Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

I became fascinated by the ways magazine art directors including Alexey Brodovitch and Bea Feitler brought images and text together. Learning how people interact with a website or use a product shouldn’t dictate a design but instead provide a platform on which to develop engaging, entertaining, and ultimately more memorable experiences.

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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. Rick Byers. Rick Byers.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

This space can act as its own website — not tied to anything. As you can see in this piece of code, we do an extra set processing on the wildcard if it’s the base domain we set the wildcard to home (if taking user input, this is a case you will need to handle) and if we are testing on localhost we can test out other wildcards.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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. Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website.

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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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Rigor

JUNE 12, 2019

As she focused on UX strategy, design patterns for responsive websites, and mobile-first design, she quickly realized that it’s critical to create a culture that prioritizes web performance. Gringaus notes that in the past, performance was something that was thought about toward the end of the process of developing a site.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 21, 2023

This means that any time-consuming task, such as complex calculations or data processing that is executed, would block the main thread and cause the UI to freeze and become unresponsive. Web Workers are designed to perform tasks that do not require direct access to the UI, such as data processing, image manipulation, or calculations.

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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). Since implementing these changes, we have seen a dramatic improvement in the performance of websites built and hosted on our platform. Dan Shappir. 2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-22T11:06:56+00:00.

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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. When it comes to the decision-making process, many businesses make the same mistake over and over again.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Chapter 8 covers the issues around imprecision and probability and shows how we need to design systems, interactions, and processes that prevent mistakes — especially avoiding catastrophe when mistaken taps are made. Chapter 9 describes ways we can consider likely problems when planning the design of our apps and websites.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2019

You know how critical it is to build websites that load quickly. Google takes many factors into account when ranking a website and visitors take maybe a handful of factors into account when deciding to explore a site. At the intersection of the two is website speed. The Necessity Of An Image Optimization Strategy For Mobile.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? Performance Budgets, Pragmatically shows you a strategy to achieve that. Establish a performance culture.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Let’s look at it for a site that’s much “heavier” than Smashing Magazine. FID looks at the time the user sparks an interaction and how long the browser processes — or responds to — that input. So, think of these as strategies that encourage a “culture” of good performance in an organization.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2018

I am assuming some basic knowledge of the design process and UX research, but I’ll provide plenty of practical examples and reference links to help with any terms and concepts you might be unfamiliar with. Competitive Analysis, Service Design Cycle, Five-Stages Design Process. The five-stages design process.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In Part 1 , we discussed various strategies and techniques for handling images, video, and audio in a Gatsby project. You can write content in Markdown, parse it into your GraphQL data layer, source it into your components, and then bundle it as HTML static files during the build process. We never told Gatsby to parse it.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Establish a performance culture. ( Large preview ). Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

It always starts with the long-awaited website overhaul. The build process on its own has become quite a beast over time as well, with critical CSS injects, Webpack’s code splitting, dynamic inserts of advertising and feature panels, RSS (re)generation, and eventual A/B testing on the edge. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance.

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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. This process feels fast for the client and they can now see the set of data, however it may be a touch out of date. Using SWR With Next.js Project Structure.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

Let’s assume all website images return this Server-Timing header structure. Within the HTML delivery process, there could also be additional data that we want to understand, such as what datacenters processed the request throughout the chain. In this case, we can’t expect each layer could/should process and inject HTML content.

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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. Together, we’ll develop an intuition for the strategies available to Django developers for serving these files to users worldwide in a secure, performant, and cost-effective manner.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Establish a performance culture. ( Large preview ). Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor.

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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. Resource hints are a feature supported by modern browsers which can boost website performance. — FAQ, Google Fonts.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

However, end-to-end testing does have some pitfalls that are cause for concern: End-to-end tests are slow and, thus, pose a significant hurdle in every continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) strategy. Cypress’ test runner is open-source, so it fits our product strategy. Right, we need to open the website.

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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. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

In previous articles from this series, we’ve covered auditing CSS codebase health and the incremental CSS refactoring strategy , testing, and maintenance. Deploying the refactored codebase shouldn’t result in worse website performance and worse user experience. After all, users won’t wait around forever for the website to load.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

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. A great example would be a website that shows the weather forecast for the week.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

So, in essence, it’s a way to automate the tedious process of hitting ‘copy’ and then ‘paste’ 200 times. As such, I urge you always to be mindful of the website while scraping, take care not to damage it, and follow ethical guidelines. Recommended Reading : “ The Guide To Ethical Scraping Of Dynamic Websites With Node.js

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

That also means answering this other question: “How can one evaluate, manage and guarantee the quality of a website?” When delving into the concept of website quality assurance back in 2001, we started with a simple question: “What does quality mean for the users?”. That means describing what a website is.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

You’ll find psychology heuristics just like tips for building a winning UX strategy , dive deep into user research and UX writing , and explore real-world examples — good and bad — from which you can learn to create experiences that truly matter. The right tools at the right time, help streamline the design process.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

These are just a couple of examples of what disabled users face daily when they try and access a website that is inaccessible. Practicing accessibility in your workflows and methodologies ensures people — disabled or not — that they can access your product, your website, and your brands.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

CSS is a simple stylesheet language for defining a website or document’s presentation. There is also the matter of convincing the management or project stakeholders to invest the time and resources into the refactoring process. I’ve recently audited a website that loaded a 2.2MB file of minified CSS code. Adrian Bece.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

The result of jQuery popularity is measurable still today: Almost 80% of the most popular websites of the world still use it. One of the reasons why this happens is that the percentage of websites using WordPress is really high, and jQuery is included in the Content Management System. Define The Migration Strategy. Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

WordPress is the most used website builder in the world; almost half of the web has used WordPress to create their website. It makes sense, because it allows you to quickly create websites and has a rich plugin’s ecosystem to help you scale your site. Rethink Your Content Strategy For A Headless CMS ”. “

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

By adding automated visual testing , we can eliminate those flaky tests , leveling up our testing pipelines providing that coverage (and more) by taking advantage of smart image comparisons using screenshots of our website or app. Let’s take a look at what some of these testing strategies look like in practice. Unit Testing.

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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. As it turns out, we do so just to avoid any disruptions or interruptions of the ongoing process. One of the many.

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