Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

However, developers with a deep understanding of the project may want to improve performance beyond that by doing some fine-tuning under the hood. It’s common knowledge that better website performance results in more conversions, more traffic, and better user experience. Let’s take a look at the following example.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

In particular, the increase in the amount of downloaded JavaScript can have a direct impact on website performance. And there are other aspects of framework usage that can impact performance as well. Moreover, larger organizations can afford to spend more on infrastructure that is optimized for performance.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

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. Also, the management will be dissatisfied with the decreased traffic and revenue caused by the unoptimized codebase, despite the code quality improvements.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2021

How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what exactly our performance bottlenecks are? CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. Is it expensive JavaScript, slow web font delivery, heavy images, or sluggish rendering?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

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

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

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

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