Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

When a link is presented as “here” or “this,” it’s harder to aim it with a cursor or finger. if the information is read-only or editable); The file size is crucial for people with costly internet, slow connection, or limited local storage. While this is a vast topic, we’ll focus on text links, namely their usability and accessibility.

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Website Design Internet Internet 141

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

As we will see, both the present and future of browser engine choice are squarely within Cupertino's control. Nobody frames it precisely this way; instead they'll say, if WebKit weren't mandated, Chromium would take over , or Google would dominate the web if not for the WebKit restriction. And that's a choice. "WebKit Cui bono? —

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Testsigma

MAY 24, 2021

There are a plethora of browsers available in the market for both web browsing and mobile browsing such as Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc. Coding in Simple English : Testsigma does not require you to be a coding expert as it allows users to write automation scripts in simple English.

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Website Testing Operating System Testing Tools 52

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. This book presents 14 specific rules that will cut 25% to 50% off response time when users request a page. Even Faster Websites.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Presented here alphabetically by last name: Rachel Andrew. Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Here is our (ever-growing!) Plus, at the end, a few bonus Twitter handles to round things out.).

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

There was something gratifying in taking a code that takes minutes to run and make it run in a handful seconds. Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ). Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Per the W3C spec , “a pseudo-element represents an element not directly present in the document tree” They have been around since version 1 of the CSS specification, when ::first-letter and ::first-line were introduced. Google Workspace ( Gmail , Calendar , Drive , etc) stopped IE11 support on March 15, 2021. Marcel Moreau.

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Internet Internet Google Design 135

Testsigma

JANUARY 18, 2021

Consider a scenario where the end-users are using Internet Explorer browser to reach your website but you have not considered ‘testing on IE’ a part of your testing process! The user is presented with different UX and content depending on the country (or locale) (e.g. A simple example of geolocation is Amazon.com.

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Testing Operating System Website Internet 55

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In the late 1990s, marketing and advertising agencies saw the potential of eye-tracking for the Internet and started using the technology to analyze how people consume content online. For instance, Nielsen’s research conducted in 2006 showed that people read content on the Internet in an F-shaped pattern. More after jump!

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Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 112

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I also learned how marketing worked, and began to build my presentation and training skills as I was sent around the world by Sun to teach workshops and speak at events. I still code in R… One role I had for many years was to lead technical training events for the global specialist systems engineers, which we called the Ambassador Program.

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Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Google's Search App and Facebook's various apps for Android undermine these choices in slightly different ways. [3] Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. For a browser to serve as the user's agent, it must also receive navigations. PWA Feature Detector.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Most of us work on connections that are typically quite a bit faster than that of the average internet user. In the early days of the web when we were browsing the internet via a dialup connection, improving performance meant removing the images from your site. Google’s results were perhaps even more startling.

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Performance Energy Google Internet 40

O'Reilly

MARCH 23, 2023

It can explain code that you don’t understand, including code that has been intentionally obfuscated. Sydney The internal code name of the chatbot behind Microsoft’s improved search engine, Bing. LaMDA Developed by Google; few people have access to it, though its capabilities appear to be very similar to ChatGPT.

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O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve played around with using AI tools like ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot to write code for you. So far I’ve read a gazillion blog posts about people’s experiences with these AI coding assistance tools. or “ha look how incompetent it is … it couldn’t even get my simple question right!”

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Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

These metrics are used by Google to evaluate the quality of user experience. Let’s illustrate the browser’s behavior with an example using our previous code: <img src="image-300.png". And finally, update our code : <img src="image-280.png". Still, the updated code is not fully optimized for all devices yet.

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Media Mobile Website Metrics 105

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink).

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Internet of Things (IoT). Besides that, these apps do well in areas with a slow internet connection. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. The most preferred single-page applications are Gmail, Google Drive, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

Code Quality: Angular or React? It makes your code very easy to understand and launch. Moreover, it endures one of the top JavaScript frameworks because of constantly updated technology and backing from Google and its coding power. Code Stability with One-directional data binding. Cleaner and short Coding.

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Development Google Open Source Servers 52

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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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Alex Podelko

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

In 2014, I was preparing a presentation about load testing tools and criteria for their selection. To evaluate such ecosystems, in absence of more sophisticated data, I used the number of documents Google finds and the number of jobs Monster finds mentioning each product. SilkPerformer (then Borland) trailed third far behind.

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DevOps Testing Testing Tools Performance Testing 113

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

Most sites, even those that aspire to be "lived in", feature short median sessions, which means we can't actually justify much in the way of up-front code, and first impressions always matter. Most sorts of sites have shallow sessions, making up-front script costs hard to justify. In the U.S.,

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The internet. If you are in this camp and getting pressure around improving SEO or responding to inbound questions regarding numbers seen in Google Console, you'll want to familiarize yourself with these metrics. Leave out terms like percentile and avoid presenting two sets of numbers. It's consistently inconsistent.

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Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. And, just as the use of images is so present in content creation, optimizing them is key to improving our page load speed and rendering it in the shortest possible time, as images are responsible for more bytes than any other resource. Alba Silvente.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 106

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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Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Tim Kadlec

JULY 31, 2013

There are many books, articles and presentations that have influenced the way I approach the web today. So many blog posts, online publications, and presentations continually challenged me to move forward by presenting new techniques and ways of thinking about the technology I used on a daily basis. Here at Yahoo!,

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Google Website Hardware Games 40

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Spend enough time running websites through PageSpeed Insights and you’ll notice that Google has a major beef with traditional image formats like JPG, PNG and even GIF. Here’s what Google suggests: PageSpeed Insights demonstrates how much storage and bandwidth websites stand to save with WebP. Source: Google ) ( Large preview ).

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Website Speed Cache Google 72

Strategic Tech

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Google might have a Google Drive department, a Google Maps department, an AdWords department and so on. Then along came the internet, so they set up a completely new department to build and operate online services. However, I present trends here that I have genuinely witnessed in numerous organisations.

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Design Innovation Mobile Google 40

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The compatibility of the code on different browsers, devices, OS combinations decides how the UI will be rendered on the front-end. We will understand the behaviour and fix the code, and rerun to see the results again. However, older browsers like Internet Explorer fail to render JavaScript and CSS5 code successfully.

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Efficiency Testing Testing Tools Website 71

Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

As far as your personal system is concerned, an internet connection and a browser are all you want. Your legacy test code may be written in a programming language that your testers may or may not know. While working remotely, both of these options have a high probability of failure as you are not physically present to ask anyone.

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Testing Social Media Artificial Intelligence Cloud 52

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Presently we know it is far from easy to forecast the future – all of us have discovered this in 2020 through major ups and downs. The Internet of Things is generally referred to as IoT which encompasses computers, cars, houses or some other technological system related. million Google Play Store applications, followed by 1.96

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Artificial Intelligence Software Software IoT 92

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Have we optimized enough with tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, progressive hydration, clients hints, HTTP/3, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? You can download the spreadsheet as Google Sheets, Excel, OpenOffice document or CSV.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? It’s much easier to reach performance goals when the code base is fresh or is just being refactored.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? The first render tends to warm up a bunch of lazily compiled code, which a larger tree can benefit from when it scales.

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