Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Performance is one of the core aspects to ensure our users are having a delightful user experience irrespective of their devices or network connection. Apart from that, we check the Google Search Console Core Web Vitals Report section to get an idea of any potential CLS issues in any of our pages. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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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. You’ll also find example code or references to more specific guides so you can implement these tips to your PWA. Skeleton screen examples on Code My UI. Optimizing Based On Network Usage.

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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. For Smashing Magazine, that involved dropping some of our web fonts. Data Saver.

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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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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s the newest metric of the bunch and is set to formally be a ranking factor in Google search results beginning in March 2024. This is readily available in PageSpeed Insights and Google Search Console, not to mention DebugBear. DebugBear actually tests with a slower network, resulting in more accurate data.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

You know, have a plan for it and write code that’s mindful about adding extra weight to the page. But not everything about performance happens directly at the code level, right? I’d say many — if not most — sites and apps rely on some number of third-party scripts where we might not have any influence over the code.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

The other issue is that the data I’m getting back is based on lab simulations where I can add throttling, determine the device that’s used, and the network connection, among other simulated conditions. On that note, it’s worth calling out that there are multiple flavors of network throttling. Real usage data would be better, of course.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

Prioritize Networking Over Pushing Pixels. Prioritize networking over pushing pixels. The fact is that no one tells us that we should be working harder on making good connections rather than polishing our designs or code. When Typography Speaks Louder Than Words ,” by Carolyn Knight and Jessica Glaser (Smashing Magazine).

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

If you haven’t heard, INP is replacing the First Input Delay (FID) metric, something you can read all about here on Smashing Magazine as a guide to prepare for the change. But what code is actually running and causing those delays? But that’s not what I really want to talk about. And does the type of LCP element impact the LCP score?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Also, the management will be dissatisfied with the decreased traffic and revenue caused by the unoptimized codebase, despite the code quality improvements. They offer a wide variety of customization options to further control how code is being optimized and which browsers are supported. Optimizing Stylesheet File Size.

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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%. This frees up the browser’s main thread to run your own code. It’s maintained by Builder.io

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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

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". Note : In your browser development tools, open the Network > Img tabs to see the image chosen by the browser according to each viewport and DPR.

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2021

The deployed app is available for viewing , and the final code is on Github. based cross-platform framework whose motto is : “write code once and simultaneously deploy it as a website, a mobile app and/or an Electron app”. boot/ # boot files (app initialization code) ? ??? holds the Vue Router initialization code.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The gotcha here is that, if your mobile experience isn’t optimized for various devices and network conditions, these customers will never appear in your analytics — just because your website or app will be barely usable on their devices, and so they are unlikely to return. Testing the Smashing Magazine website on different devices.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Smaller HTML means less time for Google to download and process those long strings of text. Usually, the HTML code size is not a big issue, especially for small pages, not data-intensive, or pages that are not SEO-oriented. Both for Google bots (SEO) and to actual clients. How about errors?” Conclusions.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

As seen in the discussions about privacy at Facebook and AI-powered imaging at Google among other examples, when there are no ethical considerations during the creation of technology then the interaction between humans is compromised. It all starts with a Code of Ethics. “I A Code Of Ethics: The Backbone Of Ethical Practice.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. If we think about social networks, we can see two clear trends, those focusing on text and those focusing on multimedia content. Large preview ). The Relation Between Images And Web Performance. But if we leave text aside, what other options are left?

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

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 speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. As for mobile network connection type, 84.7% Google Homepage — DOM. per GB respectively.

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 16, 2019

Client hints were introduced by Google for Chrome, and other browsers have adopted (or in the process of adopting) them since the HTTP specification was released. If you’re not careful, you could end up with some sloppy, bloated code. See the Google Dev Guide's section on client hints to learn more about their uses.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

We’ve explored the concepts behind headless CMSes in detail here on Smashing Magazine, but let’s do a quick recap. All functionality and integrations would also have a tight dependency which in turn results in a large, cumbersome monolithic code base. It worked a treat without having 50 Google Docs flying all over the place.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

Networking. Networking is an excellent way of doing this and is a reliable way of finding new work opportunities. The downside of networking is that it is time-consuming and doesn’t scale. There is now so much content out there that to get somebody’s attention, let alone rank well on Google, is incredibly hard.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Clean coding practices. Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google. In this case, my website is “slow”, even when served on 4G networks. Minification. Image optimization. So, is there anything left?

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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. In many cases, they can be super convenient to add or remove without having to push code changes to the site. More after jump! Jump to table of contents ?.

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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. However, many other devices are sitting between the client and the server that also have their own TCP code on board (examples include firewalls, load balancers, routers, caching servers, proxies, etc.). What is so different?

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

WordPress’ architecture often does not offer the possibilities we sometimes need when working on a website, especially when it comes to optimizing performance , one of the most important points when ranking our site in a search engine like Google and especially now that Web Vitals is up and running. Entry Type Page. Full Final Script.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

So for example, I think the king of this hill is probably Preact, which is a three kilobyte alternative to React that uses the same API, ships way less code and actually runs orders of magnitude faster on safe updates than React does too. I think I’m up to three or four thousand pages and there’s no way I am just hand coding all those.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

A performance budget as a mechanism for planning a web experience and preventing performance decay might consist of the following yardsticks: Overall page weight, Total number of HTTP requests, Page-load time on a particular mobile network, First Input Delay (FID). You can also measure CWVs through real-user monitoring (RUM) like CrUX.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

This attribute contains seemingly endless alphanumeric junk that you may be tempted to strip out in the quest for cleaner code. Resources like Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) that had previously been the reserve of giant corporations were becoming commonplace for everyday folk building snappy websites. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2019

A quick Google search reveals plenty of online tools up to the job, but I prefer to use the coverage tool in Chrome, which can be run straight from Chrome’s DevTools. You can see timings like these for any asset in Chrome in Developer Tools via Network -> Click on your asset -> Timing tab. Google has recognized this as well.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

It’s not just source code for the configuration, models, views, and templates, but also static assets: CSS and JavaScript, images, icons. The three types of files in a live Django application are: Source Code. Source code files are generally pretty small, measured in kilobytes. Philip Kiely. 2020-06-25T12:30:00+00:00.

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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. Additionally, page speed is a ranking factor for search and also for your Google Ads. Many of them are covered in CSS-Tricks’ helpful overview , and Smashing Magazine offers a great PDF checklist. Jennifer Brehm.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Because of its history and for being sort of a fork of an old blogging platform called “b2” (more details here ), it’s largely written in a procedural way (using function-based code). Before we delve deeper in the code, a couple more things about WordPress REST API. But if you still need convincing, Google penalizes slow websites.

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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. It measures the web performance of a single page using Google PageSpeed Insights. Network and CPU are throttled for lab data tests for more realistic conditions. The audits can be performed across various devices and network conditions.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

And suddenly, before you know it, the code base gets a little bit overweight and fragmented , third-party scripts have to load just a little bit earlier, and shiny new dynamic content finds its way into the DOM through the backdoors of fourth-party scripts and their uninvited guests. Large preview ).

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