Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. With that caveat out of the way, let’s get to the guts of the article: What is the Back/Forward Cache and why does it matter so much? Didn’t The HTTP Cache Do All That Anyway? Barry Pollard.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. It measures the web performance of a single page using Google PageSpeed Insights. It can also compare the performance of multiple pages of your site or those of your competitors’ websites. WebPageTest Core Web Vitals Test.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The linked-up explainer provides more details, from how scores are weighted to why scores may fluctuate between test runs. Why do we need Lighthouse at all when Google also offers similar reports in PageSpeed Insights (PSI)? Large preview ) Did you notice that the Performance score in Lighthouse is different from that PSI screenshot?

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. The Relation Between Images And Web Performance. Cache Your Images. A website’s performance can suffer if frequently accessed images are not cached, as many requests will be made to images that have already been loaded in the user’s system.

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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? Lara Hogan’s guide on how to approach designs with a performance budget can provide helpful pointers to designers.

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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? In 2015, Google introduced Brotli , a new open-source lossless data format, which is now supported in all modern browsers.

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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. It’s common knowledge that better website performance results in more conversions, more traffic, and better user experience.

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