Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. Jump to online workshops ?. In the second stage, I weighed edX’s website against the 10 usability heuristics identified by Jacob Nielsen. More after jump!

Education 85

Education Website Google Design 85

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative was launched in May of 2020 and, since then, its role in Search has morphed and evolved as roll-outs have been made and feedback has been received. However, to this day, messaging from Google can seem somewhat unclear and, in places, even contradictory. Don’t have time to read 5,500+ words?

Engineering 246

Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

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.

Network 225

Network Mobile Performance Traffic 225

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Deploying the refactored codebase shouldn’t result in worse website performance and worse user experience. After all, users won’t wait around forever for the website to load. Also, the management will be dissatisfied with the decreased traffic and revenue caused by the unoptimized codebase, despite the code quality improvements.

Media 110

Media Performance Cache Strategy 110

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

mvfst (Facebook), MsQuic , (Microsoft), (Google), ngtcp2 , LSQUIC (Litespeed), picoquic , quicly (Fastly). Note that there is an Apache Traffic Server implementation, though.). Traffic for one connection must, of course, always be routed to the same back-end server (the others wouldn’t know what to do with it!). Implementation.

Network 106

Network Servers Cache Traffic 106

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

In this role, I am leading a global team that works closely with our strategic partners such as AWS, Microsoft, Google, Pivotal, Red Hat and others. For a recent technical workshop I did with one of our strategic cloud partners, I created a deck that aims to answer exactly this question. Resource consumption & traffic analysis.

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

It always starts with the long-awaited website overhaul. Harry Roberts ran his (excellent) Web Performance Masterclass as an online workshop with us, and throughout the entire workshop, he was using Smashing as an example by highlighting issues that we had and suggesting solutions to those issues alongside useful tools and guidelines.

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Performance Cache Mobile Network 145