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MARCH 7, 2022

In my last article , I suggested using the SaveData API to deliver a different, more performant, experience to users that expressed that desire. Approximately two-thirds of Indian mobile Chrome users of Smashing Magazine have this setting turned on, for example. For Smashing Magazine, that involved dropping some of our web fonts.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. Before delving into details about code-splitting, let’s quickly remind ourselves what makes JavaScript so impactful on overall performance. Performance Costs. Adrian Bece. 2022-02-02T10:30:00+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

That’s practically an eternity when talking about page speed performance. 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. WebPageTest waterfall timeline report. In case you’re wondering, 2.4 seconds is not great.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. Perhaps the biggest win when it comes to making websites more sustainable is that performance, user experience and sustainability are all neatly intertwined. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. But not everything about performance happens directly at the code level, right?

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

How would you measure performance? Other times it’s about how fast a task is performed. Unfortunately, there is no silver bullet for measuring performance. Performance vs Perceived Performance. Facing this code, one would (rightfully) say it does not perform well. Átila Fassina. 2022-02-24T09:30:00+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

We work with millions of merchants, and as many companies, we obsess about storefront performance. We obsess even more about finding the optimal balance between performance, capabilities, and merchants’ business objectives. With 100s of real-life examples , guidelines and best practices that you can apply right away.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

Working around improving performance was an ongoing journey on SmashingMag for a while. In the end of last year we’ve noticed that we’ve seen quite a drop in performance in 2020, so we rolled up our sleeves and got to work. We were busy not only with performance and UX optimizations though. Web Performance. Thank you! ??.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

We do not deploy images from our camera directly to the web, but we compress and resize them to balance quality and web performance. 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).

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 23, 2022

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Render Performance Optimization. Further Reading on Smashing Magazine. Jump to online workshops ?.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

But how do you find all these things causing performance issues? Let me share three tools that will help you spot performance issues and ship high-quality and fast websites. Note : If you’re looking for a complete overview of best practices and tools, have a look at the Frontend performance checklist.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome who was working all around web performance for decades. Some of the biggest size savings and performance improvements can come through a better image optimization strategy. Image Decoding Performance. +.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2022

In this section, we’ll walk through the process of building the form and how you can use Axios to perform data fetching via the arbitrary API endpoint. There is a lot of information about the best practices and awesome password-reset design patterns out there. Further Reading On Smashing Magazine. “ Building The Forms.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You may have a lean, agile, responsive site design only to find it gradually loaded down with more and more “extras” that are often put onto the site by marketing departments or business leaders who are not always thinking about website performance. Measuring Performance Impact. You cannot always anticipate what you cannot control.

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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. Some of the biggest size savings and performance improvements can come through a better image optimization strategy. Image Decoding Performance. +.

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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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Brendan Gregg

APRIL 30, 2018

In this year's CFP we’re looking for topics covering the latest trends and best practices in cloud computing, containerization, machine learning, big data, infrastructure, scalability, DevOps, IT management, automation, reliability, monitoring, performance tuning, security, databases, programming, datacenters, and more.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

To understand touchscreen performance, Steven undertook several studies and found that popular notions of touch accuracy and preferred touch regions are wrong. menus, lists, floating bars, tabs). Touch Accuracy and the Center-Out Preference. +. Imprecision and Probability. +. People Only Touch What They See. +. 1, 2, 3: Designing by Zones. +.

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Brendan Gregg

APRIL 29, 2018

In this year's CFP we’re looking for topics covering the latest trends and best practices in cloud computing, containerization, machine learning, big data, infrastructure, scalability, DevOps, IT management, automation, reliability, monitoring, performance tuning, security, databases, programming, datacenters, and more.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Performance is one of the core aspects to ensure our users are having a delightful user experience irrespective of their devices or network connection. We found out user-centric performance metrics to be the perfect fit for this purpose. We use Lighthouse and WebPagetest as our synthetic testing tools for performance to measure CLS.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 27, 2021

CSS-in-JS can also have a performance impact by causing additional renders and dependencies on the global state. Recommended reading : “ The Unseen Performance Costs Of Modern CSS-in-JS Libraries In React Apps )” by Aggelos Arvanitakis. support doing so with no additional setup; it also yields results that are performant and static.

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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. It’s not very hard to write the JavaScript code required to perform these operations on your own.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

If HTML is turning out big, we have no room left for CSS resources or javascript in our performance budget. It is best practice to assume many real-world users won’t be using an iPhone 12, but rather a mid-level device on a mid-level network. Performance Impact.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

Of all those options, it’s safe to assume that text is the best choice for LCP performance because it loads and renders fast. These default priorities work reasonably well for most cases, usually resulting in a good performance. Improving Largest Contentful Paint performance. Large preview ). Examples And Use Cases.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Performance is a core feature of our company, Instant Domain Search —it’s in the name. We’ve recently grown to a small group based mostly in Victoria, Canada and we are working through a long backlog of new features and performance improvements. A 75th percentile (p75) metric strikes a reasonable balance for performance goals.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Rob also takes a look at the accessibility and performance implications that shadows bring along, as well as how to animate them. With 100s of real-life examples , guidelines and best practices that you can apply right away. Improving Image Performance With image-set(). A great read to help you improve image performance.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

While not render-blocking, they can indirectly impact render performance. If using 11ty for your static sites, try the 11ty high-performance blog template. It also shows up on hover in the DevTools Performance panel. They found that 2x was a sweet spot of both good performance wins with no degradation in quality metrics.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

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

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Example: If you want to test the checkout process in an online shop, don’t perform all of the other steps, such as creating the products and categories, even though you will need them to process the checkout. Example: Finding My Articles in Smashing Magazine. I want to write a test for this website, Smashing Magazine.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

In this three-part series , we are going to go through the CSS refactor process from the beginning to the end, starting with knowledge on how to approach it and some general pros and cons of refactoring, then moving onto the refactoring strategies themselves and ending with some general best practices on CSS file size and performance.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

We’ll develop the card component in isolation and use the agreed standards and best practices. It’s important to document the rules and best practices that were established and applied during the refactoring projects. Stylelint can make this process much less stressful for everyone.”. Conclusion.

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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. This remains a good, practical way to work, but it does introduce a potential vector for attack. What Could Go Wrong?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). In this second part, we will zoom in on the performance improvements that QUIC and HTTP/3 bring to the table for web-page loading. We will, however, also be somewhat skeptical of the impact we can expect from these new features in practice.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

If you’re creating tons and tons of DOM elements and doing a lot of real-time updates, you might or might not run into performance challenges. Mike: I haven’t seen a performance issue ever. is performance right at the box. There’s accessibility, best practices, performance and one fourth one. It’s concern.

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