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A New Way To Reduce Font Loading Impact: CSS Font Descriptors

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Smashing Magazine, like most publishers, makes use of web fonts and the below screenshot shows the difference between the initial render (with the fallback fonts), and the final render (with the web fonts): Smashing Magazine article with fallback font and with full web fonts. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study)

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Many of them are covered in CSS-Tricks’ helpful overview , and Smashing Magazine offers a great PDF checklist. Some resources that helped a lot were the great articles here on Smashing Magazine about the magazine’s own improvements. An In-Depth Guide To Measuring Core Web Vitals ,” Barry Pollard, Smashing Magazine.

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Signals For Customizing Website User Experience

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Approximately two-thirds of Indian mobile Chrome users of Smashing Magazine have this setting turned on, for example. For Smashing Magazine, that involved dropping some of our web fonts. And Is It Used? Again, I talked about this that previous article , and the answer is a resounding yes! Data Saver. Network Signals.

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The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters

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Testing the Smashing Magazine website on different devices. If you need something slightly more advanced, LambdaTest allows you to run a cross-browser test on 2000+ devices on different operating systems with which you can even perform both manual and automated browser testing. LT Browser in action. Large preview ).

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Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports

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Barry Pollard, a web performance developer advocate for Chrome, wrote an excellent primer on the CrUX Report for Smashing Magazine. If throttling is applied at the operating system level , then the metrics match what a real user with those network conditions would experience.

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Inspired Design Decisions With Giovanni Pintori: Publicity Becomes An Art Form

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Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Since operating system dark modes have become more prevalent, I also subtly alter the lightness and saturation of colors in my palettes, so they appear more vibrant against dark backgrounds. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Read More From The Series. Large preview ).

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There Is No Such Thing As A CSS Absolute Unit

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As for absolute units, we will dive in and see how they are affected by other things, such as the screen and the device’s operating system. And this is without taking into account the zoom state of the web browser and operating system.). The most common absolute unit is the pixel ( px ). centimeters.