Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. If you want to vastly improve the startup and load performance of your website, you cannot miss the impactful observations and insights that Jake posts on jakearchibald.com/ and shares on Twitter @ jaffathecake. Rachel Andrew. Rick Byers.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

Music magazines were popular too. Even twenty-five years after he created them, Brody’s pages from The Face magazine are still remarkable designs. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Music magazines from 1980 including The Face (far right). Local screen-printing workshops offered affordable flyers and posters.

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Design Media Testing Entertainment 101

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In his recent Smashing Conference talk, green software expert Asim Hussain mentioned that the biggest shift he is seeing is as a result of regulation — or the threat of regulation. Asim talked about Performance Mode in Microsoft Edge: switching on Performance Mode means users get a faster website, while also saving resources.

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Strategy Development Energy Website 123

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. Eye-Tracking Evolution.

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Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 111

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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Website Performance Google Media 126

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

When building a website we might be given a hex color value by a designer, but if they asked us to make it, say 20% darker, we would have a hard time doing that by adjusting the hex value, without a visual guide or color picker. Did you know that your chosen color palette can have an impact on how much energy your website uses?

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Energy Design Website Hardware 144

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. And vice versa. And memorable. And easy to understand. And reliable. And carefully arranged. And elaborate.

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Design Website Efficiency Games 113

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 13, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. U&lc (Uppercase and lowercase) magazine by Herb Lubalin. Fact magazine by Herb Lubalin. Popular graphic software like Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Designer, and Sketch export files bloated by unoptimised elements and unnecessary metadata. Read More From The Series.

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Design Media C++ Technology 116

KeyCDN

JANUARY 16, 2019

The exponential proliferation of connected devices with varying software and technical capabilities has made it more and more difficult to cater web content to every single user. If you’re viewing your website in Chrome, use the “Network” panel to see the headers being sent.

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Servers Google Website Energy 67

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

I maintain an Open-source project called MDX Embed , you’ll see from the docs site that it’s not a Gatsby website. You can read more about how I did that here: Monetize Open-Source Software With Gatsby Functions And Stripe. I’ve called it: Paulie API and I use it for a number of my websites. Large preview ). Paulie API.

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Serverless Cloud Website Servers 111

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 30, 2018

In fact, we’d link to the first LISA conference website for reference, but this conference not only predates the Wayback Machine – it also predates the World Wide Web! USENIX 1984 speakers: USENIX has been running tech conferences since before the World Wide Web. Photo by Perry Kivolowitz.

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DevOps Network Best Practices Programming 43

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study). Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study). ESLint ,” official website. TypeScript , official website. Your future self will thank you for it when you are maintaining the software. Jonne Kats.

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Website Code Servers Analytics 113

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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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 29, 2018

In fact, we’d link to the first LISA conference website for reference, but this conference not only predates the Wayback Machine – it also predates the World Wide Web! USENIX 1984 speakers: USENIX has been running tech conferences since before the World Wide Web. Photo by Perry Kivolowitz.

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DevOps Network Best Practices Programming 40

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

Also, these angles are common in VR (virtual reality) software and products. Validation: Larger font sizes can take up more bandwidth, especially across larger websites, and be slower to load initially in a webpage’s first content paint. Further Reading on Smashing Magazine. Legibility (Rotated Information). Large preview ).

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Performance Design Speed Testing 94

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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Google Performance Cache Website 111

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Mike’s personal website. Drew McLellan: He’s a Senior Software Engineer for an agency called Echobind. He loves the Jamstack, and his new book, Cut Into The Jamstack, teaches the reader how to build a software as a service app from scratch. I’ve done static websites. In this episode, we’re talking about Chakra UI.

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Website Design Open Source Software 62

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Software development without automated testing is hard to imagine today. Example: Finding My Articles in Smashing Magazine. I want to write a test for this website, Smashing Magazine. What’s the first thing to do when testing a website? Right, we need to open the website. Ramona Schwering.

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Testing Website Code Efficiency 135

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Building Gatsby Themes For WordPress-Powered Websites. Building Gatsby Themes For WordPress-Powered Websites. With Gatsby, you can pull data from (almost) anywhere and use it to generate static or dynamic websites. Further Reading On Smashing Magazine. Monetize Open-Source Software With Gatsby Functions And Stripe.

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Website Open Source Code Availability 127

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. Developing software is becoming easier as frameworks like React, Vue, or Angular become the go-to solution for creating even the simplest applications. Prefetching. Lazy Loading.

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Cache Performance Servers Social Media 125

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

With entrance into the industry being so easy and lack of proper benchmarking (Note: this is somewhat contradictory to point 2, but more on that later) around what makes a good designer, software engineer, or product manager, we’re forced to face the facts that it’s a recipe for poor quality products. Alright, enough doom and gloom.

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Design Social Media Website Best Practices 126

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2021

Alternatively, you can download the SVG to use it on the web, in graphics software, and even Microsoft Office products. No more boring business websites! The site supports two modes: you can copy the icons as SVG into the clipboard and paste them directly into Illustrator to change colors or delete parts. Weather-Themed Icons And CSS.

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Open Source Design Availability Website 143

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 18, 2020

The issue with that is that they’re always sent to your server, even if one of your users clicks on a GET request URL on someone else’s website and that GET request has side effects you or your user won’t like. The situation when it comes to mobile apps is completely different. Those aren’t accessible by JS and are sent only to your server.

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Storage Mobile Website Java 93

Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

All of the web performance monitoring software we work with provide RUM clients that put additional layers of monkey patching on the page to maintain direct access to a request being made or the response coming back. Let’s assume all website images return this Server-Timing header structure.

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Servers Monitoring Cache Network 92

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? Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor. Image source ).

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

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? In the case of Wikipedia's website, in 2020, globally, code execution has got 19% faster for Wikipedia users.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Maybe you’re launching some software and need to know how to price it. Web scraping is the practice of extracting large amounts of web data through the use of software. As such, I urge you always to be mindful of the website while scraping, take care not to damage it, and follow ethical guidelines. Not all websites are the same.

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Website Code Retail Best Practices 115

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

However, being an easy-to-use inclusive and versatile piece of software, WordPress comes with a plethora of options that are not necessarily utilized in each and every project. As a result, website performance can suffer. Recommended reading : How To Use Heatmaps To Track Clicks On Your WordPress Website.

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Cache Website Speed Database 78

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? Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor. Image source ).

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

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. One final note is that many libraries for CSS and JavaScript have free CDNs that most websites can use. Philip Kiely. 2020-06-25T12:30:00+00:00. 2020-06-25T15:34:35+00:00.

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Media Cache Storage AWS 69

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

It can be tempting to start with a computer-based tool, e.g. wireframing software like Balsamiq , or design tools like Photoshop or Figma. A good way to start practicing this kind of sketching technique is to take an existing website and reverse engineer the sketch. Commerce Cream , for e-commerce website design inspiration.

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Design Website Open Source Mobile 124

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

It’s often why online forums and website support centers contain question-and-answer like this one on the Go1 website : Go1’s support center answers the question “Why Has My CSV Upload Failed?”. As an example, let’s say that a MailChimp user wants to load as many contact details into the email marketing software as they want.

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Azure Website Code Systems 51

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

A Showcase Of Lovely Little Websites. A Showcase Of Lovely Little Websites. Oh, and if you’ve come across a website that you feel is too good to keep to yourself, please don’t hesitate to share it in the comments below. Cosima Mielke. 2021-11-24T12:00:00+00:00. 2021-11-24T15:04:37+00:00. We hope you’ll enjoy them.

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Website Design Games Open Source 121

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.

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Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

We’ve explored the concepts behind headless CMSes in detail here on Smashing Magazine, but let’s do a quick recap. When it comes to a Traditional CMS, the CMS and the resulting front-end website are built on a monolithic architecture. there was a separate subdomain for a mobile website). Infrastructure Integration.

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Cache Website Mobile Google 143

Smashing Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

Just like visually-abled users don’t read every word on a page but scan for interesting things, blind screen reader users don’t make their software read each and every word. website : 1 — Welcome to GOV.UK and TestingAccessibility.com or an overview of all of her projects by visiting her website.

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Strategy Virtualization Government Education 140

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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