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Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition)

Smashing Magazine

Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). It doesn’t really matter if you’re a front-end dev, UX designer or content strategist, we’re certain you’ll find at least something to inspire you for the upcoming year.

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Google planning a new ‘Badge of Shame’ for slow websites

MachMetrics

Google has announced plans for a new badging system that would let users know whether a website typically loads slowly. Early looks show one option being the ‘Badge of Shame’ showing on a splash screen as a slow website loads. Another displays a green loading bar for a website known to load quickly.

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PageSpeed Module: Dramatically Increase the Speed of Your Website Automatically

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The way a website is constructed can have a major impact on website speed performance, but developers often have a hard time keeping track of factors that cause slow page loads and other speed-related issues. The PageSpeed Module is one of several free Google tools designed to help assess and improve page load speed times.

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Global vs. Local Styling In Next.js

Smashing Magazine

and exercise best CSS practices. In this article, we’ll build a website (a tea shop!) To solve the second problem, I take an approach that can be summarized in four pieces: Design tokens. Let’s learn these techniques by applying them to a website project. Design Tokens. Next up, let’s add a page to our website!

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5 signs you need to choose cross browser testing on the cloud

Testsigma

On average, most of us read, interact, engage and learn from the widely available resources like websites, mobile apps, etc. If we talk about just websites or web apps alone — Siteefy reports there are around 1,216,435,462 websites globally as of July 2021. The same study states that about 10,500 websites go live every hour.

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Operationalizing Performance with Performance Budgets

Rigor

According to Tim Kadlec : A performance budget is a clearly defined limit on one or more performance metrics that the team agrees not to exceed and that is used to guide design and development. They create a good starting point to talk about a full website or individual page or section from a performance and design perspective.

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A Day in the Life of… a Software Training Specialist

Tasktop

I Also like to spend a little bit of time stretching and doing light exercises, reading or playing with my daughter before I dive into some work. Now that I have 3 kids, I’ve been limited to the gym but it’s a great way to get exercise and keep my mind sharp. . We have a lot of hills in our area so I can really get a good workout.