Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Barry Pollard, a web performance developer advocate for Chrome, wrote an excellent primer on the CrUX Report for Smashing Magazine. This data is distinct from CrUX because it’s collected directly by the website owner by installing an analytics snippet on their website. So why use lab data at all? Source: Source: DebugBear.

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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

MAY 12, 2022

These days it is fairly uncommon to encounter a new website or web app that doesn’t rely on some framework, or a platform such as a CMS. In particular, the increase in the amount of downloaded JavaScript can have a direct impact on website performance. Dan Shappir. 2022-05-12T09:30:00+00:00. 2022-05-12T10:16:36+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

Plesk VPS Hosting For Better Website Outcomes. Plesk VPS Hosting For Better Website Outcomes. In early discussions you have with clients about the website you’re tasked with designing, does the topic of web hosting ever come up? Suzanne Scacca. 2019-03-28T10:30:39+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. This is a sponsored article.)

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

You can find a comprehensive Beginner’s Guide To Progressive Web Apps on Smashing Magazine that focuses on building the core of PWAs. In other words, PWAs are websites that users can use as stand-alone applications. The web app manifest is the core for making a website run as a stand-alone application in full-screen mode.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

By running basic optimizations of our videos before adding them to our websites, we can prevent these issues from occurring for good — well, most of them. It’s not uncommon to find websites with extremely large videos — for example, used used as hero background videos. There is a solution though! Real-World Data. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

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. Also, the management will be dissatisfied with the decreased traffic and revenue caused by the unoptimized codebase, despite the code quality improvements.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

The tooling to get a report with details from the time it takes to establish a server connection to the time it takes for the full page to render is out there. This is high-quality data from actual website visitors, for example based on Google’s Chrome User Experience (CrUX) Report. A second type of data is called real-user data.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

For example, changing our database architecture to be more efficient could save on server costs. Businesses that achieve BCorp status can benefit (according to the website) from “committed and motivated employees, increased customer loyalty, higher levels of innovation, and market leadership”. Terabyte of wasted traffic.

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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. We want fewer cars on the road to alleviate traffic on the main thread. Large preview ) There we go. It replaces the First Input Delay (FI D ) metric.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

One of the biggest pains of working with statically generated websites is the incrementally slower builds as your app grows. So we still need to move things from the server they were compiled at to the edges of the network. Under the hood, it simplifies a lot of the work to the server-side. Átila Fassina. Number of Pages.

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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)). This difference by itself doesn’t do all that much (it mainly reduces the overhead on the server-side), but it leads to most of the following points. Server Sharding and Connection Coalescing.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It was heralded as an amazing performance revolution, with exciting new features such as server push, parallel streams, and prioritization. We would have been able to stop bundling resources, stop sharding our resources across multiple servers, and heavily streamline the page-loading process. In older versions of TLS (say, version 1.2

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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. Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

HTTP(s) Headers are key-value pairs that can be used by the client or server to pass additional information along with an HTTP(s) request or response. I tried with loads of websites to see how they behave in iframe. I observed that most of the websites don’t work in iframe due to x-frame-options and content-security-policy headers.

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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? CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

The biggest distinction is that a website can’t be built with a headless CMS on its own. Wordpress relies heavily on plugins and themes which may contain malicious codes or bugs and slow the speed of the website or blog. A CMS that gives complete freedom to build a website or a branded blog with full SEO and supports any tech stack.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Long FMP usually indicates JavaScript blocking the main thread, but could be related to back-end/server issues as well.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? It used to provide an insight into how quickly the server outputs any data. What does it mean? Image source ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Latency can be roughly defined as the time it takes to send a packet from point A (say, the client) to point B (the server). This is one of the main reasons why content delivery networks (CDNs) exist: They place servers physically closer to the end user in order to reduce latency, and thus delay, as much as possible. and prior (a)).

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

That’s approximately 35 hours 32 minutes of downtime per year, per website. After that, we set up a basic WordPress website and start monitoring them with Pingdom.com. Tools like Pingdom or Appoptics APM let you regularly check if a website or app is available.) And downtime even happens to online giants. Total outages: 19.

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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 15, 2018

A website today receives a large chunk of its traffic from evergreen browsers — most of which have good support for ES6+, new JavaScript standards, new web platform APIs and CSS attributes. Smart Bundling: How To Serve Legacy Code Only To Legacy Browsers. Smart Bundling: How To Serve Legacy Code Only To Legacy Browsers.

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