CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Google has a pretty tight grip on the tech industry: it makes by far the most popular browser with the best DevTools, and the most popular search engine, which means that web developers spend most of their time in Chrome, most of their visitors are in Chrome, and a lot of their search traffic will be coming from Google. Why Bother?

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Network Mobile Performance Traffic 225

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The linked-up explainer provides more details, from how scores are weighted to why scores may fluctuate between test runs. Why do we need Lighthouse at all when Google also offers similar reports in PageSpeed Insights (PSI)? Large preview ) Did you notice that the Performance score in Lighthouse is different from that PSI screenshot?

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Speed Google Website Metrics 97

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. It measures the web performance of a single page using Google PageSpeed Insights. It can also compare the performance of multiple pages of your site or those of your competitors’ websites. PageSpeed Compare. Large preview ).

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Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 130

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Vitaly is a co-founder of the Smashing Magazine brand.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Lara Hogan’s guide on how to approach designs with a performance budget can provide helpful pointers to designers.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. The Relation Between Images And Web Performance. If we think about social networks, we can see two clear trends, those focusing on text and those focusing on multimedia content. Large preview ).

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Media Cache Website Mobile 105

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Similarly from cross-site navigation — think Google search results or the like and then clicking back. WebPageTest is one of the few web performance testing tools that actually tests a reload of the page using a primed HTTP Cache — most of the other tools just flag if your HTTP resources are not explicitly set to be cached.

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Cache Games Performance Website 91