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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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

With the rise of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks using a high quality DNS hosting provider is very important to the redundancy of your website. There is nothing worse for visitors than your website being inaccessible. You can think of a DNS server as a phone book for the internet. So DNS services definitely go down!

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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 tools run page loads on simulated networks and devices and then tell you what the metrics were for that test run. What Are The Core Web Vitals?

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. 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.

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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. IoT (Internet of things) devices have been on an increase for a long time now. In 2021, more than 23 billion IoT devices were active and connected to the internet.

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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. For basic and simple websites, a developer was able to easily automate these checks and fix any problems before a user encountered them. The recipe was straightforward. Do you have a database?

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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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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.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Websites would magically become 50% faster with the flip of a switch! It’s also one of the reasons we can keep using the Internet with many concurrent users, because it smartly limits each user’s bandwidth usage to their fair share. For this reason, TCP is one of the most widely used and deployed protocols on the Internet.

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

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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. The user-agent stylesheet is where default CSS definitions are set (e.g.

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Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

Watch the “Using Open Source Software to Optimize and Troubleshoot Your MySQL Environment” video sessions Open source software powers the Internet. There’s also WordPress and Drupal, content management systems (CMSes) that power millions of websites worldwide.

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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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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

I've got a long blog post brewing on this, but jumping to the end, an operable definition is: A browser is an application that can register with an OS to handle http and https navigations by default. Modern browsers like Chrome and Samsung Internet support a long list of features that make web apps more powerful and keep users safer.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Note : Another timely note here is that Internet Explorer will reach end of life officially on June 15, 2022 ). 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. Large preview ).

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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? AI users are definitely facing these problems: 7% report that data quality has hindered further adoption, and 4% cite the difficulty of training a model on their data. Certainly not two-thirds of them.

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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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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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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. There are numerous factors that affect the performance and reliability of your website.

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Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The closer one looks, the less a definition of "appiness" can be pinned down to specific technologies. Since day one, iOS has supported app affordances for websites with proprietary metadata , and Android has similar features. "Appiness" At a technical level, this is not correct. Could they?

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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. Also, if a given upload runs into a networking issue, you only have to restart the part, not the entire object allowing you recover quickly from intermittent network errors.

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CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 10, 2019

WebPageTest is an online tool and an Open Source project to help developers audit the performance of their websites. Single Page Applications ( SPA s) radically changed the way websites work. Adding #perf-test-empty-cart-button to a specific button is innocuous for your website markup and can dramatically simplify your testing setup.

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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. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

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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? ( Large preview ). Moto G4) on a slow 3G network, emulated at 400ms RTT and 400kbps transfer speed. 300ms RTT, 1.6

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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? ( Large preview ). Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Web has over 4 billion internet users and is nearing 2 billion websites. This might feel like a lot to fix at once, but not to worry: we can all make the Web better one website at a time. The W3C’s Technical Architecture Group (TAG) is working on a set of privacy definitions to help support discussions in the Web community.

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