Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

The design was made by a design and UX agency that also handled the HTML prototype (based on Bootstrap 4). For the launch, we mostly focused on getting the new design out the door, but once the website’s relaunch went live, we started focusing our attention on turning the red and orange scores to greens. Large preview ).

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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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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

You can find a comprehensive Beginner’s Guide To Progressive Web Apps on Smashing Magazine that focuses on building the core of PWAs. Optimizing Based On Network Usage. You can further optimize the loading speed by having the PWA use cache-first networking, prioritizing resources, and use adaptive loading based on network quality.

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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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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

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. DebugBear actually tests with a slower network, resulting in more accurate data.

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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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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. Vitaly is a co-founder of the Smashing Magazine brand. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine until October 2017 when he passed the baton to the remarkable Rachel Andrew. Rachel Andrew. Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

Large preview ) While browsers are generally pretty fast, these steps still take time to load, typically in seconds, and even longer on slower, high-latency network connections. Meet Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces , Steven Hoober’s brand-new guide on designing for mobile with proven, universal, human-centric guidelines.

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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 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. The change of design. Large preview ). The Relation Between Images And Web Performance.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and smart interface design patterns. Smashing Magazine article with fallback font and with full web fonts. This is especially useful when fetching content from the network which could be variable and outside your control. With Lea Verou, Brad Frost, Stephanie Eckles and so many others.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Waterfaller: A Tool Focusing On Network Waterfalls. Contrary to Lighthouse or WebPage Test, Waterfaller focuses on one thing alone — issues in the network waterfall. Waterfaller focuses on issues in the network waterfall and provides recommendations for improvement. I discovered Waterfaller just recently. It’s beautiful!

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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

JANUARY 15, 2019

In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. All of the major browsers provide developer tools that allow us to measure network activity. Sustainable Web Design.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A measly front-end designer like me can be blissfully ignorant of all this mumbo-jumbo. Let’s look at it for a site that’s much “heavier” than Smashing Magazine. A font is a branding consideration as well as a design asset that can enhance the legibility of a site’s content. Hey, look at that — great job, team!

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Using responsive images is a key part of delivering fully responsive web design. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +. Downloading files such as images or videos over the network can be slow and costly. HTTP caching, service workers, image spriting, and preloading help optimize network requests.

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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. Testing the Smashing Magazine website on different devices. State Of Mobile 2021. That might come a little bit unexpected. LT Browser in action. Large preview ).

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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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Rigor

JUNE 12, 2019

Alla Gringaus has worked with a multitude of well-established technology and media brands, including TIME , People , The Economist , and the American Kennel Club, carrying hands-on and leading roles in front-end development and UX, all driven by user-centered design. This is untrue, she says. Alla Gringaus #webperf Click To Tweet. Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Using responsive images is a key part of delivering fully responsive web design. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +. Downloading files such as images or videos over the network can be slow and costly. HTTP caching, service workers, image spriting, and preloading help optimize network requests.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 92

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. You need to beware of large HTML files or slow network connections because they can lead to longer download times.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 21, 2023

They were designed to provide a way to execute JavaScript code in the background, separate from the main execution thread of a web page, in order to improve performance and responsiveness. Web Workers are designed to perform tasks that do not require direct access to the UI, such as data processing, image manipulation, or calculations.

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The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Conway, Datamation magazine 1968. We’re back in 1968, a time when it was taken for granted that before building a system, it was necessary to design it. We’re back in 1968, a time when it was taken for granted that before building a system, it was necessary to design it. How do committees invent?

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

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. A disk cache is faster than having to fetch those resources from the network (though not always, oddly enough !), More after jump!

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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

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. thanks, Guy Podjarny! ). 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

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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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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

Lots can go wrong: a network request fails, a third-party library breaks, a JavaScript feature is unsupported (assuming JavaScript is even available), a CDN goes down, a user behaves unexpectedly (they double-click a submit button), the list goes on. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. How To Build Resilient JavaScript UIs. Callum Hart.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 11, 2012

Smashing Magazine just launched their newly redesigned site. That’s an awful big drag on page load time—no matter what device or network you are viewing the site on. I’m not sure exactly on Smashing Magazine’s business model, prices, etc., Not just for Smashing Magazine, but across all sites. Advertising.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. Further Reading on Smashing Magazine. More after jump! Continue reading below ↓ Web forms are at the center of every meaningful interaction, so they’re worth getting a firm handle on. Jump to table of contents ?.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

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. It essentially describes the lifetime of each file you download to load your page from the network. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

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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. One of the biggest challenges of responsive web design is creating clean markup. If you’re viewing your website in Chrome, use the “Network” panel to see the headers being sent.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

Even if your website is designed with usability in mind, these factors impede users from fully benefiting from the website’s features. Providing rich, interactive website experiences needs added assets that consume your users’ resources, from CPU and GPU to memory and network. This is why performance is crucial when building websites.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This problem is more apparent on unreliable and slow networks and lower-end devices. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Users can browse the Internet using slow and unreliable networks, so minification, optimization, and code-splitting of JavaScript files ensure that the user downloads the smallest file possible. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

This header can be set on the response of any network resource, such as XHR, fetch, images, HTML, stylesheets, etc. These subtypes are currently the only subtypes related to network requests and thus exposing the Server-Timing information. Setting Server-Timing. No References Required.

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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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