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. Rather than pushing off INP until after it starts influencing the way we measure site performance, let’s take a few minutes to level up our understanding of what it is and why it’s designed to replace FID.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

That’s not to say the extraneous content is pointless — enhanced design and user interfaces can have an important impact on the brand of a website, and delightful little extras can really impact your users’ relationship with your site. For Smashing Magazine, that involved dropping some of our web fonts. And Is It Used?

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Vitaly is a co-founder of the Smashing Magazine brand.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Certain tools are designed for certain metrics with certain assumptions that produce certain results. 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. Lighthouse results.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf.

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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. A measly front-end designer like me can be blissfully ignorant of all this mumbo-jumbo. There are self-hosted alternatives to Google Analytics, after all.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome who was working all around web performance for decades. Using responsive images is a key part of delivering fully responsive web design. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. You’ve focused on making the web design responsive to ensure that the widest audience of visitors can access your content. You’ve agonized over design patterns and usability. Ken Harker.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome and focusing around performance for decades. Using responsive images is a key part of delivering fully responsive web design. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +. Large view.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. Data transfer is one thing that we can measure quite easily. Large preview ).

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2021

That was when I first got to witness the power of network headers. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Email Newsletter with useful tips on front-end, design & UX. Subscribe and get “Smart Interface Design Checklists” — a free PDF deck with 150+ questions to ask yourself when designing and building almost anything.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

The average user doesn’t spend much time waiting for a web page to load or to interact with the page: According to Google, if a page’s load time goes up from 1 second to 3 seconds, the probability of the user bouncing increases by 32%. Consider Google Analytics, which collects and sends tracking data using navigator.sendBeacon().

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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. On design systems, CSS/JS and smart interface design patterns. Jump to online workshops ?.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

If you are just starting out wondering if someone might be re-publishing your web content, the easiest thing to do is a Google search. Copy a ten or twelve-word sentence from a page of interest on your site into the Google search bar, put it inside double-quotes, and click on Search. Further Reading on Smashing Magazine.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

We were designing and building things, setting up new products, refactoring the components, and publishing articles. A big JavaScript bundle might seem out of place on a magazine that merely publishes articles, but actually, there is plenty of scripting happening behind the scenes. Image source: Lighthouse Metrics ) ( Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. If we think about social networks, we can see two clear trends, those focusing on text and those focusing on multimedia content. Large preview ). The Relation Between Images And Web Performance. But if we leave text aside, what other options are left?

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

While many of us, designers and developers, are likely to have a relatively new mobile phone in our pockets, a vast majority of our customers isn’t quite like us. With Core Web Vitals , Google has been pushing the experience factors on mobile further to the forefront. Testing the Smashing Magazine website on different devices.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1). Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1). In this article, I want to share ten tips that helped me grow and become a better designer, and I hope these tips will also help you while you’re trying to find more solid ground under your feet. Luis Ouriach.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to. thanks, Guy Podjarny! ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 16, 2019

The concept of responsive web design has been around for a while, but all of the kinks have yet to be ironed out. Client hints were introduced by Google for Chrome, and other browsers have adopted (or in the process of adopting) them since the HTTP specification was released. What Are Client Hints? Why Use Client Hints?

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

One network hop up, Shopify’s CDN adds optimized edge-delivery with commerce specialized protection against malicious actors and shopping bots that now often operate at a scale that is able to DDoS many storefronts. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smart Interface Design Patterns , with Vitaly Friedman. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

I hope to raise the profile of difficulties faced by real people, which are avoidable if we design and develop in a way that is sympathetic to their needs. Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. per GB respectively.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Similarly from cross-site navigation — think Google search results or the like and then clicking back. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces , Steven Hoober’s brand-new guide on designing for mobile with proven, universal, human-centric guidelines. Didn’t The HTTP Cache Do All That Anyway?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Performance is one of the core aspects to ensure our users are having a delightful user experience irrespective of their devices or network connection. Apart from that, we check the Google Search Console Core Web Vitals Report section to get an idea of any potential CLS issues in any of our pages. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

These metrics are used by Google to evaluate the quality of user experience. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. Similarly, progressive loading or Low-Quality Image Placeholder (or LQIP) is not considered for LCP by Google at the time of this writing.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Application leaders for digital commerce technologies must plan for PWAs when designing digital commerce experiences”. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. Hence, they can’t be promoted separately or found by users who’ve input a search query in Google.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Source: HTTP Archive's Core Web Vitals Technology Report. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Instead, like the other articles in the Django Highlights series (see below), it’s intended as a guide for front-end developers and designers to understand other parts of the process of creating a web application. Imagine a professional networking site with a database of users. For more details, see the Django documentation.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. In this episode, we’re talking about designing for safety. What does it mean to consider vulnerable users in our designs? Design for Safety from A Book Apart. Drew McLellan.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2019

A quick Google search reveals plenty of online tools up to the job, but I prefer to use the coverage tool in Chrome, which can be run straight from Chrome’s DevTools. You can see timings like these for any asset in Chrome in Developer Tools via Network -> Click on your asset -> Timing tab. Google has recognized this as well.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

It is not that most web design agencies are ignorant of other marketing approaches or that any of them are inherently bad. On the contrary, in the second part of his two-part series on getting web design clients , Stephen Roe breaks down the opportunities of these approaches. Networking. The Problem With Traditional Approaches.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. If the stylesheet file has a large file size or multiple dependencies which are located on third-party servers or CDNs, website rendering can be delayed significantly depending on the network speed and reliability. This is exactly how Smashing Magazine handles its stylesheets. More after jump!

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