Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. Testing the Smashing Magazine website on different devices. LT Browser in action. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

Approximately two-thirds of Indian mobile Chrome users of Smashing Magazine have this setting turned on, for example. However, the above table is not actually representative of total traffic, and that’s another point to note about this data. For Smashing Magazine, that involved dropping some of our web fonts. And Is It Used?

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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. See the “Prettify Code” option? ?( Real usage data would be better, of course.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

The origin value is an aggregate of the values of all the pages for that origin, computed as a weighted average based on page traffic. This means that an origin that has relatively little traffic, but sufficient to be included in the dataset, is counted equally to a very popular, high-traffic origin. Checking Top Sites.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

It’s common knowledge that better website performance results in more conversions, more traffic, and better user experience. The code referenced below is included there, as the CodePen HTML tab only covers HTML body , and head is added with this separate config. Let’s take a look at the following example.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

With detailed code walkthroughs , hands-on examples and common gotchas — all broken down into short, manageable lessons. Concept testing allowed us to shape the final design well before the materials were fabricated, screens were designed, or code was finalized. More after jump! Jump to table of contents ?.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

That was until we went to production with our highest traffic customer. The code you write visualizes instantly in your browser and productivity goes through the sky. This is also a risk because you can easily get too focused on productivity and neglect the maintainability of your code. Lint And Format Your Code.

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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. This saves clients traffic — sometimes traffic which the client is paying for. The script was finished with a non-zero code.

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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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Efficiency Code Strategy Network 107

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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Media Cache Storage AWS 69

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In many cases, they can be super convenient to add or remove without having to push code changes to the site. For example, users can install browser plugins to suggest coupon codes when they are shopping, to scan web pages for malware, to play games or message friends, or do any number of other things. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

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.). For example, if the device is a firewall, it might be configured to block all traffic containing (unknown) extensions.

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

However, as a possibly better alternative, we could refactor this code to make the two components independent from each other and satisfy the requirement of independence: index.js. From now on, we’re directing HTTP traffic to our React subfolder. For example, the default setting: DocumentRoot "/var/www/html".

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Architecture Virtualization Servers Technology 74

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

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. But I suspect a lot of it is tracking code and advertising setup. Large preview ).

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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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Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

If you’re brave enough or if you want to know what terms like GRO/GSO , SO_TXTIME , kernel bypass, and sendmmsg() and recvmmsg() mean, I can recommend some excellent articles on optimizing QUIC by Cloudflare and Fastly , as well as an extensive code walkthrough by Microsoft , and an in-depth talk from Cisco. What does it all mean?

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

For sites with large traffic and a global reach, basic optimizations at build time are usually not enough. Promoting best practices and providing you with practical tips to master your daily coding and design challenges has always been (and will be) at the core of everything we do at Smashing. Image Content Delivery Networks. +.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

For sites with large traffic and a global reach, basic optimizations at build time are usually not enough. Promoting best practices and providing you with practical tips to master your daily coding and design challenges has always been (and will be) at the core of everything we do at Smashing. Image Content Delivery Networks. +.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 93

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? It’s much easier to reach performance goals when the code base is fresh or is just being refactored.

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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.

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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? The first render tends to warm up a bunch of lazily compiled code, which a larger tree can benefit from when it scales.

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