Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. He writes about Progressive Web Apps on Medium as well as on his own website. Vitaly is a co-founder of the Smashing Magazine brand. He created, built, and maintains the Boomerang JavaScript library for web performance measurement.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

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. Deploying the refactored codebase shouldn’t result in worse website performance and worse user experience. After all, users won’t wait around forever for the website to load.

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Media Performance Cache Strategy 108

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

As websites become heavier and more complex , the task of maintaining performance becomes ever more challenging. Measuring website performance used to be challenging and required specific expertise. And that in order to achieve this strategy implementing a culture of performance throughout the organization is a must.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You may have a lean, agile, responsive site design only to find it gradually loaded down with more and more “extras” that are often put onto the site by marketing departments or business leaders who are not always thinking about website performance. The downside is that third-party requests can impact website visitors.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

The Art Of Balancing Performance With Media Content. Even though rich media can promote user engagement, we need to balance the cost of delivering them with your website performance and business goals. However, determining the right content to deliver depends on both your business strategy and site performance. “A

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

The default code for implementing Google Fonts looks like this: <link href="[link] rel="stylesheet"> If you do that, it will load only the ‘regular 400’ variant. The code snippet we worked with above makes a call to Google’s servers ( fonts.googleapis.com ), that’s called an HTTP request. A 75% saving! Combine Requests.

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Google Performance Cache Website 111

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what exactly our performance bottlenecks are? Establish a performance culture. In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what strategies should be used to fix them. Planning, planning, planning.

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