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. Let’s look at it for a site that’s much “heavier” than Smashing Magazine. There are self-hosted alternatives to Google Analytics, after all.

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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.

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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. Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. Now close the tab.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Chapter 9 describes ways we can consider likely problems when planning the design of our apps and websites. 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. 1, 2, 3: Designing by Zones. +.

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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

MAY 23, 2022

When creating responsive websites, we often make assumptions about input mechanisms based on their screen size. We assume that the screen size of 1920px belongs to a desktop computer or laptop and the user is interacting with the website using a mouse and keyboard, but what about laptops with touchscreen or smart TV screens?

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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. Your website will gradually benefit from it as support arrives to your users in most modern browsers.

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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. These are not to be confused with micro-interactions, which are miniscule engagements websites have with visitors when they "touch" key points of the interface. Source: Google Analytics ) ( Large preview ).

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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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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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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 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 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 preaching section of this point is over, let’s get back to some more practical guidance. I now find myself working as a Designer Advocate at Figma.

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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

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. There’s accessibility, best practices, performance and one fourth one. In this episode, we’re talking about Chakra UI. Show Notes. Mike on Twitter.

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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. When it comes to a Traditional CMS, the CMS and the resulting front-end website are built on a monolithic architecture. there was a separate subdomain for a mobile website). Infrastructure Integration.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Created by Jon Yablonski, this lovely website explains 21 psychological principles that designers can consider to create more human-centered products and experiences. The Ultimate Guide to UX Research shares tips and best practices from leading industry experts. If not, Laws Of UX will shed more light on their meaning.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

These are just a couple of examples of what disabled users face daily when they try and access a website that is inaccessible. The case for accessibility is this; we as stakeholders, managers, teams, designers and developers need to do better in not only practicing accessibility but advocating for it as well. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

That is also something that you can find when using a procurement website. Larger organizations often post their invitations to tender on procurement websites. Websites like Upwork tend to be highly competitive and price sensitive. However, in practice, the results can be underwhelming. Procurement Sites. Networking.

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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

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

OCTOBER 6, 2021

To simplify this behavior, a best practice is to ensure your styles include resetting all elements to use border-box. Within a fixed layout set to 100vh , the bottom part of the website content is stuck behind the browser chrome, making it inaccessible when scrolling is prevented. Cumulative Layout Shift.

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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

JULY 2, 2021

It is recommended to follow rules and best practices of building and sending emails. A mistake could be made when you work with several projects/websites. By the way, their website states that: “On average 51% of emails never reach the inbox! How can we address these challenges? Large preview ). So where do they go?

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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

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. itself directly.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If you’re optimizing for the Web Vitals , you might be interested to hear that images account for ~ 42% of the Largest Contentful Paint element for websites. While decoding speed for JPEGs is excellent, it lacks other desirable features required of images on modern, eye-catching websites. JPEG is also a lossy compression format.

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