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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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. The design was made by a design and UX agency that also handled the HTML prototype (based on Bootstrap 4). They are basically everywhere and will dominate your design. Jennifer Brehm. 2021-06-02T10:30:00+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Spend enough time running websites through PageSpeed Insights and you’ll notice that Google has a major beef with traditional image formats like JPG, PNG and even GIF. 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.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The video is now on YouTube : The slides are online and as a PDF : first prev next last / permalink/zoom In Q&A I was asked about CXL (compute express link) which was fortunate as I had planned to cover it and then forgot, so the question let me talk about it (although Q&A is missing from the video).

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. 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.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Next-generation video codecs, supported in many modern chips, but also a licensing minefield. Necessary for building competitive video experiences, including messaging and videoconferencing. Fundamentally enabling for video creation apps. Without it, video recordings must fit in memory, leading to crashes. getUserMedia().

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

The average user doesn’t spend much time waiting for a web page to load or to interact with the page: According to Google, if a page’s load time goes up from 1 second to 3 seconds, the probability of the user bouncing increases by 32%. Consider Google Analytics, which collects and sends tracking data using navigator.sendBeacon().

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Anchored in the primary use case of supporting Google’s YouTube business, what we’re looking at here could well be the future of data processing at Google. Google already has Dremel , Mesa , Photon , F1 , PowerDrill , and Spanner , so why did they need yet another data processing system? Cache all the things.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

We were designing and building things, setting up new products, refactoring the components, and publishing articles. Plus a service worker that caches all static assets and serves them for repeat views, along with cached versions of articles that a reader has already visited. Image source: Lighthouse Metrics ) ( Large preview ).

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CSS - Tricks

MAY 3, 2021

For one thing, the design of WebPageTest is now quite nice. google-analytics.com", "sanList":[ "*.google-analytics.com", google-analytics.com", "*.fps.goog", 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.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. Static files range from a few kilobytes of CSS to gigabytes of video. Most of the problems caused by static assets like photos and videos are because they are big files.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. Sustainable Web Design.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

At first glance, it seems like a simple task, but in the background, browsers do a tedious job of calculating the size of these images in different scenarios: For images that are resized in responsive design. The change of design. Design change fix: Different images for different displays. Cache Your Images.

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MachMetrics

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Looking again at the websites above, you’ll see that Google uses one image (their logo), Craigslist uses 0(!), Modern design often calls for large “hero” images, video backgrounds, and gifs, all of which are large taxes on bandwidth. After about the 2-second mark, your bounce rate starts to rapidly increase.

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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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Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 8, 2015

AMP provides a framework for developers to use to build their site with good performance baked in—not entirely unlike Bootstrap or Foundation does for responsive design. If you want to load resources such as images, videos or analytics tracking, you use the provided web components (branded as AMP Components).

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

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. This element could be an image, video, or simply, just a large block of text. Large preview ).

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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. Caching of individual modules. Use cases of Node.js

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Source: HTTP Archive's Core Web Vitals Technology Report. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

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. Deferring font stylesheets (Google Font files, for example) could also be beneficial for initial render performance.

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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. If you see authors turning to other authoring tools such as Google Docs for its commenting or suggestions capabilities, it may be a red flag as to what features you are missing. External best of breed video services.

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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

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.). While the first Google-specific versions of QUIC used a custom set-up for this, standardized QUIC uses the existing TLS 1.3

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. To help our customers manage ongoing data explosion, we have designed many of the core components over the last few years. Video Transcoding. Edge caching. Google cloud.

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