Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores. Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores. Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. For this article, we will focus on the first three and the performance adjustments for these.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rachel Andrew.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

Font loading has long been a bugbear of web performance, and there really are no good choices here. 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.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. Every web performance story is similar, isn’t it? A day when a project, fully polished and carefully optimized, gets launched, ranking high and soaring above performance scores in Lighthouse and WebPageTest. Vitaly Friedman.

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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. Can’t be perfect every time!

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2021

In this article, we’ll look at a React utility React.Children.toArray which lets us prepare the children prop for inspection and iteration, some of its shortcomings and how to overcome them — through a small open-source package, to keep our React code function the way it is deterministically supposed to behave, keeping performance intact.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

If you’re reading this before March 2024 and fire up your favorite performance monitoring tool, you’re going to to get a Core Web Vitals report like this one pulled from PageSpeed Insights: ( Large preview ) You’re likely used to seeing most of these metrics. INP will officially replace FID when it becomes an official Core Web Vital metric.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. Large preview ) We’ve known for a long time that fast page performance influences search engine rankings.

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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. The following qualities are considered great additions to the basic PWA by Google developers. By default, PWAs have greater performance over similar native apps due to their lite nature.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Similarly from cross-site navigation — think Google search results or the like and then clicking back. Barry Pollard. 2022-05-09T10:30:00+00:00. 2022-05-09T17:34:14+00:00. Didn’t The HTTP Cache Do All That Anyway?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. But not everything about performance happens directly at the code level, right?

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

In my last article , I suggested using the SaveData API to deliver a different, more performant, experience to users that expressed that desire. 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.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. When it comes to performance, you shouldn’t be stingy. There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. Agustinus Theodorus.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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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. 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. Jack Lenox.

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Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

One of the great things about Google's Core Web Vitals is that they provide a standard way to measure our visitors’ experience. The screenshots from What Hifi (a UK audio-visual magazine) illustrate this problem. You can also create performance budgets and get alerts when they exceed their thresholds.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. However, just as out-of-control spending bodes ill in the long run, so does unbudgeted digital media decimate site performance. Performance Budgets. “A A performance budget is ‘. Business Performance. Akshay Ranganath.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Large preview ) I don’t know about you, but it often feels like I’m missing something when measuring page speed performance. Not the best way to get a high-level view of performance. I’ve had time to work with DebugBear and thought I’d give you a peek at it with some notes on my experience using it to monitor performance.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Shopify Themes (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Shopify Themes (Case Study). Code evolves over time with more features, new or changing dependencies, or maybe a goal of performance improvements. Better performance across the board. Carson Shold. 2021-05-06T11:00:00+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

An example in case is this same website, Smashing Magazine. That’s why all avatars, the arrow button, and many other elements are all tilted, at the same angle as the Smashing logo is: Tilted elements in Smashing Magazine ( Large preview ). What about images? Resized + cropped + focused around faces.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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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. Smashing Magazine article with fallback font and with full web fonts. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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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

MARCH 19, 2021

Working around improving performance was an ongoing journey on SmashingMag for a while. In the end of last year we’ve noticed that we’ve seen quite a drop in performance in 2020, so we rolled up our sleeves and got to work. We were busy not only with performance and UX optimizations though. Vitaly Friedman. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Developers are already optimizing front end performance with: Fast web hosting. Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google. For example: Think with Google suggests the typical page speed optimizations.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

It also includes a handy CSS reference, a web development experiment playground, tutorials, blueprints to get started from and Collective - a digital design magazine that makes it easy to keep up with trends. Smashing Magazine Smashing Magazine is an established resource for those who want to master the front end.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

If you’d like to dive deeper into the performance of Android and iOS devices, you can check Geekbench Android Benchmarks for Android smartphones and tablets, and iOS Benchmarks for iPhones and iPads. With Core Web Vitals , Google has been pushing the experience factors on mobile further to the forefront. billion by 2026.

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Performance budgets are an important tool for ensuring your site is delivering a great user experience. Steve first experienced performance budgets while Head Performance Engineer at Google. The practice of using budgets to track performance took off with Tim Kadlec's blog post Setting a Performance Budget.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). With Google Search Console you can see exactly where your pages are (or aren’t) ranking for different keywords. Google Keyword Planner. Google Trends. Google Mobile-Friendly Test.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Last year, Google started emphasizing the importance of Core Web Vitals and how they reflect a person’s real experience when visiting sites around the web. Performance is a core feature of our company, Instant Domain Search —it’s in the name. This is a screenshot from our mobile Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

If you are just starting out wondering if someone might be re-publishing your web content, the easiest thing to do is a Google search. Copy a ten or twelve-word sentence from a page of interest on your site into the Google search bar, put it inside double-quotes, and click on Search. How To Track Suspicious Activity. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

The average user doesn’t spend much time waiting for a web page to load or to interact with the page: According to Google, if a page’s load time goes up from 1 second to 3 seconds, the probability of the user bouncing increases by 32%. However, it’s not always easy to maintain high performance in websites. The JavaScript Tax.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

For this, you can use such well-known tools as Semrush and SimilarWeb and reviews from Trustpilot , Google Play , and Apple’s App Store. For user feedback on edX, I went to Trustpilot (Google Play and the App Store are relevant only for analyzing mobile apps). edX analysis on Google PageSpeed ( Large preview ). Take SimilarWeb.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Smaller HTML means less time for Google to download and process those long strings of text. Both for Google bots (SEO) and to actual clients. Google’s amount of time and resources to crawling a site is commonly called the site’s crawl budget.” — “ Advanced SEO ,” Google Search Central Documentation.

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