Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. This electricity needs to be produced somewhere.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. Can’t be perfect every time!

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. Before delving into details about code-splitting, let’s quickly remind ourselves what makes JavaScript so impactful on overall performance. Performance Costs. Adrian Bece. 2022-02-02T10:30:00+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

I vividly remember receiving a PC Magazine for my birthday with a trial of Dreamweaver. I had my website with funny photos and links to favorite websites live on the internet, and better yet, I could edit directly on the server. Smashing Magazine powered by Netlify. But, when it worked, it was magical. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. The Google Fonts API does more than just provide the font files to the browser, it also performs a smart check to see how it can deliver the files in the most optimized format. Danny Cooper. 2019-06-20T11:00:16+02:00. 2019-06-20T10:35:07+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Often they make it seem as if HTTP/3 is a revolution in performance, while it is really a more modest (yet still useful!) It was heralded as an amazing performance revolution, with exciting new features such as server push, parallel streams, and prioritization. HTTP/3 performance features ( coming up soon! ). Did You Know?

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Measuring the carbon footprint of the web isn’t an exact science, but a report by the BBC in 2020 estimates that all internet activity accounts for around 3.7% This is clearly not just bad for the environment — it’s bad for performance and hurts our users too. The performance impact is be measured with PageSpeed Insights.

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It also includes a handy CSS reference, a web development experiment playground, tutorials, blueprints to get started from and Collective - a digital design magazine that makes it easy to keep up with trends. Smashing Magazine Smashing Magazine is an established resource for those who want to master the front end.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

How To Make Performance Visible With GitLab CI And Hoodoo Of GitLab Artifacts. How To Make Performance Visible With GitLab CI And Hoodoo Of GitLab Artifacts. Performance degradation is a problem we face on a daily basis. Performance is a competitive advantage that can bring and retain customers. Anton Nemtsev.

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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. Performance And Emissions.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. That is why, today, Web Performance is as important and trendy as having an online presence. Table of Contents: What Is Web Performance? What Is Web Performance? Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Improve Animated GIF Performance With HTML5 Video. Improve Animated GIF Performance With HTML5 Video. Internet Explorer and Safari are notable browsers without WebM support ( Large preview ). This gives the same experience as an animated GIF but with better performance. Ayo Isaiah. 2018-11-05T14:30:14+01:00.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The internet accounts for an estimated 3–4% of global emissions — equivalent to some countries. The carbon emissions of the internet are roughly equivalent to those generated by the entire aviation industry, or the whole of Africa. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. The Bigger Picture. Get Organized.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You may have a lean, agile, responsive site design only to find it gradually loaded down with more and more “extras” that are often put onto the site by marketing departments or business leaders who are not always thinking about website performance. Measuring Performance Impact. You cannot always anticipate what you cannot control.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Size Up The Competition The internet is a big place. There’s no question that there exist bad websites that perform well, but more and more are weeded out with each update. This is the internet; you can do just about anything. Reports Boiling down your SEO performance into regular reports makes progress more manageable.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Performance is a core feature of our company, Instant Domain Search —it’s in the name. Our fast computers and fiber internet masked the experience real people have on our site. We’ve recently grown to a small group based mostly in Victoria, Canada and we are working through a long backlog of new features and performance improvements.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Even if you resize your images to the exact specifications of your website and run them through a compressor, they can still put a strain on performance and run up bandwidth usage. Samsung Internet. The platforms that continue to hold back support are: Internet Explorer. As well it should. Opera Mini. Android Browser.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

However, it’s not always easy to maintain high performance in websites. 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. This is why performance is crucial when building websites. The JavaScript Tax.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

LCP is supposed to measure loading performance and is a good proxy for all the old metrics we in the performance community used to use (i.e. Previous Web Performance Metrics. At the top is the big Lighthouse performance score out of 100. SpeedIndex (SI). Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). Time to Interactive (TTI).

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. I downloaded TripMode ; an application for Mac which gives you control over which apps on your Mac can access the internet. Any other application’s internet access is automatically blocked. Performance Tip #1: Inline Critical CSS. I enabled Chrome.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

The Problem Of Unpredictable Performance. At the same time, we have a widening performance gap. Low-end phones on the other hand are getting cheaper , making the mobile internet accessible to demographics that previously maybe couldn’t afford it. The performance of the user’s device is completely unpredictable.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In the late 1990s, marketing and advertising agencies saw the potential of eye-tracking for the Internet and started using the technology to analyze how people consume content online. For instance, Nielsen’s research conducted in 2006 showed that people read content on the Internet in an F-shaped pattern.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

A user unable to perform a task because something is broken will naturally face disappointment they could associate with your brand. Intermittent micro-services, unstable internet connections, or eventual consistency are all reasons to try again. When facing an error, the first question should be, “can we recover?”

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Together, we’ll develop an intuition for the strategies available to Django developers for serving these files to users worldwide in a secure, performant, and cost-effective manner. Performance And Availability. There are numerous factors that affect the performance and reliability of your website. Static Assets On A CDN.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 9, 2020

Web performance advocates have often advised to add dimensions to your images for best performance to allow the page to be laid out with the appropriate space for the image, before the image itself has been downloaded. This also puts extra work on the browser to recalculate the page layout as each image arrives across the internet.

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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. It’s not very hard to write the JavaScript code required to perform these operations on your own.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Since recently becoming a ranking factor, this major web performance KPI is still a new concept for many web developers. 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

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Web has over 4 billion internet users and is nearing 2 billion websites. I believe that a good starting point for a default that works for most sites that perform a relatively small set of related services is the Vegas Rule : what happens on the site stays on the site. The second step is to develop a habit of healthy skepticism.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

To be more precise in terms of software requirements, try to define: the type of the software itself and the environments where it will be applied; tasks, features, and functions your software should be able to perform; similar apps/websites/platforms that might prompt what you like and what you would or wouldn’t expect to get.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Users who opened a PWA from a smartphone’s browser might even not be aware that they’re using a progressive web app, assuming that it’s just a well-performing site. Far from perfect site speed and performance are common pain points for many Magento stores, which are usually massive and complicated. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

We know she’s an expert on designing technology to protect the vulnerable, but did you know she’s the international record holder for the most doughnuts performed in a forklift truck? She is the Principal Designer at 8th Light, where she designs and builds custom software and consults on safe and inclusive design strategy.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

With these added libraries and subsequent plugins came added page weight, and before long we were starting to think seriously about front-end performance. Support in modern browsers is broad, with the main exception being Internet Explorer. What Could Go Wrong? The last thing that’s worth talking about is browser support for SRI.

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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 ). A more recent hot topic in site performance and related metrics is Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS). It can be found in many, many projects and is quite an opinionated reset. Cumulative Layout Shift.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

Is there an issue with your Internet connection? If applicable, can we test if a design without disabled buttons performs better? That seemingly obvious observation might not be obvious at the first glance though. For example, what if you want to uncheck a checkbox but the interface won’t allow you to do so? Part Of: Design Patterns.

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