Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

We deployed these enhancements gradually over time to ensure that our users didn’t experience any disruptions, but instead only a consistent improvement of their site speed. Source: HTTP Archive's Core Web Vitals Technology Report. We also expect this upwards trend to continue as we roll out additional improvements to our platform.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2019

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. Magazine Anatomy. Time away helped me rediscover my enthusiasm for design. Ernest Journal.

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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. For example, if the CMS is built on Microsoft’s.NET Framework, the front-end website would also be built on the same technology. Comprehensive documentation and code samples are also a must. Enterprise features.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. After learning about Alexey Brodovitch ’s influential work on Harper’s Bazaar until the 1950s, I wanted to know the impact his legacy had on the magazine. Feitler has as much to teach people who design for the web as she did the magazine designers who followed her. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Yes, we’ve changed how we defined the user experience of the page load to look at the loading speed of the most relevant content , but it’s basically reusing the old techniques of ensuring that the content loads as quickly as possible. Smashing Magazine article with fallback font and with full web fonts. Make Liberal Use Of min-height.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

You can also disable the Back/Forward Cache in Chrome at chrome://flags/#back-forward-cache if you want to experiment more, but the above steps should hopefully be a sufficient enough test to give a rough feel for the potential speed gains. OK, But Is It Really That Much Faster For Most Web Browsing Or Are We Just Nitpicking Now?

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

Between an endless amount of code to make sure you’re providing full coverage and dealing with the fragile nature of front-end tests — where a simple selector change can completely break an end-to-end workflow — it can sometimes feel like an uphill battle. They’re all testing the code. add-to-cart').click();

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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. Fixes To Common Problems. The Benefits Of Using An Image Service CDN. Case Study: Image Component In A Jamstack Site. Conclusion.

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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. On some article pages, the graph looked differently.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

How do we know the code is the same UI? This new technology may cause some to rethink how entire design and engineering teams collaborate and work through use cases and building components. So, you may be wondering, how does UXPin Merge’s technology help with this over-the-top process we all employ today? Managing Libraries.

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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? Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!),

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

Many previous reading studies investigated the effect of typography on reading speed. But we know that faster speed does not always equate to better comprehension. In fact, better comprehension is often associated with slower reading speed.” — Sofie Beier (legibility expert), “ Bringing together science and typography ”.

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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? Start Render time, Speed Index ). Rendering metrics provide an estimate of how fast content renders (e.g.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Hyper is an Electron-based terminal app for Mac, Windows, or Linux that’s built with web technologies (HTML/CSS/JS). Includes dozens of themes and plugins and is built on speed and stability. A code-searching tool, similar to grep but optimized for programmers searching large trees of source code. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Since then, technology has evolved, and what started with naked-eye observations has become a sophisticated and accurate technology to measure eye movements. Eye-tracking is nothing but new, but recent developments in technology made the methodology accessible to businesses of all sizes. “. More after jump! Mobile UX Research.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

But technology is evolving, and there are more and more options that make it easier to create websites. But this also has some disadvantages, you still need to configure and update WordPress, make it secure and are dependent on their technology for the development of new functionalities. Related Reading on SmashingMag.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Nx is an open-source build framework that helps you architect, test, and build at any scale — integrating seamlessly with modern technologies and libraries, while providing a robust command-line interface (CLI), caching, and dependency management. Nx uses distributed graph-based task execution and computation caching to speed up tasks.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

Lazy loading is a way to improve the performance of a website or web application by maximizing the rendering speed of the above-the-fold images and iframes (and sometimes videos) by deferring the loading of below-the-fold content. It’s not very hard to write the JavaScript code required to perform these operations on your own.

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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. As you can see, the impact is considerable — especially on lower-end devices and slow network speed, where images are coming in separately.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

Traditional CMS gives the comfort of having the content, the editing interface, templates and custom codes, in a single environment. Wordpress relies heavily on plugins and themes which may contain malicious codes or bugs and slow the speed of the website or blog. But with the changes in this mobile era, that’s no longer enough.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. Perhaps surprisingly, users experience faster speeds over a mobile network than WiFi in at least 30 countries worldwide, including Australia and France. South Korea has the fastest mobile download speed , averaging 52.4 per GB respectively. Mbps upload.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch written by Alex Husar. Those are the parts that actually need to run in the client, but just the way the SPA architecture works, you got to run all the code for the entire thing for it to work at all. Do I really need this code? written by Robert Sfichi.

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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. But the other thing is to be able to take operational concerns into account during your design development and implementation of any technology. Jeff: Now, what are the things that we can do to speed this up?

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

It’s happening because of new features being added and the fact that we sometimes don’t have a second thought on packages that we constantly add and update, or think about the complexity of our code. In the case that new development changes the file size to the point of exceeding the defined limit, the script will complete with non-zero code.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Designing With Code: A Modern Approach To Design. He’s been writing code for two decades, and using JavaScript the whole time. They just have to copy and pastable Chakra code. Drew: I guess there’s always a trade-off, isn’t there with technology choices? Is that born out in the code itself? Show Notes. aj Dobrucki.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

In software development, the word “migration,” when we need to upgrade or change technology in a project, usually falls under the latter case, unfortunately. Also, most importantly, we are going to dive into the theory of technologies and approaches that make this type of migration even possible. Good,” “Fast,” “Cheap”. Web Components.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2019

A component is simply a set of pieces of HTML, JavaScript and CSS code put all together to create an autonomous entity. Let’s analyze how these three methods compare to each other, in terms of speed and the amount of data retrieved. Recommended reading : A GraphQL Primer: Why We Need A New Kind Of API. So GraphQL is not DRY.

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