Rigor

JUNE 12, 2019

The top myth Gringaus says she had to bust was: “The Internet is designed for optimal performance.” Instead, she explains, “the Internet was built for resilience, not for performance.”. The Internet was built for resilience, not for performance. This is untrue, she says. Alla Gringaus #webperf Click To Tweet. says Gringaus.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. Vitaly is a co-founder of the Smashing Magazine brand. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine until October 2017 when he passed the baton to the remarkable Rachel Andrew. Rachel Andrew. Vitaly Friedman. Rick Viscomi.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Usually today this means internet connectivity, cameras, GPS, and so on, but they are distinct from smartphones.) With the majority of Internet access via mobiles, in just another decade almost everyone will use touch as their primary interaction method, worldwide. Feature phones are mobile phones with extra features.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

It was very important to load the page in iframe , I was wandering around the internet to find a way to load it. That was when I first got to witness the power of network headers. There are tools like Requestly which is a one-stop tool to debug & modify network requests. They carry data about the data being transferred.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. If we think about social networks, we can see two clear trends, those focusing on text and those focusing on multimedia content. A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Every major website on the Internet today relies — to some degree — on third-party services. In this case, we are not going to be talking about infrastructure services, such as a cloud computing platform like Microsoft Azure or a content distribution network like Akamai. You have control over what these resources are.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This problem is more apparent on unreliable and slow networks and lower-end devices. Users can browse the Internet using slow and unreliable networks, so minification, optimization, and code-splitting of JavaScript files ensure that the user downloads the smallest file possible. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

Lots can go wrong: a network request fails, a third-party library breaks, a JavaScript feature is unsupported (assuming JavaScript is even available), a CDN goes down, a user behaves unexpectedly (they double-click a submit button), the list goes on. The more enriched sentence (right) is an enhancement for when the network request succeeds.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

SWR does not just revalidate the data once, however, you can configure SWR to revalidate the data on an interval, when the tab regains focus, when a client reconnects to the Internet or programmatically. When paired with ISR and Next.js’ API routes, SWR can be used to create a responsive user experience.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. per GB respectively. Mbps upload.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Our fast computers and fiber internet masked the experience real people have on our site. Internet Explorer 6 was fully supported, Firefox was gaining share, and Chrome was still years from launch. It’s important to simulate a slower CPU and network connection when looking for Web Vitals issues on your site. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G network in your office for faster testing. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G/4G network in your office for faster testing. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. Moto G4) on a slow 3G network, emulated at 400ms RTT and 400kbps transfer speed. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

And slow websites are, in a way, discrimination: The majority of the world’s population don’t have access to high-speed Internet or fast CPUs. Providing rich, interactive website experiences needs added assets that consume your users’ resources, from CPU and GPU to memory and network.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

These tools run page loads on simulated networks and devices and then tell you what the metrics were for that test run. LCP is going to be very dependent on network conditions and the processing power of devices being used (and a lot of your users are likely using a lot of lower-powered devices than you realize! ). CrUX is Chrome only.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Note : In your browser development tools, open the Network > Img tabs to see the image chosen by the browser according to each viewport and DPR. When users browse the internet to visit a website, the LCP image’s loading is often delayed by the lazy loading technique, whether applied by native lazy loading or a JavaScript library.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Imagine a professional networking site with a database of users. While small-to-medium projects can get away without one, a CDN (content delivery network) is easy to use and improves the performance of applications of any size. For more details, see the Django documentation. Media Files. Static Assets On A CDN.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 9, 2020

This also puts extra work on the browser to recalculate the page layout as each image arrives across the internet. As you can see, the impact is considerable — especially on lower-end devices and slow network speed, where images are coming in separately. Performance calculations with and without dimensions. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The only time the Internet was mentioned was as a tool for communicating with one another without the need to chop down more trees, or for working without a commute. So, when people first started talking about the Internet having similar carbon emissions to the airline industry , I was a bit skeptical.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Resources like Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) that had previously been the reserve of giant corporations were becoming commonplace for everyday folk building snappy websites. I can test this out by putting that tag in a page, and then flipping to the Network tab in my browser tools to see that the file has been loaded.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

Low-end phones on the other hand are getting cheaper , making the mobile internet accessible to demographics that previously maybe couldn’t afford it. A ServiceWorker is a short-lived , isolated JavaScript scope running in a separate thread, functioning as a proxy for every network request originating from pages of the same origin.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It’s also one of the reasons we can keep using the Internet with many concurrent users, because it smartly limits each user’s bandwidth usage to their fair share. As another example, most applications on the Internet use TCP internally to ensure that all of their data are transmitted in full. Did You Know? Did You Know?

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Otherwise, our site will suffer an overhead from data traveling among different companies’ networks. The most common options are to keep the file private (ACL => “private”) and to make it accessible for reading on the internet (ACL => “public-read”). Creating The Bucket. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. If your average visitor is on a fast cabled or cellular network, they probably won’t benefit from the new protocols all that much. An often used metaphor is that of a pipe used to transport water. Congestion Control.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

To specify, users can continue using those parts of the site that were cached if the Internet connection is unstable or when offline. The method with data pulled from the network prior to cache is considered a good option. The same may be said about offline mode. Progressive web apps are capable of working offline. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Note : Another timely note here is that Internet Explorer will reach end of life officially on June 15, 2022 ). In the example video from my own site that has this problem, I’ve used the Network Conditions panel in Edge to load the site with “Network throttling” set to “Slow 3G.”

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

But there’s that inner personal actual relationship required in the terms of safety that I’m talking about, as opposed to, yeah, someone anonymous on the internet or some anonymous entity trying to get your data, things like that. They’re actually mostly … Some of them I can answer. ” Eva: It becomes a really big problem.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Web has over 4 billion internet users and is nearing 2 billion websites. If you run a shoe store and let a social network track your users so you can target ads to them there later, know that that data, which reveals who is interested in shoes, will also be used to show them shoe ads for your competitors.

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