Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Powered E-Commerce Website (Case Study). Powered E-Commerce Website (Case Study). After the code was deployed to production, the CLS was fixed on the product details page and the number of pages impacted with CLS was reduced by 98%: transform has a performance advantage over position manipulation using left and top.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. It’s a common misconception that the code which is produced by the framework build tools (Webpack, for example) is fully optimized and cannot be improved upon any further. The answer lies in code-splitting.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Real-life performance for your users and how the website “feels” when you’re using it should not be discounted, even if it costs you a point or two in Page Speed (otherwise, we would all just have a search bar and unstyled text). Today, the website is much faster and ranks highly in various showcases and benchmarks. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

Smashing Magazine, like most publishers, makes use of web fonts and the below screenshot shows the difference between the initial render (with the fallback fonts), and the final render (with the web fonts): Smashing Magazine article with fallback font and with full web fonts. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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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 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

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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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

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. Visit website 2. Visit website 3. Visit website 4. Visit website 5. Visit website 6.

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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]; project set up, we’re going to want to create the only code file we’ll need for this project: pages/index.js. yourdomain" ?

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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. Webmentions.

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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. Monitoring your website’s real-time traffic , which will require adding a snippet to your source code that sends traffic data to a service.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Gatsby Functions open up a whole new world for front-end developers as they provide a way to write and use server-side code without the hassle of maintaining a server. For example, website pages are located in src/pages and Serverless Functions are located in src/api. your website uses its own functions. Same Origin Functions.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. In another tab, load [link]. The Smashing team has done a lot to make a fast website, so even a fresh load (though this experiment may not be a completely fresh load if you came to this article from the home page).

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. One of the famous examples is Flipkart , India’s largest e-commerce website. For a while, Flipkart adopted an app-only strategy and temporarily shut down its mobile website altogether. This optimization is quite complex in nature though.

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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

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

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

OCTOBER 19, 2021

You’ve probably heard about Serverless Functions, but if you haven’t, Serverless Functions provide functionality typically associated with server-side technologies that can be implemented alongside front-end code without getting caught up in server-side infrastructures. More after jump! Jump to table of contents ?. Getting Started.

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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

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

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? More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

without any need to code. I tried with loads of websites to see how they behave in iframe. I observed that most of the websites don’t work in iframe due to x-frame-options and content-security-policy headers. Now the Selenium WebDriver is being used as it provides support for the mobile experience and dynamic websites.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

As of writing, they have been viewed over 29 trillion times across the web and it’s easy to understand why — the collection gives you access to over 900 beautiful fonts you can use on your website for free. The code snippet we worked with above makes a call to Google’s servers ( fonts.googleapis.com ), that’s called an HTTP request.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This code gives our element a red background color: my-element { background-color: #ff0000; }. When building a website we might be given a hex color value by a designer, but if they asked us to make it, say 20% darker, we would have a hard time doing that by adjusting the hex value, without a visual guide or color picker.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 16, 2019

Web scraping is a way to grab data from websites without needing access to APIs or the website’s database. Using Google, you can see there are several sites that will list these movies by name, and maybe some additional information, but generally you’ll have to follow through with links to capture all the information you want.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 24, 2021

In the worst-case scenario, this variation would be added with style override which would lead to code duplication and specificity issues.product-card { /* Default card style */ }.product-card--narrow In short, we are linking a “magical” viewport dimension value to element dimensions value. Working With Container Queries.

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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

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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Smashing Magazine

JULY 27, 2021

is opinionated about how to organize JavaScript code, but it doesn’t have built-in opinions about how to organize CSS. In this article, we’ll build a website (a tea shop!) Let’s learn these techniques by applying them to a website project. Then, we’ll remove everything in the styles/ directory (it’s all sample code).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2023

file: module.exports = { plugins: [ { resolve: `gatsby-transformer-remark`, options: { }, }, ], }; Restart the development server and navigate to [link] graphql in the browser. Once it is installed, we will need to register it in the project’s gatsby-config.js to process time-consuming tasks such as parsing and rendering a PDF document.

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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

JANUARY 16, 2023

This way, the image loads faster, and your website will get a better LCP score. Let’s illustrate the browser’s behavior with an example using our previous code: <img src="image-300.png". And finally, update our code : <img src="image-280.png". Still, the updated code is not fully optimized for all devices yet.

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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. Your website will gradually benefit from it as support arrives to your users in most modern browsers.

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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

APRIL 1, 2020

Traditional CMS gives the comfort of having the content, the editing interface, templates and custom codes, in a single environment. The biggest distinction is that a website can’t be built with a headless CMS on its own. A CMS that gives complete freedom to build a website or a branded blog with full SEO and supports any tech stack.

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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

APRIL 11, 2022

JavaScript, CSS, images, iframes, and other resources impact how quickly website loads, renders and becomes usable to the user. It’s common knowledge that better website performance results in more conversions, more traffic, and better user experience. See the Pen [Example - without fetch priority]([link] by Adrian Bece.

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