Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Barry Pollard, a web performance developer advocate for Chrome, wrote an excellent primer on the CrUX Report for Smashing Magazine. Chrome DevTools includes a separate “Performance” tab where the testing environment’s CPU and network connection can be artificially throttled to mirror a specific testing condition, such as slow internet speeds.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

Low-end phones on the other hand are getting cheaper , making the mobile internet accessible to demographics that previously maybe couldn’t afford it. At the same time, we have a widening performance gap. The top-tier flagship phones are getting faster with every new generation that’s released.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. 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

JULY 29, 2019

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. I downloaded TripMode ; an application for Mac which gives you control over which apps on your Mac can access the internet. Any other application’s internet access is automatically blocked. Let’s talk about caching. We’re going to check out Cache-Control.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Our fast computers and fiber internet masked the experience real people have on our site. Internet Explorer 6 was fully supported, Firefox was gaining share, and Chrome was still years from launch. Lighthouse also caught a cache misconfiguration that prevented some of our static assets from being served from our CDN.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Measuring the carbon footprint of the web isn’t an exact science, but a report by the BBC in 2020 estimates that all internet activity accounts for around 3.7% These numbers are based on first-page load — caching seems very efficient for subsequent page loads. of global emissions (similar to the airline industry), and rising.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It’s also one of the reasons we can keep using the Internet with many concurrent users, because it smartly limits each user’s bandwidth usage to their fair share. As another example, most applications on the Internet use TCP internally to ensure that all of their data are transmitted in full. Did You Know?

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

If I change my user-agent to Internet Explorer 11, I’m served the font in the WOFF format instead. Browser Caching. Another built-in optimization of Google Fonts is browser caching. The Google Fonts browser cache is set to expire after one year unless the cache is cleared sooner. — FAQ, Google Fonts.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Samsung Internet. The platforms that continue to hold back support are: Internet Explorer. Last year, front end developer Jeremy Wagner wrote up a guide for Smashing Magazine on this very topic. What Is WebP Caching? Caching is an integral part of keeping any website running fast. Opera Mini. Android Browser.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

For the LCP score and its “Resource load time” subpart to be really optimal, you may also consider compressing your images using modern image formats , setting far-future cache expiry headers, or even using a CDN to reduce network distance. Note : We’ve mainly focused here on properly sizing the LCP image according to the users’ device.

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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. cents per gigabyte for storage versus 9 cents per gigabyte of data transfer out to the Internet at the time of writing). Client-Side Caching. In Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

And slow websites are, in a way, discrimination: The majority of the world’s population don’t have access to high-speed Internet or fast CPUs. However, it’s not always easy to maintain high performance in websites. This is why performance is crucial when building websites.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Every major website on the Internet today relies — to some degree — on third-party services. The HTTP Archive tracks third-party usage across a large swath of all active websites on the Internet today. You have control over what these resources are. of mobile sites and 94.1%

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is because HTTP/3 and QUIC mainly help deal with the somewhat uncommon yet potentially high-impact problems that can arise on today’s Internet. On the Internet, however, we typically have a long series of connected pipes , some of which can be wider than others (leading to so-called bottlenecks at the narrowest links).

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

They’d take the hit for the first site to use the file, but then it would sit in their local browser cache and downloads could be skipped for each subsequent site. Support in modern browsers is broad, with the main exception being Internet Explorer. The last thing that’s worth talking about is browser support for SRI.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2019

Native Client-Side Cache/Data Store. For instance, the returned data for each request can be added into a client-side cache containing all data requested by the user throughout the session. For instance, adding parameters filter=posts&searchfor=internet will filter all posts containing "internet" from a collection of posts.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. This improves page load time and caching during navigations.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

The idea is quite straightforward: Push the minimal code needed to get interactive for the initial route to render quickly, then use service worker for caching and pre-caching resources and then lazy-load routes that you need, asynchronously. An application shell is the minimal HTML, CSS, and JavaScript powering a user interface.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

The idea is quite straightforward: Push the minimal code needed to get interactive for the initial route to render quickly, then use service worker for caching and pre-caching resources and then lazy-load routes that you need, asynchronously. An application shell is the minimal HTML, CSS, and JavaScript powering a user interface.

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