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Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties

Smashing Magazine

These services use requests to external hosts (not servers you control) to deliver JavaScript framework libraries, custom fonts, advertising content, marketing analytics trackers, and more. Any resource (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, image, font, etc.) Can a fancy third-party custom font give your site a new look and feel?

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Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

When we talk about an e-commerce website, the main pages you’ll have are: the home page (and “content” pages), category and search pages, product detail pages, the cart and checkout (obviously). Font Loading. Like on so many other websites, we use web fonts for our typography needs. So, we dropped the font weight.

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How To Fix Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) Issues

Smashing Magazine

So this had quite an impact on the CLS score — enough to knock all our pages into the “Needs Improvement” category. Web Fonts Cause Layout Shifts. Smashing Magazine article with fallback font and with full web fonts. All your users are non-JS while they’re downloading your JS. Large preview ).

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Improving Core Web Vitals, A Smashing Magazine Case Study

Smashing Magazine

To do that we just put the headline above the author image, and increased the font size on mobile a bit. A bit of a bad day, with a few more slow page loads, was enough to flip the whole page grouping into the “needs improvement” category. Well no, we now return to our idea from earlier: optimizing the web fonts a bit more.

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What is session replay? Discover user pain points with session recordings

Dynatrace

It might be something as simple as changing the color of a button or the font of a link, or moving a web element to a different place on your page, but even minor improvements can significantly boost customer satisfaction. This helps to subdivide session recordings into goal-oriented categories. Achieving business objectives.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

Is it expensive JavaScript, slow web font delivery, heavy images, or sluggish rendering? Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. when web fonts aren’t loaded yet). Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Signals For Customizing Website User Experience

Smashing Magazine

For Smashing Magazine, that involved dropping some of our web fonts. The result is that nearly all users now fall into the 4g category, a few into the 3g , and very few into the 2g or slow-2g categories. Moving on from User and Network signals, we have the final category of device signals. are reported as 4g , 15.1%

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