Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2020

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) in its simplest terms is what practitioners use to ensure consistent availability, performance, and response times to applications. Websites, mobile apps, and business applications are typical use cases for monitoring. APM can also be referred to as: Application performance management.

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Monitoring Performance Social Media Artificial Intelligence 132

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober. Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober. DRM-free, of course. Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces presents and shares real information on hardware, people, interactions, and environments. Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Bradbury Thompson: The Art Of Graphic Design. Inspired Design Decisions With Bradbury Thompson: The Art Of Graphic Design. I learned how to channel my often rebellious attitude to conventional design thinking to develop novel solutions to often everyday design problems.

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Design Media Entertainment Website 119

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Are Imposter Domains Re-Publishing Your Website? Are Imposter Domains Re-Publishing Your Website? And of course, scrapers could scrape your site to look for security vulnerabilities or exposed contact or sales lead details. Ken Harker. 2021-09-20T11:30:00+00:00. 2021-09-20T14:12:33+00:00. More after jump! Large preview ).

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

In the fourteen years that I've been working in the web performance industry, I've done a LOT of research, writing, and speaking about the psychology of page speed – in other words, why we crave fast, seamless online experiences. The average person believes they spend 9 minutes per day waiting for slow websites.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Today, the website is much faster and ranks highly in various showcases and benchmarks.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rick Byers.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions: Neville Brody Design Cannot Remain Neutral. Inspired Design Decisions: Neville Brody Design Cannot Remain Neutral. Local bands designed their own publicity and the mostly two-colour artwork was edgy and unpolished. Previously On “Inspired Design Decisions”. Andrew Clarke.

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CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 23, 2019

I was chatting with some front-end folks the other day about why so many companies struggle at making accessible websites. Why are accessible websites so hard to build? We learn about HTML, we make sure things are semantic and — voila! @— we have an accessible website.

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Website Best Practices Engineering Design 54

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. Barry Pollard. 2022-05-09T10:30:00+00:00. 2022-05-09T17:34:14+00:00. Now close the tab.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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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. Suzanne Scacca. 2019-10-29T12:30:59+02:00. 2019-10-29T13:36:09+00:00. This is a sponsored post.)

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Website Speed Cache Google 72

Smashing Magazine

JULY 11, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters. Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters. This over-confidence didn’t last long though, because when I arrived, I found myself surrounded by conceptual artists, filmmakers, painters, performance artists, printmakers, and sculptors, who all seemed much more talented than I was.

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Design Media Mobile Energy 92

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

The business world today is obsessed with user experience (UX) design. Overall, this UX audit and redesign concept would be of great use to UX designers, business owners, and marketing people because it presents a way to audit and fix a product’s most obvious usability issues. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Mark Lankmilier.

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Education Website Google Design 83

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

With the Dynatrace Query Language (DQL), teams can perform these analyses by asking questions that weren’t possible in the past. The power of Smartscape is, of course, not limited to manual queries. With DQL, you can easily combine different data types into a single query. Sample DQL query combining multiple data types.

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Analytics Social Media Metrics Efficiency 226

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

The usual caveats also apply: Performance is a deep and nuanced domain, and much can go wrong beyond content size and composition. How sites manage resources after-load can have a big impact on perceived performance. Until and unless teams have better data about their performance, the global baseline budget should be enforced.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 2). Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 2). We saw how important it is to keep the typographic design parameters and variables the same to get a more accurate result while testing different typefaces. Thomas Bohm. 2022-06-10T08:00:00+00:00. Don’t worry!

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Ten years is a lot of time to reflect, and over this past year our team has been thinking a lot about not just the "what" and "how" of web performance, but also the "why". In that time, we've seen people's interest in performance dramatically increase, especially in the world of SEO. Among other things, we turned ten !

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Performance Metrics Speed Google 57

Rigor

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Reading time 9 min When it comes to managing web performance, it’s vital to be proactive rather than reactive. To accomplish this goal, an organization needs to build internal processes and procedures that can operationalize a performance-first culture. The first step is to establish and implement web performance budgets.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

Plesk VPS Hosting For Better Website Outcomes. Plesk VPS Hosting For Better Website Outcomes. In early discussions you have with clients about the website you’re tasked with designing, does the topic of web hosting ever come up? For starters, they’re paying you a large sum of money to design the site.

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Website Servers Design Traffic 48

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2020

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) in its simplest terms is what practitioners use to ensure consistent availability, performance, and response times to applications. Websites, mobile apps, and business applications are typical use cases for monitoring. APM can be referred to as: Application performance monitoring.

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Artificial Intelligence Social Media Monitoring IoT 181

Smashing Magazine

JULY 27, 2021

In this article, we’ll build a website (a tea shop!) CSS-in-JS can also have a performance impact by causing additional renders and dependencies on the global state. Recommended reading : “ The Unseen Performance Costs Of Modern CSS-in-JS Libraries In React Apps )” by Aggelos Arvanitakis. Design Tokens. Global styles.

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Website Design Best Practices Code 142

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

According to Rich Howard, CEO of Optimal, a business dedicated to optimizing websites and mobile apps , there are ten steps your business can take now to start preparing your website or web application for the upcoming holiday season. How are you monitoring end-user performance today? Rigor’s free performance report.

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Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

High Scalability

JULY 18, 2022

As Kinsta’s DevOps Engineer, you will be instrumental in making sure that our infrastructure is always on the bleeding edge of technology, remaining stable and high-performing at all times. has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. InterviewCamp.io Try out their platform.

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High Scalability

JUNE 10, 2022

As Kinsta’s DevOps Engineer, you will be instrumental in making sure that our infrastructure is always on the bleeding edge of technology, remaining stable and high-performing at all times. has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. InterviewCamp.io Try out their platform.

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Education DevOps Infrastructure Scalability 100

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential part of a website’s design, and one all too often overlooked. Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things.

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Engineering Google Website Analytics 130

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Sometimes it’s easy enough to find the answer to that question and the site just needs to invest in performance. Sometimes though, it’s a little trickier and, despite thinking your site was great on the performance for some reason it still fails. Many developers have been asking themselves that question lately. Interesting….

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

If you think that static rendering is limited to generic, public content that is the same for every user of your website, you should definitely read this article. You are now “Head of Performance” at Repairing Magazine, the most serious competitor to Smashing Magazine. Static Rendering Gives The Best Performances But Is Less Flexible.

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Cache Website Energy Servers 114

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. While many of us, designers and developers, are likely to have a relatively new mobile phone in our pockets, a vast majority of our customers isn’t quite like us. This optimization is quite complex in nature though. State Of Mobile 2021. billion by 2026.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. Every web performance story is similar, isn’t it? It always starts with the long-awaited website overhaul. While performance has been our goal for almost a decade now , we never really had a dedicated performance team.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

If you’re reading this before March 2024 and fire up your favorite performance monitoring tool, you’re going to to get a Core Web Vitals report like this one pulled from PageSpeed Insights: ( Large preview ) You’re likely used to seeing most of these metrics. That’s what this article is all about.

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Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 94

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

It has never been easier to build a personalized website, digitalize a product and start seeing results. That is why, today, Web Performance is as important and trendy as having an online presence. Table of Contents: What Is Web Performance? What Is Web Performance? The Relation Between Images And Web Performance.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 105

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Large preview ) I don’t know about you, but it often feels like I’m missing something when measuring page speed performance. Certain tools are designed for certain metrics with certain assumptions that produce certain results. Not the best way to get a high-level view of performance. There are ways around that, of course.

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Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

This has revolutionized the industry, providing winemakers with full visibility into the performance of the crop and where they can make powerful adjustments to produce superior grapes. An eCommerce leader in designer menswear. With a shift to focusing on digital channels, availability and performance are key to business success.

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Ecommerce Retail Virtualization Innovation 132