Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Apple continues to self-preference through exclusive API access for Safari; e.g., the ability to install PWA s to the home screen, implement media codecs, and much else. However, developers are loathe to do this; turning away users isn't a winning growth strategy, and prompting visitors to switch is passé. Instead, Fruit Co.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. For a while, Flipkart adopted an app-only strategy and temporarily shut down its mobile website altogether. Large preview ).

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Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

That’s not all, the global mobile traffic is expected to increase sevenfold between 2017 and 2022. The daily media consumption on mobile devices has grown by 504 percent since 2011[2]. Popular search engines like Google give preference to websites that are mobile-ready[4]. Mobile-first indexing. Speed and Accuracy.

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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. In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what strategies should be used to fix them. Establish a performance culture. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

The upcoming prefers-reduced-data media query, which allows CSS to set different options depending on this setting. However, the above table is not actually representative of total traffic, and that’s another point to note about this data. The CSS media query version of Save Data mentioned above. Other User Preference Signals.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this article, we will review what third-party resource requests are, consider how impactful they can be to the user experience, and discuss common optimization strategies to reduce the impact on the user experience. They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

The final prompt for a more aggressive optimization was the “Core Web Vitals” dashboard in the Google Search Console. We first thought that it could be related to the cookie banner adjustments we made recently, but it turned out it was a Google Search Update that seemed to be more aggressively penalizing us for a high CLS.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

One available proxy is the distribution of use from Google's hosted JS libraries. That is unlikely given the need for SRI annotations or the unbecoming practice of speeding up high-traffic sites, but not others. One challenge for fair inclusion is the tension between site-count-weighting and traffic-weighting.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

It might be tempting to get into quick "low-hanging-fruits"-optimizations early on — and eventually it might be a good strategy for quick wins — but it will be very hard to keep performance a priority without planning and setting realistic, company-tailored performance goals. when web fonts aren’t loaded yet). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Google Homepage — DOM. Asynchronous loading of CSS can be achieved in one remarkably clever line of HTML : <link rel="stylesheet" href="/path/to/my.css" media="print" onload="this.media='all'"> The devtools show a prettified version of the DOM. The JS-disabled version of Google search is just 102 KB, as opposed to 402 KB.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

In previous articles from this series, we’ve covered auditing CSS codebase health and the incremental CSS refactoring strategy , testing, and maintenance. Also, the management will be dissatisfied with the decreased traffic and revenue caused by the unoptimized codebase, despite the code quality improvements. Optimizing Media Queries.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Centralized data will be moved to third party services such as Google Sheets and Airtable for the stakeholders. It is generating heartbeat signals at a constant frequency with the objective of using them as a baseline to verify the health of the pipeline regardless of traffic patterns or occasional silences. Endnotes ¹ Inmon, Bill.

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

This rework delays launch which, in turn, delays gathering data about the viability of a PWA strategy. media="(min-width: 990px)"> <source srcset="img@tablet.png, img@tablet-2x.png 2x". media="(min-width: 750px)"> <img srcset="img@mobile.png, img@mobile-2x.png 2x". alt="I don't know why.

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Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Any organisation pursuing microservices strategy will find hard to fit a traditional CMS in their ecosystem. Using CDN for the whole website, you can offload most of the website traffic to your CDN which will handle not only large traffic spikes but also reduce the latency of content delivery.

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