Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

This article strips away the complexities, walking you through best practices, top tools, and strategies you’ll need for a well-defended cloud infrastructure. This includes servers, applications, software platforms, and websites. Of course, this is only true if the native solutions are used within the corresponding environment.

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Best Practices Cloud Monitoring Strategy 130

Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

Time is a crucial usability factor If you don't consider time a crucial usability factor, you're missing a fundamental aspect of the user experience I'm embarrassed to admit that, in my previous career as a usability tester, I spent years testing websites in lab conditions. Some sensory memory does stick, of course.

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Speed Website Mobile Cloud 134

Smashing Magazine

JULY 27, 2021

In this article, we’ll build a website (a tea shop!) To solve the second problem, I take an approach that can be summarized in four pieces: Design tokens. Let’s learn these techniques by applying them to a website project. Design Tokens. CSS setup will be storing all site-wide values as design tokens.

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Website Design Best Practices Code 142

Official Blog - World Web Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

With a carefully crafted SEO strategy, you can rank your website at the top of the search engine results for relevant keywords. If you are aware of the latest SEO trends for 2023 , you can amend your existing strategy and get all the benefits for your business. This is a fact. Stay tuned! Now it is time to add one more E to it.

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Google Traffic Social Media Website 52

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. One of the famous examples is Flipkart , India’s largest e-commerce website.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

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. The “stale-while-revalidate” cache control strategy can reduce the TTFB issue by serving a cached version of the page until it’s updated. Eric Burel. More after jump!

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Cache Website Energy Servers 114

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

If you want to vastly improve the startup and load performance of your website, you cannot miss the impactful observations and insights that Jake posts on jakearchibald.com/ and shares on Twitter @ jaffathecake. Most recently, he launched a fantastic new HTML5 Mastery… course. Rick Byers. Rick Byers. Tammy Everts. Tammy Everts.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Options 1 and 2 are of course the ‘scale out’ options, whereas option 3 is ‘scale up’. With more nodes and more coordination comes more complexity, both in design and operation. One of the joys of this paper is that you don’t just get to see the final design, you also get insight into the forces and trade-offs that led to it.

Servers 128

Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

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). The design was made by a design and UX agency that also handled the HTML prototype (based on Bootstrap 4).

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 115

Testsigma

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The Complete Software Tester: Concepts, Skills, and Strategies for High-Quality Testing by Kristin Jackvony. A Practitioner’s Guide to Software Test Design by Lee Copeland. Apart from this check the website by Huib Schoots which is a goldmine of testing resources. Software Testing Courses to learn and gift.

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Software Software Java Testing 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2019

You know how critical it is to build websites that load quickly. Google takes many factors into account when ranking a website and visitors take maybe a handful of factors into account when deciding to explore a site. At the intersection of the two is website speed. Of course, there are the SEO benefits of images, too.

Mobile 62

Mobile Media Website Storage 62

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. Alba Silvente.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 105

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly. Establish a performance culture.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

For some websites this works, but for others (such as Hack Club’s Scrapbook , a site built by @lachlanjc that I help maintain), the user expects the data to be kept up to date. Whilst I believe Scrapbook handles this update well, it’s an important consideration when designing your user’s experience. More after jump!

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Cache Internet Internet Servers 102

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

This space can act as its own website — not tied to anything. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Design The Perfect Navigation , with Vitaly Friedman. It is, of course, still handy to know. Now that we’ve explored the theory of this strategy, let’s explore how we put it into practice. More after jump! Aussie-izer.

Servers 83

Servers Website Code Best Practices 83

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Mobile apps, websites, and business applications are typical use cases for monitoring. However, with today’s highly connected digital world, monitoring use cases expand to the services, processes, hosts, logs, networks, and of course, end-users that access these applications — including a company’s customers and employees.

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Monitoring Mobile Social Media Artificial Intelligence 148

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. In that spirit, what we’re looking at in this article is focused more on the incremental wins and less on providing an exhaustive list or checklist of performance strategies. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2 Lighthouse.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This lack of transparency is by design and provides Apple deniability while simultaneously setting low expectations, making them easier to exceed. The only problem, of course, is that lawyers and regulators ask follow-up questions like "is it?" No, this was a change in strategy. " and "what do developers think?"

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Energy Games Engineering Design 79

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly. thanks, Guy Podjarny! ).

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

However, developers are loathe to do this; turning away users isn't a winning growth strategy, and prompting visitors to switch is passé. US Government websites from macOS devices from March 6 th to April 4 th , 2022 " width="600" height="380" decoding="async" loading="lazy" />. on macOS) is a predictable result.

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A measly front-end designer like me can be blissfully ignorant of all this mumbo-jumbo. A font is a branding consideration as well as a design asset that can enhance the legibility of a site’s content. So, think of these as strategies that encourage a “culture” of good performance in an organization. Meh, untrue.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 90

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2018

It should be useful if you are new to product design, UX, interaction or digital design, or if you have experience in these fields but have not performed a competitive analysis before. Competitive Analysis, Service Design Cycle, Five-Stages Design Process. The five-stages design process. Large preview ).

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Google Design Strategy Website 59

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

In Amazon Web Services there are similar dimensions that are forever important to our customers; scale, reliability, security, performance, ease of use, and of course pricing. Often customers are surprised about our strategy to help them drive their costs down. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. Recent Entries.

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AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 104

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. Example: Swedish public transportation website. After all, as designers and developers, we want to make it more difficult for our users to make mistakes. Part Of: Design Patterns. Vitaly Friedman. One of the many.

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Design Transportation Code Systems 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Mike’s personal website. Designing With Code: A Modern Approach To Design. The Rise Of Design Thinking As A Problem Solving Strategy. I’m talking about Chakra UI, of course. Actually, I was just checking the Cut Into The Jamstack website today, and the accessibility score is very high. Weekly Update.

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Website Design Open Source Software 62

Smashing Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

You will need a way of reaching the specific kind of client you would like to work with, and that needs a strategy that word of mouth cannot supply. Unfortunately, it is just as easy to get that strategy wrong, and doing so can prove a waste of time and money. That is also something that you can find when using a procurement website.

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Social Media Media Network Website 145

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2017

That might be a course, the opportunity to lead a project, or gaining new insights by working in another part of the company. Everyone can find these values on our website, and they apply to everyone. In most cases, you won't select a learning offer from a general training catalog, as in the pre-digital era.

Social Media 84

Social Media Retail Automotive Innovation 84

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

We are kidding of course, but you know something is bad if happens that early in the morning. ITSM defines how teams design, create, and deliver their services. These tools should be utilized along with your monitoring strategy. Nothing good happens at 2:00 a.m., especially when we are talking about the IT industry.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

Smashing Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

Component-based design, enabled and enforced by modern JavaScript frameworks, does not only provide great developer experiences and project ergonomics when used in a smart way, but it can also offer advantages for accessibility. website : 1 — Welcome to GOV.UK For example, let’s take the (abridged) headline tree from the GOV.UK

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Strategy Virtualization Government Education 140

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

The world’s first website was made from static HTML files created in a text editor. Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. Mike Neumegen. released 1998.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

You’ll find psychology heuristics just like tips for building a winning UX strategy , dive deep into user research and UX writing , and explore real-world examples — good and bad — from which you can learn to create experiences that truly matter. The right tools at the right time, help streamline the design process.

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Airlines Mobile Design Strategy 128

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. In this episode, we’re talking about designing for safety. What does it mean to consider vulnerable users in our designs? Design for Safety from A Book Apart. Drew McLellan.

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Design Education Network Google 98

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.

Media 108

Media Performance Cache Strategy 108

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Of course, a bot can do that in the time it took you to read this sentence, so it’s not only less boring but a lot faster, too. As such, I urge you always to be mindful of the website while scraping, take care not to damage it, and follow ethical guidelines. But the burning question is: why would someone want to scrape Amazon pages?

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Website Code Retail Best Practices 115

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

It always starts with the long-awaited website overhaul. We were designing and building things, setting up new products, refactoring the components, and publishing articles. We’ve re-established a strategy for optimizing images (preferably AVIF or WebP — still work in progress though). Vitaly Friedman.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

A year after the first web servers became available, how many companies had websites or were experimenting with building them? Such policies would be designed to mitigate legal problems and require regulatory compliance. And of course, companies that don’t use AI don’t need an AI use policy. Certainly not two-thirds of them.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108