Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

With detailed code walkthroughs , hands-on examples and common gotchas — all broken down into short, manageable lessons. However, conducting online experiments is a fairly inexpensive way to develop better websites, apps, services, and strategies and make decisions not based on intuition, but on scientific data. More after jump!

Mobile 111

Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 111

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. It’s fair to say Google Fonts are popular. Without Google Fonts you would be limited to the handful of “ system fonts ” installed on your user’s device. Like all good things, Google Fonts do come with a cost. Danny Cooper. Large preview ).

Google 111

Google Performance Cache Website 111

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

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. This could be as simple as logging the values for these options in a Google Analytics Custom Dimension. And Is It Used? Data Saver.

Website 103

Website Media Mobile Network 103

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.

Google 90

Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 90

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

I suspect that OpenAI would have difficulty going higher, even given Microsoft’s investments—and, whatever else you may think of this strategy—OpenAI has to think about the total cost. That’s not unexpected, given my guess that his strategy is built around minimizing competition. Those companies can afford it.

Open Source 93

Open Source Strategy Government Tuning 93

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

In previous articles from this series, we’ve covered auditing CSS codebase health and the incremental CSS refactoring strategy , testing, and maintenance. Also, the management will be dissatisfied with the decreased traffic and revenue caused by the unoptimized codebase, despite the code quality improvements. Adrian Bece.

Media 108

Media Performance Cache Strategy 108

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.

Website 126

Website Performance Google Media 126

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Designing With Code: A Modern Approach To Design. The Rise Of Design Thinking As A Problem Solving Strategy. He’s been writing code for two decades, and using JavaScript the whole time. They just have to copy and pastable Chakra code. Is that born out in the code itself? Mike’s personal website. Weekly Update.

Website 62

Website Design Open Source Software 62

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

For a while, Flipkart adopted an app-only strategy and temporarily shut down its mobile website altogether. With Core Web Vitals , Google has been pushing the experience factors on mobile further to the forefront. Testing the Smashing Magazine website on different devices. Driving Business Metrics. LT Browser in action.

Mobile 133

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

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.

Code 137

Code Design Education Government 137

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

You’ll find psychology heuristics just like tips for building a winning UX strategy , dive deep into user research and UX writing , and explore real-world examples — good and bad — from which you can learn to create experiences that truly matter. How To Build A Winning UX Strategy. Yet how exactly do we get there?

Airlines 128

Airlines Mobile Design Strategy 128

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

As a result, she came back to me concerned with publishing a post on a strategy her agency had yet to adopt successfully. 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. Minification.

Website 110

Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Smashing Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

When maintenance is needed, it won’t take the team as long to maintain the code because of accessibility and clean code.”. Design systems should be used not only to ensure branding and consistency, but accessibility, inclusivity, and understanding of code better. Have A Team Or Individual Who Is Your Accessibility Advocate(s).

Website 145

Website Mobile Design Testing 145

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Automation improves the quality of our work, since we can avoid having to manually execute mind-numbing tasks again and again, which will enable us to use all our time for coding, and reassures us that the deployment will not fail due to human errors (such as overriding the wrong folder as in the old FTP days). Large preview ).

Website 82

Website Serverless AWS Lambda 82

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2021

As my kept iterating on my code, the repo set-up I needed to use at each stage of my project also needed to be upgraded. Reusing Code In The Multi-Monorepo. The code to reuse will comprise: The GitHub Actions workflows to generate the WordPress plugins (including scoping , downgrading from PHP 8.0 Large preview ).

Google 92

Google Code Engineering Strategy 92

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. In that case, you can always use the <picture> HTML tag, as shown in the code below, so that the browser can pick the image format supported in the order provided. <picture> Large preview ). The Relation Between Images And Web Performance.

Media 105

Media Cache Website Mobile 105

Smashing Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

You will need a way of reaching the specific kind of client you would like to work with, and that needs a strategy that word of mouth cannot supply. Unfortunately, it is just as easy to get that strategy wrong, and doing so can prove a waste of time and money. The Problem With Traditional Approaches. More after jump!

Social Media 145

Social Media Media Network Website 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this article, we will review what third-party resource requests are, consider how impactful they can be to the user experience, and discuss common optimization strategies to reduce the impact on the user experience. In many cases, they can be super convenient to add or remove without having to push code changes to the site.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Google Homepage — DOM. Minification removes unnecessary spaces and characters, but uglification actually ‘mangles’ the code to be shorter. The tell-tale sign is that the code contains short, machine-generated variable names rather than untouched source code. 402 KB transferred, 1.1 MB resources, 24 requests.

Cache 96

Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

It’s just a matter of it’s you doing it, or if there’s a separate team doing it, but somehow you’re deploying code. Not everyone is Google. Stop reading posts from Netflix and Google. What ends up happening is your code makes particular assumptions about the environment and those assumptions are no longer valid.

DevOps 83

DevOps Metrics Systems Design 83

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

Also, be sure to synthetically track Google’s Core Web Vitals (CWVs) as part of your toolkit with tools like LightHouse. Since the CWVs will also be a signal for Google to crawlers, it makes sense to monitor and optimize for those metrics : Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), First Input Delay (FID), and Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS).

Media 117

Media Performance Mobile Latency 117

Smashing Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

Rethink Your Content Strategy For A Headless CMS ”. “ Having the front-end as a base project and having multiples spaces in a Headless CMS, allows you to have consistency between your products and makes the scalability easier because we have less code to maintain. In the code block below, you’ll see where you’ll need to specify each.

Website 141

Website Architecture Technology Technology 141

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. Together, we’ll develop an intuition for the strategies available to Django developers for serving these files to users worldwide in a secure, performant, and cost-effective manner. Philip Kiely.

Media 69

Media Cache Storage AWS 69

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.

Performance 115

Performance Cache Website Mobile 115

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 ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome who was working all around web performance for decades. Some of the biggest size savings and performance improvements can come through a better image optimization strategy. Let’s figure it all out. Get the eBook.

Media 105

Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome and focusing around performance for decades. Some of the biggest size savings and performance improvements can come through a better image optimization strategy. Let’s figure it all out. Get the eBook.

Media 92

Media Cache Google Best Practices 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.

Performance 145

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.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

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? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are?

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103