Dean Hume

AUGUST 8, 2017

Watching videos of developers showcasing their work is definitely one of my favourite ways of learning new things! I am always looking for ways to improve the performance of my websites, so this definitely sparked my interest. What’s the big deal with lazy loading? What’s the big deal with lazy loading? We can do better!

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Code Website Media Efficiency 58

KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

According to SplashData's annual list that they compile, the top ten most widely used passwords are: 123456 password 12345 12345678 qwerty 123456789 1234 baseball dragon football These are definitely not the types of passwords we recommend using! KeyCDN uses Google Authenticator to provide an authentication code which is used to log in.

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Transportation Website Google Infrastructure 47

Dean Hume

AUGUST 8, 2017

Watching videos of developers showcasing their work is definitely one of my favourite ways of learning new things! I am always looking for ways to improve the performance of my websites, so this definitely sparked my interest. What’s the big deal with lazy loading? What’s the big deal with lazy loading? We can do better!

Code 40

Code Website Media Efficiency 40

Dean Hume

AUGUST 8, 2017

Watching videos of developers showcasing their work is definitely one of my favourite ways of learning new things! I am always looking for ways to improve the performance of my websites, so this definitely sparked my interest. What’s the big deal with lazy loading? What’s the big deal with lazy loading? We can do better!

Code 40

Code Website Media Efficiency 40

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

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. Core Web Vital metrics definitions. SEO is key to our success.

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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. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2 Lighthouse.

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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

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. The results aren’t even close!

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Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 95

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

But pages keep getting bigger and more complex year over year – and this increasing size and complexity is not fully mitigated by faster devices and networks, or by our hard-working browsers. How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? Clearly we need to keep talking about it.

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Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 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? How will AI adopters react when the cost of renting infrastructure from AWS, Microsoft, or Google rises? Microsoft, Google, IBM, and OpenAI have offered more general indemnification.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

The other issue is that the data I’m getting back is based on lab simulations where I can add throttling, determine the device that’s used, and the network connection, among other simulated conditions. On that note, it’s worth calling out that there are multiple flavors of network throttling. Real usage data would be better, of course.

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Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. There are self-hosted alternatives to Google Analytics, after all. Analytics is a good example. That’s one example and a common one at that.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 91

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

, and the Head Performance Engineer at Google. Each performance chapter is supported by code snippets (via a companion website) and examples to aid in learning. and Google, they’ll do wonders for your website! Professional Website Performance: Optimizing the Front-End and Back-End. – Aurel V.

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Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

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. Daniel An, Google, 2017.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

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. For a browser to serve as the user's agent, it must also receive navigations. " you might ask?

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

WordPress is the most used website builder in the world; almost half of the web has used WordPress to create their website. It makes sense, because it allows you to quickly create websites and has a rich plugin’s ecosystem to help you scale your site. Ultimately all our data will be delivered through CDN networks.

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Website Architecture Technology Technology 142

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. With such a boom in the IoT industry, in 2022, it will definitely be one thing to look forward to. 2015 saw the trend of scriptless testing and IoT focussed methodologies.

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Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89

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. An often used metaphor is that of a pipe used to transport water. Congestion Control.

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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. Large preview ).

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Media Cache Website Mobile 106

Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

There’s also WordPress and Drupal, content management systems (CMSes) that power millions of websites worldwide. Consider all the projects in Google’s graveyard, like Google Reader, Stadia, G+, and too many messaging apps to even try to recount.

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Open Source Software Software Social Media 87

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. 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] What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Within a fixed layout set to 100vh , the bottom part of the website content is stuck behind the browser chrome, making it inaccessible when scrolling is prevented. The caveat to be aware of here is that the browser usage data is based on Statcounter , a sampling of 2 million websites. Large preview ). Cumulative Layout Shift.

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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

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

Yet, this criticism of React isn’t completely unwarranted: React and ReactDOM total about 120 KiB of minified JavaScript, which definitely contributes to slow startup time. Server rendering is also cool—even if that’s just how we say “send HTML over the network” these days. Google Chrome on Nokia 2. I think JSX is great.

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Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Websites would magically become 50% faster with the flip of a switch! 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. For example, TCP requires a “ handshake ” to set up a new connection. itself directly.

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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. If it matches, the file is executed. Large preview ).

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Website Servers Code Best Practices 58

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. Servers and Networks. Network Configuration.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 105

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites written by Dan Shappir. Adding A Dyslexia-Friendly Mode To A Website written by John C Barstow. And so we can definitely dig into that in a bunch of different angles, depending on where you want to take this conversation. Chris on Twitter. The Vanilla JavaScript Podcast. Weekly Update.

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Technology Technology Servers Code 94

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Google founders figured out smart ways to rank websites by analyzing their connection patterns and using that information to improve the relevance of search results. They have a clear input and output definition, and often a schema as well. Back in the days of Web 1.0, Leverage the convergence of fast data and microservices.

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Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2019

Whilst I adore Sheffield United, the mighty blades, their website’s CSS is bundled into a single 568kb minified file, which comes to 105kb even when gzipped. This is Sheffield United’s website , my local Football team (that’s Soccer for you lot over in the colonies ????). Google has recognized this as well. Large preview ).

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Performance C++ Media Website 94

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. Definitions. Imagine a professional networking site with a database of users. Philip Kiely. 2020-06-25T12:30:00+00:00. 2020-06-25T15:34:35+00:00. Media Files.

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Media Cache Storage AWS 69

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As a trend, it’s not performing well on Google; it shows little long-term growth, if any, and gets nowhere near as many searches as terms like “Observability” and “Generative Adversarial Networks.” However, growth always ends: nothing grows exponentially forever, not even Facebook and Google. Should it be?

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Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. 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).

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 116

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Nor will I talk too much about the mechanics of how CLS is calculated: Google has some good documentation on that , and Jess Peck ’s The Almost-Complete Guide to Cumulative Layout Shift is an awesome deep dive into that too. I like to use progressive enhancement to provide a basic website, even without JavaScript where possible.

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Media Metrics Website Google 125

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? Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. Large preview ).

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