Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Let’s look at it for a site that’s much “heavier” than Smashing Magazine. That’s because preconnect is a value on the rel attribute that’s used on a <link> tag. You can see that Lighthouse does indeed provide that metric. Large preview ) There we go. It gives the browser a hint that you plan to connect to another domain.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

Also, if you have released an open-source tool and would love to draw more attention to it, please let us know as well and we’d love to have you presenting your project here in the magazine as well. Are Modern Best Practices Bad For The Web? Making Icon Links Accessible. New Online Workshops on Smashing. What Is CUBE CSS?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Now, let’s dive into the technical features and best practices that my team adopted in the process of building the WaterBear web app. I plan on sharing specifically what I learned from performance and accessibility practices as a first-time lead developer of a team , as well as what I wish I had known before we started.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Thanks for reading, and if you’d like to learn more, you may want to read more on video best practices here, on Smashing Magazine, and on my blog: Video Playback On The Web: The Current State Of Video (Part 1). Video Playback On The Web: Video Delivery Best Practices (Part 2). Hiding Videos On the Mobile Web. (vf,

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

In another tab, load [link]. Now open another new tab and load [link] again. Now, in that tab, click on an article link from [link] and, once it’s loaded, click back — much faster yeah? 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. Here’s an experiment for you.

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APRIL 30, 2018

In fact, we’d link to the first LISA conference website for reference, but this conference not only predates the Wayback Machine – it also predates the World Wide Web! Submit #lisa18 talk, training, panel, and demo proposals by May 24 [link]. Photo by Perry Kivolowitz. Hope to see you in Nashville!

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Brendan Gregg

APRIL 29, 2018

In fact, we’d link to the first LISA conference website for reference, but this conference not only predates the Wayback Machine – it also predates the World Wide Web! Submit #lisa18 talk, training, panel, and demo proposals by May 24 [link]. Photo by Perry Kivolowitz. Hope to see you in Nashville!

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

We can use the preload attribute for the HTML link element to optimize loading performance by ensuring that the browser discovers the resource earlier, downloads it, and caches it. See the Pen [Example - without fetch priority]([link] by Adrian Bece. See the Pen [Example - with fetch priority ( [link] ) by Adrian Bece.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

Let’s write a script that allows us to measure performance, a11y, best practices, and provide us with an SEO score. There are performance score, a11y score, best practices score, SEO score. title, value: report.categories['best-practices'].score, title, value: report.categories['best-practices'].score,

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

The best practice is to do this for the primary images — typically for the ones that will be displayed above the fold. <img This is a best practice only if you do it only to secondary images — typically for the ones will be displayed below the fold. <img Important Best Practices.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

To cross verify if layout shift is occurring while mouseover is on the image, we used the below code snippet from [link] which adds console.log when layout shift occurs: let cls = 0; new PerformanceObserver((entryList) => { for (const entry of entryList.getEntries()) { if (!entry.hadRecentInput)

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 27, 2021

There are a couple of questions we have to consider when organizing style within Next.js: How can we fit within the conventions/best practices of the framework? With best practices and guidelines on accessibility, assistive technology and inclusive design patterns. More after jump! Online, and live. Global Styles.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Once that has been created, a link will appear for the user to view the permanent version of their madlib and share it with friends. They're stored in <a href="[link] built with <a href="[link] and do interesting things with Netlify serverless functions.</p> title: Madlibs. layout: 'base.njk'. <p>Some

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). On Smashing Magazine, we could measure 19-32% improvement , too.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

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. If only a fraction of our users are actually going to sit and watch the embedded video on our website, could we just link to it instead? Large preview ). Scrutinise Everything.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

<link rel=preload> can be used with <img> to allow browsers to discover critical resources you want to load as soon as possible, prior to them being found in HTML. <link <link rel="preload" as="image" href="donut.jpg"> If you are optimizing LCP, preload can help boost how soon late-discovered hero images (e.g

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). From Fast By Default: Modern Loading Best Practices by Addy Osmani (Slides 18, 19). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Example: Finding My Articles in Smashing Magazine. I want to write a test for this website, Smashing Magazine. describe('Find authors at smashing', () => { it('Find the author Ramona Schwering', () => { cy.visit('[link] }); }); There is one command that I use often — and you will, too. OK, back to our test.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

To address this problem, I’ll provide an overview of the best practices for the integration and optimization of an LCP image. Since recently becoming a ranking factor, this major web performance KPI is still a new concept for many web developers. It becomes especially tricky to optimize when the LCP element is an image.

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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. What SRI and the integrity attribute does is make sure that the file you linked into a page never changes. What Could Go Wrong?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

We can move onto refactoring global CSS styles more safely than before and remove duplicated styles from the individual components and replacing them with general element styles and utilities — buttons, links, images, containers, inputs, grids, and so on. See the Pen [Refactoring CSS — example 1]([link] by Adrian Bece.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). On Smashing Magazine, we could measure 19-32% improvement , too. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

With 100s of real-life examples , guidelines and best practices that you can apply right away. So, here’s a scenario: I’m moving in a few months to a new place, and I’ll need a couple of new shelves to hold books and magazines. attr('src') const link = shelf.find('a.a-link-normal.a-text-normal').attr('href') link-normal.a-text-normal').attr('href')

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Existing best practices and guidance, such as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), give us a solid foundation for inclusive design and already incorporate many details that affect dyslexic readers. In fact, some of those resources are linked in the Understanding WCAG 2.1 dyslexia-mode) main { /*.if Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2018

There is a link to the concert lineup as well as calendar, which answers anything people would want to know about special events they might want to go to. The navigation includes only the most pertinent links to information and booking as does this succinct section on the home page. This was one of the links on the first SERP.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

If you happen to be interested in learning how to accomplish the exact same concept using React, friend of the show magazine Heydon Pickering wrote about the topic back in 2018 and supplied React/JSX sample code. With best practices and guidelines on accessibility, assistive technology and inclusive design patterns.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In this article, we’re going to cover code-splitting best practices and showcase some examples using React, so we load the minimum JavaScript necessary to render a page and dynamically load sizeable non-critical bundles. The default global baseline is a ~$200 Android device on a 400Kbps link with a 400ms round-trip-time (“RTT”).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2021

With 100s of real-life examples , guidelines and best practices that you can apply right away. Afterwards, you’ll get recommendations for professional copywriting training, plus links to tutorials on SEO copywriting and writing killer headlines. There’s a special offer for Smashing Magazine readers. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The Ultimate Guide to UX Research shares tips and best practices from leading industry experts. Food UX explores the link between gastronomy and user experience design. But how do you tackle the task and integrate a UX research process into your team’s workflow? For a talk he gave in 2010, Peter J.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

Coupled: linked back-end front-end. Connecting these two things, a Headless CMS and a static site builder are considered as a set of web development best practices focused on providing the highest performance, security and lowest cost. <link rel="[link] href="[link]. Monolithic vs Headless. Monolithic.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

It is recommended to follow rules and best practices of building and sending emails. For those emails that contain links, how many links were clicked? All the links and buttons should be valid and lead to the right destinations. You can also ask your colleagues to click links and read the email copy.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

Best Practices When Writing Custom Directives. It is considered best practice not to directly access a state object. application we add: <script src="[link]. Here are some useful links you can check out if you want to dive deeper into some of the things we discussed above. userData.store.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. An example is a content item for a lawyer which is linked to a content item for an expertise. Then if the expertise content item is again linked to multiple Lawyer content items this could form a circular reference.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

There’s accessibility, best practices, performance and one fourth one. I’ll link you to documentation just to save you a couple of clicks. 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. I’m not thinking right now.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

When testing new components, it’s already best practice to fork or branch the code , and this new branch may be published into a test environment within UXPin. A common issue often is using icons as links rather than wrapping the icon in a button component. Navigation component and layers ( Large preview ).

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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. Note : Please make sure to check the resources at the end of this article for a few links related to checking CSS specificity. CSS Resiliency Failures From DOM Changes. Layout Swaps To Help Avoid CSS Bugs.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2021

The API then skips all other links in the chain and hands the data (context) over directly to the consumer. tai’s atoms (the data layer of each component that connects to the store) in a component level and the library will take care of linking them to the provider. The component which will use the data received. Try It Yourself.

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