Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

iOS empowers developers to easily parallelize code using Grand Central Dispatch , Android does this via their new, unified task scheduler WorkManager and game engines like Unity have job systems. How long your piece of JavaScript takes to finish depends on how fast the device is that your code is running on. JavaScript.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. Sustainable Web Design. In 2016, O’Reilly published “ Designing For Sustainability ” by Tim Frick. In this book, Tim takes us on a tour of the whys and hows of sustainable design. There are some existing works we can draw on to help us here.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Generate your own madlibs in the demo ; Look through the final code on Github ; Get a fully-built version set up in your accounts. We can use 11ty’s new Serverless mode to build them on request using Netlify’s On-Demand Builders to cache each Madlib. Portable Text is an open-source specification designed to treat rich text as data.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Image Optimization Images are pieces of content in many contexts, and they are a very important and prominent part of the WaterBear app’s experience, from video posters and category banners to partner logos and campaign image assets. After scrolling the video category page, a bunch more images are loaded.

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Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 15, 2018

A long-standing correctness bug in the Windows file cache: Compiler bug? And this one – an odd design decision that makes process creation slower over time. This is a CPU bound problem because all of the relevant disk data is cached. Linker bug? Windows Kernel bug. Tracking a rare crash. Reddit discussion is here.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

This element could be an image, video, or simply, just a large block of text. 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. web.dev’s main content is an image according to LCP (test ran on WebPageTest).

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The Morning Paper

APRIL 11, 2019

In addition, service workers have the ability to intercept and handle network requests (for e.g., caching and pre-loading purposes). modify their code, monitor their outgoing traffic etc.). You’ve probably heard about crypto-currency mining and the like in hijacked browsers.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It’s one thing to identify bottlenecks and implement optimizations for a specific website or a few similar websites, and quite another when dealing with many millions of websites, having such a wide variety of functionality, and an almost total freedom of design. Instead, we have to accommodate all of this variability, mostly on-demand.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 1, 2019

The goal of this experience from a UX design perspective was to bring together a tightly-related set of original titles that, though distinct entities on their own, also share a connected universe. We hypothesized this design would net a far greater visual impact than if the titles were distributed individually throughout the page.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

We’ll be learning how to do this with GraphQL Features like Cache Update, Subscriptions, and Optimistic UI. Let’s get right into the code. Just before we start, this is the repo containing the code demonstrating everything under Real-time update on GraphQL, using Apollo as a state management tool, Fragments, and Apollo directives.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Also, the management will be dissatisfied with the decreased traffic and revenue caused by the unoptimized codebase, despite the code quality improvements. They offer a wide variety of customization options to further control how code is being optimized and which browsers are supported. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. Next-generation video codecs, supported in many modern chips, but also a licensing minefield. Necessary for building competitive video experiences, including messaging and videoconferencing.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

I hope to raise the profile of difficulties faced by real people, which are avoidable if we design and develop in a way that is sympathetic to their needs. MB , that suggests I’ve got around 29 pages in my budget, although probably a few more than that if I’m able to stay on the same sites and leverage browser caching. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. However, unlike the early days of the web, static sites are no longer limited to developers working in a code editor.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Web pages, such as the one you’re reading now, have text, images, videos and other assets to bring information to you. All functionality and integrations would also have a tight dependency which in turn results in a large, cumbersome monolithic code base. Along with images, the next heaviest assets are videos. Emmanuel Tissera.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. This could be an image, a block of text, or even an embedded video. SEO is key to our success.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In that case, you can always use the <picture> HTML tag, as shown in the code below, so that the browser can pick the image format supported in the order provided. <picture> The change of design. Design change fix: Different images for different displays. Cache Your Images. <picture> <!--

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

Even if your website is designed with usability in mind, these factors impede users from fully benefiting from the website’s features. Large images and videos aside, third-party scripts like pixel trackers, A/B testing, ads, widgets, CDNs, etc., This frees up the browser’s main thread to run your own code. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

While working on a site recently, I noticed that an embedded YouTube video loaded around 600kB of JS for any visitor regardless of whether that user even chose to watch the video. On closer inspection, it appeared that other content embedded within tweets (video in particular) was contributing to this. With video.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 9, 2022

As a result, users can enjoy more capable and feature-rich applications that remain performant through techniques like code-splitting, caching, prefetching, and other resource optimization techniques — with some applications that are even able to work offline. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

It’s not just source code for the configuration, models, views, and templates, but also static assets: CSS and JavaScript, images, icons. Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. Philip Kiely. Static Files.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

to understand YouTube video performance) drive tens of thousands of canned (known in advance) queries per second, that need to be served with latency in the tens of milliseconds. Shared compute tier designed to scale horizontally with many small tasks rather than a small number of large tasks. Cache all the things.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

That’s not to say the extraneous content is pointless — enhanced design and user interfaces can have an important impact on the brand of a website, and delightful little extras can really impact your users’ relationship with your site. For others, it might involve using smaller images or not loading videos by default.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

While this is conceptually possible (QUIC does exactly that), things were initially not designed like this, because we need to be able to use TCP with and without TLS on top. Luckily, QUIC was designed with TLS in mind from the start, and as such does combine both the transport and cryptographic handshakes in a single mechanism.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Considering how important images are to web design, this isn’t an element we can dispose of so easily nor can we afford to cut corners when it comes to optimizing them. On2 had worked on a number of video compression technologies, which ended up serving as the basis for Google’s new audiovisual format WebM and next-gen image format WebP.

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The technology develops single-page applications , websites, and backend API services designed with real-time and push-based architectures. Real-time software system – Collaboration tools used for video/audio conferencing, document writing, Chat applications, etc. It makes code very easy to understand and launch.

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CSS - Tricks

MAY 3, 2021

For one thing, the design of WebPageTest is now quite nice. An amazing achievement, to be sure, but it also feels good to me that WebPageTest is now owned by Catchpoint with Patrick being there himself on the project. A welcome upgrade, let’s say. So yes, WebPageTest is still here. It’s still free. Linux; Android 6.0.1;

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

The good news is there are website monitoring tools specially designed to solve this problem. Luckily, the time was shortened to within five seconds when accessing in a cached mode. As a website that hosts a ton of videos, it’s impressive that TED provides its service with nearly 50 servers. Performance Insights. Accessibility.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2020

The good news is there are website monitoring tools specially designed to solve this problem. Luckily, the time was shortened to within five seconds when accessing in a cached mode. As a website that hosts a ton of videos, it’s impressive that TED provides its service with nearly 50 servers. Performance Insights. Accessibility.

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Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JULY 7, 2020

The good news is there are website monitoring tools specially designed to solve this problem. Luckily, the time was shortened to within five seconds when accessing in a cached mode. As a website that hosts a ton of videos, it’s impressive that TED provides its service with nearly 50 servers. Performance Insights. Accessibility.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

However, many other devices are sitting between the client and the server that also have their own TCP code on board (examples include firewalls, load balancers, routers, caching servers, proxies, etc.). The key takeaway here is that TCP was never designed to transport multiple, independent files over a single connection.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

We’ll go through several code examples of each hook and also explore how you’d create a custom hook. 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, CSS/JS and UX. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

The design was made by a design and UX agency that also handled the HTML prototype (based on Bootstrap 4). For the launch, we mostly focused on getting the new design out the door, but once the website’s relaunch went live, we started focusing our attention on turning the red and orange scores to greens. Large preview ).

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

It’s used extensively in our media processing platform, which includes services like Archer and runs features like video encoding and title image generation on tens of thousands of Amazon EC2 instances. We are constantly innovating on video encoding technology at Netflix, and we have a lot of content to encode. Disk Caching? — ?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

And suddenly, before you know it, the code base gets a little bit overweight and fragmented , third-party scripts have to load just a little bit earlier, and shiny new dynamic content finds its way into the DOM through the backdoors of fourth-party scripts and their uninvited guests. Image source: Lighthouse Metrics ) ( Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Next to videos, images are the heaviest, most requested assets on the web.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Next to videos, images are the heaviest, most requested assets on the web.

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