Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. Win, win, win.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

If you are designing an app or a website, you can test how easy and intuitive it is to complete a specific task, fill out a form, find certain information, or buy a product. They used eye-tracking to measure visual attention on banners, animated graphics, and navigational tools in websites. This is a click heatmap of a website.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

Adding video to your website immediately adds value, but also a new level of complexity to your web development. 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. Better Video Streaming With imgix. Doug Sillars.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

For some websites this works, but for others (such as Hack Club’s Scrapbook , a site built by @lachlanjc that I help maintain), the user expects the data to be kept up to date. For this we’re going to build a website that shows how many taxis are available in Singapore (where I live!) Using SWR With Next.js Project Structure.

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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

I tried with loads of websites to see how they behave in iframe. I observed that most of the websites don’t work in iframe due to x-frame-options and content-security-policy headers. It was very important to load the page in iframe , I was wandering around the internet to find a way to load it.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

The world’s first website was made from static HTML files created in a text editor. Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. Mike Neumegen. released 1998.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

It may seem enchanting how well-designed apps or websites can boost your sales, but it takes far more than a handful of fairy dust to make users enjoy their interactions. That happens when your app/website/system is efficient. And vice versa. And memorable. And easy to understand. And reliable. And carefully arranged. And elaborate.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps. How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps. However, it’s not always easy to maintain high performance in websites. Even if your website is designed with usability in mind, these factors impede users from fully benefiting from the website’s features.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

You can find a comprehensive Beginner’s Guide To Progressive Web Apps on Smashing Magazine that focuses on building the core of PWAs. In other words, PWAs are websites that users can use as stand-alone applications. The web app manifest is the core for making a website run as a stand-alone application in full-screen mode.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Physics and the limits of human perception - Why goalkeepers have trouble stopping long-range shots - Seed Magazine. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. Arts & Society. A great podcast interview. Recent Entries.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. Your website may be using more third-party services than you realize. Ken Harker.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Barry Pollard, a web performance developer advocate for Chrome, wrote an excellent primer on the CrUX Report for Smashing Magazine. This data is distinct from CrUX because it’s collected directly by the website owner by installing an analytics snippet on their website. So why use lab data at all?

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

As is the case with many other developers, the reports over the last few years of the huge energy requirements of the web have prompted me to take a look at my own websites and see what I can do to minimize their impact. But first, a confession: When I first heard about the environmental impact of websites, I didn’t quite believe it.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

“Please visit Vladstudio website if you like my works!” Not sure about the Internet, though…” — Designed by PopArt Studio from Serbia. Below you’ll find a selection of December favorites from our wallpapers archives. Please note that these designs don’t come with a calendar. Dear Moon, Merry Christmas. “Please

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

However, at the end of 2020, about 1% of websites included a Service Worker, and 2.2% As PWAs work in browsers, they have web pages with URLs that work just like any other website (be it launched on a desktop or mobile device). The pages can be crawled, indexed, and ranked, as it happens with regular websites.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. It has never been easier to build a personalized website, digitalize a product and start seeing results. Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. Alba Silvente.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Spend enough time running websites through PageSpeed Insights and you’ll notice that Google has a major beef with traditional image formats like JPG, PNG and even GIF. Samsung Internet. Caching is an integral part of keeping any website running fast.

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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% Third-party Javascript accounts for a lot of bloat on websites, with analytics, chatbots, and embedded widgets being common contributors. The Impact Of Social Media Embeds.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

This way, the image loads faster, and your website will get a better LCP score. 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. Large preview ). Don’t Lazy-load The LCP Image Element.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

The Core Web Vitals are a set of three metrics designed to measure the “core” experience of whether a website feels fast or slow to the users, and so gives a good experience. not to mention older browsers (Internet Explorer — hurry up and fade out would you!) What Are The Core Web Vitals? CrUX LCP dashboard ( Large preview ).

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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. Many websites may not bother to specify width s and height s on their <img> tags. I love improvements that just work without any effort required of website owners. Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Websites would magically become 50% faster with the flip of a switch! 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. For this reason, TCP is one of the most widely used and deployed protocols on 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. Your website will gradually benefit from it as support arrives to your users in most modern browsers.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. I wanted to simulate a slow connection like those experienced by users in Uzbekistan, to see what kind of experience websites would give me. I installed ModHeader and set the ‘Save-Data’ header to let websites know I want to minimise my data usage.

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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 ). Within a fixed layout set to 100vh , the bottom part of the website content is stuck behind the browser chrome, making it inaccessible when scrolling is prevented. In years past, we’d call it FLOUT (flash of unstyled text).

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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

JUNE 20, 2019

As of writing, they have been viewed over 29 trillion times across the web and it’s easy to understand why — the collection gives you access to over 900 beautiful fonts you can use on your website for free. If I change my user-agent to Internet Explorer 11, I’m served the font in the WOFF format instead. Medium Italic (600i).

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Way back in the days when JavaScript was very much the poorer cousin to HTML and CSS, we didn’t need to think too much about how our scripts could be used as an attack vector for our websites. file hosted as part of their own website on their own server. The last thing that’s worth talking about is browser support for SRI. Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Like any file referenced and used on a website, it first needs to be downloaded from a server. 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. import("path/to/myFunction.js").then((myFunction)

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Django websites involve a lot of files. As if that wasn’t enough already, sometimes users come along and want to upload their own files to your website. One final note is that many libraries for CSS and JavaScript have free CDNs that most websites can use. Philip Kiely. 2020-06-25T12:30:00+00:00. 2020-06-25T15:34:35+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

Example: Swedish public transportation website. A wonderful interface of the Swedish public transportation website with a button that’s initially disabled, but becomes accessible once a selection is made. Is there an issue with your Internet connection? Would you like to live in this world? One of the many.

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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. Theinclusivesafetyproject.com is the website I have to house all of this information. Drew: No, amazing.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

You can find Markdown in many places on the internet, especially in locations where developers are present. Two notable examples are comments on GitHub and the source code for posts on Smashing Magazine! Certain websites and web apps that use Markdown input will also try to add alternate description text for you. vf, yk, il).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2019

Using a component-based API makes most sense when the website is itself built using components, i.e. when the webpage is iteratively composed of components wrapping other components until, at the very top, we obtain a single component that represents the page. I have deployed the PoP API under [link] for demonstration purposes.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

This is the reason why GIF heavy websites like Giphy, Imgur and the likes do not use the actual GIF format, but rather convert it to HTML5 video and serve those to users instead. Internet Explorer and Safari are notable browsers without WebM support ( Large preview ). Imgur, a GIF heavy website, converts all GIF uploads to HTML5 video.

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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. Image credit: Website Carbon Calculator ) ( Large preview ). The Bigger Picture.

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