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

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Since then, technology has evolved, and what started with naked-eye observations has become a sophisticated and accurate technology to measure eye movements. Eye-tracking is nothing but new, but recent developments in technology made the methodology accessible to businesses of all sizes. “. Mobile UX Research.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Application leaders for digital commerce technologies must plan for PWAs when designing digital commerce experiences”. Numerous big players have considered such an opinion and have recently implemented this technology. Hence, they can’t be promoted separately or found by users who’ve input a search query in Google. Why is that?

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Source: HTTP Archive's Core Web Vitals Technology Report. Large preview ).

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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. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Spend enough time running websites through PageSpeed Insights and you’ll notice that Google has a major beef with traditional image formats like JPG, PNG and even GIF. Google developed WebP back in 2010 after acquiring a company called On2 Technologies.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

We’ve explored the concepts behind headless CMSes in detail here on Smashing Magazine, but let’s do a quick recap. For example, if the CMS is built on Microsoft’s.NET Framework, the front-end website would also be built on the same technology. It worked a treat without having 50 Google Docs flying all over the place.

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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

JUNE 28, 2021

Drew: I guess there’s always a trade-off, isn’t there with technology choices? I tend to find in technology choices, the most important thing is just to know. Next.js, it simplifies a lot of speed related issues and accessibility related issue. Something that makes it really, really simple. Really quick to implement.

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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

JULY 20, 2021

But technology is evolving, and there are more and more options that make it easier to create websites. But this also has some disadvantages, you still need to configure and update WordPress, make it secure and are dependent on their technology for the development of new functionalities. Related Reading on SmashingMag.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

But the other thing is to be able to take operational concerns into account during your design development and implementation of any technology. Not everyone is Google. Stop reading posts from Netflix and Google. Jeff: Now, what are the things that we can do to speed this up? No, that’s not it. Not everyone is Netflix.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

One’s called Haunted, may have heard of that, some people might have, Matthew: and Fred, who’s the owner of Skypack, who started Skypack and worked on the Snowpack project, I knew him because he worked for Google on the Polymer project, which is a web component project. I think Jason Miller of Google came up with this terminology.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

Lazy loading is a way to improve the performance of a website or web application by maximizing the rendering speed of the above-the-fold images and iframes (and sometimes videos) by deferring the loading of below-the-fold content. Let’s start with a comparison between native lazy loading and the good ol’ JavaScript-driven one.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. mvfst (Facebook), MsQuic , (Microsoft), (Google), ngtcp2 , LSQUIC (Litespeed), picoquic , quicly (Fastly). Google Chrome (version 91+) : Enabled by default. Google Lighthouse.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Hyper is an Electron-based terminal app for Mac, Windows, or Linux that’s built with web technologies (HTML/CSS/JS). Includes dozens of themes and plugins and is built on speed and stability. You can customize it to display information from sources like Google Analytics, GitHub, Feedly, shell command output, and more.

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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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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

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

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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