Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. What is your website already ranking well for and why? Google Keyword Planner.

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Engineering Google Website Analytics 131

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 133

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. 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%. Of all traffic, 53.3% comes from organic searches. of all clicks.

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Google Traffic Social Media Website 52

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

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. Jake is a frequent speaker at many popular conferences and events, such as 100 Days of Google Dev , JAMstakConf , JSConf , SmashingConf , and dozens of others.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

CSS Wizardry

APRIL 22, 2020

One of the more fundamental rules of building fast websites is to optimise your assets, and where text content such as HTML, CSS, and JS are concerned, we’re talking about compression. 21 years later, in 2013, Google launched Brotli, a new algorithm that claims even greater improvement than Gzip! decrease in file-size. Okay, yeah.

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Latency Servers Website Speed 269

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Google Chrome is currently one of the most popular web browsers used by developers today. According to StatCounter , as of September 2019, Google Chrome holds 63.72% browser market share across the globe. What Are the Google Chrome DevTools? They provide developers deeper access into their web applications and the browser.

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Google Website Network Media 85

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. 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.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

MachMetrics

JUNE 1, 2020

Mobile use surpassed desktop use years ago, but all too often websites are still being built desktop first and mobile second. If you’re unsure of how your website performs on a mobile device (or even got a poor result on a speed audit), stick with us. Of course not. Google Devs. Improving Your Mobile Performance.

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Speed Mobile Testing Google 67

MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Unfortunately, Target.com is not a fast website. And this is shocking since we all know that page load speed is directly correlated to site revenue (you’re aware that faster websites lead to increased conversion and sales, right?). Of course, any major retailer is going to have its fair share of ads and integration with Google.

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Retail Speed Website Google 82

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Google was the first company to create, embrace, and put support behind the role of site reliability engineering. When Google first introduced the role of SRE, they set a goal that half of an SREs time should be focused on reducing future operational work or adding service features. Monitoring.

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Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

DRM-free, of course. Chapter 9 describes ways we can consider likely problems when planning the design of our apps and websites. DRM-free, of course. Since then, he designed the first Google mobile search, the first mobile app store, several mobile browsers, and numerous websites and apps for global brands.

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Mobile Design Best Practices Website 87

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Nobody frames it precisely this way; instead they'll say, if WebKit weren't mandated, Chromium would take over , or Google would dominate the web if not for the WebKit restriction. The New York Times reported in late 2020 that Google now pays Apple between $8-12 billion per year , up from $1 billion in 2014. And that's a choice. "WebKit

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Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

Signals For Customizing Website User Experience. Signals For Customizing Website User Experience. In this article, I want to spend a bit more time on this, and also look at other signals we can similarly use to help us make decisions on what to load on our websites. Barry Pollard. 2022-03-07T10:30:00+00:00. save the user’s data!

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Website Media Mobile Network 103

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

The AOM board currently includes Amazon, Apple, ARM, Cisco, Facebook, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix, Nvidia, and Samsung, and many companies joined as promoter members. Added a unit tests framework based on Google Test. You can track the SVT-AV1 performance progress on the beta of AWCY (AreWeCompressedYet) website.

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Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

O'Reilly

JUNE 27, 2023

Does your company plan to release an AI chatbot, similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s Bard? Old Problems Are New Again The text-box-and-submit-button combo exists on pretty much every website. Doing so means giving the general public a freeform text box for interacting with your AI model.

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Social Media Media Website Database 89

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Similarly from cross-site navigation — think Google search results or the like and then clicking back. Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. All those navigations can benefit from the Back/Forward Cache to instantly restore the page. More after jump!

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Cache Games Performance Website 91

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Visit website 2. Visit website 3. Visit website 4. Visit website 5. Visit website 6. Visit website 7. Visit website 8. Visit website 9. HTML5 Doctor HTML5 Doctor covers many of the features and topics that you might have missed when moving from HTML to HTML5.

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Development Website Design Code 75

The Polyglot Developer

JANUARY 12, 2016

I am pleased to announce that my third full length quickstart course, Native Android 101: A Quickstart to Building Android Apps , was published on the learning website Udemy. A little background on what I had hoped to accomplish in this course.

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Java Google Programming Website 40

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

These compressed files allow for quicker network transfers so that your website can be loaded as fast as possible. Created by Google in 2013, Brotli is a compression algorithm created by Google for the compression of web fonts. The best course of action is to pre compress your files and serve them alongside your regular files.

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Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

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. Source: Google Keep in mind that not all code errors are noticeable to users. Every website or app should provide a way for users to report bugs.

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Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

Baron Schwartz

MARCH 17, 2019

But even as we downloaded the final PDF from Google Docs and uploaded it to our company website, I already had a file full of errata and omissions. Of course this can be taken to extremes— reductio ad absurdum. Last week I “finished” a new medium-sized book (an ebook—that is, a PDF).

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Google Website Availability 45

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 17, 2019

This speeds up page loading times, increases website storage capabilities, and allows web pages to be accessed even in low speed areas. It has the backing and resources of huge technology companies like Google, Netflix, Amazon, Microsoft, and many others.

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Media Internet Internet Speed 43

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

These are big numbers, and if considered part of the tablet market, since they are touch-first, mostly Android machines, Google would own over 70% of that. Remember that mobile networks are not the same as Wi-Fi, so carry a spare SIM and switch that out occasionally, especially during tests of whether your app or website operates properly.

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Mobile Design Internet Internet 104

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2018

You can also look for your direct and indirect competitors on websites such as Crunchbase and Product Hunt , and you can search for them in the Google Play and the iOS App Store. You can use Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, Apple Numbers or any other tool you are comfortable with. Five Easy Steps To Do A Competitive Analysis.

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Google Design Strategy Website 59

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed. Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Google has a pretty tight grip on the tech industry: it makes by far the most popular browser with the best DevTools, and the most popular search engine, which means that web developers spend most of their time in Chrome, most of their visitors are in Chrome, and a lot of their search traffic will be coming from Google.

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Network Mobile Performance Traffic 225

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Mike’s personal website. 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. I’ve done static websites. In this episode, we’re talking about Chakra UI. What is it and how can it help with your React projects? Show Notes.

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Website Design Open Source Software 62

Smashing Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

That is also something that you can find when using a procurement website. Larger organizations often post their invitations to tender on procurement websites. Websites like Upwork tend to be highly competitive and price sensitive. The email course gives us permission to email them periodically to make sure they don’t forget us.

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Social Media Media Network Website 145

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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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

This involves checking every trainer’s availability via Google Calendar, creating Marketo and Salesforce campaigns and updating our website. Although we offer regularly run public courses, sometimes we will accommodate requests for private training sessions especially when there is a large team that wants to train together.

Software 52

Software Software Software Engineering Infrastructure 52

Alex Russell

DECEMBER 31, 2023

In through eagle-eyed press coverage, regulatory reports, and legal discovery the shady dealings of Apple and Google's app stores are now comprehensively documented. It has gone largely unreported that Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), have been held back by Apple and Google denying competing browsers access to essential APIs. [2]

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Google Mobile Games Strategy 93

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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Performance Metrics Monitoring Google 96

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s the newest metric of the bunch and is set to formally be a ranking factor in Google search results beginning in March 2024. 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. Let’s walk through the process.

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Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 95

MachMetrics

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

If you asked the average internet user how slow a website would need to load before they gave up and left, they might say something like 8 or 10 seconds. Unfortunately, visitors actually give up on websites much faster. So what is the secret to the 2-second website? Look again at the websites above. Craigslist.

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Website Speed Google Cache 57

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2018

A couple of years ago, Google announced a new mobile-first initiative it wanted web designers and marketers to pick up on. These are not to be confused with micro-interactions, which are miniscule engagements websites have with visitors when they "touch" key points of the interface. Source: Google Analytics ) ( Large preview ).

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Design Google Website Small Business 62

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. This might be very different for your company, of course, but that’s a close enough approximation of a majority of customers out there. One of the famous examples is Flipkart , India’s largest e-commerce website. Making A Case For Business.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 134

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? And of course, companies that don’t use AI don’t need an AI use policy. How will AI adopters react when the cost of renting infrastructure from AWS, Microsoft, or Google rises?

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108