Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

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. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors.

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Engineering Google Website Analytics 130

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Page speed, design systems, search engine optimization, frameworks, accessibility — the list goes on and on. In this third edition of our web design done well series, we’re honing in on the beating heart of many websites: content. Speaking of the transformative powers of the internet, how about an interactive story.

Design 131

Design Internet Internet Mobile 131

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. The more interesting thing, however, is the impact on the speed of our side. When we measure speed through Lighthouse, we get a speed index of 1.5

Cache 102

Cache Internet Internet Servers 102

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Did you order a 5 course meal, but then only eat 2 of them? Of course not, that would be a waste. So then why are you serving an entire page of images to your website visitors when they’re only looking above the fold? I scoured the internet for popular lazy-loading libraries until I found the jQuery Lazy plugin.

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Cache Speed Internet Internet 75

KeyCDN

JULY 2, 2020

Maybe the best phrase to describe web standards is a set of standardized "best practices" for building websites. These standards allow the web to be free and accessible to anyone that has an internet connection, essentially evening the playing field for those surfing the web. Standards published by ECMA International.

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Internet Internet Best Practices Website 56

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

JavaScript-Heavy # Since at least 2015, building JavaScript-first websites has been a predictably terrible idea, yet most of the sites I trace on a daily basis remain mired in script. [1] India's speed test medians are moving quickly, but variance is orders-of-magnitude wide, with 5G penetration below 25% in the most populous areas.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

These compressed files allow for quicker network transfers so that your website can be loaded as fast as possible. Brotli offers a significant speed advantage over Gzip, which is why the Brotli vs Gzip debate has really picked up steam. Never change, Internet Explorer. How Do I Implement Brotli? This can be pretty CPU intensive.

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Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. 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.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 105

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. 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. Here is our (ever-growing!) Rachel Andrew.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Of course, it matters what your users experience rather than what some search engine crawler sees, but one of the great things about the Core Web Vitals initiative is that it does measure real user experience rather than what Google Bot sees! Authors are important of course, but is that really what the reader came here to see?

Google 143

Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The major application for high quality compression of photos is Internet speed. While bandwidth does continue to increase each year, so does the quality and size of most Internet media. A compressed photo will take less time to download from the Internet than a full-size photo but should maintain the same quality level.

Media 43

Media Internet Internet Speed 43

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

We may ask our users to use the app for searching a course of their choice and take a few classes on it after making the payment. The workload can be in terms of mobile device usage or website usage in case of the mobile web. Example: You must have heard of result declaring websites crashing on the day of result declaration.

Mobile 82

Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

US Government websites from macOS devices from March 6 th to April 4 th , 2022 " width="600" height="380" decoding="async" loading="lazy" />. Against considerable competition, Safari was used by 52% of visitors to US Government websites from macOS devices from March 6 th to April 4 th , 2022. on macOS) is a predictable result.

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!), Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2022

Websites devoting their spaces to sections especially to download their mobile apps denotes how important mobile applications are for businesses. Another research supported this conclusion by providing data that depicts 90% of the total internet time of the users is spent on mobile apps. hours, is being spent on mobile applications.

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Mobile Social Media Testing Media 52

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 9, 2020

This also puts extra work on the browser to recalculate the page layout as each image arrives across the internet. As you can see, the impact is considerable — especially on lower-end devices and slow network speed, where images are coming in separately. Performance calculations with and without dimensions. Large preview ).

Website 125

Website Code Mobile Network 125

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Nefarious websites have analysed other web browser engines and found flaws that have not been disclosed, and exploit those flaws when a user goes to a particular website to silently violate user privacy or security. One must wonder, of course, how Apple treats applications with persistent security issues that aren't browsers.

Engineering 98

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

The Core Web Vitals are a set of three metrics designed to measure the “core” experience of whether a website feels fast or slow to the users, and so gives a good experience. Time to First Byte (TTFB), DOM Content Loaded, Start Render, Speed Index) — but from the experience of the user. What Are The Core Web Vitals?

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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Way back in the days when JavaScript was very much the poorer cousin to HTML and CSS, we didn’t need to think too much about how our scripts could be used as an attack vector for our websites. file hosted as part of their own website on their own server. Conclusion.

Website 57

Website Servers Code Best Practices 57

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Start Render time, Speed Index ). Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor. Large preview ). Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

As is the case with many other developers, the reports over the last few years of the huge energy requirements of the web have prompted me to take a look at my own websites and see what I can do to minimize their impact. But first, a confession: When I first heard about the environmental impact of websites, I didn’t quite believe it.

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Website Energy Internet Internet 135

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.

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Since day one, iOS has supported app affordances for websites with proprietary metadata , and Android has similar features. "Appiness" The world didn't yet have pervasive multi-process browser sandboxing, JS JITs , or metal-speed binary isolation. At a technical level, this is not correct. These claims are suspect. Could they?

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Of course, we’ll discuss possible resolutions to these bugs as well. Note : Another timely note here is that Internet Explorer will reach end of life officially on June 15, 2022 ). CSS has been improving rapidly in the last couple of years, and of course, browsers are continually modernizing. General Debugging Tips.

Design 145

Design Availability Mobile Website 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is because HTTP/3 and QUIC mainly help deal with the somewhat uncommon yet potentially high-impact problems that can arise on today’s Internet. A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”.

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105

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. We’ve never seen a new technology command so much attention so quickly: not personal computers, not the internet, not the web.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108