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

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed. Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

The success of your website depends on the impression it leaves on its users. Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. It’s worth mentioning that good Core Web Vitals scores don’t necessarily mean that your website scores in high 90s on Lighthouse. Zara Cooper. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s the newest metric of the bunch and is set to formally be a ranking factor in Google search results beginning in March 2024. This way, you’ll not only have the information you need to read your performance reports come March 2024 but can proactively prepare your website for the change. The results aren’t even close!

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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

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

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. Infinite Scroll: On our website, product listing pages have infinite scrolling.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. 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).

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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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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

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. On that note, it’s worth calling out that there are multiple flavors of network throttling. Real usage data would be better, of course.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

If you haven’t heard, INP is replacing the First Input Delay (FID) metric, something you can read all about here on Smashing Magazine as a guide to prepare for the change. We can now track INP scores on our website and break them down into specific components. But that’s not what I really want to talk about.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. One of the famous examples is Flipkart , India’s largest e-commerce website. For a while, Flipkart adopted an app-only strategy and temporarily shut down its mobile website altogether. This optimization is quite complex in nature though.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. SEO is key to our success. Bookaway site search.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. Let’s look at it for a site that’s much “heavier” than Smashing Magazine. There are self-hosted alternatives to Google Analytics, after all.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

Adding video to your website immediately adds value, but also a new level of complexity to your web development. How do I account for different network speeds in different environments? This solution is fine when network speeds are fast, but it can be problematic when network speeds are not fast (or fluctuate).

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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. Adding Request Headers.

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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

JUNE 2, 2021

Nor will I talk too much about the mechanics of how CLS is calculated: Google has some good documentation on that , and Jess Peck ’s The Almost-Complete Guide to Cumulative Layout Shift is an awesome deep dive into that too. I like to use progressive enhancement to provide a basic website, even without JavaScript where possible.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

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 project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Similarly from cross-site navigation — think Google search results or the like and then clicking back. Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. All those navigations can benefit from the Back/Forward Cache to instantly restore the page. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Since implementing these changes, we have seen a dramatic improvement in the performance of websites built and hosted on our platform. Dan Shappir. 2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-22T11:06:56+00:00. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. As for mobile network connection type, 84.7% Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Ukraine follow at $0.27, $0.49

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

Unquestionably, media enlivens websites, adding appeal, excitement, and intrigue, let alone enticements to stay on a page and frequently revisit it. Even though rich media can promote user engagement, we need to balance the cost of delivering them with your website performance and business goals. Akshay Ranganath.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

These metrics are used by Google to evaluate the quality of user experience. This way, the image loads faster, and your website will get a better LCP score. Note : In your browser development tools, open the Network > Img tabs to see the image chosen by the browser according to each viewport and DPR. Eloïse Martin.

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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? If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

It always starts with the long-awaited website overhaul. A big JavaScript bundle might seem out of place on a magazine that merely publishes articles, but actually, there is plenty of scripting happening behind the scenes. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. Vitaly Friedman. 2021-01-21T14:00:00+00:00. 2021-01-21T16:39:57+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. 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. Agustinus Theodorus. 2022-09-27T14:00:00+00:00. Medium Homepage.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

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? ( Large preview ). Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 16, 2019

Client hints were introduced by Google for Chrome, and other browsers have adopted (or in the process of adopting) them since the HTTP specification was released. According to tests conducted by Smashing Magazine , making your images responsive with hints requires 19-32 percent less data to be served than using preselected image breakpoints.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Fairly rapidly, text messaging (SMS, short for “Short Message Service”) was added, as it was baked into the network itself, originally as a way to send messages internally or for testing. Many phones come preinstalled with common apps such as social networking, email, and maps, or with shortcuts to the browser. Personal Computer.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2019

Whilst I adore Sheffield United, the mighty blades, their website’s CSS is bundled into a single 568kb minified file, which comes to 105kb even when gzipped. This is Sheffield United’s website , my local Football team (that’s Soccer for you lot over in the colonies ????). Google has recognized this as well. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Django websites involve a lot of files. As if that wasn’t enough already, sometimes users come along and want to upload their own files to your website. Imagine a professional networking site with a database of users. One final note is that many libraries for CSS and JavaScript have free CDNs that most websites can use.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Way back in the days when JavaScript was very much the poorer cousin to HTML and CSS, we didn’t need to think too much about how our scripts could be used as an attack vector for our websites. file hosted as part of their own website on their own server. If it matches, the file is executed. Large preview ). Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

I wasn’t progressing, our projects were being rejected or de-prioritized by management, and I spent months designing a mobile website and a separate desktop experience for two products only for these to be swiftly brushed to the side. Prioritize Networking Over Pushing Pixels. Prioritize networking over pushing pixels.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

As a result, website performance can suffer. Recommended reading : How To Use Heatmaps To Track Clicks On Your WordPress Website. If long website response times keep you up at night, this is a how-to for you. Another advantage is reflected in the website security. Recommended reading : WordPress Security As A Process.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

However, at the end of 2020, about 1% of websites included a Service Worker, and 2.2% As PWAs work in browsers, they have web pages with URLs that work just like any other website (be it launched on a desktop or mobile device). The pages can be crawled, indexed, and ranked, as it happens with regular websites. Large preview ).

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