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Solving CLS Issues In A Next.js-Powered E-Commerce Website (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

Powered E-Commerce Website (Case Study). Powered E-Commerce Website (Case Study). 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 use Lighthouse and WebPagetest as our synthetic testing tools for performance to measure CLS.

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Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache

Smashing Magazine

Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. The Smashing team has done a lot to make a fast website, so even a fresh load (though this experiment may not be a completely fresh load if you came to this article from the home page). Here’s an experiment for you.

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Modern Methods For Improving Drupal’s Largest Contentful Paint Core Web Vital

Smashing Magazine

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. Homepage with DevTools Network inspection enabled and open. Web developers should learn to use various testing tools such as Lighthouse and WebPageTest.

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The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters

Smashing Magazine

This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. While it might sound valuable to test on mobile devices, it might not be convincing enough to drive the management and entire organization towards mobile testing. One of the famous examples is Flipkart , India’s largest e-commerce website.

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What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites

Smashing Magazine

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed. One tool that’s particularly helpful is called Lighthouse. Suzanne Scacca. seconds too long.

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An In-Depth Guide To Measuring Core Web Vitals

Smashing Magazine

In this post, I’m going to attempt to explain a bit more about what’s going on here and explain some of the nuances and misunderstandings of these tools. 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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HTTP/3: Practical Deployment Options (Part 3)

Smashing Magazine

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)). Finally, we’ll see which tools you can use to evaluate the performance impact of the new protocols (that’s the almost impossible part, at least for now). Servers and Networks. Network Configuration.

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