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

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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Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

To make this possible, the application code should be instrumented with telemetry data for deep insights, including: Metrics to find out how the behavior of a system has changed over time. And because Dynatrace can consume CloudWatch metrics, almost all your AWS usage information is available to you within Dynatrace.

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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. They used eye-tracking to measure visual attention on banners, animated graphics, and navigational tools in websites. Eye-Tracking Evolution.

Mobile 112

Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 112

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

To directly support great decision-making throughout the company, there are a number of data science teams at Netflix that partner directly with Product Managers, engineering teams, and other business units to design, execute, and learn from experiments. A/B tests are used throughout Netflix to deliver more joy to current and future members.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Session replay is an IT technology that creates anonymized video-like recordings of actions taken by users interacting with your website or mobile application. Replay software also captures web assets such as CSS so it can create accurate recordings even if your website changes. Develop a broad recording strategy.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

In order to accomplish this, one of the key strategies many organizations utilize is an open source Kubernetes environment, which helps build, deliver, and scale containerized Cloud Native applications. Today, most thought-leaders break down Observability into three pillars; metrics, distributed traces and logs. Well, yes…to a degree.

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MachMetrics

MAY 31, 2019

From speed testing to usability testing, use these ten strategies to ensure your website is always running on all cylinders. As any good web developer will tell you, load speed is a vital metric to consider as part of your front-end load testing efforts, as it directly affects user experience. Keep a Constant Eye on Speed.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A digital touchpoint may be a mobile application, a website, a smart TV, ATM, airport check-in kiosk, point-of-sale terminal, and so on. 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? This is the hard fail.

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 2, 2022

The new WebPageTest website design. From fonts to SVG: an icon migration strategy — Erwin Hofman notes that he was using icon fonts out of sheer convenience, but that there are loads of reasons not to use them. He provides details on his new strategy for using icons, which is based on the <use> technique.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A digital touchpoint may be a mobile application, a website, a SmartTV app, an ATM, an airport check-in kiosk or similar. Working on a customer win-back strategy is cost intensive and not always fruitful. Digital touchpoint outage: There is nothing worse than your well-designed digital touchpoint to simply not load, to be unavailable.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

These include website hosting, database management, backup and restore, IoT capabilities, e-commerce solutions, app development tools and more, with new services released regularly. Real-time stream processing to perform live activity tracking, data cleansing, metrics generation, and more. The Amazon Web Services ecosystem.

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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. 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.

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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. Driving Business Metrics. This optimization is quite complex in nature though.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

Metrics to find out how the behavior of a system has changed over time . And b ecause Dynatrace can consume CloudWatch metrics, almost all your AWS usage information is a vailable to you with in Dynatrace. . When operating an application, it ’ s helpful to have deeper insights that show you what’s really going on.

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Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance. High Performance Websites. Even Faster Websites. Designing for Performance.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Design your test without the hassle of managing hardware, giving you the ability to identify objectives and define a scenario by setting up a number of users and test duration. Use baseline metrics to identify performance degradation by reviewing elements provided by waterfall charts.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

JULY 7, 2023

Using this data, businesses can learn about consumer behavior, spot patterns, and adjust their marketing strategy. Businesses can, for instance, provide customers personalized recommendations based on their past purchases or design focused email campaigns.

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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. Alba Silvente.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. 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. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Table Of Contents.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

If you think that static rendering is limited to generic, public content that is the same for every user of your website, you should definitely read this article. The “stale-while-revalidate” cache control strategy can reduce the TTFB issue by serving a cached version of the page until it’s updated. Eric Burel. More after jump!

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Application performance monitoring (APM) is the practice of tracking key software application performance metrics using monitoring software and telemetry data. Mobile apps, websites, and business applications are typical use cases for monitoring. Application monitoring. Application performance. Why businesses need APM.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

How We Got Here Netflix started as a website that allowed members to manage their DVD queue. This website was later enhanced with the capability to stream content. Over time, devices increased in capability and functions that were once only accessible on the website became accessible through streaming devices.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. These issues often arise from suboptimal query design, missing or ineffective indexes, or dealing with large datasets. An unoptimized indexing strategy can impede data insertion and retrieval operations.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

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. He writes about Progressive Web Apps on Medium as well as on his own website. Rick Byers. Rick Byers. Tammy Everts.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

In order to accomplish this, one of the key strategies many organizations utilize is an open source Kubernetes environment, which helps build, deliver, and scale containerized Cloud Native applications. Today, most thought-leaders break down Observability into three pillars; metrics, distributed traces and logs. Well, yes…to a degree.

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Monitoring Cloud Metrics Code 100

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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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. I used my expertise to educate people about metrics,” says Gringaus.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. 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. How to get these matrics right and not mess up?

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Testsigma

JANUARY 18, 2021

Web Developers frequently come across issues where the developed website or web application does not work as expected on certain combinations of browsers and operating systems. When it comes to web applications (or websites), cross browser testing should be a high-priority item on the automation testing checklist.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

The surest way to ignore such misalignment is by focusing exclusively on technical questions about AI model capabilities, divorced from the socio-economic environment in which these models will operate and be designed for profit. Disclosure is another powerful market-shaping tool.

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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. You can see that Lighthouse does indeed provide that metric. We can get a better view if we run the same test in another service, like SpeedCurve , which digs deeper into the metric. It replaces the First Input Delay (FI D ) metric.

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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. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Table Of Contents. Setting Realistic Goals. Defining The Environment. Build Optimizations.

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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. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Quick Wins.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Back in 1971, in a talk called “ Designing Organizations for an Information-rich World ,” political scientist Herbert Simon noted that the cost of information is not just money spent to acquire it but the time it takes to consume it. It’s unclear whether this was a lack of imagination or a kind of “ strategy tax.” It’s not our data.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Having a slow site might leave you on page 452 of search results, regardless of any other metric. Go ahead, briefly look at the things that Lighthouse says are wrong with the website.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

The header is constructed via a name with an optional description and/or metric value. Web browsers expose a global Performance Timeline API to inspect details about specific metrics/events that have happened during the page lifecycle. Let’s assume all website images return this Server-Timing header structure.

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