Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Let’s look at it for a site that’s much “heavier” than Smashing Magazine. Large preview ) That’s a nice big view and is a good illustration of TBT’s impact on page speed. That’s a lifetime in web seconds, particularly considering that this test is based on a desktop experience on a high-speed connection.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Web scraping is the practice of extracting large amounts of web data through the use of software. So, in essence, it’s a way to automate the tedious process of hitting ‘copy’ and then ‘paste’ 200 times. With 100s of real-life examples , guidelines and best practices that you can apply right away. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The time from when the user interacts with the page to the time the browser is able to process the request. As of 2022, there are three Core Web Vitals — First Contentful Paint (speed), Cumulative Layout Shift (stability), and First Input Delay (interactivity). A good score is under 2.5s for 75% of page loads. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

It also allows the project to be loaded faster, which is pretty important in regards to the growing mobile share and new markets with slow connection speeds and fragmented internet coverage. Let’s write a script that allows us to measure performance, a11y, best practices, and provide us with an SEO score. It’s up to you!

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) LCP measures the perceived load speed of a webpage from a user’s perspective. However, achieving a good LCP score is often a multi-faceted process that involves optimizing several stages of loading and rendering. Each stage has its unique challenges and potential pitfalls, as other case studies show.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Out With The Old Process. If we look at the current process most companies employ today, it can be pretty tedious with some obvious flaws. Listing the process out is long-winded, but luckily it only needs to be done once (we hope): A preview of the common processes for creating and updating components. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Smaller HTML means less time for Google to download and process those long strings of text. In this article, I’ll explain: how we found the HTML size is too big; how it got reduced; the benefits of this process (i.e. But first, let’s talk about the importance of speed improvement. How about errors?”

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Moving to a headless CMS is not an easy decision and the selection process should not be taken lightly. We’ve explored the concepts behind headless CMSes in detail here on Smashing Magazine, but let’s do a quick recap. This speeds up the retrieval process and brings in performance improvements to your application.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Whether you’re just starting out with Figma or have been using it for a good while now, this post will give you just enough pointers to make your design process faster and smoother. Annotating a design with detailed measurements and specs to help the developers in charge make sense of it all can be a time-consuming process.

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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.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

This type of setup is especially useful for companies that have multiple sites and want to reduce costs or simplify processes. It is intended to make development easier and simplify the process of creating a site, as well as scaling it. Headless CMS architecture ( Large preview ). This architecture is also known as Jamstack.

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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. Usually, the stable version of the property does not continue to have a prefix, but it’s best to include the prefixed version for the broadest support.

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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. Third-party resource requests can impact the user experience in several different ways, depending on whether they load early in the page load process or after the page is mostly complete. 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. SRI does a good job of adopting the simplest — file hashing. This is followed by a dash and then the hash itself, encoded with base64.

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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. Coding From Scratch written by Alex Husar. Transcript. So we built our marketing site in React too.”

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Projects built using JavaScript-based frameworks often ship large bundles of JavaScript that take time to download, parse and execute, blocking page render and user input in the process. JavaScript-based frameworks like React made the process of developing web applications streamlined and efficient, for better or worse.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2018

As you can see in this example, Globus Journeys answers many of those micro-moments right within the navigation: tips on touring (Touring 101), tips on travel best practices (Travel Tips), deals available for travel (Deals & Offers), etc. Speed in getting to and through checkout is another.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

That is why Twitter places so much emphasis on a strong image optimization process. His team focuses on speed , helping keep the web fast. Promoting best practices and providing you with practical tips to master your daily coding and design challenges has always been (and will be) at the core of everything we do at Smashing.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

That is why Twitter places so much emphasis on a strong image optimization process. His team focuses on speed , helping keep the web fast. Promoting best practices and providing you with practical tips to master your daily coding and design challenges has always been (and will be) at the core of everything we do at Smashing.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

From Speed at Scale with Katie Hempenius and I at Google I/O. The sizes attribute specifies a set of conditions, such as screen widths, and what image size is best to select when those conditions are met. now includes an Image component with several of the above best practices baked in. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Micro-optimizations are great for keeping performance on track, but it’s critical to have clearly defined targets in mind — measurable goals that would influence any decisions made throughout the process. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!), Large preview ).

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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? Establish a performance culture. Treo Sites provides competitive analysis based on real-world data. Large preview ).

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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? Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Assuming encode/decode speeds meet your needs. Encode/Decode Speed. Complex compression algorithms may require higher processing power to encode/decode images. A complex decoding process can slow down the rendering of images. However, the AVIF team is working on improving encoding speeds. Large preview ).

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