Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Many developers have been asking themselves that question lately. There are many ways of measuring your Core Web Vitals , but the definitive way — even if it’s not the best way, as we’ll see soon — is in Google Search Console (GSC). Improving Core Web Vitals, A Smashing Magazine Case Study. Barry Pollard.

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Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

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. But we’ll definitely help you decide which is the best choice for your situation. Never change, Internet Explorer. One such measure is HTTP compression. OK, not really.

Speed 67

Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

See the Route 53 detail page for the exact definitions and how SLA violations will be handled. To support the continuous growth of the Internet it is essential that IPv6 will be enabled. Introducing a new Internet protocol is not a simple feat. Route53 support for WRR load balancing. Elastic Load Balancing support for IPV6.

Internet 114

Internet Internet AWS Scalability 114

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

While industry has picked up a few ways to improve security, there are a broader number of paradigms that have been proposed and developed in the computer architecture research community for achieving security. The data in the above definition could also include instructions. His website is [link] , and his twitter is [link]. .

Hardware 98

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Games 98

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high on the wish list of our customers for some time already. DNS is an absolutely critical piece of the internet infrastructure. Authoritative servers hold the definitive mappings. Amazon Route 53.

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Cloud Internet Internet AWS 117

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

Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

In 2016, Google made it clear that since mobile traffic is more than all else, mobile-friendly websites will be prioritised when a user searches on mobile. Today, QAOps is projected to seep more into the software development life cycle and will play an important role in 2022. So the trend of mobile web testing came into the picture.

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Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89

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. These don’t directly impact the score, nor Core Web Vitals, but can be used by web developers to improve the performance of their site.

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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

I’m available for hire to help you out with workshops , consultancy , advice , and development. Core Web Vitals report Note that this only discusses the report and not rankings—it is my understanding that this is to help developers find variations of pages that are slower, and not to rank multiple variants of the same URL.

Engineering 246

Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

The Symphonia

MARCH 14, 2018

The general goal of SAR is to make it easier to distribute, and consume, applications that have been developed using AWS Serverless products, like Lambda. A couple of great things about Serverless technologies is that applications using Serverless are incredibly quick to develop, and in low-usage scenarios cost very little or nothing to run.

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Serverless AWS Lambda Open Source 40

Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

Quick Summary: Among all the JavaScript frameworks and libraries, Angular and React are the ones that are famous among developers. Hence, we believe it is right to highlight vast differences among Angular vs React, helping you to choose the best for your coming or existing web development project. Source: reactjs.org. What is Angular?

Development 52

Development Google Open Source Servers 52

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Unit Testing – Developers execute unit tests for the smallest unit of code, whenever they commit new code in the code repository. 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

Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

Is it sustainable, that is – will the software continue to be developed and maintained long-term, predictably, so you can depend on it? Watch the “Using Open Source Software to Optimize and Troubleshoot Your MySQL Environment” video sessions Open source software powers the Internet. Even longer?

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Open Source Software Software Social Media 86

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. Google Lighthouse is one of the best-automated tools available on a web developer's utility belt. website if you prefer.

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Google Latency Website Metrics 82

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? Training models and developing complex applications on top of those models is becoming easier. But they may back off on AI development. Certainly not two-thirds of them. We’ll say more about this later.)

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. Web developers or administrators did not have to worry or even consider the complexity of distributed systems of today. The recipe was straightforward. Do you have a database? Do you have a web server?

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. Web engineers frequently refer to browsers as "User Agents", a nod to their unique role as interpreters of developer intent that give users the final say over how the web is experienced. " you might ask?

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

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. Many websites may not bother to specify width s and height s on their <img> tags. This is a more advanced technique that not all web developers know about or use. Fixing The Resizing Problem.

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Website Code Mobile Network 125

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. Alba Silvente.

Media 105

Media Cache Website Mobile 105

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. With the latest introduction of the Core Web Vital section on GSC + upcoming Google’s core web vital update, site owners are forced to take note of their website speed and web vitals. How to get these matrics right and not mess up?

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

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. Note : Another timely note here is that Internet Explorer will reach end of life officially on June 15, 2022 ). More after jump!

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Design Availability Mobile Website 145

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The process of web development has changed its meaning in the time span of twenty years ( 2000 to 2021). Mainstream desktops had internet explorer with Netscape as an option but it was slower in capturing a significant share. Affordable devices have revolutionized the internet world and still, manufacturers don’t seem to stop.

Testing 52

Testing Website Cloud Mobile 52

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] It's clear that developers are out of touch with market ground-truth , but it's not obvious why. In the U.S.,

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

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. This part is a bit more technical than the first, though it offloads most of the really deep stuff to outside sources, focusing on explaining why these things matter to the average web developer.

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Websites would magically become 50% faster with the flip of a switch! This series is aimed mainly at web developers who do not necessarily have a deep knowledge of protocols and would like to learn more. As another example, most applications on the Internet use TCP internally to ensure that all of their data are transmitted in full.

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

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. That’s a big problem. Enter Subresource Integrity. Using SRI In Your Own Projects.

Website 57

Website Servers Code Best Practices 57

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The idea that preventing browser innovation is pro-user is particularly risible, leading to entirely avoidable catch-22 scenarios for developers and users. The closer one looks, the less a definition of "appiness" can be pinned down to specific technologies. At a technical level, this is not correct.

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Definitely trigger warning for explicit mentions of domestic violence, also possibly some elder abuse and child abuse. Definitely anytime you’re allowing users to send any type of text to each other, there’s the possibility for abuse. Definitely not always the case. Eva: Absolutely, yes. Thank you for bringing that up.

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Design Education Network Google 98

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Django websites involve a lot of files. As if that wasn’t enough already, sometimes users come along and want to upload their own files to your website. It’s enough to make any developer incredulous. Definitions. Philip Kiely. 2020-06-25T12:30:00+00:00. 2020-06-25T15:34:35+00:00. Files everywhere! Static Files.

Media 69

Media Cache Storage AWS 69

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For example, a movie studio can now store and manage their entire catalog of high definition origin files on Amazon S3 as individual objects. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. blog comments powered by Disqus. Contact Info.

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AWS Big Data Scalability Storage 80

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

Example: Swedish public transportation website. After all, as designers and developers, we want to make it more difficult for our users to make mistakes. A wonderful interface of the Swedish public transportation website with a button that’s initially disabled, but becomes accessible once a selection is made.

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Design Transportation Code Systems 145

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Sustainable Web Development Strategies Within An Organization. Sustainable Web Development Strategies Within An Organization. Sustainability is rightly becoming more widely discussed within the web development industry, just as it is an increasing concern in the wider public consciousness. Michelle Barker. The Bigger Picture.

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Strategy Development Energy Website 123

CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 10, 2019

WebPageTest is an online tool and an Open Source project to help developers audit the performance of their websites. I am constantly amazed at what it offers to the web development community at large and the web performance folks particularly — for free. The problem with testing Single Page Applications.

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Performance Testing Testing Performance Open Source 51

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Web has over 4 billion internet users and is nearing 2 billion websites. Before that, I had done a range of tech work: developing sites at small web shops, product work with startups, consulting for household name tech companies, and heavy involvement in a range of W3C work. I started working for The Times four years ago.

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Social Media Technology Technology Website 134

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? So every time a conversation about further development happens, performance is a part of that conversation as well.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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? So every time a conversation about further development happens, performance is a part of that conversation as well.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

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? Establish a performance culture. Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor. Image source ).

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103