Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

But many, including Gartner , believe that PWAs are the future of mobile sales that’ll overtake the market in the 2020s: “Progressive web apps are a cost- and a skills-effective way to reach a wide audience with a close-to-native app experience that supports the full customer life cycle. What Does This Mean? Findable Pages. Large preview ).

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites. Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient. A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0,

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Rigor

JULY 2, 2019

However, there may be cases where you have unnecessary redirection on your site, including: Using device-specific versions of your site so a mobile user is redirected from example.com to m.example.com/home. Lastly, suppose we tried to go to [link] from a mobile device. Compare this to loading [link] directly, which took a mere 29 ms.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Google Docs, Trello, …). It should work without a network. Mobile apps that use local storage combined with a backend service such as Firebase and its Cloud Firestore take us closer to the local-first ideal, depending on the way the local data is treated by the application. I’m all in :). The rock or the hard place?

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ). This is difficult to prove because developers will say that “the experience” is what they are seeing on their computers using, for example, Google Chrome. A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0,

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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%. Google search ranking. Large preview ). The Wix Challenge. Heavier websites.

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Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The other week, there were a few articles that came out about Chrome’s NOSCRIPT intervention: an intervention that would disable JavaScript altogether on slow networks. Chrome intervening on behalf of the user when it feels the network is iffy isn’t exactly new. The Data Saver proxy is enabled. It works on HTTPS too.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

However, let’s take a step further and learn how to deploy modern qualities to PWAs, such as offline functionality, network-based optimizing, cross-device user experience, SEO capabilities, and non-intrusive notifications and requests. When developing a PWA, you can cache the application shell’s resources and assets in the browser.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. SEO is key to our success. Bookaway site search.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

This is helpful for those on poor or expensive networks, so they don’t have to pay an exorbitant cost just to visit your website. Approximately two-thirds of Indian mobile Chrome users of Smashing Magazine have this setting turned on, for example. Mobile user. Mobile SaveData support. Mobile SaveData on.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2 Lighthouse.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

With the latest introduction of the Core Web Vital section on GSC + upcoming Google’s core web vital update, site owners are forced to take note of their website speed and web vitals. Importance of page loading speed – Google checks your website load time and they like it as fast with a better user experience.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Many of us are lucky enough to be on mobile plans which allow several gigabytes of data transfer per month. 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. The Cost Of Mobile Data. Just how expensive are we talking?

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Last year, Google started emphasizing the importance of Core Web Vitals and how they reflect a person’s real experience when visiting sites around the web. It wasn’t long before a sea of red “poor” and yellow “needs improvement” notices in our Google Search Console needed our attention. How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

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

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed. She understood how important mobile page speeds were to the user experience and, by proxy, SEO.

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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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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

With a headless CMS, content is provided to different channels such as web, mobile, social, no-UI smart devices, IoT devices and even non-digital touchpoints such as a bricks-and-mortar shopfront. Working for a major airline not even a decade ago, I can remember trying to model content for mobile devices (yes! Editing Experience.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

These metrics are used by Google to evaluate the quality of user experience. <img srcset="" src="" alt="" /> To declare this list of images, it is recommended to follow a mobile-first approach. To respect the mobile-first approach, image-300.png Eloïse Martin. 2023-01-16T18:00:00+00:00. 2023-01-16T22:03:27+00:00.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Critical in adapting web content to mobile, particularly regarding multi-touch gestures. Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations. Delayed five years. Gamepad API.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Mobile image transfer size by year graphic from Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter. If we think about social networks, we can see two clear trends, those focusing on text and those focusing on multimedia content. Large preview ). So it is clear that lossy compression would be the ideal technique for that case.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

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Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Case-in-point, most enterprise CMS vendors lack robust full-site content delivery network (CDN) integration. A few months back, I was pulled into a scenario where a business has been working with a leading CMS vendor to roll-out a network of multi-regional websites. Eventually, we decided to move them to Jekyll.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. Offers Easy Navigation & Seamless User Experience: Single page app has a simple design, and it delivers an experience like a desktop or mobile app. Users do not have to click on many links. Examples of SPAs.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this case, we are not going to be talking about infrastructure services, such as a cloud computing platform like Microsoft Azure or a content distribution network like Akamai. of mobile sites and 94.1% of requests on mobile and 45.1% And JavaScript can certainly make requests for additional network resources.

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Smashing Magazine

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. Here, the idea is that your mobile phone typically has both Wi-Fi and a (4G) cellular connection, so why not use them both at the same time for extra throughput and robustness? Another effort is called MultiPath TCP.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

My team and I first encountered the strange WordPress-lagging REST API on a client site (not decoupled), where we used the custom endpoints to get the list of locations on a Google map, alongside other meta information created using the Advanced Custom Fields Pro plugin. This last method is known as the “key caching method”.

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. media="(min-width: 750px)"> <img srcset="img@mobile.png, img@mobile-2x.png 2x". Two numbers set the stage: 45% of mobile connections occur over 2G worldwide.

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KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

I’m almost always on a slow connection and the amount of time it takes images to load on most websites is just horrid… - Sara Soueidan Desktop and Mobile Images Just how much of a website is made up of images? KB and the average mobile page is 1,683.5 KB and on a mobile page take up an average of 865.9

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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. This Lighthouse mobile report for the front page showed that a lot of work needed to be done. And while you can usually cache the full page of an article, the same is not true of many shop pages and elements.

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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. Ultimately, for now it seems that it’s only the latter that contribute to SEO ranking — both on mobile and on desktop. It measures the web performance of a single page using Google PageSpeed Insights. PageSpeed Compare.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

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. At the time of the workshop, our Lighthouse scores were 60–68 on the homepage , and around 40-60 on article pages — and obviously worse on mobile. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Lazy-load offscreen images (reduce network contention for key resources). For low impact to First Input Delay : Avoid images causing network contention with other critical resources like CSS and JS. CWV is part of a set of page experience signals Google Search will be evaluating for ranking. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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MachMetrics

JANUARY 23, 2020

Some visitors will be coming to your site via a blazing fast internet on an overpowered, flagship mobile device. For example, if you implement a caching plugin into your WordPress site, many of your resources will be cached, drastically improving the load time for someone coming back to your site.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. On mobile, per session, users who experienced fast load times bring 17% more revenue than average.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Study your main competitors, collect metrics on how they perform on mobile and desktop and set thresholds that would help you outpace them. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

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