CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

However, one metric I feel that front-end developers overlook all too quickly is Time to First Byte (TTFB). A trip from a device in London to a server in New York has a theoretical best-case speed of 28ms over fibre, but this makes lots of very optimistic assumptions. Expect closer to 75ms. Demystifying TTFB.

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Latency Ecommerce Servers Mobile 269

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors.

Engineering 131

Engineering Google Website Analytics 131

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

Its GPT store and developer tools need to return value to those who create it in order to ensure ecosystems of innovation remain viable and dispersed. Meanwhile, the ultimate suppliers of value to their platform—the content creators, website owners and merchants—have had to hand over more of their returns to the platform owner.

Social Media 88

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 88

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

It’s about creating awareness amongst both developers and non-developers. They can be run as a one-off or integrated in our development and deployment pipelines. If you are reading this you are likely a developer who knows about web and cares about performance. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

Frontend frameworks let you hit the ground running when developing a new website. Like many developers, you may be drawn to wildly popular, tried-and-true options like Bootstrap and Foundation. Like many developers, you may be drawn to wildly popular, tried-and-true options like Bootstrap and Foundation.

Google 135

Google Mobile Open Source Website 135

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? High Performance Websites. Even Faster Websites. How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance. Want your web site to display more quickly?

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

KeyCDN

JULY 2, 2020

Web standards are best defined as guidelines developed by the World Wide Web Consortium W3C to promote consistency in design code which makes up a web page. These standards , while not enforceable by law, have a great deal of benefit to both web developers and web surfers alike. Standards published by ECMA International.

Internet 56

Internet Internet Best Practices Website 56

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. For example, if you are using internet banking via a Mobile Web application, it will not allow you to save cards or mark any transaction as favourite. What are Mobile Web Applications?

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Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

For some websites this works, but for others (such as Hack Club’s Scrapbook , a site built by @lachlanjc that I help maintain), the user expects the data to be kept up to date. The more interesting thing, however, is the impact on the speed of our side. When we measure speed through Lighthouse, we get a speed index of 1.5

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Cache Internet Internet Servers 103

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

billion websites on the internet and the number is rapidly increasing. The internet traffic from mobile (as compared to that from desktops) has also been increasing, and now stands at 56%. The point I am trying to make is that if you have a website – it can be accessed from a web browser or a mobile browser.

Cloud 82

Cloud Testing Mobile Internet 82

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

When the researcher can see through the user’s eyes, recognizing a usability problem sooner would save the client and developer time and money. 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.

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Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 112

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult.

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Speed Google Website Metrics 97

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. The possibility is that the web developer and test automation engineer did not do thorough cross browser testing! UTC, EST. MST, etc.).

Testing 55

Testing Operating System Website Internet 55

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

To support our customers’ growth, their digital transformation, and to speed up their innovation and lower the cost of running their IT, we continue to build out additional European infrastructure. Since we opened the first AWS EU Region in Ireland in November 2007, we have seen an acceleration of companies adopting the AWS Cloud.

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AWS IoT Internet Internet 166

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

HTTP/2 Push allows web developers to define specific assets that should be pushed to the client along with the HTML document. HTTP Preload is another method web developers can use to proactively send certain assets to the client before requiring the client to request each asset sequentially. What Is HTTP/2 Push? What Is HTTP Preload?

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Speed Servers Website Efficiency 99

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. The Internet was built for resilience, not for performance.

Performance 72

Performance Social Media Internet Internet 72

Dotcom-Montior

JANUARY 18, 2018

Why Companies Need Web Performance Monitoring Building a Successful Website Gaining success in the online world is not that simple. Most of us believe that content and popularity of websites are the only factors, which are responsible for the success of our sites. But beyond that, even more, important is speed and user experience.

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Monitoring Performance Website Ecommerce 40

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

Thankfully, there are simple measures that web developers can take to ensure that the files being served to their visitors are as small as possible. These compressed files allow for quicker network transfers so that your website can be loaded as fast as possible. Never change, Internet Explorer. Source: Zoomph.

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Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

" Browsers Are Big Business WebKit Is No Charity Choices, Choices Recent Developments How Apple Gutted Mozilla's Chances Back Of The Napkin The Best Kind Of Correct What Now? On the other, it captures a developer's ability to build using a broad set of features. All iOS browsers present as Safari to developers. Cui bono? —

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Testsigma

OCTOBER 15, 2021

seconds to form an opinion on a website? Yes, Sweor’s study on website statistics shows that users decide whether they want to use a website or not in a fraction of a second. We can also note that about 57% of the global population doesn’t recommend non-responsive websites in the same study.

Testing 52

Testing Testing Tools Analytics Website 52

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. Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” Rachel Andrew.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

It’s about creating awareness amongst both developers and non-developers. They can be run as a one-off or integrated in our development and deployment pipelines. At the same time, they open a door to lots of concepts that might be overwhelming: PRPL, RAIL, Paint Timing API, TTI, HTTP/2, Speed Index, Priority Hints and more ….

Performance 130

Performance Speed Google Media 130

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The major application for high quality compression of photos is Internet speed. While bandwidth does continue to increase each year, so does the quality and size of most Internet media. The most promising compression tool right now was developed by the Alliance for Open Media on its AV1 format and is called AVIF.

Media 43

Media Internet Internet Speed 43

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Many developers have been asking themselves that question lately. The image was served from a separate assets domain (often bad for performance), but it wasn’t going to be possible to change that in the short term, and Smashing Magazine had already added a preconnect resource hint to speed that up as best they could. Barry Pollard.

Google 143

Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Anyway, here are some of the problems I see when incentives aren’t aligned … Misaligned Incentives Inhibit Productivity To successfully execute on its business model, an organization needs to deliver value propositions to customers by developing business capabilities which enable their products and services.

Technology 59

Technology Technology DevOps Energy 59

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

However, at the end of 2020, about 1% of websites included a Service Worker, and 2.2% Cost-Efficient And Effort-Saving Development. 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. had an installable Web App Manifest file.

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

All Things Distributed

JULY 7, 2011

AWS Import/Export transfers data off of storage devices using Amazons high-speed internal network and bypassing the Internet. With Import into EBS customers can now develop arbitrary complex layouts as the import service is doing a full binary copy of the disk into Amazon EBS and is not interpreting file system layouts, etc.

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AWS Cloud Storage Internet 96

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Typical examples include adding dedicated hardware accelerators to speed up encryption and decryption computations. While industry has picked up a few ways to improve security, there are a broader number of paradigms that have been proposed and developed in the computer architecture research community for achieving security.

Hardware 98

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Games 98

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.

Website 81

Website Google Open Source Mobile 81

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Here's what loading 14 scripts looked like in Internet Explorer 7: I've added a red arrow at the beginning of each script request. Browsers added support for this attribute starting with Firefox and Chrome in 2010, followed by Safari and Internet Explorer in 2012. As a result, the page renders quickly (0.7 Async Adoption.

Internet 53

Internet Internet Website Traffic 53

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

While the agile approach is focused on implementing small, iterative tests throughout the development and testing phases, the primary goal should be to deliver a world-class, consistent user experience. UserView replicates a user’s browser interactions with a website or an application. Or has it become white noise?

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. Your website may be using more third-party services than you realize. Ken Harker.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

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.

Website 135

Website Energy Internet Internet 135

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. The good news is that developing a PWA isn’t something that only big-budget companies can afford. Here’s what these components do. Web App Manifest.

Cache 124

Cache Internet Internet Google 124

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google do strongly encourage you to focus on site speed for better performance in Search, but, if you don’t pass all relevant Core Web Vitals (and the applicable factors from the Page Experience report) they will not push you down the rankings. While Core Web Vitals can help with SEO, there’s so much more to site-speed than that.

Engineering 246

Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

The world’s first website was made from static HTML files created in a text editor. Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. Mike Neumegen. released 1998.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Spend enough time running websites through PageSpeed Insights and you’ll notice that Google has a major beef with traditional image formats like JPG, PNG and even GIF. Suzanne Scacca. 2019-10-29T12:30:59+02:00. 2019-10-29T13:36:09+00:00.

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Website Speed Cache Google 72