Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores. Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores. Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. Zara Cooper.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. Every web performance story is similar, isn’t it? A day when a project, fully polished and carefully optimized, gets launched, ranking high and soaring above performance scores in Lighthouse and WebPageTest. Vitaly Friedman.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. Large preview ) We’ve known for a long time that fast page performance influences search engine rankings.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

You can find a comprehensive Beginner’s Guide To Progressive Web Apps on Smashing Magazine that focuses on building the core of PWAs. The service workers enable the offline usage of the PWA by fetching cached data or informing the user about the absence of an Internet connection. Cached content with IndexedDB. Service Workers.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

Font loading has long been a bugbear of web performance, and there really are no good choices here. The thinking here was that it was better for performance to display the text as quickly as you can , even if it’s in the fallback font, and then to swap the font in when it finally downloads. Barry Pollard. 2021-05-25T09:30:00+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. The Google Fonts API does more than just provide the font files to the browser, it also performs a smart check to see how it can deliver the files in the most optimized format. Browser Caching. Danny Cooper. 2019-06-20T11:00:16+02:00.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks. How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks. In particular, the increase in the amount of downloaded JavaScript can have a direct impact on website performance. Dan Shappir. 2022-05-12T09:30:00+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

In my last article , I suggested using the SaveData API to deliver a different, more performant, experience to users that expressed that desire. Approximately two-thirds of Indian mobile Chrome users of Smashing Magazine have this setting turned on, for example. For Smashing Magazine, that involved dropping some of our web fonts.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

That is why, today, Web Performance is as important and trendy as having an online presence. Table of Contents: What Is Web Performance? What Is Web Performance? Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

Optimizing Performance With Resource Hints. Optimizing Performance With Resource Hints. Modern web browsers use all sorts of techniques to help improve page load performance by guessing what the user may be likely to do next. The browser caches the results of these lookups, but they can be slow. Drew McLellan.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

Without build optimizations (incremental builds, caching, we will get to those soon) this will eventually become unmanageable as well — think about going through all images in a website: resizing, deleting, and/or creating new files over and over again. The cache is invalidated on a time basis. Creating an On-Demand builder.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 16, 2020

Methods Of Improving And Optimizing Performance In React Apps. Methods Of Improving And Optimizing Performance In React Apps. React enables web applications to update their user interfaces (UIs) quickly, but that does not mean your medium or large React application will perform efficiently. Measuring Performance.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

We work with millions of merchants, and as many companies, we obsess about storefront performance. We obsess even more about finding the optimal balance between performance, capabilities, and merchants’ business objectives. I work at Shopify, an all-in-one commerce platform to start, run, and grow a business. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. Perhaps the biggest win when it comes to making websites more sustainable is that performance, user experience and sustainability are all neatly intertwined. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. Can’t be perfect every time!

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

Working around improving performance was an ongoing journey on SmashingMag for a while. In the end of last year we’ve noticed that we’ve seen quite a drop in performance in 2020, so we rolled up our sleeves and got to work. Gael Metais suggested to more aggressively subset web fonts and look into caching issues with our AVIF files.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 9, 2022

As a result, users can enjoy more capable and feature-rich applications that remain performant through techniques like code-splitting, caching, prefetching, and other resource optimization techniques — with some applications that are even able to work offline. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

I plan on sharing specifically what I learned from performance and accessibility practices as a first-time lead developer of a team , as well as what I wish I had known before we started. Imagine how poor the loading performance would be if we had to load a bunch of images like this one! Unoptimized, full-size JPEG is around 1.2

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

To my surprise, web performance monitoring conversations rarely surface Server-Timing or cover a very shallow understanding of its application — despite it being out for many years. Web browsers expose a global Performance Timeline API to inspect details about specific metrics/events that have happened during the page lifecycle.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

This is clearly not just bad for the environment — it’s bad for performance and hurts our users too. The performance impact is be measured with PageSpeed Insights. These numbers are based on first-page load — caching seems very efficient for subsequent page loads. Description. JS (uncached). Two embeds. Description.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Are all the caching headers set correctly? But how do you find all these things causing performance issues? Let me share three tools that will help you spot performance issues and ship high-quality and fast websites. Let me share three tools that will help you spot performance issues and ship high-quality and fast websites.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Even if you resize your images to the exact specifications of your website and run them through a compressor, they can still put a strain on performance and run up bandwidth usage. Last year, front end developer Jeremy Wagner wrote up a guide for Smashing Magazine on this very topic. What Is WebP Caching? As well it should.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Even if none of the page content is delivered from your platform or servers, so long as the JavaScript code you are using for analytics or performance tracking loads, you can still get data about the page view. Search Engine And Web Archive Cached Results. Further Reading on Smashing Magazine. Turning The Data Into Information.

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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. Image Decoding Performance. +. Measuring Image Performance. +.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

MB , that suggests I’ve got around 29 pages in my budget, although probably a few more than that if I’m able to stay on the same sites and leverage browser caching. Throughout the experiment I will suggest performance tips to speed up the first contentful paint and perceived loading time of the page. Performance Tip #3: Less Is More.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Your application might also suffer from caching, and performance issues. They handle a lot of things like caching and performance which are difficult to manage on your own. These packages will fetch and cache async data from your back-end API endpoints and make your application state much more maintainable.

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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. Image Decoding Performance. +. Measuring Image Performance. +.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In this article, we will go through how to optimize and build a high-performance Next.js Nx is an open-source build framework that helps you architect, test, and build at any scale — integrating seamlessly with modern technologies and libraries, while providing a robust command-line interface (CLI), caching, and dependency management.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Developers are already optimizing front end performance with: Fast web hosting. Let the web developer handle all of the necessary speed optimizations like caching and file minification while you take on the following design tips and strategies: 1. Clean coding practices. Minification. Image optimization. So, is there anything left?

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Users who opened a PWA from a smartphone’s browser might even not be aware that they’re using a progressive web app, assuming that it’s just a well-performing site. Far from perfect site speed and performance are common pain points for many Magento stores, which are usually massive and complicated. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

In recent years, the industry thankfully started paying more attention to performance. As a result, website performance can suffer. Improving performance with the decoupled JSON approach. Improving Performance With The Decoupled JSON Approach. Working with the default WordPress REST API. Security concerns. post_slug || !

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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. While small-to-medium projects can get away without one, a CDN (content delivery network) is easy to use and improves the performance of applications of any size.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You may have a lean, agile, responsive site design only to find it gradually loaded down with more and more “extras” that are often put onto the site by marketing departments or business leaders who are not always thinking about website performance. Measuring Performance Impact. You cannot always anticipate what you cannot control.

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