Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

It doesn’t come as a surprise, considering the benefits of higher conversion rates, customer engagement, decreased page loading speed, and lower costs on development and overhead. You can find a comprehensive Beginner’s Guide To Progressive Web Apps on Smashing Magazine that focuses on building the core of PWAs.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Let’s look at it for a site that’s much “heavier” than Smashing Magazine. We can expand the metric to glean insights into what exactly is causing traffic on the main thread. Large preview ) That’s a nice big view and is a good illustration of TBT’s impact on page speed. Large preview ) There we go.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. Testing the Smashing Magazine website on different devices. Large preview ). Improving Accessibility. LT Browser in action.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

A big JavaScript bundle might seem out of place on a magazine that merely publishes articles, but actually, there is plenty of scripting happening behind the scenes. The reasons for it are numerous, but the most important one is a huge difference in network conditions and device hardware across the world.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

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. And JavaScript can certainly make requests for additional network resources. Sometimes, the visitor’s browser itself can be the origin of network activity.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +. Downloading files such as images or videos over the network can be slow and costly. HTTP caching, service workers, image spriting, and preloading help optimize network requests. Image Content Delivery Networks. +. Large view. Table Of Contents. Get the eBook.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Start Render time, Speed Index ). Treo Sites provides competitive analysis based on real-world data.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +. Downloading files such as images or videos over the network can be slow and costly. HTTP caching, service workers, image spriting, and preloading help optimize network requests. Image Content Delivery Networks. +. Large view. Table Of Contents. Get the eBook.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights (no, it isn’t deprecated), you can get CrUX performance data for specific pages instead of just the aggregates.

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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. South Korea has the fastest mobile download speed , averaging 52.4 per GB respectively.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

This strategy is very simple and closely resembles the development environment, but cannot handle large or inconsistent amounts of traffic effectively. Imagine a professional networking site with a database of users. A CDN is a network of servers, generally worldwide, that distributes and serves web content, mostly static assets.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Time to First Byte (TTFB), DOM Content Loaded, Start Render, Speed Index) — but from the experience of the user. These tools run page loads on simulated networks and devices and then tell you what the metrics were for that test run.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

Wordpress relies heavily on plugins and themes which may contain malicious codes or bugs and slow the speed of the website or blog. Agility CMS is a Content-First Headless CMS, allowing you to choose any programming language while also getting the flexibility, speed, and power that comes from lightweight APIs. Traditional CMS e.g

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

For example: An underpowered hosting plan fails to handle influxes of traffic, which leads to slower page speeds and a drop in conversion rates. If your website is for a growing business, but you don’t expect a lot of traffic to it (say, if it were a simple portfolio), cloud hosting would be a good choice. Dedicated Hosting.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Also, the management will be dissatisfied with the decreased traffic and revenue caused by the unoptimized codebase, despite the code quality improvements. This is exactly how Smashing Magazine handles its stylesheets. Deploying the refactored codebase shouldn’t result in worse website performance and worse user experience.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Microservices architecture is a set of independent services that are all connected into a network. In an application, such services get connected into a communicational network that can get new services added/removed/replaced easily at any time, and that’s what we call “microservices.” 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. A Primer on Speed. Congestion Control.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. Servers and Networks.

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