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A New Way To Reduce Font Loading Impact: CSS Font Descriptors

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A number of sites moved to font-display: swap when this first came out, and Google Fonts even made it the default in 2019. Now, when put side by side, the web fonts are considerably nicer and do fit with the Smashing Magazine brand. However, beyond that it didn’t really solve the problem. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

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Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. For example: Are we loading the whole of jQuery for some basic DOM operations? Data transfer is one thing that we can measure quite easily.

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Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt)

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Feature phones all use proprietary and little known operating systems developed by the makers of the phones, as opposed to prevalent ones like Android or iOS. These are big numbers, and if considered part of the tablet market, since they are touch-first, mostly Android machines, Google would own over 70% of that.

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Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports

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Why do we need Lighthouse at all when Google also offers similar reports in PageSpeed Insights (PSI)? CrUX data is important because it is how web core vitals are measured, which, in turn, are a ranking factor for Google’s search results. Still, there’s nothing in there to tell us about the data Lighthouse is using to evaluate metrics.

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Optimizing Google Fonts Performance

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Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. It’s fair to say Google Fonts are popular. Without Google Fonts you would be limited to the handful of “ system fonts ” installed on your user’s device. Like all good things, Google Fonts do come with a cost. Danny Cooper.

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Signals For Customizing Website User Experience

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Approximately two-thirds of Indian mobile Chrome users of Smashing Magazine have this setting turned on, for example. For Smashing Magazine, that involved dropping some of our web fonts. This could be as simple as logging the values for these options in a Google Analytics Custom Dimension. And Is It Used? Data Saver.

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Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober

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Conventional computers now sport touchscreens and otherwise blur the lines between device types – and between mobile and desktop operating systems. Since then, he designed the first Google mobile search, the first mobile app store, several mobile browsers, and numerous websites and apps for global brands. About the Author.

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