Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed. Clean coding practices. In this case, my website is “slow”, even when served on 4G networks.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Speed Up Your Website With WebP. 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. KeyCDN understands how important it is to have a website that loads at lightning-fast speeds.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This way, you’ll not only have the information you need to read your performance reports come March 2024 but can proactively prepare your website for the change. First, FID is a measure of the time it takes the page to start processing an interaction or the input delay. It only looks at the delay of the event process.

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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. But as it stands, websites are growing ever more obese, which means that the energy demand of the Internet is continuing to grow exponentially. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 20, 2022

You might already know that Smashing Magazine has published the book Image Optimization by Addy Osmani, which covers this topic in full detail. There doesn’t seem to be an indication of limitations on file size or the number of files, but it is a slow process if you try to do a bulk conversion. Try Compressimage.io More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch. Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch. However, at the end of 2020, about 1% of websites included a Service Worker, and 2.2% One of the reasons for that is because a PWA has the same code base. Alex Husar. What Does This Mean?

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 11, 2019

I found the printmaking process incredibly satisfying. I loved making prints from linocuts, and in much the same way that I’m often entirely absorbed by writing code today, I regularly lost myself carving thousands of tiny marks until the floor was covered in sharp shards of lino. Printmaking and writing code have plenty in common.

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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. In other words, PWAs are websites that users can use as stand-alone applications.

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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. const duration = entry.duration; // Calculate the time before processing starts. const duration = entry.duration; // Calculate the time before processing starts.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

That’s why we’ve compiled an exhaustive list of web development blogs and newsletters to make this process easier. It also includes a handy CSS reference, a web development experiment playground, tutorials, blueprints to get started from and Collective - a digital design magazine that makes it easy to keep up with trends.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2019

It’s not unusual to follow a predictable process or use familiar patterns. I started a magazine collection, studied books on art direction and graphic design, and discovered art directors, including Alexey Brodovitch, Neville Brody, Bea Feitler, and Tom Wolsey. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Andrew Clarke.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

I became fascinated by the ways magazine art directors including Alexey Brodovitch and Bea Feitler brought images and text together. Learning how people interact with a website or use a product shouldn’t dictate a design but instead provide a platform on which to develop engaging, entertaining, and ultimately more memorable experiences.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rachel Andrew. Rick Byers. Rick Byers.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

This space can act as its own website — not tied to anything. In code, that looks like this: export async function getServerSideProps(context) { let wildcard = context.req.headers.host.split(".")[0]; The benefit of this is that it gives each of these establishments their enclosed space which they can customize and build out.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

It has never been easier to build a personalized website, digitalize a product and start seeing results. 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. Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Before writing Art Direction for the Web , I began to study Alexey Brodovitch when I became fascinated by editorial and magazine design. Then, I became intrigued by his design process, how he sketched layouts, arranged them into spreads, and created a rhythm which flowed through his magazines. Art direction by Alexey Brodovitch.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

And we can get that with real-user monitoring (RUM) where a snippet of code on my site collects real data based on from real network conditions coming from real users is sent to a server and parsed for reporting. This is high-quality data from actual website visitors, for example based on Google’s Chrome User Experience (CrUX) Report.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

I don’t like prioritizing the metrics over the users, but the fact that the other Chromium and Firefox browsers have this and Safari will hopefully soon, and that this is a progressive enhancement means that I would say we’re at the point where we can leave the padding-bottom hack behind and write cleaner code. Make Liberal Use Of min-height.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Third-party Javascript accounts for a lot of bloat on websites, with analytics, chatbots, and embedded widgets being common contributors. I also became interested in this analysis of the COP26 website by Fershad Irani, which shows many things that could be improved to reduce the site’s (relatively large) carbon footprint.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

Music magazines were popular too. Even twenty-five years after he created them, Brody’s pages from The Face magazine are still remarkable designs. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Music magazines from 1980 including The Face (far right). Local screen-printing workshops offered affordable flyers and posters.

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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

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Smart Bundling: How To Serve Legacy Code Only To Legacy Browsers. Smart Bundling: How To Serve Legacy Code Only To Legacy Browsers. A website today receives a large chunk of its traffic from evergreen browsers — most of which have good support for ES6+, new JavaScript standards, new web platform APIs and CSS attributes.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 21, 2023

They were designed to provide a way to execute JavaScript code in the background, separate from the main execution thread of a web page, in order to improve performance and responsiveness. The main thread is the single execution context that is responsible for rendering the UI, executing JavaScript code, and handling user interactions.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Since implementing these changes, we have seen a dramatic improvement in the performance of websites built and hosted on our platform. Dan Shappir. 2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-22T11:06:56+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

It always starts with the long-awaited website overhaul. 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.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

As stated, it’s a lightweight library that’s quickly installed over the terminal, and can be used to set up configure-domain, deploy static or serverless websites — all done on the terminal. Serverless UI also works great with any static website, and websites that use serverless functions to handle requests to some sort of API.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

Examples of non-timing information you could send: HTTP Response status code, regions, request ids, etc. This is how they offer drop-in monitoring of all requests being made without us needing to change our code to monitor a request. Code used to monitor resources (fetch, XHR, images, stylesheets, scripts, HTML, etc.)

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 22, 2020

After moving from Switzerland to the United States, Erik Nitsche for magazines including Harper’s Bazaar, Life, and Vanity Fair. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. From left: Rivoluzione Industriale magazine, 1960. Imbalaggio magazine cover, 1955–65. And that’s something I try to remember every day. Left: Didot.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

This commitment involves prioritizing websites that offer not only relevant content but also an excellent user experience. LCP is particularly vital for landing pages , which are predominantly content and often the first touch-point a visitor has with a website. Here’s a breakdown of the moving pieces. Here’s how we do it at Bookaway.

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 16, 2019

Client hints were created to streamline the process of resource selection so that developers can build better responsive web apps more efficiently. 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. What Are Client Hints?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

If you are designing an app or a website, you can test how easy and intuitive it is to complete a specific task, fill out a form, find certain information, or buy a product. They used eye-tracking to measure visual attention on banners, animated graphics, and navigational tools in websites. This is a click heatmap of a website.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Every unnecessary bit of JavaScript code you bundle and serve will be more code the client has to load and process. The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. How will you serve blazingly fast code, then?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

It may seem enchanting how well-designed apps or websites can boost your sales, but it takes far more than a handful of fairy dust to make users enjoy their interactions. That happens when your app/website/system is efficient. When it comes to the decision-making process, many businesses make the same mistake over and over again.

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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? Is it expensive JavaScript, slow web font delivery, heavy images, or sluggish rendering?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2023

You can write content in Markdown, parse it into your GraphQL data layer, source it into your components, and then bundle it as HTML static files during the build process. The gatsby-remark-images plugin is capable of processing Markdown images, making them available when querying the Markdown from the data layer. The disadvantage?

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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? Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 9, 2020

With the above code, this would cause the main content to jump down after the image is downloaded and the space needed to display it can be calculated: Layout shift after image loads. These are likely to be the very users suffering with network constraints and limited processing power that will suffer most from layout shifts!

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