Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

Due to the design of web browser APIs, there are currently no mechanisms for querying requests and their relative responses after the fact. Here are a few that come to mind: Is this request served from the service worker cache? How long has a resource been in service worker cache? 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. Map design decisions against performance budget and the priorities defined early on.

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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. Setting Realistic Goals.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

Browser Caching. Another built-in optimization of Google Fonts is browser caching. As the Google Fonts API becomes more widely used, it is likely visitors to your site or page will already have any Google fonts used in your design in their browser cache. — FAQ, Google Fonts. Further Optimization Is Possible.

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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

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. Take advantage of specialization and economies of scale by moving expensive files to services designed for them. Client-Side Caching. Static Files. Media Files.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

However, being an easy-to-use inclusive and versatile piece of software, WordPress comes with a plethora of options that are not necessarily utilized in each and every project. For example, simple presentational sites or sites that use WordPress as a backend are the main candidates for the decoupled approach. Security concerns. post_slug ||

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 18, 2020

That’s because they are meant for user preferences, as mentioned here in the case of iOS and here in the Android documentation when talking about the Security library which is designed to provide wrappers to the SharedPreferences specifically to encrypt the data before storing it. Secure Storage On Mobile. Large preview ). In React Native.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

I vividly remember receiving a PC Magazine for my birthday with a trial of Dreamweaver. Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. Smashing Magazine powered by Netlify. More after jump! Government.

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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

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 CMS itself is provided on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model which I like to term Content-as-as-Service (CaaS). From a developer perspective, not only static assets need to be cached on a CDN. GraphQL support.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2021

Cache Merril. When people have an idea for a piece of software or an app, they tend to be pretty energized about getting it to market as quickly as possible. It’s exciting to create an app or piece of software no one’s ever imagined or built before. As software developers, we’re usually right there with them.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

To mitigate the performance issues, we had to add a lot of (unbudgeted) extra servers and had to aggressively cache pages on a reverse proxy. But if you are not careful and start banging out code without thinking about design, you might end up with a big ball of mud. As a result, they found that a 0.1s Front-end frameworks like Next.js

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

So we enhanced and maybe over-stretched the high tech document system to behave like a software application. So I can have a multipage app, cache my API calls for a short period of time without having to cache them in memory. Drew: Is part of the problem that we’re expecting the web to do too much?

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