Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

Adding video to your website immediately adds value, but also a new level of complexity to your web development. How do I account for different network speeds in different environments? The great thing today is that you can use the same technologies used by Netflix or Hulu to deliver your videos. You Mention A Player.

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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

JUNE 25, 2021

So, having some free time in quarantine, I decided to check whether one of the most evolving industries right now, education technology (EdTech), uses this potential of UX. In the second stage, I weighed edX’s website against the 10 usability heuristics identified by Jacob Nielsen. Problem 1: “Can I Trust This Website?”.

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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

MAY 9, 2022

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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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. After learning about Alexey Brodovitch ’s influential work on Harper’s Bazaar until the 1950s, I wanted to know the impact his legacy had on the magazine. Feitler has as much to teach people who design for the web as she did the magazine designers who followed her. Large preview ).

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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. Since then, technology has evolved, and what started with naked-eye observations has become a sophisticated and accurate technology to measure eye movements.

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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). We deployed these enhancements gradually over time to ensure that our users didn’t experience any disruptions, but instead only a consistent improvement of their site speed. Dan Shappir. 2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Yes, we’ve changed how we defined the user experience of the page load to look at the loading speed of the most relevant content , but it’s basically reusing the old techniques of ensuring that the content loads as quickly as possible. I like to use progressive enhancement to provide a basic website, even without JavaScript where possible.

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Rigor

JUNE 12, 2019

Alla Gringaus has worked with a multitude of well-established technology and media brands, including TIME , People , The Economist , and the American Kennel Club, carrying hands-on and leading roles in front-end development and UX, all driven by user-centered design. Alla Gringaus #webperf Click To Tweet. says Gringaus. Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

Many previous reading studies investigated the effect of typography on reading speed. But we know that faster speed does not always equate to better comprehension. In fact, better comprehension is often associated with slower reading speed.” — Sofie Beier (legibility expert), “ Bringing together science and typography ”.

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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? Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!), Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

Lazy loading is a way to improve the performance of a website or web application by maximizing the rendering speed of the above-the-fold images and iframes (and sometimes videos) by deferring the loading of below-the-fold content. Your website will gradually benefit from it as support arrives to your users in most modern browsers.

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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? Start Render time, Speed Index ). Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. Perhaps surprisingly, users experience faster speeds over a mobile network than WiFi in at least 30 countries worldwide, including Australia and France. South Korea has the fastest mobile download speed , averaging 52.4 per GB respectively. Mbps upload.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

It always starts with the long-awaited website overhaul. A big JavaScript bundle might seem out of place on a magazine that merely publishes articles, but actually, there is plenty of scripting happening behind the scenes. You, dear readers, seem to visit a number of articles on Smashing Magazine. Vitaly Friedman.

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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

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. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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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% Application leaders for digital commerce technologies must plan for PWAs when designing digital commerce experiences”. Numerous big players have considered such an opinion and have recently implemented this technology. What Does This Mean?

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 9, 2020

As you can see, the impact is considerable — especially on lower-end devices and slow network speed, where images are coming in separately. Many websites may not bother to specify width s and height s on their <img> tags. I love improvements that just work without any effort required of website owners. Conclusion.

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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. The powerful interface helps you define and customize every element of your website without any hassle.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Like any file referenced and used on a website, it first needs to be downloaded from a server. How quickly the file is downloaded depends on the connection speed and the size of the file itself. Website performance is not consistent across devices. Bundle size and estimated download times for zxcvbn package. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Mike’s personal website. Actually, I was just checking the Cut Into The Jamstack website today, and the accessibility score is very high. I’ve done static websites. Drew: I guess there’s always a trade-off, isn’t there with technology choices? In this episode, we’re talking about Chakra UI. Show Notes. Mike on Twitter.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

As is the case with many other developers, the reports over the last few years of the huge energy requirements of the web have prompted me to take a look at my own websites and see what I can do to minimize their impact. But first, a confession: When I first heard about the environmental impact of websites, I didn’t quite believe it.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2019

Using a component-based API makes most sense when the website is itself built using components, i.e. when the webpage is iteratively composed of components wrapping other components until, at the very top, we obtain a single component that represents the page. I have deployed the PoP API under [link] for demonstration purposes.

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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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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. Meanwhile, the front-end only interacts with the REST API via an HTTP client.

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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. Trophy including End to End, Integration, Unit, and Static ( Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

” But these are teams and they’re spending a lot of time building websites or building internal tools or whatever it is they’re building and it takes a lot of effort to like, “Oh, we’re going to switch to a totally different context and use Jekyll or something else,” and you got to get people up to speed. Drew: Yeah.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Powered E-Commerce Website written by Arijit Mondal. But the other thing is to be able to take operational concerns into account during your design development and implementation of any technology. Jeff: Now, what are the things that we can do to speed this up? Solving CLS Issues In A Next.js-Powered Transcript.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. Will be enabled by default in version 15, which is currently in technology preview. Even if a server supports HTTP/3, however, clients (and website owners!)

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Several years ago, I wrote about website builders for a living. In the space between drag-and-drop website builders and from-the-ground-up development, there’s an awful lot of demand, and not always for the reasons you might expect. Gone are the days where website builders are only used by those who can’t code. Key Findings.

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