Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

It doesn’t come as a surprise, considering the benefits of higher conversion rates, customer engagement, decreased page loading speed, and lower costs on development and overhead. You can find a comprehensive Beginner’s Guide To Progressive Web Apps on Smashing Magazine that focuses on building the core of PWAs. Large preview ).

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. 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. Here is our (ever-growing!) Plus, at the end, a few bonus Twitter handles to round things out.).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To do that, you develop a personalized design style, including a certain combination of colors, typography, spacing, animations, and others, and apply the style consistently throughout your site. An example in case is this same website, Smashing Magazine. What about images? It makes more sense to automate this task. Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

We’ll be focusing on three places where you can get the wildcard: Server Side In getServerSideProps , Client Side With useEffect , Server Side On API Routes And Edge Functions. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Design The Perfect Navigation , with Vitaly Friedman. Server Side In getServerSideProps. More after jump!

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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. Large preview ) That’s a nice big view and is a good illustration of TBT’s impact on page speed. Hey, look at that — great job, team! Meh, untrue.

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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. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) LCP measures the perceived load speed of a webpage from a user’s perspective. SEO is key to our success.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Yes, we’ve changed how we defined the user experience of the page load to look at the loading speed of the most relevant content , but it’s basically reusing the old techniques of ensuring that the content loads as quickly as possible. 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. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!),

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

This occurs when you are revalidating the page on the server. The first solution that comes to mind may be to simply server side render the pages, ensuring that the client is always sent the most up to date data. The more interesting thing, however, is the impact on the speed of our side. More after jump! Using SWR With Next.js

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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. Fixes To Common Problems. The Benefits Of Using An Image Service CDN. Case Study: Image Component In A Jamstack Site. Conclusion.

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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. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Client Side Rendering, Server Side Rendering And Jamstack. But during SSR, the client retrieves the HTML from the server.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

This goes way beyond basic optimizations such as color contrast and server response times. 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. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term.

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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. They act as a sort of liaison between the client and the server to put together the best page layout possible. One of the biggest challenges of responsive web design is creating clean markup. Why Use Client Hints?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

We will go through how to set up an Nx server, how to add a plugin to an existing server, and the concept of a monorepo with a practical visualization. Nx uses distributed graph-based task execution and computation caching to speed up tasks. entry file. /** * This is not a production server yet! More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Application leaders for digital commerce technologies must plan for PWAs when designing digital commerce experiences”. This also implies that you don’t have to spend additional time and money on creating a PWA to suit various devices, greatly speeding up time-to-market. The Design Gives Ground For Utmost Usability. Why is that?

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

And slow websites are, in a way, discrimination: The majority of the world’s population don’t have access to high-speed Internet or fast CPUs. Even if your website is designed with usability in mind, these factors impede users from fully benefiting from the website’s features. This is why performance is crucial when building websites.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2019

At the intersection of the two is website speed. It should come as no surprise that images cause a lot of the problems websites have with speed. And while you could always just trim the fat and build more minimally designed and content-centric sites, why compromise? Images are a powerful force on the web.

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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

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. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. South Korea has the fastest mobile download speed , averaging 52.4 per GB respectively. Mbps upload.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

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. The Web Designer’s Connection to Web Hosting. I get why they’d think that way.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. The two types of Django deployments are: Single-Server. A single-server Django deployment is exactly what it sounds like: everything lives on a single server.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

When it comes down to how WordPress is programmed, one thing is certain: it doesn’t follow the M odel- V iew- C ontroller (MVC) design pattern that many developers are familiar with. If you decide to use the method described in this article, be sure you know how to fortify your server security. Security concerns. Large preview ).

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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%. Dan Shappir. 2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-22T11:06:56+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 14, 2021

Frustrating Design Patterns: Broken Filters. Frustrating Design Patterns: Broken Filters. Part Of: Design Patterns. Designing For The Comfortable Range. A well-designed filter in a well-designed trip planner UI. Vitaly Friedman. 2021-07-14T13:30:00+00:00. 2021-07-14T14:23:10+00:00. Filters are everywhere.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Yet, for all these technological developments, it’s interesting that many of us are still serving sites in the same way Tim did with the very first website — a web server serving static website files. I vividly remember receiving a PC Magazine for my birthday with a trial of Dreamweaver. Smashing Magazine powered by Netlify.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2019

An API is the communication channel for an application to load data from the server. The term “component” is often used to refer both to functionality and design. Note : Brad Frost’s “ Atomic Design ” is a great methodology for identifying these common patterns and building a reusable design system. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

It’s easier to set up your content on a traditional CMS as everything you need (content management, design, etc) are already available. Wordpress relies heavily on plugins and themes which may contain malicious codes or bugs and slow the speed of the website or blog. This is data received from the server. Traditional CMS Cons.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Like any file referenced and used on a website, it first needs to be downloaded from a server. How quickly the file is downloaded depends on the connection speed and the size of the file itself. How quickly the file is downloaded depends on the connection speed and the size of the file itself.

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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. aj Dobrucki.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

It can be hard to visualize the huge network of hardware that allows you to send a request for a page to a server and then receive a response back. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. Suddenly, that mirage was beginning to look rather more solid.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Unless you’ve designed a truly innovative new product, the chances are that you can already find something at least similar on Amazon. You’ll be better prepared to design, launch, and expand your product lineup with that data. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smart Interface Design Patterns , with Vitaly Friedman.

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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.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

A common example could be how a particular part of a UI responds to interactions followed by requests to a server or database. Regardless of which diagram you subscribe to, ultimately the goal is to weigh the different options between cost and speed to determine the right fit for your particular application. Design/UX Collaboration.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”. Latency can be roughly defined as the time it takes to send a packet from point A (say, the client) to point B (the server). and prior (a)).

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