Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rachel Andrew. Maximiliano Firtman.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

That’s why we’ve compiled an exhaustive list of web development blogs and newsletters to make this process easier. 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.

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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% Ideally, the design process should take into account the ways in which clients might wish to share content from social media. But that doesn’t mean they should.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. Large preview ). In Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

That ensures that the video will start playback quickly and is much less likely to stall during playback — no matter the speed of your user’s internet connection. What Makes A Good Video Processing Solution? You also want to see processing analytics on how many videos have been fully encoded. Image credit: imgix ).

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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

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Samsung Internet. The platforms that continue to hold back support are: Internet Explorer. Last year, front end developer Jeremy Wagner wrote up a guide for Smashing Magazine on this very topic. But rather than go to the origin server (at the web host), the request is processed by the edge server (at KeyCDN). Opera Mini.

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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. The browser process consists of knowing the device width, checking the sizes attribute, and then choosing from the srcset images the one that has that width. Alba Silvente. Large preview ).

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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. This process feels fast for the client and they can now see the set of data, however it may be a touch out of date.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The reason we pay so much attention to design (as we do to any other detail in the process of project completion) is that it plays one of the crucial roles in your business success. When it comes to the decision-making process, many businesses make the same mistake over and over again. UX Processes. Skill Sets For Evaluation.

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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. Online Shopping.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Every major website on the Internet today relies — to some degree — on third-party services. The HTTP Archive tracks third-party usage across a large swath of all active websites on the Internet today. Any JavaScript resource that blocks other resources from being requested until its processing is completed is a concern.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Projects built using JavaScript-based frameworks often ship large bundles of JavaScript that take time to download, parse and execute, blocking page render and user input in the process. JavaScript-based frameworks like React made the process of developing web applications streamlined and efficient, for better or worse.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Where Does SEO Belong In Your Web Design Process? ” Size Up The Competition The internet is a big place. This is the internet; you can do just about anything. Implementing SEO well means open communication between different members of the team — from SEO execs to writers to developers. by Suzanne Scacca. Google Trends.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Instead, like the other articles in the Django Highlights series (see below), it’s intended as a guide for front-end developers and designers to understand other parts of the process of creating a web application. This process is easy to integrate with your Django deployment scripts. This process is called minification.

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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

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

This liberal attitude is known as Postel’s Law, which is conveyed superbly by Jeremy Keith in Resilient Web Design : “Even if there are errors in the HTML or CSS, the browser will still attempt to process the information, skipping over any pieces that it can’t parse.”. JavaScript is less forgiving. Resilience is extrinsic.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

For example, for an internet shop, it may be a page with a product list, product details page, shopping cart, checkout, and so on. It also allows the project to be loaded faster, which is pretty important in regards to the growing mobile share and new markets with slow connection speeds and fragmented internet coverage. Array(cors)].map(()

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

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

This second metric measures the time between when the user interacts with a page, clicking on a link or a button for example, and when the browser processes that click. not to mention older browsers (Internet Explorer — hurry up and fade out would you!) First Input Delay (FID). It’s there to measure the interactivity of a page.

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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. Transferring an ArrayBuffer is near-instant and involves a proper transferral of ownership: The sending JavaScript scope loses access to the data in the process.

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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. This time, I browsed the web for a day on a 50 MB budget. MB of data.

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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. Finally, the process of rebuilding a Magento e-commerce store into a PWA means splitting the backend and frontend. An Overview Of The Process. The same may be said about offline mode.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

If I change my user-agent to Internet Explorer 11, I’m served the font in the WOFF format instead. The problem with these additional requests is that the browser won’t begin the processes to make them until the first request to [link] is complete. — Ilya Grigorik, Web Font Optimization. View source ) ( Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

File hashing is the process of taking a file and running it through an algorithm that reduces it to a short string representation, known as a hash or checksum. It’s not a cryptographic process — it’s just a fast and convenient way to encode potentially messy data in a way that translates neatly to ASCII.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Micro-optimizations are great for keeping performance on track, but it’s critical to have clearly defined targets in mind — measurable goals that would influence any decisions made throughout the process. Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

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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

MARCH 9, 2020

This also puts extra work on the browser to recalculate the page layout as each image arrives across the internet. These are likely to be the very users suffering with network constraints and limited processing power that will suffer most from layout shifts!

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

When providing some functionality for processing a file uploaded by the user, the file must be available to the process throughout the execution. The region must be the same one as where our application is deployed, so that accessing S3 during the process execution is fast. Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Internet Explorer and Safari are notable browsers without WebM support ( Large preview ). ffmpeg is a free and open source command line tool that is designed for the processing of video and audio files. Another option is the WebM format which offers high quality videos, often comparable to an MP4, but usually at a reduced file size.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

We would have been able to stop bundling resources, stop sharding our resources across multiple servers, and heavily streamline the page-loading process. 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. Did You Know?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2021

Sign in with your Netflix account to watch instantly on the web at netflix.com from your personal computer or on any internet-connected device that offers the Netflix app, including smart TVs, smartphones, tablets, streaming media players and game consoles.nnYou can also download your favorite programs with the iOS, Android, or Windows 10 app.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is because HTTP/3 and QUIC mainly help deal with the somewhat uncommon yet potentially high-impact problems that can arise on today’s Internet. On the Internet, however, we typically have a long series of connected pipes , some of which can be wider than others (leading to so-called bottlenecks at the narrowest links).

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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 addition, there is support for including it in many build processes, such as postCSS (the method I use). It can be found in many, many projects and is quite an opinionated reset.

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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. There’s also a bit of employers and employees more in the realm of surveillance. Eva: Yes, absolutely.

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