Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps. How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps. However, it’s not always easy to maintain high performance in websites. Even if your website is designed with usability in mind, these factors impede users from fully benefiting from the website’s features.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

The success of your website depends on the impression it leaves on its users. It’s worth mentioning that good Core Web Vitals scores don’t necessarily mean that your website scores in high 90s on Lighthouse. It can also compare the performance of multiple pages of your site or those of your competitors’ websites. Zara Cooper.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Are Imposter Domains Re-Publishing Your Website? Are Imposter Domains Re-Publishing Your Website? We explore how you can use web analytics or real user measurement data on your website to get insight into any imposter domains re-publishing your work. Ken Harker. 2021-09-20T11:30:00+00:00. 2021-09-20T14:12:33+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

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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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. But as it stands, websites are growing ever more obese, which means that the energy demand of the Internet is continuing to grow exponentially. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt). Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt). To many designers and developers the process of designing for mobile assumes that touch is natural, so we don’t need to pay any particular attention to the design of touch systems.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Real-life performance for your users and how the website “feels” when you’re using it should not be discounted, even if it costs you a point or two in Page Speed (otherwise, we would all just have a search bar and unstyled text). The design was made by a design and UX agency that also handled the HTML prototype (based on Bootstrap 4).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Powered E-Commerce Website (Case Study). Powered E-Commerce Website (Case Study). Performance is one of the core aspects to ensure our users are having a delightful user experience irrespective of their devices or network connection. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Solving CLS Issues In A Next.js-Powered Arijit Mondal.

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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

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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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. In other words, PWAs are websites that users can use as stand-alone applications. The web app manifest is the core for making a website run as a stand-alone application in full-screen mode.

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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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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. If you want to vastly improve the startup and load performance of your website, you cannot miss the impactful observations and insights that Jake posts on jakearchibald.com/ and shares on Twitter @ jaffathecake. Rachel Andrew. Rick Byers.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

These are only a few questions to consider when having the goal of building a fast website. Let me share three tools that will help you spot performance issues and ship high-quality and fast websites. Waterfaller: A Tool Focusing On Network Waterfalls. It’s a perfect companion to build a high-quality website. Once a week.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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. Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website.

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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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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. 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. One of the famous examples is Flipkart , India’s largest e-commerce website.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

Plesk VPS Hosting For Better Website Outcomes. Plesk VPS Hosting For Better Website Outcomes. In early discussions you have with clients about the website you’re tasked with designing, does the topic of web hosting ever come up? For starters, they’re paying you a large sum of money to design the site.

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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

AUGUST 30, 2021

Deploying the refactored codebase shouldn’t result in worse website performance and worse user experience. After all, users won’t wait around forever for the website to load. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. More after jump! With Carie Fisher, Stefan Baumgartner and so many others. Jump to online workshops ?. Critical CSS.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

I tried with loads of websites to see how they behave in iframe. I observed that most of the websites don’t work in iframe due to x-frame-options and content-security-policy headers. That was when I first got to witness the power of network headers. They carry data about the data being transferred. More after jump! Once a week.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. The Smashing team has done a lot to make a fast website, so even a fresh load (though this experiment may not be a completely fresh load if you came to this article from the home page). Here’s an experiment for you.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

We’ve explored the concepts behind headless CMSes in detail here on Smashing Magazine, but let’s do a quick recap. When it comes to a Traditional CMS, the CMS and the resulting front-end website are built on a monolithic architecture. there was a separate subdomain for a mobile website). Infrastructure Integration.

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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. This commitment involves prioritizing websites that offer not only relevant content but also an excellent user experience.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and smart interface design patterns. I like to use progressive enhancement to provide a basic website, even without JavaScript where possible. Smashing Magazine article with fallback font and with full web fonts. With Lea Verou, Brad Frost, Stephanie Eckles and so many others. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

CSS is a simple stylesheet language for defining a website or document’s presentation. This CSS is usually render-blocking , so the browser won’t even render the website content until it has finished downloading and parsing the CSS file, resulting in a poor UX and performance on slower or unreliable networks. Adrian Bece.

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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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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

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

JANUARY 21, 2021

It always starts with the long-awaited website overhaul. We were designing and building things, setting up new products, refactoring the components, and publishing articles. The reasons for it are numerous, but the most important one is a huge difference in network conditions and device hardware across the world.

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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

JULY 20, 2021

WordPress is the most used website builder in the world; almost half of the web has used WordPress to create their website. It makes sense, because it allows you to quickly create websites and has a rich plugin’s ecosystem to help you scale your site. Ultimately all our data will be delivered through CDN networks.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. This way, the image loads faster, and your website will get a better LCP score. As developers, all the points illustrated in this article should therefore help you improve the LCP score of your website.

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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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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

AUGUST 9, 2021

Websites would magically become 50% faster with the flip of a switch! It also, however, takes a full network round trip to complete before anything else can be done on a connection. and lower), this typically takes two network round trips. For example, TCP requires a “ handshake ” to set up a new connection.

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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.

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