Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. It essentially describes the lifetime of each file you download to load your page from the network. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

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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 Smashing Magazine, that involved dropping some of our web fonts. And Is It Used?

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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. You need to beware of large HTML files or slow network connections because they can lead to longer download times.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Are all the caching headers set correctly? Waterfaller: A Tool Focusing On Network Waterfalls. Contrary to Lighthouse or WebPage Test, Waterfaller focuses on one thing alone — issues in the network waterfall. Waterfaller focuses on issues in the network waterfall and provides recommendations for improvement.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. If we think about social networks, we can see two clear trends, those focusing on text and those focusing on multimedia content. The change of design. Large preview ). The Relation Between Images And Web Performance.

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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. A big JavaScript bundle might seem out of place on a magazine that merely publishes articles, but actually, there is plenty of scripting happening behind the scenes. Image source: Lighthouse Metrics ) ( Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

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. Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3.

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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. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

On top of this foundation, we add layers of caching, prerendering and edge delivery optimizations — not the other way around. Hydrogen fuels dynamic commerce by uniting React Server Components, streaming server-side rendering, and smart caching controls. Large preview ). This is not a debate about dynamic vs. static.

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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. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

This header can be set on the response of any network resource, such as XHR, fetch, images, HTML, stylesheets, etc. These subtypes are currently the only subtypes related to network requests and thus exposing the Server-Timing information. Setting Server-Timing. No References Required.

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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. thanks, Guy Podjarny! ). 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

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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. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Meet Smashing Workshops on front-end, design & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. Jump to the workshops ↬ Using CDN For Caching And WebP For Lighter File Sizes As I mentioned a little earlier, our stack includes Sanity’s CMS. Let’s see the query caching in action.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. You’ve focused on making the web design responsive to ensure that the widest audience of visitors can access your content. You’ve agonized over design patterns and usability. Ken Harker.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. All of the major browsers provide developer tools that allow us to measure network activity. Sustainable Web Design.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. Search Engine And Web Archive Cached Results. Another common category of imposter domains are domains used by search engines for delivering cached results or archived versions of page views. More after jump!

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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. Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. per GB respectively.

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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. Imagine a professional networking site with a database of users. Client-Side Caching. For more details, see the Django documentation. Media Files.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The solution used in Scrapbook was to use the SWR library of React hooks to update the cached page from the server with client side data fetching. The client is first served the cached statically generated page (generated with getStaticProps() ), in the background the server also begins the process of revalidating that page (read more here ).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Application leaders for digital commerce technologies must plan for PWAs when designing digital commerce experiences”. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. The Design Gives Ground For Utmost Usability. Jump to table of contents ?. Large preview ).

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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. Providing rich, interactive website experiences needs added assets that consume your users’ resources, from CPU and GPU to memory and network. This is why performance is crucial when building websites.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. Note : In your browser development tools, open the Network > Img tabs to see the image chosen by the browser according to each viewport and DPR. Jump to table of contents ↬. srcset=" image-300.png

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

When it comes down to how WordPress is programmed, one thing is certain: it doesn’t follow the M odel- V iew- C ontroller (MVC) design pattern that many developers are familiar with. Security concerns. So, What Exactly Is A Decoupled WordPress? Creating A Simple Decoupled Pages Endpoint. post_slug || ! is_post_type_allowed_to_save().

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

JavaScript was designed to run in lock-step with the browser’s main rendering loop. The drawback of that design is that a small amount of slow JavaScript code can prevent the browser’s rendering loop from continuing. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. JavaScript. Pretty much every web app out there relies on this model.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. If the stylesheet file has a large file size or multiple dependencies which are located on third-party servers or CDNs, website rendering can be delayed significantly depending on the network speed and reliability. This is exactly how Smashing Magazine handles its stylesheets. More after jump!

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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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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

We’ll be learning how to do this with GraphQL Features like Cache Update, Subscriptions, and Optimistic UI. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Updating the cache directly using update function on the useMutation. Updating the cache directly using update function on the useMutation. More after jump!

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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. The delivery of static assets in formats such as WebP via a Content Delivery Network (CDN) is also crucial to serving your users a fast website. Many headless CMSes cache content retrieved via RESTful or GraphQL APIs.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

Modules like the service module containing all the network requests needed by the company are kept in this core module and all corresponding network requests are made from here. In a traditional app where we have signup, logins, or product page we want to have consistent behavior and design. UI kit built upon material design.

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AUGUST 22, 2021

As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. If your average visitor is on a fast cabled or cellular network, they probably won’t benefit from the new protocols all that much. An often used metaphor is that of a pipe used to transport water. Congestion Control.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It also, however, takes a full network round trip to complete before anything else can be done on a connection. 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.). What is so different?

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

And now we’ve all got really powerful phones in our pockets, running a range of network connected apps. So I can have a multipage app, cache my API calls for a short period of time without having to cache them in memory. So we enhanced and maybe over-stretched the high tech document system to behave like a software application.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Particularly, when dealing with web sockets, you may need to unsubscribe from the network to save resources and improve performance when the component unmounts. The useMemo hook is designed to memoize expensive computations. Memoization simply means caching. More after jump!

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