP/3 deployment options ( coming up soon! ). This explains the challenges involved in deploying and testing HTTP/3 yourself. It combines decades of deployment experience and best practices of TCP with some core new features. IETF’s QUIC is technically very different from Google’s QUIC. itself directly.

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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. It contains no third party code, which makes for easy testing in a quiet environment. Google Chrome on Nokia 2. The conditions. The procedure.

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Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

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. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

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. I can test this out by putting that tag in a page, and then flipping to the Network tab in my browser tools to see that the file has been loaded.

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Website Servers Code Best Practices 58

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Automating Screen Reader Testing On macOS Using Auto VO. It definitely is. We definitely have a lot more need for UI than marketing stuff. Do they practice what they preach? The closest I’ve done to putting it to the test is running Lighthouse against it. I’ve definitely seen it. Mike’s personal website.

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Website Design Open Source Software 62

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As with many burgeoning fields and disciplines, we don’t yet have a shared canonical infrastructure stack or best practices for developing and deploying data-intensive applications. Can’t we just fold it into existing DevOps best practices? How can you start applying the stack in practice today?

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As a trend, it’s not performing well on Google; it shows little long-term growth, if any, and gets nowhere near as many searches as terms like “Observability” and “Generative Adversarial Networks.” But the core of the process is simple, and hasn’t changed much since the early days of web testing. Should it be? What’s required?

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