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. His team focuses on speed , helping keep the web fast. Let’s figure it all out. About the Author.

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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. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.

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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. There is an action for sites to take to ensure they are benefiting from this speed gain because there are a number of reasons you may not be.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

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. Large preview ). Large preview ). The resource requests for these fonts (.woff

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights (no, it isn’t deprecated), you can get CrUX performance data for specific pages instead of just the aggregates.

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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. Eloïse Martin. 2023-01-16T18:00:00+00:00. 2023-01-16T22:03:27+00:00. Use Priority Hints.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

Lazy loading is a way to improve the performance of a website or web application by maximizing the rendering speed of the above-the-fold images and iframes (and sometimes videos) by deferring the loading of below-the-fold content. Important Best Practices. Native Versus JavaScript-Driven Lazy Loading.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2018

A couple of years ago, Google announced a new mobile-first initiative it wanted web designers and marketers to pick up on. However, as Google launched this initiative a couple of years ago, its had time to quietly observe users in these micro-moments as well as the websites that have most aptly responded to them. Suzanne Scacca.

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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 ).

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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. Googling for your own platform of choice with SRI or Sub Resource Integrity will likely point you in the right direction.

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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. Google Fonts Pairings for Figma. If you use Google Fonts, Google Font Pairings can come in handy, too. Also, take a look at the other.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

There’s accessibility, best practices, performance and one fourth one. Next.js, it simplifies a lot of speed related issues and accessibility related issue. It’s quite often that you’ll see high scores and everything. I just tweeted today about how the book’s homepage has three out of the four Lighthouse scores. Mike: Next.js

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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. 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. Technical and sales support. Environments.

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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. Speaking of layers — speeding through the spec process is another new feature that was designed specifically to assist in orchestrating the cascade and alleviating clashes. Cumulative Layout Shift.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”. It is physically limited by the speed of light or, practically, how fast signals can travel in wires or in the open air. Did You Know?

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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. Matthew: Yeah.

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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

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.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Assuming encode/decode speeds meet your needs. Encode/Decode Speed. Degree of compression, image quality, and decoding speed are key factors to be considered when comparing image performance for the web. Lighthouse-best practices audit now considers that AVIF image compression can bring significant improvements.

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