Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Many developers have been asking themselves that question lately. LCP, or Largest Contentful Paint , is one of the three Core Web Vitals that you must “pass” to get the full search ranking boost from Google as part of their Page Experience Update. Authors are important of course, but is that really what the reader came here to see?

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 12, 2021

Client-side A/B testing has been a performance loving developer’s worst friend for years. With server-side testing, you need developer resources to create different experiments. In some cases, like Google Optimize, it’s even free. I’m optimistic about edge computing as a way to solve this. million dollars.

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

Interestingly, and perhaps not coincidentally, 100 milliseconds is Google's stated goal when it comes to page load times. Some sensory memory does stick, of course. In a 1999 study of workplace interruptions , groups of workers were subjected to various disruptions in the course of their day-to-day responsibilities.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Google was the first company to create, embrace, and put support behind the role of site reliability engineering. Since that time, the SRE role has evolved as the industry has changed and shifted from the traditional monolithic structures to large, widely distributed networks and microservices. Release Engineering. Release engineering.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

So far, it’s been a painless shift in power, which as Eric Matthes, author of Python Crash Course , argues, should come as no surprise, since “Guido has carried himself, and his role in the community, with such poise for so long.” Does your function have side effects? Is it guaranteed to return a non-null value?

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

These deceptive practices allow developers to access users’ private data without consent, undermining user privacy and giving rise to both legal and ethical concerns. Google, to their credit, have announced that they are addressing many of the issues that we reported to them. most apps). Finding out how those apps leak data.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Rachel Andrew. Jake Archibald. Rick Byers.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The top three results in Google SERPs get 54.4% Google is the most prominent global search market player with a market share of 83%. Yes, SEO is a long-term approach, but it offers some unparalleled advantages to businesses in terms of brand recognition, visibility, reputation, and of course, web traffic and revenues.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better. This can be a problem in a lot of content management systems such as WordPress or Magento, because theme developers tend to scale images down in responsive themes using CSS.

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 6, 2019

This is a high level paper describing Google’s production system for federated learning. There’s a good high-level overview of federated learning on Google’s AI blog. Within the FL Server (which is itself a distributed system of course), it’s the job of selectors to identify devices for a round. SysML 2019. Federated Averaging.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

As web developers, it’s understandable to feel that this is not an issue over which we have any influence, but this isn’t true. Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. Large preview ).

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Particular Software

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Decommissioning Public102 was an exercise in the mundane, gradually transitioning tiny service after tiny service to new homes over the course of weeks, as the development schedule allowed. Unfortunately, the network operations had a cruel surprise for us. It's not so easy with a junk drawer server.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

And of course, scrapers could scrape your site to look for security vulnerabilities or exposed contact or sales lead details. If you are just starting out wondering if someone might be re-publishing your web content, the easiest thing to do is a Google search. Developer Tools. How To Track Suspicious Activity. Large preview ).

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

" Browsers Are Big Business WebKit Is No Charity Choices, Choices Recent Developments How Apple Gutted Mozilla's Chances Back Of The Napkin The Best Kind Of Correct What Now? On the other, it captures a developer's ability to build using a broad set of features. All iOS browsers present as Safari to developers. Cui bono? —

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

To many designers and developers the process of designing for mobile assumes that touch is natural, so we don’t need to pay any particular attention to the design of touch systems. Feature phones all use proprietary and little known operating systems developed by the makers of the phones, as opposed to prevalent ones like Android or iOS.

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MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

Thankfully, there are simple measures that web developers can take to ensure that the files being served to their visitors are as small as possible. These compressed files allow for quicker network transfers so that your website can be loaded as fast as possible. One such measure is HTTP compression. Brotli Compression. Source: Zoomph.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The same can be said for web development. Thus, implementing error tracking from the very beginning of the development cycle will save your team a lot of time and headaches. The Google DevTools console can give you real-time feedback to help you trace the source of errors, and you can set handlers to automate exception data collection.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Serval is a framework for developing automated verifiers of systems software. It makes an interesting juxtaposition to the approach Google took with Snap that we looked at last time out. Now it’s just a small matter of proving that the binary faithfully implements the specification (or finding a contradiction of course).

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking Marty et al., This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. Enter Google! Upgrades are also rolled out progressively across the cluster of course. SOSP’19. It reminds me of ZeroMQ.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 26, 2011

Right now, our social networks are all essentially data silos. Thankfully, there are some solutions being actively developed. The first step, is to use a protocol called PubSubHubbub which allows you to specify a “hub” for third-party services, like Twitter or Google Buzz for example, to refer to for new content.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. There are self-hosted alternatives to Google Analytics, after all.

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Google's Search App and Facebook's various apps for Android undermine these choices in slightly different ways. [3] Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. Web developers are accustomed to real browsers in the desktop mould. How can that be?

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Even with cloud-based foundation models like GPT-4, which eliminate the need to develop your own model or provide your own infrastructure, fine-tuning a model for any particular use case is still a major undertaking. Training models and developing complex applications on top of those models is becoming easier.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

This is helpful for those on poor or expensive networks, so they don’t have to pay an exorbitant cost just to visit your website. However, countless research (including the stats for our own site here, and others by the likes of Alex Russell ) has shown that Android devices are the platform of choice for poorer countries with slower networks.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Faster is better, of course, but the way Lighthouse reports it, a “passing” score comes in between 0 and 1.8 Google keeps a full record of the changelog for reference, so that’s something to keep in mind when evaluating results, especially if you find yourself with different results from others on your team.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Red Hat OpenShift is a cloud-based Kubernetes platform that helps developers build applications. It also protects your development infrastructure at scale with enterprise-grade security. For organizations looking to transform and modernize, OpenShift allows you to scale so you can grow your business through cloud-native development.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. It’s inherently tied to everything we build and develop. Lighthouse.

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MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

, and the Head Performance Engineer at Google. Souders presents his 14 rules throughout the course of the book while discussing the importance of front-end performance. and Google, they’ll do wonders for your website! Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices For Web Developers.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

million : new image/caption training set; 32,408,715 : queries sent to Pwned Passwords; 53% : Memory ICs Total 2018 Semi Capex; 11 : story Facebook datacenter prison in Singapore; $740,357 : ave cost of network downtime; Quotable Quotes: @BenedictEvans : Recorded music: $18 billion. However still far from Google ($28B) and Facebook ($13.2B).

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Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. seconds on the target device and network profile, consuming 120KiB of critical path resources to become interactive, only 8KiB of which is script. It's clear that developers are out of touch with market ground-truth , but it's not obvious why.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple forces developers of competing browsers to use their engine for all browsers on iOS , restricting their ability to deliver a better version of the web platform. They are, pound for pound, some of the best engine developers globally and genuinely want good things for the web. The Compatibility Tax.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Of course, we’ll discuss possible resolutions to these bugs as well. Also offers the “Changes” panel by default, located in the same tab bar as the “Styles” Recommended Reading : “ Examine And Edit CSS ,” Firefox Developer Tools, MDN Web Docs. General Debugging Tips. remove or relocate elements. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. If your average visitor is on a fast cabled or cellular network, they probably won’t benefit from the new protocols all that much. This series is divided into three parts: HTTP/3 history and core concepts.

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Tasktop

JUNE 20, 2019

But here’s the rub: Agile development teams do not work in isolation. And why, in lieu of a single tool or process, organizations need to identify and eliminate long cycles and wait times within development itself, and beyond. The disconnect between the business and Agile development. Of course not! So, what can you do?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

This series is aimed mainly at web developers who do not necessarily have a deep knowledge of protocols and would like to learn more. It also, however, takes a full network round trip to complete before anything else can be done on a connection. and lower), this typically takes two network round trips. What is so different?

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