Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. Large preview ) We’ve known for a long time that fast page performance influences search engine rankings.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

If you’re reading this before March 2024 and fire up your favorite performance monitoring tool, you’re going to to get a Core Web Vitals report like this one pulled from PageSpeed Insights: ( Large preview ) You’re likely used to seeing most of these metrics. That’s what this article is all about.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

In fact, there’s great tooling right under the hood of most browsers in DevTools that can do many things that a tried-and-true service like WebPageTest offers, complete with recommendations for improving specific metrics. Certain tools are designed for certain metrics with certain assumptions that produce certain results.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. Every web performance story is similar, isn’t it? A day when a project, fully polished and carefully optimized, gets launched, ranking high and soaring above performance scores in Lighthouse and WebPageTest. Vitaly Friedman.

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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.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. However, just as out-of-control spending bodes ill in the long run, so does unbudgeted digital media decimate site performance. Performance Budgets. “A A performance budget is ‘. Business Performance. Akshay Ranganath.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

There are three web vitals metrics Google uses to measure different aspects of website performance: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), Interaction to Next Paint (INP). You’ll often see different page speed metrics reported by different tools and data sources, so it’s important to understand the differences.

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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

MAY 9, 2022

Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. Barry Pollard. 2022-05-09T10:30:00+00:00. 2022-05-09T17:34:14+00:00. The HTTP Cache is a disk cache.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

In my last article , I suggested using the SaveData API to deliver a different, more performant, experience to users that expressed that desire. This is helpful for those on poor or expensive networks, so they don’t have to pay an exorbitant cost just to visit your website. Signals For Customizing Website User Experience. Data Saver.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. This problem is more apparent on unreliable and slow networks and lower-end devices. Performance Costs. JavaScript’s effect on performance consists of download, parsing and the execution costs.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. But not everything about performance happens directly at the code level, right?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

Large preview ) While browsers are generally pretty fast, these steps still take time to load, typically in seconds, and even longer on slower, high-latency network connections. So noticeable, in fact, that Core Web Vitals has a metric all about it called Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). WebPageTest waterfall timeline report.

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Rigor

JUNE 12, 2019

“The Best in Performance” video series from Rigor gives you the chance to eavesdrop on conversations with web performance industry experts, thought leaders, and technologists. Listen in as they talk about current trends, challenges, and lessons that impact the APM and performance space today. Building a culture of performance.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. Perhaps the biggest win when it comes to making websites more sustainable is that performance, user experience and sustainability are all neatly intertwined. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Measuring Performance With Server Timing. Measuring Performance With Server Timing. When undertaking any sort of performance optimisation work, one of the very first things we learn is that before you can improve performance you must first measure it. Browsers now even have performance audits built right in.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Looking briefly at the other two Core Web Vitals, Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) does exactly as its name suggests and is more of a twist on previous loading metrics that measures how quickly the page loads. That’s not to say solving issues with these two metrics are easy, but they are reasonably well-understood problems.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. 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.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The gotcha here is that, if your mobile experience isn’t optimized for various devices and network conditions, these customers will never appear in your analytics — just because your website or app will be barely usable on their devices, and so they are unlikely to return. Driving Business Metrics. billion by 2026. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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? 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. Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

To my surprise, web performance monitoring conversations rarely surface Server-Timing or cover a very shallow understanding of its application — despite it being out for many years. This header can be set on the response of any network resource, such as XHR, fetch, images, HTML, stylesheets, etc. Setting Server-Timing.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

But how do you find all these things causing performance issues? Let me share three tools that will help you spot performance issues and ship high-quality and fast websites. Note : If you’re looking for a complete overview of best practices and tools, have a look at the Frontend performance checklist.

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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. And JavaScript can certainly make requests for additional network resources.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Lazy-load offscreen images (reduce network contention for key resources). For low impact to First Input Delay : Avoid images causing network contention with other critical resources like CSS and JS. For low impact to First Input Delay : Avoid images causing network contention with other critical resources like CSS and JS.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Meet “ Web Vitals ”, but in particular, meet LCP (Largest Contentful Paint): “Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is an important, user-centric metric for measuring perceived load speed because it marks the point in the page load timeline when the page’s main content has likely loaded — a fast LCP helps reassure the user that the page is useful.”.

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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. 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. A 75th percentile (p75) metric strikes a reasonable balance for performance goals.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Performance is one of the core aspects to ensure our users are having a delightful user experience irrespective of their devices or network connection. We found out user-centric performance metrics to be the perfect fit for this purpose. Barry Pollard has written an excellent in-depth article about CLS. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome who was working all around web performance for decades. Some of the biggest size savings and performance improvements can come through a better image optimization strategy. Image Decoding Performance. +.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

However, it’s not always easy to maintain high performance in websites. This is why performance is crucial when building websites. This is why performance is crucial when building websites. are usually the biggest pieces of the performance puzzle. are usually the biggest pieces of the performance puzzle.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome and focusing around performance for decades. Some of the biggest size savings and performance improvements can come through a better image optimization strategy. Image Decoding Performance. +. Large view.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Largest Contentful Paint (or LCP) is one of three metrics of the Core Web Vitals. These metrics are used by Google to evaluate the quality of user experience. Since recently becoming a ranking factor, this major web performance KPI is still a new concept for many web developers. srcset=" image-300.png png 300w, image-900.png

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). It was at this point that we realized we needed to make a significant change in our approach towards performance, and that we must embrace performance as part of our culture. Dan Shappir. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

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. As for mobile network connection type, 84.7% For reference, the metric is $1.19 Mbps upload.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Like many static site frameworks in the Jamstack, Gatsby has traditionally enjoyed a great reputation as a performant framework , although it has taken a hit in recent years. FCP is a metric that measures the time between the point when a page starts loading to when the first bytes of content are rendered. file: // gatsby-config.js

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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. Performance calculations with and without dimensions. Performance calculations with and without dimensions.

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Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Improved performance metrics have shifted the discussion to more experience-based optimizations such as optimizing for the critical path. My first few sites were simple (and ugly) things I put together using Notepad and an FTP client while teaching myself HTML using a little magazine I bought. We have the shift to ECMAScript 6.

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