Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

If you are designing an app or a website, you can test how easy and intuitive it is to complete a specific task, fill out a form, find certain information, or buy a product. Before those studies, web pages were designed as printed media, with columns and big blocks of text. Eye-Tracking Evolution. How Eye-Tracking Works.

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Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 111

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

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. Jake is a frequent speaker at many popular conferences and events, such as 100 Days of Google Dev , JAMstakConf , JSConf , SmashingConf , and dozens of others.

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Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

When it comes to web content, you can easily find what you need through many different paths, from search engines and social media to playlists and blogs, jumping from one source to another with just a tap of a finger. Designing for Performance. High Performance Responsive Design. Responsive Web Design. The Art of SEO.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Apple continues to self-preference through exclusive API access for Safari; e.g., the ability to install PWA s to the home screen, implement media codecs, and much else. However, developers are loathe to do this; turning away users isn't a winning growth strategy, and prompting visitors to switch is passé. Instead, Fruit Co.

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Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2020

I recently joined two industry veterans and Dynatrace partners, Syed Husain of Orasi and Paul Bruce of Neotys as panelists to discuss how performance engineering and test strategies have evolved as it pertains to customer experience. Increased reliance on third-party integrations for payment processing, supply chain, or media content.

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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

AUGUST 30, 2021

In previous articles from this series, we’ve covered auditing CSS codebase health and the incremental CSS refactoring strategy , testing, and maintenance. In this article, we’re going to cover CSS optimization strategies that can optimize CSS file size, loading times, and render performance. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 13, 2019

An outgoing request from a whitelisted domain returns a 302 , forwarding the request to a self-hosted CSS file that is optimised specifcally for your browser, OS, and UA (Google Fonts do something similar). not replacement —the current method would remain fully functional and valid) non-blocking loading strategy.

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Latency Cache Strategy Media 203

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). But unfortunately, when dealing with static assets and media files, there are a lot of caveats to deal with. Media Files. Philip Kiely. 2020-06-25T12:30:00+00:00. Files everywhere!

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Media Cache Storage AWS 69

Smashing Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

You will need a way of reaching the specific kind of client you would like to work with, and that needs a strategy that word of mouth cannot supply. Unfortunately, it is just as easy to get that strategy wrong, and doing so can prove a waste of time and money. The Problem With Traditional Approaches. Content Marketing. More after jump!

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Social Media Media Network Website 145

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

Although based on the load it may be possible to infinitely scale the data pipeline but that will come with a cost which most companies other than Google or Amazon will struggle to justify. Your best shot is proactive capacity planning and better resources utilisation by removing inefficiencies.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Designing With Code: A Modern Approach To Design. The Rise Of Design Thinking As A Problem Solving Strategy. But for me, I don’t have design sense. A little bit, but I’m not a designer by any means. Drew: It’s an off the shelf design system that you can drop in to build the UI for your project.

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Website Design Open Source Software 62

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. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. As a result, she came back to me concerned with publishing a post on a strategy her agency had yet to adopt successfully.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

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. The CSS media query version of Save Data mentioned above. Other User Preference Signals.

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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. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. Bookaway site search.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

While this strategy is effective, it’s not simple: highly dynamic sites can be difficult to extract styles from, the process needs to be automated, we have to make assumptions about what above the fold even is, it’s hard to capture edge cases, and tooling still in its relative infancy. Split Your Media Types. This is on purpose.

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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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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

You have to be aware that at any of your digital touchpoints, the digital experience is measured against the best-in-class available coming from Google, Facebook and other digital leaders. Working on a customer win-back strategy is cost intensive and not always fruitful. I tend to lean towards social media for evaluating this.

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Social Media Mobile Google Ecommerce 156

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

— Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter. Mobile image transfer size by year graphic from Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter. If we have a responsive design, we will want the image to stay within the margins of the container, using the CSS below for that: img { max-width: 100%; height: auto; }. The change of design.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 105

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This lack of transparency is by design and provides Apple deniability while simultaneously setting low expectations, making them easier to exceed. No, this was a change in strategy. In a world where <template> exists and Shadow DOM V1 has shipped, the design space for Declarative Shadow DOM alternatives is not large.

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Energy Games Engineering Design 79

Tech News Gather

APRIL 20, 2023

The app is designed to provide a comprehensive experience that makes the user’s life easier and more convenient. User experience: Super apps are designed to provide a seamless user experience by offering a range of services within the same app. Design your user interface: The user interface is a critical aspect of an app.

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Mobile Development Social Media Strategy 52

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Organizations are constantly being measured against the best available digital experiences — coming from Google, Amazon, Facebook, and other industry leaders. Working on a customer win-back strategy is cost-intensive and not always fruitful, which makes having an excellent DX more crucial than ever. What ruins a digital experience?

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Mobile Social Media Monitoring Metrics 213

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. While a vast majority of the time is spent in just a few mobile apps, social media platforms provide a gateway to the web and your services — especially in education.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

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. Importance of page loading speed – Google checks your website load time and they like it as fast with a better user experience.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

Official Blog - World Web Technology

JUNE 28, 2023

Yoast SEO can be helpful in many ways such as: Duplicate content monitoring Keyword optimization Content management Check readability Helps in the sitemap, robots.txt, and other files Google algorithm-related self-updates, etc. Social media platforms are powerful tools that can take your content to miles.

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Website Social Media Media Traffic 52

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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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Plus, now that Google has made mobile-first indexing the default, you really can’t afford to let any performance optimizations fall by the wayside what with how difficult it can be to get your mobile site as speedy as your desktop. The Necessity Of An Image Optimization Strategy For Mobile. Here is what this strategy should entail: 1.

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Mobile Media Website Storage 62

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Every technical challenge in this design space is paired with an even more daunting governance problem. These privacy requirements put challenging constraints on the design of a shared cache. But the completeness constraint is far from our only design challenge. Trust Falls #. Variations on a Theme #. Back of the Napkin #.

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Cache Government Traffic Network 82

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. Google Homepage — DOM. This isn’t useless JavaScript; Google has to have some in order to display suggestions as you type. 402 KB transferred, 1.1 Large preview ).

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Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

As part of the development, we can apply media queries or browser-related changes (such as -WebKit) to let the browser know that a different code is prepared to render it the webpage. They just released their website for Google Chrome versions 80 and above. The following image shows Google Chrome’s market share version-wise.

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Tech News Gather

JUNE 16, 2023

Building a successful UberEats clone requires a well-planned strategy that takes into account various aspects, including market research, feature prioritization, intuitive design, robust development, and targeted marketing campaigns. By clearly outlining your objectives, you can align your strategies and resources accordingly.

Social Media 52

Social Media Tuning Strategy Media 52

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Any organisation pursuing microservices strategy will find hard to fit a traditional CMS in their ecosystem. Now a day there are so many options - Amazon CloudFront, Cloudflare, Google CDN, Azure CDN, Edgecast, Fastly, and the list goes on. At the core, a traditional CMS is a monolith.

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Systems Cache Website Network 63

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

This rework delays launch which, in turn, delays gathering data about the viability of a PWA strategy. media="(min-width: 990px)"> <source srcset="img@tablet.png, img@tablet-2x.png 2x". media="(min-width: 750px)"> <img srcset="img@mobile.png, img@mobile-2x.png 2x". alt="I don't know why.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Delivering Light Media Experiences with Data Saver. +.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Delivering Light Media Experiences with Data Saver. +.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 92

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. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly. Establish a performance culture.

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