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. You Will Need….

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. PageSpeed Compare is a page speed evaluation and benchmarking tool. It measures the web performance of a single page using Google PageSpeed Insights. You can export the results as a CSV file for Excel, Google Sheets or Apple Pages.

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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. You can find a comprehensive Beginner’s Guide To Progressive Web Apps on Smashing Magazine that focuses on building the core of PWAs. Large preview ).

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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. In this article, I’ll highlight some of the work we did and how we were able to achieve our speed. There are several ways you can affect this, and the speed of your website is a big one. Jennifer Brehm.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf. Ford, et al., “TCP on Upcoming Sapphire Rapids CPUs,” [link] , Oct 2020 [Liu 20] Linda Liu, “Samsung QVO vs EVO vs PRO: What’s the Difference?

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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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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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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 is readily available in PageSpeed Insights and Google Search Console, not to mention DebugBear. In other words, INP is a clearer and more accurate way to measure the speed of user interactions.

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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

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? In both accounts, Cloudinary can help us out.

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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). Speeding up the registration process is yet another crucial UX principle.

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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. But first, let’s talk about the importance of speed improvement. Why Is Speed Improvement Necessary To Our SEO Efforts? How about errors?”

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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. Core Web Vitals can answer questions like: When was the largest element displayed?

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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

AUGUST 25, 2022

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). And if there is one thing we all know — we cannot control the speed network our customers are using.

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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

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. The reportWebVitals function.

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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%. Consider Google Analytics, which collects and sends tracking data using navigator.sendBeacon().

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

With Core Web Vitals , Google has been pushing the experience factors on mobile further to the forefront. One thing is certain though: your websites will rank better if they are better optimized for mobile, both in terms of speed and mobile-friendliness — it goes for accessibility as well. Improving Search Engine Visibility.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Apart from that, we check the Google Search Console Core Web Vitals Report section to get an idea of any potential CLS issues in any of our pages. So we decided to use Web Vitals Google Chrome extension since it can record CLS on a page while the user is interacting with it.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. Perhaps surprisingly, users experience faster speeds over a mobile network than WiFi in at least 30 countries worldwide, including Australia and France. South Korea has the fastest mobile download speed , averaging 52.4 Google Homepage — DOM.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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. Fixes To Common Problems. The Benefits Of Using An Image Service CDN. Case Study: Image Component In A Jamstack Site. Conclusion.

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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. Unless you’re a real-time news website or similar, I always recommend caching the main document resource for at least a few minutes (or even better hours) to speed up repeat visits. Didn’t The HTTP Cache Do All That Anyway?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

Our themes had pretty good speed scores for how much they offered, but they were undoubtedly bloated. Desktop home page speeds (with heavy elements like multiple videos, featured products, slideshows with large images). 28% faster mobile home page speeds. 30% faster mobile home page and product page speeds.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

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. Much of this data related to Core Web Vitals which Google has announced back in 2020, and which also contribute to and are exposed in Lighthouse. Large preview ).

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Plus, now that Google has made mobile-first indexing the default, you really can’t afford to let any performance optimizations fall by the wayside what with how difficult it can be to get your mobile site as speedy as your desktop. At the intersection of the two is website speed. Images are a powerful force on the web.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights (no, it isn’t deprecated), you can get CrUX performance data for specific pages instead of just the aggregates.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome who was working all around web performance for decades. Addy Osmani is an engineering manager working on Google Chrome. His team focuses on speed , helping keep the web fast. Let’s figure it all out.

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Steve first experienced performance budgets while Head Performance Engineer at Google. In the chart below, we can see why Smashing Magazine is so much faster - they're simply delivering a lot less JavaScript. It’s an independent measure and provides two unique metrics we can budget against, start render and speed index.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome and focusing around performance for decades. Addy Osmani is an engineering manager working on Google Chrome. His team focuses on speed , helping keep the web fast. Let’s figure it all out. Get the eBook.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

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. Hence, they can’t be promoted separately or found by users who’ve input a search query in Google. you don’t have to create code to fit the separate Android and iOS requirements.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Core Web Vitals are the subset of Web Vitals that Google has identified as having the greatest impact on the end-user experience. As of 2022, there are three Core Web Vitals — First Contentful Paint (speed), Cumulative Layout Shift (stability), and First Input Delay (interactivity). Which one of these is the most important?

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

Of the many factors that affect page-load speed, media is a significant one. Also, be sure to synthetically track Google’s Core Web Vitals (CWVs) as part of your toolkit with tools like LightHouse. However, just as out-of-control spending bodes ill in the long run, so does unbudgeted digital media decimate site performance.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

These metrics are used by Google to evaluate the quality of user experience. The images used in the article’s Codepen demonstrations will be integrated with TwicPics to save time in their creation and speed up the optimization of the LCP metric. Eloïse Martin. 2023-01-16T18:00:00+00:00. 2023-01-16T22:03:27+00:00. Use Priority Hints.

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